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  • Sri Lankan government announces 'release' of Tamil detainees 27 Nov 2009 13:15 GMT
    ... of thousands of Tamil civilians held inside military-controlled detention camps. It also announced that all ... restrictions on their movement and activities. The army detained around 280,000 Tamil civilians who fled the fighting in the final stages of the war ...

  • Former Lankan general to run against president 24 Nov 2009 21:14 GMT
    ... Sri Lanka’s ex-military chief will challenge President Mahinda Rajapakse in ... credit for the military campaign. After the fighting ended in May, he was moved from army chief to become chief of defence staff, ...

  • Fonseka asks court to restore bodyguards 24 Nov 2009 21:14 GMT
    ... Sri Lanka’s former top army general yesterday asked the Supreme Court to ... targeted his car inside the army headquarters. Military officials said Fonseka was given 50 soldiers, ... thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting. AFP "> ...

  • Sri Lanka ex-military chief asks court to restore bodyguards 24 Nov 2009 20:16 GMT
    ... Sri Lanka ex-military chief asks court to restore bodyguards November ... 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's former top army general Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to ... thousands of civilians were killed during the fighting. The government, however, denied any civilians were ...

  • Displaced in Sri Lanka return to former rebel-held areas 24 Nov 2009 11:51 GMT
    ... displaced persons from former rebel-held areas where fighting with government forces took place in the final phases of military operations of the civil war returned to ... camps which were heavily guarded by the army, with no outsiders allowed in. Meanwhile, President ...

  • Church struggles to pick up pieces for returning refugees 24 Nov 2009 04:35 GMT
    ... held in camps across the north since fighting ended in May. But the rushed program ... have to queue to register with the military and have their baggage checked. They then ... what has been done to us by war," said Jayasekaram, formerly a textile businessman from ...

  • Manmohan Singh's sojourn to USA 23 Nov 2009 20:30 GMT
    ... and a failing state. ISI and Pakistan Army were maligned. It was stated that Taliban ... scandalous and cooked up stories about Pakistan military, ISI and nuclear program. Indo-US-Israeli-western rancorous propaganda ... to all. Fully motivated Army is robustly fighting the scourge of terrorism and achieving commendable ...

  • LTTE routed, now time for polls 23 Nov 2009 19:43 GMT
    ... popularity after ending the country’s 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term. However, ... strong challenge from another war hero, former army chief Gen Sarath Fonseka. Fonseka, who accused ... Tamil Tiger rebels — an insurgent group fighting for a homeland for the Tamil minority. ...

  • Sri Lanka to lift Tamil restrictions 23 Nov 2009 16:18 GMT
    ... it will lift restrictions on thousands of war-displaced ethnic Tamils still residing in squalid internment ... More than 300,000 people displaced by the fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels ... won the election by a slender margin. military defeated the rebels earlier this year, ending ...

  • Sri Lanka president calls for early election 23 Nov 2009 12:55 GMT
    ... popularity after ending the country's 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term. However, ... strong challenge from another war hero, former army chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka. Fonseka, who accused ... Tamil Tiger rebels - an insurgent group fighting for a homeland for the Tamil minority. ...

  • Sri Lankan leader calls for presidential election early next year 23 Nov 2009 12:33 GMT
    ... popularity after ending the country's 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term. However, ... strong challenge from another war hero, former army chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka. Fonseka, who accused ... Tamil Tiger rebels — an insurgent group fighting for a homeland for the Tamil minority. ...

  • Sri Lanka president calls for early election 23 Nov 2009 12:30 GMT
    ... popularity after ending the country's 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term. However, ... strong challenge from another war hero, former army chief Gen. Sarath Fonseka. Fonseka, who accused ... Tamil Tiger rebels — an insurgent group fighting for a homeland for the Tamil minority. ...

  • Rajapakse's Poll Strategy 23 Nov 2009 02:43 GMT
    ... opposition is already concentrating on fielding former military chief General Sarath Fonseka as a consensus ... the government, amid rumours of an impending army coup, kicked him upwards from the army ... used as a "war weapon" in the fighting against the Tamil militants. According to former ...

  • 43 SLA killed, 8 bodies recovered in Nalloor, P... 22 Nov 2009 23:50 GMT
    ... 12:57 GMT] At least 43 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed and more than ... more than 70 wounded in the latest fighting that broke out at Nalloor on Poonakari ... the continuous blockade by the Sri Lankan military. The Tigers have recovered 8 bodies of ...

  • Tamil refugees to be freed at last from squalid camps 22 Nov 2009 17:54 GMT
    ... of people after the end of the fighting have become a diplomatic embarrassment to the ... when Sarath Fonseka, the head of the Army and the man who plotted the defeat ... an active part in the Tamil Tiger military campaign or had offered support to the ...


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