Sri Lanka seeks urgent military equipment from India

Sri Lanka urged India to provide more military equipment and intelligence assistance to fight against escalating attacks by the Tamil Tigers, Indian media reported yesterday.

Reports said that visiting Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa submitted a list of urgent military requirements during meetings with national security advisor M K Narayanan, Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta and Army Chief General J. J. Singh.

According to the reports Defense Secretary wanted low level transportable radars and quick reaction ground to air missiles to contain the threat posed by Tigers air attacks.

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School children from Vakarai visit Colombo

Government, along with the support of the Security Forces personnel and the 'Seva Lanka' Foundation, has organized an educational trip for the students of Vakarai area to visit the Southern part of the island.

Yesterday was the last day of this four day tour which included sixty two students of that area. Twenty two students from Vigneshwaran School of Vakarai and forty students from Palachchenai participated in the educational tour.

The Army and the 'Seva Lanka' Foundation provided food and accommodation to the students.

First three days were spent at Colombo and the students had the opportunity of visiting several important places. They visited the famous shrine of St. Anthony's in Kochchikade on Saturday (26) while on Sunday they visited the National Zoological Gardens.

They visited the Ramanadan Hindu College yesterday and went on a sightseeing tour in Colombo. A musical show was conducted for the students in the evening.

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Expose LTTE genocide worldwide: TULF

The Tamil United Liberation Front Leader V. Anandasangaree suggests a team of British administrators and a few pro - LTTE Tamil Nadu politicians be brought down to see some of the LTTE's atrocious activities.

In a statement issued yesterday the TULF leader "strongly condemns the LTTE for its ruthless manner in which they took the lives of 8 innocent civilians and caused injuries to 36 others of whom how many would have lost their limbs and eyesight are not known".

I wish a team of British Parliamentarians and a few pro LTTE Tamil Naadu Politicians be brought down to see some of the LTTE's atrocious activities and to go back and tell the world that more than 50% of Tamils are living amongst the Sinhalese peacefully and that it is the LTTE that is engaged in genocide and not the Sinhala people.

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Sri Lanka opposition leader tries to force an agenda

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has criticised comments from Sri Lanka opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe which argued that Sri Lankan editors should be summoned before Parliament and questioned under the Parliamentary Privileges Act...

“These sorts of comments are indicative of the deeper underlying media issues in Sri Lanka,” said the president of the IFJ, the organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 115 countries.

“People in positions of power in Sri Lanka seem to think they are able to control the news agenda, and, regardless of the reality, these comments are having a detrimental affect on press freedom nationwide,” Warren said.

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sri-lanka-opposition-leader-tries-to-force-an-agenda/