Human
Rights and Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe
will this week ask the United Nations to furnish the
Government with substantial evidence to corroborate
charges that sections of the Government troops are helping
the Karuna group in recruiting child soldiers to battle
the LTTE.
The Government has lodged a strong protest
with Norway over its reported inability to deal firmly
with a visa applicant who had stormed the Sri Lanka Embassy
in Oslo, removed a portrait of President Mahinda Rajapaksa
that was on the wall and dashed it on the ground.
Despite
the initial urgency in soliciting the assistance of
Britain's Scotland Yard to probe the Raviraj assassination,
help is not forthcoming yet because of Colombo's delay
in sending the terms and conditions required by the
Metropolitan Police, it is reliably understood.
Eleven people were killed and at least
15 injured in a collision between a private bus and two
vans at Gokarella in Kurunegala last evening, police said.
The private bus was heading to Colombo from Anuradhapura
when it collided with the two vans plying to Dambulla
and Polonnaruwa.
The
Opposition United National Party (UNP) holds its annual
convention today despite a last minute attempt to have
it cancelled as the re-appointment or sacking of its deputy
leader Karu Jayasuriya becomes the major issue of the
event.
Human
Rights and Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe
will this week ask the United Nations to furnish the
Government with substantial evidence to corroborate
charges that sections of the Government troops are helping
the Karuna group in recruiting child soldiers to battle
the LTTE.
The
Opposition United National Party (UNP) holds its annual
convention today despite a last minute attempt to have
it cancelled as the re-appointment or sacking of its deputy
leader Karu Jayasuriya becomes the major issue of the
event.