UNP alternative group to receive funds

Billionaire businessman Charles Gnanakoon has offered to help the UNP to get members of dissident group back in the opposition, reliable sources reported....

....The offer was revealed today, when minister Karunaratne Jayasooriya raised a privilege issue in the parliament. He said that Tiger sympathizer businessman called Gnanakoon is offering money to buy his dissident colleagues. As soon as the statement was made, members of govt and UNP started shouting at each other, our parliament reporter says.

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India Begins Supplies Radars to Sri Lanka

After a gap of a year, India has sent more radars to Sri Lanka to help it ward off the threat of airborne attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Defence Ministry sources said.

India had resumed non-lethal military aid to Sri Lanka with the supply of two indigenous radars in 2005. This year in January it sent another military radar to Sri Lanka which was followed by the despatch of a similar radar in June.

The radars were sent on behalf of the Indian Air Force, the sources said.

Ironically, both radars were sent from the Hindon military base on the outskirts of Delhi. This was the place from where helicopters were despatched via Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu to rescue the LTTE leader V. Prabakaran at Vadamarachchi on the northern tip of Jaffna after the Sri Lankan Army had cornered him in the late 80s.

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Vaiko urges UPA to stop arms supply to SriLanka

Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) Secretary Vaiko today urged the UPA government to stop supply and sale of arms to Sri Lanka and get back the radars already supplied.

In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a copy of which was released to the media here, he expressed shock over the continuous supply of radars.

He alleged that the Sri Lankan Air Force had killed thousands of innocent Tamil men, women and children all these years.

The UPA government was behaving contrary to the decision of the Union Government, which decided in 1998 at an all party meeting not to sell or supply any arms to Sri Lanka, he alleged.

''It is a proven fact that the Sri Lankan Government is guilty of genocide to achieve its goal of ethnic cleansing of Tamils,'' he alleged.

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Sri Lanka Release Former Skipper

Sri Lanka Cricket has agreed to release former skipper Marvan Atapattu from his contract.

The move follows speculation that 36-year-old is set to join the Indian Cricket League (ICL).

K Madivanan, secretary of the Sri Lankan Interim Committee, told PA Sport: "The interim committee of Sri Lanka Cricket has considered Marvan's request and has decided to release him from his contract with effect from October 1.

"This is because Marvan needs to give two months' notice before he is released."

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Sri Lanka doesn’t want UN HR mission – defense spokesman

Sri Lanka government defense spokesman Keheliya Rambukwelle yesterday said that there was no room for inviting a UN human rights monitoring mission to Sri Lanka as such move will affect the sovereignty of the country and would also doubt the ability of the Sri Lankan authorities to carry out their own inquiries.

“We don’t have any doubt in our process. To have an international monitoring mission will be an infringement on our sovereignty,” Rambukwella told the weekly media briefing on Monday responding to the damning report released by the Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The spokesman stressed that the government was doing its best to deal with the allegations of human rights violations.

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Indian LTTE supporters to invade Sri Lanka

Tamil Nadu rabble rouser and supporter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and leader of the Tamil National Movement P. Nedunmaran has stated that he would invade Sri Lanka’s war-torn areas carrying medicine and food in support of the Tamil Tigers.

Nedunmaran threatened the invasion after the Indian Red Cross has refused to carry the material his political organization has collected for the “Tamil people of Sri Lanka” .

Nedunmaran’s organization is one of the outfits suspected of being on the payroll of the LTTE in Tamil Nadu who are acting as their agents.

The LTTE is using Tamil Nadu to procure arms, ammunition, fuel and medicine for its continuing insurgency in Sri Lanka.

If Nedun Maran is successful, it would be the second time Indians are violating the sovereignty of Sri Lanka after the Indian planes entered Sri Lankan airspace after former Indian Prime Minister ordered to drop food from air which are now christened as “parippu bombs” in Sri Lanka.

After that over disagreements the LTTE assassinated their former sponsor, Rajiv Gandhi.

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