The army yesterday captured Elephant Pass and brought the entire A-9 Highway under government control after a lapse of 23 years amidst heavy resistance from the LTTE, which later retreated to Mulliyan. The 53 and 55 Divisions advanced from Soranpattu, which the army had bagged on Thursday and linked up with 58 Division. All three divisions will now....

One arrested over MTV
attack
The Maharagama Police yesterday arrested an opposition
member of the Kotte Municipal Council in connection with the Monday’s dawn
attack on the MTV’s Depanama studios. They also seized a Defender jeep.
EU heads call for political
solution,
condemn attacks on media
The European Union’s heads of missions based in Colombo, in a joint
statement issued yesterday, said that they had been closely watching the
recent significant military developments in the North and that...

Continuing Collapse of the Rule of Law




