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| India
to send food to Jaffna |
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| The Government has sought India’s
help to rush urgent supplies of food, medicine and other
essential consumer items to the Jaffna peninsula where
food shortages have led to a humanitarian crisis. |
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| Amidst
tight security, mystery terror goes on |
| By Kumudini Hettiarachchi |
| More than 219 people have been killed,
abducted or are feared killed by unknown gunmen across
Sri Lanka since January this year, as a new Presidential
Commission of Inquiry on Disappearances sifts through
reams of complaints amidst a chilling reminder of a terror
era that swept the nation in the late 1980s. |
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| One
dead, 40 ill as virus hits Law College hostel |
| By Asif Fuard and Nadia Fazlulhaq |
| A Law College hostel student died of
a suspected viral illness that has affected 40 students
in the past three weeks, prompting hostel authorities
to call in Colombo Municipal Council health officials
to examine the premises. |
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| Two
sailors, STF member killed |
| Two sailors and an
STF personnel were killed in two separate claymore mine
explosions in the Eastern province yesterday, military
sources said. |
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| Govt.
discusses impasse over ICCPR |
| By Ayesha R. Rafiq |
| Solicitor General
C.R. de Silva led a team from the Attorney General’s
Department for talks with members of the United Nations
Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) in Geneva this week to
discuss ways and means of implementing Sri Lanka’s
international obligations. |
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