News Archive (2006 - April)

(30th April 3.00pm.) Government defence affairs spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella alleges that the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has double standards....

(April 30, 8.00 pm) The LTTE has carried out an artillery attack on the Kokkuthuduwawa Army Camp, Welioya. The attack took place around 7.00 this evening and around 7 artillery shots had been fired at the camp, reports said. There are no reports of any injuries caused to army personnel...

(April 30, 1.30 pm) An attack on Karuna faction's camp at uncleared Kadamkulam, off Sinhapura east of Welikanda, Polonnaruwa by LTTE commandos early this morning had killed 10 members and injured 9 of the renegade faction, army sources said....

(April 29, 3.30 pm) The 4th All Party Conference convened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa was held last evening at the President's office....

(April 29 7.30 pm) The special CID team conducting investigations into the killing of Inspector Douglas Nimal has received information that the he had been murdered to prevent connections among police big shots...

(29th April 1.30pm) The killings of 5 persons by beheading and dumping their bodies at Awissawella area was a result of clashes among rival under world gangs says Inspector General of Police Chandra Fernando....

(29th April 2.00pm) The number of displaced persons from the recent air and ground attacks by security forces on Muttur - Sampoor areas are not very accurate according to UNOCHA. The numbers displaced in these areas according to some reports ran to over 40,000 or more...

(29th april 1.30am) The LTTE suicide bomber who blew herself up targeting Sri Lanka's top general was actually pregnant, and that helped her...

28th April, 11.00pm.)Sri Lanka's international donors were meeting in Oslo in a bid to save a...

(April 28, 6.00 pm) Monitoring Mission officials who visited Sampur had said that the two LTTE camps in Sampur had not been damaged in aerial bombing or subsequent attacks....