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Seventh year remembrance of assassinated Tamil journalist Dharmaratnam Sivaram / Taraki was remembered on the 6th of May, 2012 in London. The event was co-organized by Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), International Association of Tamil Journalists (ITAJ), and TamilNet.

The state welcome received by the spokesperson of the Global Tamil Forum, Sruen Surenthiran in South Africa when he visited for the funeral of South African Minister for Public Administration, Radakrishnan (Roy) Padayatchie on the 5th, is a victory achieved by the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora, political analysts say.

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has asked the President to remove two UPFA National List MPs from parliament and to appoint two Tamil youths from the North to parliament.

Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera and IGP N.K. Illangakoon are disgruntled due to their inability to prevent unwanted deeds from taking place in their respective fields, it is reliably learnt.

Remember the old time journalist H.L.D. Mahindapala? In the years of late D.R. Wijewardene and his son Ranjit, venerated names in the media industry, at the Lake House, he won a name and fame. That is for fairness and credibility.

The Tamil Information Centre (TIC) welcomes the Sri Lankan government announcement that information on people detained by the security forces since the end of the war in May 2009 will be made available.

The President is under a great fear that Chief Justcie Shirani Bandaranayake might ignore directives issued by him in the face of pressure from Supreme Court judges on Bandaranayake asking her to act in a manner to safeguard the independence of the judiciary, sources from the Presidential Secretariat said.

“Some of the 1,800 rehabilitated youths supposed to have been released on September 30th last year at the state function held at Temple Trees have not reached home. Contrary to claims of the government,

Journalist of the ITN, Sudharman Radaliyagoda, who is currently on a warrant to be arrested and another person had met with DIG I.M. Karunaratne who is in-charge of the Western and Northern Range of the Colombo Division on the 12th around 10.20 a.m. and had been engaged in a lengthy discussion.

The third anniversary of the end of the war will be celebrated in the coming week. In the past two years this has taken place with victory parades and with public commemorations of war heroes by the Government although many people would say it was not appropriate after a civil war when citizens of the country were killed in large numbers.

The flamboyant Kapila Chandrasena, as far as his designation goes is Chief Executive Officer of the bankrupt Sri Lankan Airlines and MihinAir.

Details of Minister Mervyn Silva’s largest land grab have been revealed.

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