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- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.061809905

How focused and efficacious are the current infrastructure investments in Sri Lanka, executed through a public investments programme (PIP)? Take for instance the Chinese funded Norochcholai coal fired power plant, built after obtaining a commercial loan from China, and its subsequent breakdowns resulting in power cuts that will stifle growth and earnings, on top of ...

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.09889585

General Secretary of the Lanka Teacher Services Union has told the Criminal Investigations Department that he is not a teacher although he holds the Post of General Secretary. An enjoining order has been issued on the Lanka Teacher Services Union preventing it from staging protests with the involvement of Grade Five students. General Secretary of ...

- lankastandard.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.061809905

“Where is it written that you can be beaten to death? Which article is it written thus? I am not afraid of anyone. I don’t care who you are. Come and shoot me. I am not afraid. People need justice and the truth. The people who beat my son up are animals. My heart burns. ...

- lankanewsweb.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.24723962

Human rights activists in Sri Lanka say the government must seek UN help in investigating serious violence in jails which has resulted in the deaths of two Tamil prisoners.

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.5756985

The BBC's Charles Haviland reports from Putumattalan, the scene of fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger militants three years ago.

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.0437062

  Government caught lying to defend Defence Secretary By Frederica Jansz Last week, Gamini Abeyratne alias Taxi Abey telephoned me from the United Kingdom.  He was agitated and in more than three telephone conversations told me that Hudson Samarasinghe (Chairman of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation) had telephoned him and asked, “if Frederica went with ...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.061809905

Defence Ministry says raid and arrest over false news By Indika Sri Aravinda Pictures by Thusitha Kumara and Pavithra De Mello The nine employees of the Sri Lanka Mirror website were produced before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court yesterday and released on police bail. They were ordered to appear in court again on July 6, the ...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.0874124

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday was prevented from delivering the keynote address at the opening sessions of the Commonwealth Business Council following a raucous demonstration by Sri Lanka Tamil expatriates and human rights activists opposite the venue of the symposium at Mansion House in London. The morning sessions were cancelled by the organisers ...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.049447924

“The demoralising, destructive character of the patriotic degeneracy….” Sebastian Haffner (Germany: Jekyll and Hyde) By Tisaranee Gunasekara It was the Oxford Debacle all over again. The events were drearily predicable. Sri Lanka, like every Commonwealth nation, received an invitation for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II. President Rajapaksa, unlike most Commonwealth leaders,...

- sundaytimes.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.35981154

A senior official from Channel 4 has been expelled from Sri Lanka, the BBC reports. Stuart Cosgrove and his wife Shirani Sabaratnam went on a "blacklist", after Channel 4 News said the country's armed forces may have committed war crimes. Mr Cosgrove's wife was refused a visa

- defence.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 2.9678326

It was a tendentious move from the outset. The BBC was committed to show the world that that the Tamils in the North of Sri Lanka were threatened by Sinhala settlers.

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.43177387

This country’s history is repeating itself with deadly accuracy. Last week Gotabaya Rajapaksa reiterated what Sinhalese leaders have been saying since the parting of ways with the Tamils in 1958. In an interview with the BBC on Monday (May12) Rajapaksa was asked about ‘a recent local government

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.049447924

By Maryam Azwer Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa recently said that contrary to what is set out in the 13th Amendment, police powers cannot be given to the North and the East. The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) sees this as a violation which it says cannot be justified by a public servant.  In an interview with ...

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Research carried out by the BBC Sinhala service has revealed that over the last decade, nearly 110 Buddhist monks have been charged for sexual and physical assaults on minors in Sri Lanka. The BBC report however suggests that  according to figures from Sri Lanka's National Child

- defence.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.43177387

It is unfortunate that Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa has to give interviews to the BBC and other western media who parachute to Sri Lanka as international media personnel. It is not only the Defense Secretary but even the President of the country has to be involved with these so called international media

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- news.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.5037362

Defence Secretary Mr. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in an interview with the BBC has said it is not appropriate to view the Northern part of Sri Lanka, over which a separatist war was fought, as a predominantly Tamil area.  

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.35981154

Earlier before the war all were Sinhalese, in Sri Lanka. It is not appropriate to view the north of the country, over which a separatist war was fought, as a predominantly Tamil area, SL presidential sibling and defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was cited saying by the BBC News that interviewed

- ceylontoday.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.43177387

Sri Lanka's defence secretary has said it is not appropriate to view the north of the country, over which a separatist war was fought, as a predominantly Tamil area. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who many credit with defeating Tamil rebels, also told the BBC there were few civilian casualties in the war's

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Sri Lanka’s defence secretary has said it is not appropriate to view the north of the country, over which a separatist war was fought, as a predominantly Tamil area, BBC reports. .

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.5756985

Northern Sri Lanka, over which a separatist war was fought, should not be seen as a predominantly Tamil area, the defence secretary tells the BBC.

- sundaytimes.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.09889585

A teenager from Huyton who admitted the fatal stabbing of a Sri Lankan shop worker has been cleared of murder. Mahesh Wickramasingha, 30, died after being stabbed in the throat by 19-year-old Sam Harrison on 29 November 2011. Harrison denied murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Liverpool Crown Court. The jury accepted that Harrison had not meant to kill his victim. He was ordered to ser...

- itnnews.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.35981154

Minister Wimal Weerawansa has told Sarath Fonseka who had received a Presidential pardon to refrain from making betrayals needed by alien forces against the country. Addressing a media conference held at the Jathika Nidahas Peramuna Office today the Minister referred to a statement made to the BBC

- news360.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.43177387

The Ex-Army Chief Sarath Fonseka, who was released from jail on Monday rejected allegations made by certain quarters that thousands of civilians had been killed in the closing phase of the army’s offensive, a media report said. Fonseka in an interview given to BBC has said, “The large figures

- lankanewsweb.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.5037362

Sri Lanka must co-operate with any international investigation into alleged war crimes, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka has told the BBC, a day after his release from jail.

- adaderana.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.43177387

Sri Lanka must co-operate with any international investigation into alleged war crimes, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka has told the BBC, a day after his release from jail. He said some Sri Lankan leaders were “hiding their faces” over the conduct of the war, as if they were guilty. .

- dailymirror.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.5037362

Sri Lanka must co-operate with any international investigation into alleged war crimes, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka has told the BBC, a day after his release from jail.

- yahoo.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.5037362

Sri Lanka must co-operate with any international probe into alleged war crimes, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka tells the BBC, a day after his release from jail.

- lankastandard.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.049447924

“No intrepid journalists smuggled their way into rebel territory as they did in Syria, even though an erratic bus service ran across the frontline until mid January 2009″ - Frances Harrison “Every journalist has heard of Srebrenica. But how many have heard of Mullivaikkal where just as many perished?” - Frances Harrison Today marks three years since the end ...

- thesundayleader.lk - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.074171886

By Hilal Suhaib A 15-year deal between a little-known company in Singapore and Sri Lanka’s cricket board for the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) has left opposition lawmakers in Sri Lanka outraged. Apart from handing the tournament to Somerset Entertainment Ventures (SEV) for more than a decade, there has also been criticism for awarding local ...

- lankastandard.com - Category : Breaking News - Relavancy : 0.13821115

Documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, along with Jamal Osman’s reporting from Somalia, won the awards for the channel Channel 4 documentary Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, which at the time was described by presenter Jon Snow as “one of the most important” stories he had ever reported, collected two prizes at the One World Media Awards last ...

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