President participates in educational events
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today participated in several events at educational institutes.
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President pays homage to Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi and Ruwanweliseya
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 22, Anuradhapura: President Mahinda Rajapaksa worshipped Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi and Ruwanweliseya in Anuradhapura on his way to Kekirawa to open the housing scheme for soldiers.
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Sri Lanka President opens housing scheme for soldiers
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nov 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa ceremoniously opened the "Rana Jayaviru Housing Village" this morning at Ipalogama, Kekirawa in the North Central Province.
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Sri Lanka: Colombo announces new phase of 'IDP management'
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother and advisor Basil Rajapaksa MP on Saturday announced that the Tamils held in the internment camps of Vavuniyaa would be free, starting from December 01, to go and live wherever they want to or to choose whether they want to continue to remain inside the camps. Tamil sources in Vavuniyaa view the announcement with scepticism describing it as an 'election...
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Sri Lanka vows to free 130,000 refugees
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people locked up since the end of the country's bitter civil war six months ago. Two days after the UN's top humanitarian official,...
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I will fight for democratic rights of people, says Fonseka
Hindu (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
COLOMBO: In a clear signs that he is getting ready to take on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the expected presidential race, General (retired) Sarath Fonseka said he would “fight for democracy”. In his first ...
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Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamils
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
SRI LANKA TO RELEASE 136,000 TAMILS All ethnic-minority Tamil detainees will be freed from government camps on December 1, a senior Sri Lankan official said today. Some 300,000 war-displaced Tamils were forced into camps after fleeing the final months of the government’s decades-long war with the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended in May. The Tamils are held against their will in overcrowded...
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Sri Lanka President confident of completing resettlement of IDPs soon
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Nov 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured the visiting top ranking Unite Nations official that the resettlement of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the north could be completed within the next few weeks.
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Sri Lanka President opens photo exhibition by presidential photographer
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Nov 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today participated in the opening ceremony of the "Rajatha Dekma" photographic exhibition held at the National Art Gallery by the official presidential photographer Sudath Silva.
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Fonseka vows to protect democracy in Lanka
rediff News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Sri Lanka's former top general Sarath Fonseka, who resigned last week following a spat with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has vowed to protect democratic freedom and human rights, amid reports that he may contest the presidential polls as an opposition candidate.
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New party leader hands over its doctrine to Sri Lanka President
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Nov 19, Colombo: Justice and Law Reforms Minister, Parliamentarian Milinda Moragoda has formed a new party, Sri Lanka National Congress, to support the ruling alliance. Moragoda presented his party's doctrine to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees today.
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Sri Lanka: Tamil, Muslim political parties find their table in Zurich
Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Widely speculated as a drama backed by ‘high-powers,' leaders of most of the Tamil and Muslim political parties in the island of Sri Lanka are meeting for the first time in Zurich, Switzerland, Monday to Wednesday. The move is said to be for ‘extracting' a joint proclamation of them necessary for further power manoeuvres in the island. A couple of years ago it was such a behind-the-scene...
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U.N. Humanitarian Chief to meet Sri Lanka President tomorrow
Colombo Page (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Nov 18, Colombo: The United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes is scheduled to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa tomorrow.
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Sri Lankan cabinet fails to finalise poll dates
rediff News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Sri Lankan cabinet has failed to take a decision on the timing of the Presidential elections in the country, amid reports that the country's former top General may be the opposition candidate to challenge incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Sri Lanka's retired army chief: General intentions
The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The war’s winners fall out WHEN Sarath Fonseka sought permission this month to retire as chief of Sri Lanka’s defence staff from December 1st, President Mahinda Rajapaksa replied through his secretary that the general, who had led his government’s victory against the Tamil Tigers, could consider himself retired with immediate effect. So General Fonseka had to vacate his office in...
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