08/15/2011
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news.lk
The Northern Province Senior DIG Gamini Silva has said that the main suspect in the attack on the News Editor of Uthayan newspaper Gnanasunderam Kuganathan has been taken into police custody this morning. He has said that a special police team was deployed from Jaffna to apprehend the suspect while at the Kalubowila Hospital in Colombo.
02/20/2011
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Monsters and Critics
Colombo - Seventeen people attempting to illegally make their way to Australia by boat have been arrested off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, officials said Sunday.
07/20/2010
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Globe and Mail
A man deported to Sri Lanka is in hiding after being interrogated, and possibly tortured, in Colombo – the result, his Toronto lawyer says, of an exaggerated news release from the Canadian government trumpeting his removal.
03/23/2010
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AFP
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan opposition groups demonstrated in Colombo on Tuesday demanding the release of former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who attempted to unseat the president in recent elections.
03/17/2010
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AFP
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan media groups Thursday protested against the arrest of a reporter close to Sarath Fonseka, the detained ex-army chief who tried to unseat the president in recent elections.
03/08/2010
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BBC
The recent arrest of Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate, Gen Sarath Fonseka, along with some of his supporters, has raised fears among rights groups in the country. The authorities accuse the general of having worked with what they call anti-government forces. Here people in Sri Lanka discuss the latest political developments as they prepare for general elections in April.
01/26/2010
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Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's top opposition candidate said troops had surrounded his hotel on Wednesday, after polling in Sri Lanka's first post-war presidential election ended with the revelation that he was not a registered voter.
01/26/2010
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Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's top opposition candidate said troops had surrounded his hotel on Wednesday, after polling in Sri Lanka's first post-war presidential election ended with the revelation that he was not a registered voter.