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Last Updated: May 13th, 2008 - 09:11:47
[May 13, 2008, 09:10] 68 Tamil detainees, hurriedly transferred from New Magazine prison in Colombo Saturday around 8:50 p.m. by the Terrorist Investigation Department (TID) interrogators, were verbally abused, tortured and subjected to sexual abuse at the notorious Boosa Prison in Galle, according to complaints made by the parents to Tamil parliamentarian Chandrakanth Chandranehru. Expressing shock at the gross violation of Human Rights,
[May 13, 2008, 09:09] Three Tamil youths, two of them from of Jaffna and one from Badulla were abducted on Saturday from their lodges located along Kathiresan Street in Fort area in Colombo by unidentified armed men. The two youths from Jaffna had been staying in Colombo to go abroad and the upcountry Tamil youth had been a betel vendor.
[May 13, 2008, 09:08] A 22-year-old Tamil female was abducted on Sunday in Paalaavi in Puththa'lam district Sunday. Unidentified persons who came in vehicle stopped a three wheeler in which the girl was traveling with another woman and took her forcibly with them, according to complaint lodged with the police of the area.
[May 13, 2008, 09:06] Unidentified gunmen opened fire Monday around 8:00 p.m on two policemen in front of the Batticaloa Commercial Bank in Batticaloa town, killing one and injuring another.
The policeman shot and killed was identified as Wimal Dasanayake, 47, and the injured policeman as Bandara Tilaka.
[May 13, 2008, 09:04] Tension prevailed in Thirunelveali area in Jaffna Sunday night as a clash erupted between a group of armed men and the soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) inside the premises of a vacated house that belongs to a popular businessman in Jaffna. The house was burnt down allegedly by the SLA, after the exchange of gunfire, according to the residents in the area.
[May 12, 2008, 14:33] Ten Tamil civilians were arrested in separate cordon and search operations conducted by the police and the Sri Lanka Army in Gampaha in the western province and Badulla in Uva province during the weekend. They are being detained in respective police stations and being interrogated by the Terrorist
[May 12, 2008, 14:31] A dissident Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) parliamentarian, Nandana Gunatillake, on Monday handed over particulars of a new political party under the name Jathika Nidahas Peramuna (National Freedom Front) to the Sri Lankan Commissioner of Elections. Wimal Weerawansa, the former propaganda secretary of the JVP,
[May 12, 2008, 14:29] The ICRC has managed to airlift 1,500 of the patients in Jaffna in need of urgent and special treatment to Colombo, after September 2006, when the A9 highway which links Jaffna peninsula with the rest of the island was closed down, the Jaffna branch of the organisation assisting the victims of war said in a media release issued to media in Jaffna.
[May 12, 2008, 14:26] Politics between powerful states have always been integral to the dynamics of war and peace in Sri Lanka, several contributors to a collected volume exploring the international dimensions of the island’s protracted conflict say. The study by the Centre for Just Peace and Democracy (CJPD)
[May 12, 2008, 14:24] A 17-year-old student from Piraampaththu in Pa’ndaiththarippu, in Jaffna peninsula is reported missing since Thursday after leaving home on a cycle to a nearby shop, his family members said.
The missing student, Thangaththurai Thivaakaran, attends GCE (O.L) classes in a local school.
[May 12, 2008, 14:18] Noting that "[t]hirty percent inflation has never been heard of in this country [Sri Lanka] and does not exist anywhere but in banana republics," Dr Harsha De Silva, lead Economist at the Colombo-based regional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy and regulation think-tank, LIRNEasia, said in an interview that the "terrible economic management of the recent past"
[May 12, 2008, 14:14] About 61 Tamil civilians arrested in Colombo in several cordon and search operations last few weeks are still being detained in several police stations in Colombo, civil society sources said. 25 are being detained in police stations at Dehiwala, Wellawatte and Kohuwela, 15 at Weliveriya, and 21 are held in Kotahena. All detainees had valid national identity cards,
[May 12, 2008, 14:09] The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Mannaar has ordered the displaced Tamil civilians from Musali division in September 2007, to present themselves at the 21-5 SLA Brigade High Quarters at Ilanthaimoaddai, on a village-by-village basis on allocated days, to obtain details of every individual and interrogate them for alleged participation in training given to civilians by the Tigers when their native division was under the control of the Liberation Tigers prior to September 2007
[May 12, 2008, 14:06] Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling UPFA alliance wins the Eastern Provincial Council (EPC) election with 18 seats and 2 bonus seats in the election held on Saturday with widespread rigging. The opposition UNP-SLMC alliance receives 15 seats, 1 seat for the JVP and 1 seat for Tamizh Democratic National Alliance.
[May 12, 2008, 14:02] Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse is expected to leave for the United Kingdom on Monday on a two day visit. He is scheduled to address the Oxford Students Union on Tuesday, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, the government is likely to take a decision shortly on holding fresh elections, first for Wayamba Provincial Council (North Western Provincial Council), and thereafter, for the North Central Provincial Council.
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