LTTE spin doctors in a last ditch bid to force
international intervention yesterday claimed that over 3,200 civilians
had been killed in an artillery barrage directed at no fire zone on
the Mullaitivu coast over the weekend and on Monday.

Anti-aircraft guns mounted on double cabs (Courtesy Army
Media)

Sarana, 3 others remanded
till May 25
Gampaha District UPFA MP Sarana Gunawa-rdena and three others,
including two police bodyguards, were remanded till May 25 by the
Attanagalle Magistrate over the abduction of a 12-year-old boy in the
run up to...
Bethmage remanded over
shooting
The Kaduwela Magistrate yesterday remanded WPC member
Hector Bethmage, produced in Court in connection with a shooting incident
on April 11, till May 25.





Cautious
optimism in the UNP
Last week there was a British parliamentary
delegation in Sri Lanka to...