Thursday, April 30, 2009
Defence
Sectary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday rejected visiting British
Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s call for a ceasefire and access for
aid workers to the civilian zone, and told him that the government
would not stop its war on terror until the LTTE was crushed and its
leader Velupillai Prabhakaran captured, dead or alive.
According to highly placed ...

Monks of the Jathika Hela Urumaya yesterday
launched a protest opposite the British High Commission against the
UK’s opposition to the elimination of terrorism in Sri Lanka.
(Photo-Kamal Bogoda)
Indian military
on red alert to block LTTE cadres
NEW DELHI, April 29: India has put its
security forces on alert along its southern coastline to prevent
beleaguered LTTE cadres fleeing Mullaitivu from entering this country.

"We are
against double standards"
- Russian Ambassdor


UN
resolution 638 (1989)
on hostage-taking
The hostage –taking drama that is ...



Scottish
thrift and Sri Lanka’s IDPs
If by the time you read this newspaper on Sunday
morning, the UNP is not on its...