Sri Lanka on Saturday said it will allow freedom of movement to a "great extent" to tens of thousands of displaced Tamil civilians currently lodged in camps."We will allow freedom of movement of the people to a great extent," senior presidential adviser Basil Rajapaksa said at the Manik Farm complex in Vavuniya in northern Lanka.Some 1.36 lakh people are currently living in the camps in northern Lanka,...
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COLOMBO: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday welcomed the decision of the Sri Lankan government to allow greater freedom of movement to Sri Lankans sheltered in makeshift camps in the north of the country. Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa had on Saturday directed the authorities concerned to complete the resettlement of war-displaced Tamil civilians by January 31.On Saturday, senior...
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COLOMBO: Ahead of an anticipated parliamentary and presidential election announcement, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday directed the authorities to resettle the war displaced Tamil civilians from the transitional camps by January 31.Making an announcement on behalf of the President at Manik Farm Welfare Village in Vavuniya district, Senior Presidential Adviser and Parliamentarian Basil...
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Over 1.3 lakh Tamil refugees living in camps in north Sri Lanka would be allowed more freedom of movement from next month.Effectively, it means that from December 1 those living in the camps for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) would be allowed to attend family engagements or be treated in hospitals outside the camps if required, senior Presidential advisor, Basil Rajapaksa told HT.``They can...
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Lankan war-displaced civilians peer from behind barbed wire fences surrounding their internment camp in Vavuniya-- The Sri Lankan government said Saturday it will lift restrictions on thousands of war-displaced ethnic Tamils still residing in squalid internment camps.More than 300,000 people displaced by the fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels were placed in a sprawling, heavily...
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Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered a probe into death threats to journalists working for an investigative newspaper.The editor and the news editor of the Sunday Leader were sent letters warning them to stop writing against the government or to face death.The former editor of the paper - a fierce government critic, Lasantha Wickramatunga - was killed in January.The latest threats were received...
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"Tamil Nadu Freedom of Expression" movement were arrested when they staged a demonstration condemning the visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the temple town of Tirupati today.The agitation staged in front of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) office here,coincided with the landing of Mr Rajapaksa,his wife and entourage of 50 members at Renigunta near Tirupati, enroute to Tirumala,...
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Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today called on Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa and discussed with him bilateral relations and the issue of resettlement of the war displaced Tamils.An official in the President's office described the breakfast meeting here as cordial.He said Mukherjee discussed with Rajapaksa issues pertaining to global economy during the meeting before proceeding to Kandy,...
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General Sarath Fonseka, who was Sri Lanka's army commander when it defeated Tamil separatist rebels in May, returned home from US Thursday without being questioned by US authorities about alleged war crimes.Fonseka, who is now chief of the defence staff, was on a private visit to the US to visit his daughters when the US Department of Homeland Security asked him to present himself for an interview...
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KATHMANDU: In an unusual turn ofevents, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government this yearcrushed a nearly three-decade-old Tamil insurgency, arrived in Nepal on Thursdayand held a 30-minute-long discussion with Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal DahalPrachanda, whose guerrilla army led a successful 10-year-old civil war in theHimalayan nation.After the meeting in the tightly guarded SoalteeCrowne...
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