Saturday 16th June, 2007
 
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Lankan soldiers in UN peace
keeping force not paid their dues

"This was Sri Lanka’s first major overseas military deployment since World War II, the government had dispatched over 1,000 troops since 2004 to Haiti to strengthen the puppet regime installed by the US. While our troops were a part of a so-called UN peace-keeping mission, the purpose of the operation was in the interests of the US. The US and its allies had organised a coup to overthrow a regime of elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and installed a puppet regime. It was to serve this regime, Lanka had sent its soldiers," JVP Matara District MP, Jinadasa Kitulagoda told The Island yesterday.

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Ven.Professor Bellanwila Wimalaratne Thero shows a copy of the joint statement at yesterday’s press conference after the Congress of Religions, at which religious dignitaries of all faiths condemned displacements, abductions and killing of civilians and called for action from Government to stop the trend.Archbishop Rev Oswald Gomis (right) looks on (AP Photo Eranga Jayawardena)
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    Religious leaders yesterday gathered at the Narahenpita Abeyramaya Temple and expressed condemnation over the prevailing situation. They said that they would protest to President Mahinda Rajapakse and if the present trend of displacements, abductions and murder of innocent civilians continue they would be compelled to resort to an organized form of protest.
    FEATURES
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    BUSINESS

  • Export income to fast track rural development
    The Government has launched a rural economic development programme with a view to distribute export income and other such dividends evenly throughout the districts at a time when there’s a yawning disparity in income of people living in districts such as Colombo and Gampaha on the one hand and others in places such as Hambantota, Moneragala and Polonnaruwa, said Prof. G. L. Peiris, Minister of Export Development and International Trade addressing a meeting of exotic fish breeders held at Polonnaruwa recently. 
     

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    SPORTS
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