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ARCHIVE JUNE

Lankan girls are quite active

2009-06-08 | 1.30 AM

The Sri Lankan girls are ahead of boys when it comes to the first sexual encounter with sex says a recent Health Ministry survey.

According to the survey Sri Lankan girls have their first sexual encounters at the age of 14 while boys lag a bit behind as they have their first encounter at the age of 15.

‘Sri Lankan Style’ Probe

2009-06-07 | 8.45 PM

Political circles in Colombo have been busy analyzing why Mahinda Samarasinha minister of Human Rights is doing all the talking regarding the Possible UN probe while foreign minister Rohita Bogallagama is not heard very much.

Samarasinha was recently in Geneva and strongly echoed the government position on the refusal of an international probe on human rights violations in Sri- lanka.

Tamil Tigers Defunct, Should be Taken Off Terrorist List
- Tamils for Obama

2009-06-06 | 12.05 AM

The Tamil Tigers are gone, wrote Tamils for Obama in a letter to U.S. officials. Humanitarian organizations that were once accused of being Tiger fronts should be allowed to help the Tamil war victims who need their help.

The letter was sent to Secretary Clinton, President Obama, and appropriate elected officials on Friday, June 5 by Tamils for Obama. The letter said that since the Tamil Tigers are no longer a functioning organization and their leaders are all dead, according to the Sri Lankan government, the Tigers should be taken off lists kept by the U.S. and other governments of terrorist organizations and their supporters.

Vanni IDPs live under appalling condition - Sri Lankan Chief Justice

2009-06-05 | 11.25 PM

(This statement by the Chief Justice was aired with Tamil translation Wednesday night in MTV News bulletin).

Vanni IDPs sheltered in transit centres in Cheddiku'lam cannot expect justice under the Sri Lanka's law. Law of the country does not show any interest on these IDPs. I openly say this. The authorities can penalize me for telling this," said Sri Lanka's Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva when he addressed a public meeting which followed the ceremonial opening of a court complex at Marawila in Negombo district Tuesday. These transit centres are described as internment camps by human rights activists.

Sarath N. Silva further said:

No thanks Dayan says to Navi

2009-06-05 | 9.55 PM

Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka has said UNHCR High Commissioner Navi Pillay to mind her business in diplomatic language.

Addressing the United Nations Geneva-based Human Rights Council, Sri Lanka's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Dayan Jayatilleka said that there is no need for an international probe.

Protest at Lord’s

2009-06-04 | 1.30 PM

A demonstration against the Sri Lanka cricket team outside Lord's.
(photo courtesy Gurdian)

Tamil protesters stormed the Lord’s calling for the Sri Lankan cricket team to return home and for other international teams to keep away from them.

The protesters were holding picket boards that said “Sri Lankas latest score: 20,000 dead, 300,000 displaced".
The Sri Lanka team had to cancel a match at Oxford due to security concerns.

SRI LANKA: More journalists harassed

2009-06-03 | 11.30 PM

The investigation into the assault on journalist Poddala Jayantha took a new turn when the police arrested and interrogated another journalist who provided the initial information about Mr. Jayantha's abduction. Journalists groups accused the Sri Lankan police of covering up the real culprits of the abduction and the serious assault on Mr. Jayantha.

Mr. Bennet Rupasinghe, a news editor of the Lankaenews.com website, received information about the abduction of Mr. Jayantha and informed the Inspector General of Police. The timely intervention also made it possible for a group of journalist who were meeting President Rajapaksa at the time, to inform him of the incident.

This way pls- Aid workers out

2009-06-03 | 3.30 PM

The UK daily The Times reveals a long list of aid workers who have been deported or asked to leave the country by the government.

The news paper says that new visa rules have been used to get rid of aid workers whom the government suspects to be LTTE sympathizers.

The Norwegian head of Forut, an Oslo-based NGO, was deported on Saturday, while a British employee of Forut was prevented from re-entering Sri Lanka last month.
Two foreigners working for Care International, including a Briton, were forced to leave last month because their visas were not extended, reported The Times sighting local sources.

Towards a total dictatorship……..Remember what we said on the 19th May?

2009-06-02 | 7.25 PM

“There are no more minorities in Sri Lanka, only two national identities; patriots & non-patriots says President” – Ada Derana

Our post on the 19th May 2009 “Towards a total dictatorship” began with the above caption and received an overwhelming response from our readers. Today, we are witnessing what we predicted just after the victory speech was delivered by His Excellency the President, who since then has become “His Majesty the King Mahinda of the Kingdom of Sinhalé (formerly known as Sri Lanka)”.

Schools Closed, Roads Closed…. Tamasha Continues…......

2009-06-02 | 1.45 PM

Anandasangaree says NO

2009-06-01 | 9.35 PM

The leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) V Anandasangaree has turned down an offer from President Mahinda Rajapaksha to contest local elections in the North with the SLFP.

The TULF has aligned itself with the People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF)

to contest local polls.

Poddala Jayantha, secretary SLWJA abducted and severely assaulted

2009-06-01 | 9.35 PM

Poddala Jayantha, General Secretary of Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association was abducted by an unknown group late afternoon today. He was on his way back home form work and abducted some close to Nugagoda town. Some people who have seen him pushed in to a white van alerted the journalists on the abduction.

Later he was found left on the road side by some people. He had been severely assaulted. Later he was admitted to ICU of the Colombo general hospital. Reports say that he is out of danger.

Army Hunt for Pottu Amman

2009-06-01 | 12.55 PM

The army is investigating the possibility of the Tiger spy chief Pottu Amman being alive.

The army has not been able to recover the body of Pottu Amman who is said to have been fighting along with Tiger leader Velupillal Prabhakaran.

Did UN Cover up?

2009-05-30 | 5.30 PM

The united nations have been coming under fire from international media and human rights organizations for failing in there duties to protect civilians traped in the coflict zone.

French news paper Le Monde accused the UN of covering up the "severity of the massacres" in Sri Lanka.
The Le Monde says that the UN is covering up the massacres fearing that they would be expelled fro Sri Lanka.
The UN in Colombo said on Friday that relations with the government have improved since the visit of Secretary general Ban- Ki -Moon and progress is being made in relief operations.




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