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  • Sinha Regiment troops on UN assignments return

    SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING the second UN peacekeeping assignment en masse, the second batch of troops of the Army's Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (SLSR) arrived in their motherland, Tuesday (13) evening to a warm welcome at Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport.

    Twenty One Officers and three hundred and fifty four Other Ranks, who have efficiently and effectively executed their six-month long assignments in Haiti returned home on a civil aircraft to be received warmly by Major General S. T Abeyratne, Deputy Log Command, Major General N Wijeinghe, Master General Ordnance, Major Genaral W.U.B Edirisinghe, Adjutant General, Major General V. N Wijayagunawardane, Comd 11 Div, Brigadier S.A. G Sooriyarachchi, Director Engineer Services and many other senior Officers in the Army.

  • LTTE Explosive &; Other Items Recovered

    BATTICALOA & JAFFNA: FOLLOWING INFORMATION received from a civilian, troops recovered one Rocket Propeller Gun (RPG) with seven bombs, two diesel barrels containing 400 litres, one kerosene oil barrel containing 200 litres, four halogen flash lights, twenty-four mamoties, two electric drilling machines, one wood carving power saw, one grinder, one spanner and three axes blades Thursday (13) around 2.00 p.m. from the general area of KARUKKAOULCHENAI in BATTICALOA. Recovered RPG bomb were destroyed by Army Engineer troops.

  • Nineteen Tigers Killed in Latest Confrontations

    JAFFNA, VAVUNIYA & MANNAR: TWO LTTE TERRORISTS while attempting to fire at the troops in the general areas of PONNAR and MUHAMALE, JAFFNA were shot dead by the troops ahead of the Forward Defence Line (FDL) Thursday (13) around 5.30 p.m.

  • New Army Chief calls on CDS &; Navy Commander

    COMMANDER OF THE ARMY, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka on Tuesday (13) afternoon called on the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Admiral Daya Sandagiri at his office at Joint Operations Headquarters.

  • Civilians in Eluthumadduval educated on landmines Troops conduct awareness programmes

    Reminiscent of the old adage that \'prevention is better than cure,\' members of the Security Forces stationed in Eluthumadduval, an area infested with landmines (anti-personnel, anti-tank and fragmentation) conduct a series of specially-designed awareness programmes routinely for the benefit of thousands of civilians resident in the Eluthumadduval area.

  • Ambassador Dayan J tells the West: Don\'t preach to us on human rights

    IN A HIGHLY CRITICAL speech to the Human Rights Council on Tuesday (Dec. 11) the High Commissioner Louise Arbour, highlighted Sri Lanka\'s failure to address a raft of human rights abuses. She is pushing to set up a UN human rights office on the island - a move that Sri Lanka has categorically rejected, as explains Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka \'Even in post conflict situations it takes Truth Commissions many years to get to the bottom of things, as we have seen in South Africa. Just look how many decades it took the British government to investigate \'the bloody Sunday\' killings in Northern Ireland. However we are not shutting the door. We do have a capacity problem and we have asked for international assistance\' Carole Vann, Claire Doole/Infosud - Following her visit to Sri Lanka in October, the top UN human rights official, Louise Arbour has taken the government to task for failing to adequately investigate an \'alarming\' number of abductions and disappearances over the past two years, and for a lack of safeguards for those detained under emergency regulations. On Tuesday she also expressed her concern at human rights abuses committed by the Tamil Tigers. The Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Dayan Jayatilleka, rejected the allegations against the government, citing the mitigating circumstances of the civil war.

  • Indian War Games in View of LTTE Air Threat

    NEW DELHI, December 12: The Indian Air Force (IAF) recently staged war games in South India to test this country\'s capabilities to protect its \'high value\' assets like oil tankers, nuclear installations and ports against aerial attacks by \'non-state actors\' in the region like the so-called Tamileelam Air Force (TAF).

  • One Among Arrested had Flying Training - Keheliya

    INVESTIGATIONS HAVE REVEALED that one person arrested during the recent search operation had received training on flying in a foreign flying school and has direct connections with the LTTE, Defence Spokesman and Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.

  • Tigers in France Remain Caged

    A FRENCH COURT has turned down bail applications filed by 19 high ranking LTTE leaders arrested and detained in France and ordered they be kept in remand pending their trial in April 2008, agency reports said.

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