Thursday, June 24, 2010

Blast wounds nine in Sri Lanka capital



An explosion in a commercial area of Sri Lanka's capital on Thursday wounded nine people, police said, adding that Tamil rebels were not responsible for the attack.

"We are ruling out terrorist involvement, the incident was probably due to a personnel vendetta," police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody told AFP.


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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Sri Lankan brotherhood



By Eric Ellis
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Nations can be run as democracies or dictatorships, monarchies or even as products, for instance the widely admired production-to-port ''Singapore Inc'' model. But is there a country run by a fraternity?

Step forward, Sri Lanka, a year after the end of the 30-year civil war between the ruling Sinhalese of the island's mostly Buddhist south and the separatist Tamil Tigers of the Hindu/Tamil north-east.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Sri Lankan visa unlikely for UN probe panel



By Sutirtho Patranobis
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Sri Lanka has lashed out at the United Nations secretary general’s rare decision to appoint a three-member panel to look into alleged war crimes committed in Sri Lanka as the 26-year-old civil unrest came to an end in May last year.

On Tuesday, UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon appointed Indonesia’s Marzuki Darusman, South African Yasmin Sooka and Steven Ratner from the US to “advise him on the issue of accountability with regard to any alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the conflict in Sri Lanka.’’



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