Appointment of Special envoy to Sri Lanka is not biased - Britain [ Saturday, 14 February 2009, 02:37.33 PM GMT +05:30 ] Britain informs, the appointment of special envoy to Sri Lanka is not biased. British government stated, to scrutinize the humanitarian situation...
Red Cross Is in Talks to Resume Sri Lanka War Zone Food Convoys Posted on February 15th, 2009 | Sri Lanka News The International Committee of the Red Cross is in talks with the Sri Lankan government and Tamil rebels on resuming food convoys to civilians caught in war ...
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LTTE welcomes appointment of British Special Envoy Friday, 13 February 2009, 08:03.17 PM GMT +05:30 Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) has welcomed the appointment of Des Browne as Special Envoy to Sri Lanka by the British Prime Minister on Thursday. In a letter...
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband telephones Sri Lanka Foreign Minister [ Saturday, 14 February 2009, 05:03.41 AM GMT +05:30 ] British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, yesterday, telephoned Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama to seek an explanation over the...
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If not British Prime Minister then who will protect the Tamil civilians from being massacred? – Robert Evans MEP Feb 15, 2009 Shiva Sharma - TNS Colombo: The European Union (EU) parliament delegation for Relations with South Asia, Mr. Robert Evans said, it...
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Teen fasts to publicize Tamils plight - Boston Globe[TamilNet, Saturday, 14 February 2009, 05:17 GMT]A 17-year-old Bostonian is the "youngest of eight ethnic Tamils in the country who are fasting to call attention to the plight of their countrymen in Sri Lanka, an island...
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US Foreign Relations Committee to hold hearings on Sri Lanka[TamilNet, Saturday, 14 February 2009, 03:25 GMT]United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is to hold hearings on "Recent Developments in Sri...
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Journalist Sathiyamoorthy killed inside Safe Zone[TamilNet, Saturday, 14 February 2009, 19:08 GMT]Puniyamoorthy Sathiyamoorthy, journalist and political analyst, well-known and highly respected by the Tamils in...
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US Congresswoman calls for ceasefire negotiations[TamilNet, Saturday, 14 February 2009, 19:28 GMT]Democratic Congresswoman Nital M Lowey, of 18th District of New York, and Chairwoman of the powerful State and...
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SLA shoots dead two youths in Jaffna[TamilNet, Sunday, 15 February 2009, 08:00 GMT]A group of unidentified armed men launched an attack Saturday night around 9:45 p.m on Sri Lanka Amy (SLA) soldiers posted at an electricity transformer point in Kapputhoo, Vaatharavaththai...
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75 feared killed in SLA shelling, elders home [TamilNet, Saturday, 14 February 2009, 18:11 GMT]More than 50 civilians were feared killed in Theavipuram and Va'l'ipunam in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) artillery barrage on...
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By Bruce Fein February 15, 2009 THE BARRAGE of media reporting of the grim conflict in Sri Lanka has captured popular imagination, but has overlooked the grisly Sinhalese Buddhist genocide of innocent Hindu...
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Grand scale murder, rape of screened civilians feared, TNA MP alerts[TamilNet, Saturday, 14 February 2009, 14:34 GMT]Around 190 males were murdered and 130 females were taken for sexual abuse among the ...
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Burnt bodies of 2 Tamil youths recovered in Vavuniyaa [ Thursday, 12 February 2009, 11:41.27 PM GMT +05:30 ] Bodies of two Tamil youths burnt beyond recognition were recovered from Chamayaapuram in...
Herding people by terror: Intense shelling, dead bodies on roadside in Vanni [TamilNet, Friday, 13 February 2009, 13:50 GMT] More than 150 civilians were feared killed Thursday alone and around 90 in the...