The JVP, in spite of its much flaunted
anti-separatist postures which even led to its breakaway from the
present government in 2005 in protest against President Chandrika
Kumaratunga’s offer to share tsunami aid with the Tigers, had contacts
with the LTTE during the height of southern terrorism in the late
1980s, Head of Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) Intelligence Col. R.
Hariharan (retd.) has revealed.
Col. Hariharan in an article, Intelligence in India’s Sri Lanka War
(see page 07 for full text) highlighting the odds against which the
IPKF had conducted its operations in Sri Lanka points out that one of
the three strategic developments which the IPKF thought would
destabilise its operations was the contacts between the LTTE and the
JVP.
The
Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council raided
supermarkets and other leading stores selling food items to check on
whether items prepared with imported milk containing melamine was on
the shelves. A set of PHIs inspect the items at a store. (Photo-Kamal
Bogoda)
Agri officers take farmers for a ride
Some official of the Tambuttegama Agricultural Research
Centre in Anuradahapura are alleged to have collected over Rs 5 million
from farmers in the area, on the promise of supplying fertilizer at
subsidised prices, but had failed to supply the fertilizer nor given
receipts for the monies collected.
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