News Archive (2006 - May)

(LeN-May 31, 11.45 pm) A leaflet circulated in Muttur today allegedly by the LTTE said that Muttur will be converted into a river of blood if the Muslims did not leave the area by today....

(LeN-May 31, 5.00 pm) UNP Provincial Councilor Duminda Silva has been remanded until the 5th of next month for assaulting and causing injuries to an American woman and two other foreign nationals...

(LeN-May 31, 5.00 pm) The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna is still remain silent whether it had agreed to a federal system which has one Defence Minister and Finance Minister, UNP Assistant Secretary Tissa Attanayake queried...

(31st May 10.45 a.m) The last call which the LTTE female suicide bomber received seconds prior to the explosion at the Army headquarters recently had come from the Kompanna Veediya area, investigators said yesterday...

(LeN-May 30, 4.10 pm) Last night's brutal massacre of 13 people at Omanthiyamadu, Walachchenai was a work of the Karuna faction to bring the LTTE into disrepute, organization's media spokesman Daya Master said....

(LeN-May 30, 10.45 pm) Even though Justices are appointed by the President to the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal on the recommendations of the Constitutional Council, four judges appointed by the President...

(LeN-May 30, 6.00 pm) Two policemen were injured when a claymore mine exploded between 10th and 11th mile posts at the Vavuniya- Mannar road. Meanwhile security forces recovered a claymore mine planted at the Monaragala-Wellawaya road this morning...

(LeN-May 30, 6.30 pm) LTTE spokesman Daya Master said that the organization will reconsider whether it should participate in a special discussion planned in Norway to discuss the implementation of conditions of the cease-fire agreement...

(LeN-May 30, 3.00 pm) The Russian revolution took place as a result of the Christian culture and not due to Marxism, Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekara said....

(LeN-May 30, 10.45 pm) Thirteen people were killed when the LTTE opened fire at a group carrying out repairs in a tank at Omanhiyamadu, Valachchenai last night. Two others were injured in the incident...