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09/07/2010 09:18 AM
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Sri Lanka: UNP MPs enter parliament clad in black
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Majority of parliamentarians of the main opposition United National
Party (UNP) Tuesday afternoon entered the parliament clad in black as
a mark of protest in opposition to the 18th amendment to the
constitution. One dissident parliamentarian of the UNP Abdul Cader of
Kandy district was present in the house in his usual attire and not in
black.
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09/07/2010 08:15 AM
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Sri Lanka: Thousands attend Nalloor Thear festival
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The Thear (Chariot) festival of the historic Nalloor Kanthasuvaami Temple in Jaffna town was held Tuesday morning with at least a hundred thousand devotees from all over the island and abroad participating in the annual festival. The opening of A9 road had enabled the devotees to travel easily to Jaffna. Tamils and Sinhala people from South and expatriate Tamils in particular were among the thousands of devotees, sources in Jaffna said.
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09/07/2010 05:30 AM
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Sri Lanka: SLA Commander declines to comment on Jaffna GAs announcement
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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Commander Major Gen. Mahinda Kathurusinghe declined to endorse Jaffna Government Ms. Imelda Sukumars announcement that uprooted families from Valikaamam North SLA High Security Zone (HSZ) will be soon allowed resettlement in a recent meeting at Jaffna Veerasingham Hall, representatives of welfare organizations for uprooted families from Valikaamam North said. The GA is acting as if she is the spokesperson of Sri Lanka Defence Ministry, they accused. SLA Jaffna continues to deny permission for resettlement as Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa is unyielding in his decision not to permit resettlement in Valikaamam North HSZ, they said.
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09/07/2010 04:42 AM
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Sri Lanka: TNA to vote against 18th amendment
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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) that has a parliamentary strength of
fourteen members Monday decided to vote against the 18th amendment to
the Constitution of Sri Lanka, according to Colombo media reports
quoting TNA media spokesman and Jaffna district
parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran.
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09/07/2010 04:37 AM
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Sri Lanka: Pro-government left parties to vote for 18th amendment
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The Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL), Lanka Sama Samaja Party
(LSSP) and Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP), constituents of the ruling
United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA), Monday decided to support the
18th amendment in parliament. CPSL is led by Minister
D. E. W. Gunasekara, LSSP by Minister Tissa Vitharana and NSSP by
Vasudeva Nanayakara.
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09/07/2010 02:19 AM
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Sri Lanka: Sivathamby denies involvement in Tamil writers conference
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Veteran Eezham Tamil scholar Professor Karthigesu Sivathamby, Emeritus Professor of Tamil of the University of Jaffna, Sunday denied a report that he had been in the forefront in organizing the so-called 'World Tamil Writers Conference' in Colombo scheduled for January next year. His denial was carried in the Sunday edition of a
leading Tamil weekly, Thinakkural, published from Colombo.
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09/07/2010 12:30 AM
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Sri Lanka: 'India should stop calling Eezham Tamils a minority'
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Eezham Tamils are a nation having historical sovereignty and territory in the island called Sri Lanka. Members of the Indian Establishment should stop humiliating them any further by calling them as minority. Tamil brethren of Tamil Nadu should be sensitive enough and stop such fundamentally faulty approaches and psyop war of the New Delhi-Chennai-Colombo axis on the historical nation of Eezham Tamils in the island. Edification of Chennai and New Delhi is basic to make the world see the crisis in realistic perspectives. Eezham Tamils, in their casual and social interaction should consciously stop using the recently invented name 'Sri' Lanka of genocidal connotations, when an official Tamil name Ilangkai and another ancient Tamil name Eezham are available to refer to the island, writes TamilNet political commentator in Colombo.
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09/06/2010 04:59 PM
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Sri Lanka: Devotees throng Nalloor Chapparam festival
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Devotees in their thousands from across Sri Lanka and abroad filled the temple precincts at the annual Chapparam festival of Nalloor Kanthasuvaami temple in Jaffna held Monday night. Jaffna peninsula devotees took part in greater number than they had in previous years, sources in Jaffna said. The Chapparam festival will be followed with Thear (Chariot) festival Tuesday and Theerththam (Water cutting) festival Wednesday.
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09/06/2010 04:42 AM
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Sri Lanka: Deepening of fisheries jetties in Vadamaraadchi stopped
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Sri Lanka National Environment Commission (NEC) has stopped the deepening of the fisheries jetties in Vadamaraadchi saying prior permission had not been obtained from NEC. The deepening of the jetties had commenced after a long period. Fishermen societies in Vadamaraadchi said that they will gather fishermen to launch protest demonstrations unless Sri Lanka government finds a solution for the problem.
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09/06/2010 02:02 AM
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Sri Lanka: NJ court dismisses 5 out of 7 charges against alleged fund raising by Tamils
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During the pre-trial phase of a lawsuit accusing two Tamils and a US-registered Tamil charity, Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) for allegedly providing funds to the Liberation Tigers which is listed as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)" by the US Department of State, and thereby aiding the Liberation Tigers in causing the death of several Sri Lanka civilians, U.S. District Judge Dennis Cavanaugh dismissed all but two charges, legal sources in Washington said. The suit was filed by relatives of 24 Sri Lankan civilians under a 1789 US statute Alien Tort Claim Act (ATCA) for the alleged killing by the LTTE. Legal sources in Washington said that the plaintiffs face a difficult legal challenge to establish that the remaining two charges due to the higher thresholds of burden of proof demanded by the Court.
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