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President can free country of terrorism - Liam
Fox:
Prabhakaran for personal fiefdom
It was evident all along that LTTE leader
Velupillai Prabhakaran was not interested in a political solution to
the issues in Sri Lanka and the Tamil people, but in establishing a
personal fiefdom for himself, British Shadow Defence Secretary Liam
Fox said.
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Hillary Clinton tells President Rajapaksa:
Sri Lanka on verge of defeating terrorism
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
acknowledged that Sri Lanka is now on the verge of defeating
terrorism, and that this presented a great opportunity to restore
peace, leading to reconstruction and rehabilitation in the country.
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Food from Jaffna arrive on A-9
The first food convoy of 22 lorries containing
more than 60,000 kgs of vegetables and fish reached Colombo from
Jaffna on Thursday marking yet another milestone of the re-opening
of the A-9 road by the Armed Forces after 24 years.
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Work on Northern railway line begins
The Government will commence the reconstruction
of the Northern railway line from Vavuniya to Kankesanthurai via
Jaffna and the railway stations in between under the patronage of
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on March 19.
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HRHC statement:
Unfounded, lacks credibility, says Minister
The Disaster Management and Human Rights
Ministry expressed its strong sense of surprise and dismay at the
tone and content of the press release issued yesterday by the Office
of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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