Sri Lanka Says Mannar `Rice Bowl’ Seized From Rebels

Sri Lanka said the army cut a main supply route for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam when soldiers captured Mannar’s rice-producing area in the latest blow to rebels holding onto their last bases in the north.
“Advancing security forces took control over the entire Mannar `rice bowl’ area” yesterday, the Defense Ministry said in a [...]

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Sri Lanka Says Mannar `Rice Bowl’ Seized From Rebels

Sri Lanka said the army cut a main supply route for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam when soldiers captured Mannar’s rice-producing area in the latest blow to rebels holding onto their last bases in the north.
“Advancing security forces took control over the entire Mannar `rice bowl’ area” yesterday, the Defense Ministry said in a [...]

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Indian troops for South Asian summit in Sri Lanka

India is to send thousands of troops, war ships and helicopters to Sri Lanka as part of security for next month’s South Asian summit in Colombo, diplomatic sources said Sunday.
New Delhi is planning to send three war ships with a combined force of up to 3,000 security personnel because of fears that Tamil Tiger rebels [...]

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Rebels, soldiers killed in Sri Lanka clashes

Sri Lankan security forces kept up an offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels, killing at least 30 guerrillas for the loss of two soldiers, the defence ministry said Monday.
Troops shot dead 30 rebels in the districts of Vavuniya, Mannar and Mullaitivu on Sunday, the ministry said, adding another 34 were wounded.
Security forces suffered two soldiers killed [...]

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Mannar “Rice Bowl” under Army control

Vows to capture sea supply base in Mannar soon
The military yesterday said the strategically important area in the Mannar District, known as ‘rice bowl’ comprising an area of 120 square kilometers was completely brought under its control.
“The area called ‘rice bowl’ or the entire green patch in the district had been brought under full military [...]

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Mannar “Rice Bowl” under Army control

Vows to capture sea supply base in Mannar soon
The military yesterday said the strategically important area in the Mannar District, known as ‘rice bowl’ comprising an area of 120 square kilometers was completely brought under its control.
“The area called ‘rice bowl’ or the entire green patch in the district had been brought under full military [...]

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Ammunition and a grenade in HRC vehicle

Jaffna police has recovered twenty rounds of T56 ammunitions and a hand grenade from a vehicle which belongs to the Jaffna branch of the Human Rights Commission

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China doing a Myanmar in Sri Lanka?

Is China doing a Myanmar in Sri Lanka by capitalising on the policy of President Mahinda Rajapaksa of diversifying Sri Lanka’s geo-political options even while professing close friendship with India?
That seems to have been one of the concerns of the Government of India, which prompted a two-day visit to Sri Lanka by a team of [...]

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The voice of an IDP single mother in Puttlam

“We lack road, water, and housing facilities. Our children are unable to attend school regularly as there is no proper transport service. We don’t have any facility and leading the same life even now as same as 18 years ago”.
This is a cry of an Internally Displaced single mother from Jaffna, A. Shahula who chewed [...]

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France backs ACF call for int’l probe on Muttur massacre

French charity Action Against Hunger (ACF) has began to approach international donors [...]

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