Raj Rajaratnam, Sri Lankan born US-based investor with
significant stakes in several companies here both on his own account and
through the Galleon Funds he controls would support Sri Lanka’s efforts
to rehabilitate ex-LTTE cadres and had pledged USD 1 million for this
cause.Rajaratnam was a supporter and funder of the Tamil
Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), widely critiqued as a pro-LTTE
organization, helping in post-tsunami and other relief and development
work in the country.
Powder keg in East over
Karuna – Pilleyan ‘war’
Political sources said that the government had caused an
explosive situation in the East by supporting Minister Karuna Amman
against his former colleague Pilleyan, now Chief Minister of the Eastern
Province.
Gota slams double standards
of Western Powers
Had the Opposition bothered to peruse the international press it would
know the extraordinary counter-terrorism measures adopted by the US and
its allies though they criticized Sri Lanka for being callous in her
security strategy...
