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- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

With its foreboding lighting effects that appear to have been plucked straight out of Dante's dark epic Inferno-and cleverly devised one suspects to reduce its willing, and oftentimes unsuspecting, "victims" to submission-the BBC's HARDtalk program has attained a universal reputation...

- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.12363971

HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North: Hardtalk on the road in Sri Lanka: In May 2009, after almost 30 years of civil war, Sri Lanka's government announced its defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers...

- defence.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

With its foreboding lighting effects that appear to have been plucked straight out of Dante's dark epic Inferno-and cleverly devised one suspects to reduce its willing, and oftentimes unsuspecting, "victims" to submission-the BBC's HARDtalk program has attained a universal reputation (or should that be notoriety?) for tough and bruising interviews that border on intimidation.

- adaderana.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 3.5613542

Referring to the recent globally televised BBC talk show HARDtalk with Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, The Manila Times states today that “this particular edition of HARDtalk was undoubtedly game, set and match to him (Sackur). And TV viewers worldwide could attest to that!” ....

- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.4317665

"Freedom when?" was what many at the "wedding ceremony" asked according to BBC Sandeshaya and tweets remarked the military marriage of militants "hugely oversteps ethical boundaries". The ceremony attracted widespread media coverage. Reports say the mass wedding was held under...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.3598054

Fonseka responds to Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s BBC interview By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Responding to  statements made against him by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa to the BBC’s HardTalk programme on Sri Lanka last week, former Army Commander and DNA Parliamentarian Retired General Sarath

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.061819855

The headline and two articles of four in the front page of The Sunday Leader of last week was on money. The lead article screamed “UNP Leader Got Rs. 48 mn From One ‘Donor’” . The other two titles were: “One Billion Rupees For IIFA”; “Sumal Wants Rs. 19 bn For Waters Edge”. With pulse racing ...

- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.57568866

By C. A. Chandraprema It was the other day that the BBC aired the full version of the Hard Talk interview with Gotabhaya Rajapakse, and there are certain issues that need to be raised, not about what Gota said in...

- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.02163695

by Dr.Daya Somasundaram University of Jaffna Abstract The phenomena of suicide bombers in Sri Lanka share some similarities with but also have some marked differences with what is seen in other parts of world today. Increasing discrimination, state humiliation and...

- aussieindolanka.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.5088417

Imprisoned former Sri Lankan armed forces chief General (retired) Sarath Fonseka has denied being a liar or having committed treason. The BBC said that he was responding to government allegations of him committing war crimes during fighting against the Tamil Tiger rebels.   Fonseka spoke

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.3598054

Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka has told the BBC that all countries should impose maximum power to influence Sri Lanka. He made this reference joining in BBC’s hard talk programme. It is Anoma Fonseka who had supported Sarath Fonseka to join in this programme. This was confirmed

- adaderana.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.3598054

When Adaderana contacted the Defence Secretary over the much discussed news item on BBC’s Hardtalk, where Sri Lanka’s Secretary of Defence Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had reportedly stated that Sri Lanka could execute General Sarath Fonseka, he said what he had meant was ‘if Fonseka was found guilty

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.3598054

The Sri Lankan Military had not violated human rights at any time. This has been emphasized by Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa joining in “Hard Talk” telecast by the BBC. He said Sri Lanka’s Military was highly disciplined. There was not a single case of soldiers marching into a village

- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.4317665

By Stephen Sackur Presenter, BBC HARDtalk The Sri Lankan government has threatened to execute Sarath Fonseka, the army commander who delivered victory over the Tamil Tigers, if he continues to suggest top officials may have ordered war crimes during the...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.049455885

To say that the new Sport Minister’s thoughts, Monday, on the Sri Lanka Cricket Board was a breath of fresh air would be an understatement. Rather, Minister C. B. Ratnayake’s remark that cricket is “the third most corrupt institution behind education and the police” was more a tornado, which, while devastating surely the game’s administrators, ...

- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.50372756

by M.C.M. Iqbal Louise Arbour of the International Crisis Group is reported to have said during an interview in the BBC that the government violated the laws of war by blurring the line between combatants and civilians, and that its...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.4317665

In an official visit to the USA, Minister of External Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris has called on the Tamil community all over the world to get involved in the rehabilitation process in Sri Lanka. Peiris, who is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Friday made this comment to the BBC at [...]

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.3598054

External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L.Peiris has urged the Tamil Diaspora worldwide to get involved in the rehabilitation process after the end of the conflict. Speaking from UN headquarters in New York, Professor Peiris told BBC News that the Sri Lankan Government was stepping up its effort

- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.50372756

by Austin Fernando BBC reported that India has called for effective devolution in Sri Lanka. This has been recently orchestrated at an academic experts’ dialogue held in Delhi. This is a repeated Indian demand....

- transcurrents.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.57568866

by BBC - Sandeshaya The former Sri Lankan military chief, General Sarath Fonseka, says any war crimes committed against Tamils should be exposed and punished....

- aussieindolanka.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.3598054

Seven LTTE suspects were arrested by the authorities in the Netherlands, the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Netherlands, Grace Asirvathan, confirmed to BBC Sandeshaya. The arrest was made after an intensive study of the LTTE banned activities in the Netherlands, the National Criminal office

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- adaderana.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.57568866

Seven Tamil Tiger suspects were arrested by the authorities in the Netherlands, the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Netherlands, Grace Asirvathan, confirmed to BBC. READ MORE...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.3598054

By Saroj Pathirana – BBC Sinhala Police in Sri Lanka say they have released 17 soldiers detained on suspicion of killing or attempting to kill journalists and editors. The men were accused of being involved in the 2009 murder of newspaper editor Lasantha Wickramatunga

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

The BBC World Service announced Thursday the resumption of FM programming in Sri Lanka, 14 months after they were taken off air due to interference.

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

The BBC World Service announced Thursday the resumption of FM programming in Sri Lanka, 14 months after they were taken off air due to interference.

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

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- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

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- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

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- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

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- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9677951

The BBC World Service announced Thursday the resumption of FM programming in Sri Lanka, 14 months after they were taken off air due to interference.

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