Sunday, July 01, 2007

Sri Lanka Update: June 30, 2007.

Mangala Samaraweera has accused that the Mahinda Rajapaksa government has "reversed" the "excellent" relations, which his predecessors had established with India.
PK Balachandran, Rajapaksa has "reversed" relations with India, says Mangala, Hindustan Times, June 28, 2007.

An assessment published in Jane’s Intelligence Review in 1998 found that 40-60% of LTTE soldiers killed in the 1990s were children under the age of eighteen.
Joseph Grosso, Paradise Lost: The Endless War In Sri Lanka, Countercurrents, June 30, 2007.

"Some people are trying to seek asylum and obtain visas to foreign countries using the abductions threat to their advantage." charges the Defence Spokesman, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella.

The new measures like installing underwater surveillance systems are being taken to protect the port against Tamil Tiger attacks.
Sri Lanka enhances harbour defences to counter Tiger threat, LBO, June 30, 2007.

Mangala Samaraweera has been quoted in a recent press interview as saying that a change of regime was the ‘only alternative’ and claimed that 'over 90 per cent ' in the government were ready to join hands with him to free the country of what he described as a ‘vindictive and petty minded’ political leadership.

Also See:
BBC blunder on Sri Lanka the day new UK govt. took office

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