He has been arrested for allegedly helping the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( L.T.T.E.) was living in the rebel- controlled area in Nothern Sri Lanka escaped two days before the defeat of the Tigers in a major action last month.

The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) has planned to set up solar powered coin-operated telephone booths in welfare centres in the North where civilians displaced by the just-concluded military operation are housed.

The petitioner claimed that these people had relatives and friends who were willing to take them into their homes, but the Sri Lankan authorities are holding them by force inside the camps.

The case in question is that of Amarakoon Dissanayake Sarath Kumara, who suffered serious injuries and had to be hospitalized, allegedly after being forcibly taken to a police station in the Ratnapura division and assaulted by police officers. Later he was produced before a Magistrate’s Court where false charges were filed against him.

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry, established to look into serious violations of human rights committed since 2006, was disbanded on Sunday. The Commission of Inquiry was unable to complete its mandate as no extensions were granted. Of the 16 cases referred, only seven were investigated with reports on five finalized.  Not a single one resulted in any justice.

This is Mannar district and in a small area near the coast where there was no heavy fighting
People in this village fled quite early in the recent war and most if not all were not in the now disputed “IDP camps/refugee centres”
Majority are Muslim and not Tamil returnees
Only 540 families have been resettled so far in 06 villages in Arippu and around it.
Livelihood opportunities are almost absent for them and would have to be fed through out the year
There are at present not 300,000 IDP’s that most agencies speak about, but 550,000 IDP’s in Sri Lanka

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The LTTE is considered one of the deadliest terrorist groups, having invented the concept of the modern-day suicide bomber and carried out the murder of two sitting heads of state. In addition, the Tamil Tigers pioneered use of female suicide bombers, homemade minisubmarines, ultralight aircraft and “warehouse ships” pre-positioned on the high seas to resupply terrorist operations on shore.

Between January 1 and May 31 this year, a total of 459 such cases were reported by the 63 police stations in the North and the East – 128 incidents in the North and 331 in the East.

Tennakone (King of South), Alahakone (beautiful King), Weerakone (heroic King), Samarakone, Illangakone (King of Srilanka – Illankai in Tamil),

Navy Spokesman, D.K.P Dassanayake told the Daily Mirror that the comments made by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi earlier this week were incorrect. Mr. Karunanidhi had claimed that the Sri Lankan Government was building a military base on the small Island which lies North West of Sri Lanka. Captain Dassanayake said.

The two men, both ethnic Sri Lankan Tamils, were reported missing eight days ago and were subsequently discovered to have been taken into custody by Sri Lankan officials, the UN office in Colombo said in a statement.

• 01st May – Government websites hacked
• 01st May – Visa restrictions for Journalists
• 03rd May – Tissainayagam case highlighted by US president Obama
• 03rd May – Hindu/Tamil festival banned
• 04th May – Foreign Js are indulging in malicious reporting – Army
• 04th May – Punish those worked for peace – minister
• 04th May – Web sites blocked
• 07th May – Web editor questioned
• 07th May – Sirasa correspondent attacked

In his remarks at last night’s awards gala at the Foreign
Policy Association in New York, Mr. Ban said that he has
made it clear to President Mahinda Rajapaksa that
though the fighting might be over, “there is much more
to do.”

Sri Lanka Customs has banned several South Indian magazines in the recent past, including Ananda Vikadam. Owner of the well known Tamil bookshop, 
Poobalasingham, Mr. Sritharasing was detained for importing Ananda Vikadam on 5th March 2009. A few days later student who was going to Jaffna was arrested at theRathmalana domestic airport when air port security found a copy of the magazine with him (see MFSL monthly report March 2009).

Among the detainees are three Australian Tamils.

The Australian detainees are a 62-year old man and two women aged 26 and 29.

Monsignor Albert Malcolm Ranjith, was  serving in a top post at the Vatican.