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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The public bus service from Mannaar to Jaffna has been resumed after twenty years in addition to the bus services resumed to Colombo from Mannaar, sources in Mannaar said. Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus leaves Mannaar main bus terminal to Jaffna daily at 6:30 a.m.
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
A lorry loaded with fertilizer bags on its way to Ooththuuchcheanai in Vadamunai from Vazhaichcheanai in Batticaloa district Friday slipped off the road into a culvert on Velikkanthai main road killing three farmers and seriously injuring fourteen more, sources in Batticaloa said. The condition of Ooththuchcheanai-Vadamunai road, filled with pock marks and pot-holes due to persisting rains, was the...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) civil authorities in Jaffna Sinhala Mahavidyalaya sent back Sunday nearly half of the persons who wanted to travel from Jaffna to out stations on personal errands as there were no buses to take them, sources in Jaffna said. Only 1655 passengers were permitted by SLA to travel. Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) officials in Koa'ndaavil Depot said that their repeated...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fishermen in Tamil Nadu have decided to fly black flags instead of Indian National flag in their fishing vessels in a protest against Indian Government's failure to stop the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen and condemning the Sri Lankan government, fisheries society sources in Puthukkoaddai district in Tamil Nadu said. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu fishermen staged a boycott Sunday on World...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) jointly conducted cordon and search in Panku'lam area Thursday in Trincomalee district following the recovery of a consignment of explosives in the Pea'raa'ru jungle. No one was taken into custody, sources in Trincomalee said.
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Several American Tamil activists protested in front of the midtown Manhattan New York State armory building where Victoria's Secret catwalk event was being held Thursday evening. While celebrities were arriving to attend the popular event, the protesters highlighted the Corporation's trade with Sri Lanka as aiding and abetting crimes against humanity, and war-crimes. "The New York Police attempted...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother and advisor Basil Rajapaksa MP on Saturday announced that the Tamils held in the internment camps of Vavuniyaa would be free, starting from December 01, to go and live wherever they want to or to choose whether they want to continue to remain inside the camps. Tamil sources in Vavuniyaa view the announcement with scepticism describing it as an 'election...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people locked up since the end of the country's bitter civil war six months ago. Two days after the UN's top humanitarian official,...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fifty years of ethnic cleansing have wiped out whole generations who knew any sort of peace, and made cohabitation with the Sinhalese people virtually impossible, says veteran Marxist A.Sivanandan on the political future of the island of Sri Lanka in an interview to the December 2009 issue of Race and Class. The 87 years old political activist, who in his younger days had no sense...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nearly 136,000 Tamils remain after being forced into camps while feeling the final months of government's long war with separatist Tamil Tigers
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France 24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lanka's government has pledged to let tens of thousands of civilians displaced during the war with the Tamil Tigers move freely between refugee camps until their permanent re-settlement, to be completed by the end of January.
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dengue is spreading fast in Vavuniyaa and its suburbs. Two persons have died and thirteen others warded in Vavuniyaa general hospital due to dengue fever until Thursday. Over thousand people seek treatment for dengue in Vavuniyaa general hospital daily and majority of them are internally displaced people now detained in camps in Vavuniyaa, hospital sources said.
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) civil administrative officials in Jaffna refused Friday to permit government employees earlier serving in Vanni to report for duty in Ki'linochchi and Mullaiththeevu districts in Vanni though Northern Province Governor, Major G. A. Chandrasiri had ordered them to report for duty in both districts. Many government employees including teachers who are originally from Ki'linochchi...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from earlier Liberation Tiger controlled areas in Vadamaraadchi East beyond Naakarkoayil detained in Mirusuvil and Kodikaamam IDP camps in Thenmaraadchi are to be settled in the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) High Security Zone (HSZ) in Ma'nattkaadu in Vadmaraadchi, according to Maruthangkea'ni Assistant Government Agent (AGA), S. Sriskantharajah. Ma'nattkaadu, Ampan and Kudaththanai...
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Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 20, Colombo: The United States State Department warned the American citizens on travelling to Northern Sri Lanka despite the end of the war between the government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) six months ago.
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chakufor22@gmail.com | 05/22/2009
LTTE chief Prabhakaran shot dead by Lankan forces The news of Prabhakaran's death also came along with reports of bodies of his son Charles Anthony and three other top leaders - Pottu Amman, Soosai and Nadesan being found. Prabhakaran was shot dead by Sri Lankan special forces as he tried to stage a dramatic breakout from the army encirclement, a military spokesman said. Read More From Orginal Site
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ltte sucide squad should sonia & her entire family & rajapakshe family
ltte sucide squad should sonia & her entire family & rajapakshe family
en - (not a member) - 08/13/2009
Gifts to Sri Lanka, Flowers to Sri Lanka, Cakes to Sri Lanka
Send Gifts to Srilanka, Flowers to Srilanka, Cakes and Chocolates to Sri Lanka and Colombo.
http://www.lankaflorist.com
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chakufor22@gmail.com | 05/19/2009
Breaking News LTTE Prabakaran Body found and Video realesed Sri Lankan state television on Tuesday broadcast video footage of what it said was the body of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, with the face of the rebel leader visible. The images, also carried by the private Swarnavahini channel, showed the upper section of a corpse which was dressed in camouflage uniform. Read More From Orginal
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Is he is really alive?
I he really dead? I read a article that he is alive
http://electromice.blogspot.com/2009/05/ltte-chief-prabhakaran-alive.html
I it true?
en - (not a member) - 05/22/2009