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Sri Lanka to release all child soldiers by May
Feb 09 (CP) Colombo- Sri Lankan government is planning to release all the former child soldiers of the Tamil Tiger outfit LTTE who are now being rehabilitated at the government-run rehabilitation centers.
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Pro Fonseka officers file FR petition
Feb 09 (DM) Eight former armed services personnel who were actively engaged in ensuring the safety and security of common opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka yesterday filed fundamental rights petitions challenging their arrest and detention which they claimed was arbitrary.
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UNHRC may gloss over alleged ‘war crimes’
Feb 09 (ENS) COLOMBO- The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) which is to meet in Geneva from March 1, might gloss over the war crimes allegedly committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces in the final phase of the war against the LTTE in 2009, a top Lankan official told Express here on Monday.
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Fonseka arrest raises fear of crackdown
Feb 09 (FT) The main opposition candidate in Sri Lanka's presidential elections has been arrested, raising further concerns about the country's political direction ahead of parliamentary elections due before April.
Sarath Fonseka, the retired general who came second in last month's presidential poll, faces court martial over unspecified offences committed during his long military career.
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Sri Lanka arrests former military commander General Fonseka
Feb 08 (CP) Colombo- Sri Lankan military police arrested the former military chief and defeated presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka Monday evening at his office for committing military offences.
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Sri Lanka military appoints new spokesman
Feb 08 (CP) Colombo- Sri Lanka military has re-appointed Major General Prasad Samarasinghe as the new Military Spokesman and Director, Directorate of Media in the Army.
The former Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara has been appointed to the post of Chief Field Engineer of Sri Lanka Army.
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Bus accident in Sri Lanka injures 44 passengers
Feb 08 (CP) Kandy- A chartered private bus ran off the road and crashed in the central hill country of Sri Lanka on Sunday injuring 44 passengers.
The bus has reportedly failed to negotiate a bend and crashed in the Kirimetiya area in Manikkinne of the Kandy District yesterday afternoon.
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Sri Lankan Opposition Leader Arrested
Feb 08 (TIME) General Sarath Fonseka, the defeated candidate in Sri Lanka's recent presidential election, was arrested by military police at his Colombo residence Monday night, Feb. 8. The government said Fonseka, the former army commander, had been arrested on charges of "committing military offenses," but it offered no details.
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Political ally: Sri Lankan presidential candidate arrested on sedition charges
Feb 08 (AP) COLOMBO- A political ally says Sri Lanka's former army chief and presidential candidate has been arrested on sedition charges.
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Police to be unarmed in public
Feb 08 (Island) The government has decided to stop policemen on regular duty carrying guns in public.
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Police recover fire arm
Feb 08 (DN) Chilaw Division Intelligence sleuths last Friday recovered a cache of arms hidden in a mangrove off the lagoon area in Madurankuliya. These weapons included a 12 bore firearm with two live bullets, 54 ammunitions of T56 type and two magazines.
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Cousin wants Prabhakaran mother sent to Tamil Nadu
Jan 18 (IT) Following the death of Thiruvengadam Velupillai - father of slain LTTE supremo Prabhakaran - his relatives have demanded that his widow be allowed to stay with them in India.
Prabhakaran's cousin Rajendran has urged the Sri Lankan government to permit Parvathi Ammal to stay with him in Musiri, 30 km from Tiruchi in Tamil Nadu.
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Lasantha killing: Two ex-army men arrested
Feb 09 (Island) Two former Army officers have been arrested by Police over The Sunday Leader founder editor Lasantha Wickrematunge on January 8, 2009. They had been arrested on information provided by the Army intelligence unit and were being questioned, police sources said.
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Police search for two suspects
Feb 09 (DN) Gampola police investigating the killing of Thambiligala Sri Bodhirukkharama Viharadhipati Ven. Matara Wimalananda thera and Vasantha Kumara, a UPFA supporter on the day after the Presidential election is looking for another two suspects including a JVP member of the Ganga Ihala Pradeshiya Sabha for questioning in this connection.
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Sri Lankan presidential foe faces court-martial
Feb 09 (AP) Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate was hauled from his office by military police Monday and will be court-martialed on charges of planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army.
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Sri Lankan journalists protest against media suppression
Feb 08 (CP) Colombo- Sri Lankan journalists today held a protest campaign in Colombo demanding the release of an editor who was arrested and is being detained by the police. Holding placards and shouting slogans the media right activists and the journalists demanded the government to release editor of the Marxist party Lanka newspaper Chandana Sirimalwatte.
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Breaking News: General Fonseka arrested
Feb 08 (CP) Colombo- Sri Lankan authorities have arrested the former military commander and common opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka, and his media Secretary Senake de Silva a short while ago for committing military offences, sources told ColomboPage. More information to follow.
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Sri Lanka HR Minister leaves for Geneva to defend opposition candidate's war crime allegations
Feb 08 (CP) Colombo- A high-level delegation led by Sri Lankan Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe left for Geneva on Monday to hold discussions with the United Nations Human Rights Council on the alleged war crimes committed by the government troops.
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New police spokesman appointed in Sri Lanka
Feb 08 (CP) Colombo- Several immediate changes have been made in the Sri Lanka police ranks including that of the police spokesman.
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Arms dealer jailed for illegally supplying weapons to Israel and Sri Lanka
Feb 08 (Telegraph) An arms dealer who traded military weapons for ''totally war-like, destructive and death-dealing use'' was jailed for nine years.
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Sri Lanka Arrests Former Presidential Candidate
Feb 8 (Reuters) COLOMBO- Sri Lanka arrested former army commander and losing presidential candidate General Sarath Fonseka at his office on Monday night, for what the army said were military offences.
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44 injured in Kandy bus accident
Feb 08 (DM) A chartered private bus heading towards Menikhinna from Kandy had veered off and crashed injuring at least 44 passengers at the Kirimetiyana Junction in Menikhinna yesterday morning, police spokesman SP Preshantha Jayakody told Daily Mirror Online.
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Peace dividend unlikely for Sri Lanka
Feb 08 (NST) Newly re-elected Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse made all the right noises in his address marking the country's independence day on Feb 4 but questions remain over his sincerity. And his intentions.
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