Saturday, February 7, 2009

Ampara Success story in Pluralism?

Nation on Sunday - Sri Lanka
The huge yellow and green vehicles are seen everywhere, from Ampara to
Kalmunai, where tens of thousands of acres of paddy lands are found. ...
<http://www.nation.lk/2009/02/08/newsfe1.htm>


It's back to Batticaloa, but not to school

Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka

By Maura O'Connor Although a large number of the war displaced have

returned to Batticaloa district , thousands of children are not getting

back to school ...

<http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090208/News/sundaytimesnews_07.html>

Bumper paddy harvest expected in East

Sunday Observer - Columbo,Sri Lanka
Harvesting has already begun in the Ampara, Batticaloa and Trincomalee
districts, said MLAM Hisbullah, Provincial Minister of Social Service, ...
<http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2009/02/08/new19.asp>

Google Alert - Batticaloa

SriLankaNews.com - Sri Lanka: SLA hands over body of Tamil farmer ...
By cron
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in Paduvaankarai in Batticaloa district
handed the body of a Tamil farmer Friday morning to Vaazhaichcheanai
hospital cl...
<http://www.srilankanews.com/story.php?title=sri-lanka-sla-hands-over-body-of-tamil-farmer-to-vaazhaichcheanai-hospital-tamilnet>

Sri Lanka: SLA hands over body of Tamil farmer to Vaazhaichcheanai ...

By TamilNet Newswire
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in Paduvaankarai in Batticaloa district
handed the body of a Tamil farmer Friday morning to Vaazhaichcheanai
hospital claiming that he had committed suicide by taking poison, ...
<http://australiantamil.com/?p=3758>

Friday, February 6, 2009

Defeated, not out

The Week - Kochi,India
We live in fear," says Karunakaran, an engineer in Batticaloa. Kumar David,
a leader of the Democratic Left Front in Sri Lanka, says another "quisling
would ...
<http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?sectionName=Current+Events&contentId=5111451&programId=1073754900&pageTypeId=1073754893&contentType=EDITORIAL

Sri Lanka Relief Work


By webmaster@halifax.ca
The first mission occurred in June 2007 when Catherine joined a team of two
other volunteers to assist with the computerization and modernization of
the finance departments at the local governments of Galle and Kalmunai. ...
<http://www.halifax.ca/mediaroom/pressrelease/pr2009/090206SriLankaReliefWork.html>