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Responding to claims that the Rajapaksa administration had not acquired any new, weaponry except ammunition during the Eelam War IV, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told The Island that nothing could be further from the truth. "What we acquired after fighting erupted in August 2006 was amazing," he said adding that no previous government had provided such a range of equipment ...



Polls Chief praised for
halting JRJ’s transfer
Police headquarters yesterday acknowledged that
Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake had cancelled the transfer
of SSP Ampara J. R. Jayawardena to Kilinochchi allegedly over the
removal of President ....





The question
of the Tamil vote
Tamil politics took centre stage again last
week too though it was up-country ...