“Ms Kumaratunga had clearly asked President Rajapaksa whether he really aspired for the party leadership and an apparently surprised President replied that he had not yet thought about it seriously”

Remembrance of five Tamil students shot dead by Sri Lankan armed forces close to a Trincomalee beach on January 2 was held last Wednesday at the location where they died.

Principles and policies are ignored in pursuit of power, position and perks.

Out of the 36,031 employees in the Police , 231 are Tamils and 246 are Muslims.

Normalcy will produce a solution – not the other way round.

Increased FY 2006 FMF funding will be used to help Sri Lanka’s navy meet threats posed by national and regional terrorist groups, and will help to reform and upgrade its military.'

The JVP is in a quandary as it is faced with a hard choice between entering the fray separately and making the UPFA grant its unwieldy demand.'

The full-scale ceremonials included a sail-past by the navy off Colombo's shore featuring its Fast Attack Craft among others and a fly-past by military helicopters and aircraft from the air force.

The World Bank funded North East Housing Reconstruction Programme (NEHRP) has commenced the second phase reconstruction of 13000 houses for the war victim families in the NorthEast.

NEHRP officials have started distributing forms to collect necessary data to select qualified beneficiaries affected by the decades-old war in the province to be included in the second phase, the NEHRP said.

'It appears that a campaign of terror has been unleashed on TRO personnel in the NorthEast.''

The visit was postponed at the eleventh hour following severe opposition in Colombo including a threat by the JVP propaganda secretary Wimal Weerawanse.

The LTTE is not prepared to discuss modifications to the cease-fire or to push the cease-fire aside and waste time talking about a political solution.'

We haven't got a security and a peace framework in which people have full confidence at this time.'

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