SRI LANKA BRIEF

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• Amnesty or Rehabilitation to Tamil prisoners; We reject special courts - mano
• ITAK's plan of attack : the break out strategy
• A draft left programme: Somebody had better make a start drafting something
• Govt.-TNA multi-track engagement essential for national progress
• A staggering sum of Rs. 3450 million in the EPF disappears
• Child abductions on rise in Jaffna
• Five thousand Catholics, Muslims and Hindus defend Mannar bishop against "vile" accusations
• Former Tiger fighters battle for a normal life
• This is the final opportunity to bring lasting peace to this country - Sambanthan
• Who attacked Dharsanandh of Jaffna Uni?

Amnesty or Rehabilitation to Tamil prisoners; We reject special courts - mano Posted: 29 May 2012 04:48 AM PDT Government maintains a policy of selective justice. You have pardoned Vinayakamoorthy Muralitharan aka Karuna Amman, Chandrakanthan aka Pillaiyan, K. Pathmanathan aka KP and Daya master who were the most popular commanders in the LTTE. But you are keeping the small timers who executed the commands of these current government ministers while the both the commanders and executors were in the LTTE. It is the irony here. Read more »

ITAK's plan of attack : the break out strategy Posted: 29 May 2012 02:45 AM PDT The keynote speech by Mr. R Sampanthan, the leader of the main Tamil parliamentary party at the recent congress of that organization is in many respects a landmark event. It sheds light on a number of key strategic issues and should make clear to the international community that the matter of political dialogue leading to ethnic reconciliation is, has become or is becoming rather more complex and fraught than is customarily thought. Read more »

A draft left programme: Somebody had better make a start drafting something Posted: 29 May 2012 02:40 AM PDT Part I,  by Kumar David The dominant factor in Lankan politics is no longer the Tamil question. Three years after the war ended the national question has slipped from its position as the over-determining factor in Lanka's political conjuncture and been replaced by the State as the principal location of the crisis. Read more »

Govt.-TNA multi-track engagement essential for national progress Posted: 29 May 2012 02:33 AM PDT By Jehan Perera When assessing the government's post-war performance it is the issues of accountability on human rights issues and a political solution to the ethnic conflict that take the international centre stage. On both of these counts the Government of Sri Lanka would fare poorly in international estimation. Read more »

A staggering sum of Rs. 3450 million in the EPF disappears Posted: 29 May 2012 02:30 AM PDT The Auditor general in the annual report on the employees provident Fund (EPF) had disclosed that a staggering sum of approximately Rs. Three thousand and forty five million had not been credited to the accounts of the members of this fund .Following the filing of action by the Commissioner general of labor  against private establishments these monies had been recovered for the fund. Read more »

Child abductions on rise in Jaffna Posted: 29 May 2012 01:51 AM PDT Local human rights watchdogs in Jaffna have blamed media for failing to cover the abductions that are on the rise in Jaffna peninsula this weekend as a father from Valveddith-thu'rai (VVT) managed to chase a vehicle that abducted his son, securing his release in Ki'linochchi and a media worker at the Indian Deputy High Commission in Jaffna found his abducted son returning from Ki'linochchi Read more »

Five thousand Catholics, Muslims and Hindus defend Mannar bishop against "vile" accusations Posted: 29 May 2012 01:49 AM PDT ''Sri Lanka's Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, a Muslim, accuses Mgr Rayappu Joseph of stirring the Tamil community against Muslims in his region. People from across the country come together to demand an official apology. "No one defends our rights like the bishops," Muslims and Hindus say.'' Read more »

Former Tiger fighters battle for a normal life Posted: 29 May 2012 01:42 AM PDT Formerfighters receive  training Three years after Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war ended, thousands of former fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) face an uphill battle in re-establishing themselves, despite government efforts to rehabilitate them. Read more »

This is the final opportunity to bring lasting peace to this country - Sambanthan Posted: 28 May 2012 12:30 PM PDT LTTE leader's body ''The rise and fall of the LTTE taught us that regardless of how strong such a movement may be, or how just its demands may be, it is not realistic for the Tamil people to resort to violent political struggle. Further, a struggle that runs counter to the values of the international community, built only on military might, will not prevail.'' Read more »

Who attacked Dharsanandh of Jaffna Uni? Posted: 28 May 2012 11:52 AM PDT Paramalingam Dharasandh ''The attackers came behind me from the side of the Natchimarr temple. Four people come on two motor cycles. The motor cycles were not new models. One of them I think was a red one. I did not see the numbers. I was riding a bicycle. Those who came after me in motor cycles suddenly pushed me down and started to assault me.'' Read more »

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