Amb Dhanapala before Lessons Learnt Commission: Lessons Learnt Com today Rajiva supports

Former Peace post-war role for Secretariat Chief military Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala will testify at BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO the Lessons Learnt and Jayantha Reconciliation Former Peace Commission today at 2 pm. He was pre- Secretariat Chief ceded by two Peace Secretariat Chiefs, UPFA MP Professor Ambassador Bernard Goonetilike and Rajiva Wijesinha says Professor Rajiva Wijesinha. a liaison between the Vol. 29 No. 239 Wednesday 25th August, 2010, 44 pages Rs. 20 Registered in as a Newspaper - Late City Edition military and civilian administration is need- ed. MP Wijesinha says CEB, CPC on Rajiva there is absolutely Elders: Answering a The Union Hostel nothing wrong in the military playing a call to relish carrion of the University track to role in re-building of the Northern and breakeven Eastern Provinces. comfort of Ceylon Government forces finished off the 8 10 Financial Review LTTE on the banks of the Nanthikadal lagoon May last year. Since then they Page 7 ds: Pakistan floo haming ritish public ‘s have been engaged in a massive effort B ith -9 iticians’ w Page 8 world pol onations a £29m d flies, to resettle, rehabilitate and reconstruct hoe ... a A s ks 15 r duc Page eade n? octor l s bor German d end i war devastated areas. tr wanted for ter manslaugh accused of nd Responding to a query by Chandi drugging a UNP in fresh crisis as Karu J moves en raping wom Chanmugam, a member of the Lessons 10 25th, 20 day August Wednes Learnt Commission, MP Wijesinha said lian on Monday (Aug. 23) that a small sec- Austra tion of the military may not be tactful, ld be against ‘a common and ruthless enemy’ PM cou but the majority had shown the capaci- y decided b BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO party. Sources say a consensus ty to take on big tasks. The military is Queen’s A fresh crisis is developing is developing that the post of imaginative and capable of handling e representativ in the UNP with its Deputy the Deputy Leader should go to overwhelming tasks, he said. a facing tralia is - Leader taking MP Premadasa, while some us al stand stitution r con ntest fo d the co Continued on off an may page 2 ountry A ns the c d by o ru ecide a tough stance against President suggest responsibilities can be wh to be d ly have ative, final present een’s re the Qu eneral. ernor-G the Gov Rajapaksa’s government amid divided between incumbent lloon t air ba ar a ho of pose ne catures testers d cari s Pro nt hea ndidate ng gia tion ca weari ral elec ront of an fede lard in f ongoing consultations between Jayasuriya, MP and MP ali il Austr d Julia G uesday, bbott an erra, T Tony A e Canb lia. Lankan asylum-seekers ous tra ment H ra, Aus Parlia Canber 2010, in Aug. 17, the SLFP and the UNP over pro- Premadasa. Political sources ge See Pa 16 posed constitutional reforms. said that this was a con- must stay in jail, Political sources say the UNP Ranil Karu Sajith tentious issue, which could Canada says Taiwan craftsman seems to be sharply divided over trigger tensions among vari- its strategy, though the party time being. on-one meetings with Sajith ous factions. August 24, 2010 seeks to save recently managed to resolve the UNP leader Ranil Premadasa to defuse tensions More than 400 Sri Lankan Tamil printing heritage leadership crisis at least for the Wickremesinghe had three one- over the leadership crisis in the Continued on page 2 refugees who arrived in Canada aboard a cargo ship 11 days ago have been told they must stay in jail. The Canadian Immigration and SLMC won’t Refugee Board agreed with government go before requests for more time to check the migrants’ identity papers. Lessons Government officials want to estab- lish whether there are militants from unched over a metal Learnt the Tamil Tigers, a group banned in casting machine, Chang Canada. HChieh-kuan carefully Commission Some 49 children arrived with the guides a tiny copper mold into group, but they have not been detained. a hydraulic press. Seconds -MP Ali Government officials said the chil- later he extracts a piece of lead dren were either in jails with their type with the Chinese charac- ter for “happiness.” mothers, or in the care of social WORLD VIEW Continued on page 2 UNP joins anti-dengue battle RamazanRamazan Fasting/Prayer Times The UNP August 24-26 BY DASUN plans to launch a EDIRISINGHE special pro- Sahar Ends 4.31 SLMC General gramme to eradi- Fajr 4.46 Sunrise 6.04 Secretary MP Hassen cate dengue. Zuhar 12.14 Ali says SLMC will Gampaha Asar 3.25 not go before Lessons District MP Dr Maghrib 6.22 Learnt and Jayalath Isha 7.34 Reconciliation Jayawardena Commission headed says the Jayalath Shavendra to receive by former Attorney Opposition can General C. R. de The final Randoli Perahera of the historic Kandy Esala Festival parades the streets onTuesday night. play an important role in support of top diplomatic posting Silva. Nearly three dozen elephants and tuskers participated, while over a hundred artistes performed in the per- the government efforts. ahera that was telecast for local and international viewers.(Photo-Thiwanka Abeyarathne- Divaina) Responding to a query by The Major Continued on page 2 General Island, MP Jayawardena said that the Shavendra UNP would launch the programme Silva is today (Aug 25) at Cambridge Terrace expected to MR orders pavement with the participation of UNP leader be appointed Lankan Tamils appeal rejection . as Sri hawkers in MP Jayawardena said that the Lanka’s 7,2,10 be relocated UNP would distribute 500,000 leaflets Deputy of asylum in Australia to educate the public of the signs and Permanent Representative BY ZACKI JABBAR symptoms of dengue. to the UN, External Affairs August 24, 2010: CANBER- UNP MP recent- Ministry sources told The Hawkers on Island last night. The then RA, Australia — Two Sri the pavements of ly urged UNP leader Ranil Brigadier Silva commanded Lankans appealed to Colombo 7, 2 and Wickremesinghe to launch an anti- the 58 Division which spear- Australia’s High Court on 10 are to be relo- dengue project. Addressing the headed the offensive against Tuesday to reconsider them cated, on a Continued on the LTTE. for asylum and challenged as Presidential President page 2 unfair the handling of their directive. refugee claims offshore. Informed sources said that The Island www.island.lk The two members of the result, they face deportation the order had been given dur- Tamil ethnic group were back to Sri Lanka. ing a meeting between the detained in October 2009 at The asylum seekers, President and Chief City Christmas Island, a remote identified only as M61 and Administrator Omar Kamil on processing centre for would- M69, are pleading a lack of Monday. be immigrants trying to procedural fairness because “Those evicted,would be reach Australia by boat. the immigration minister housed in five by four feet An immigration depart- failed to personally consider stalls in close proximity to the ment official assessed their their cases, said David pavements they had earlier cases before asylum was Manne of the Refugee and occupied. The alternate sites rejected, and a federal gov- Immigration Legal Centre. that have been identified !UNP leaders join Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete is anti-dengue battle. ernment contractor for Those denied refugee sta- include Viharamaha Devi Park !What! They waited till crowned Miss Universe during the Christmas Island cases tus while on the mainland of along Dharmapala Mawatha, dengue claimed nearly 200 Miss Universe pageant, Monday, upheld the decision. As a Vauxhall Street adjoining Hyde Continued on lives. Aug. 23, 2010 in Las Vegas. (AP) page 2 Park and Norris Canal Road opposite the Colombo National Hospital.” The President was of the Drinking water before meals helps dieting, says study view that the pavements should Drinking water before meals can you feel full on zero calories, say low-calorie diet but also drank two be free for pedestrians to walk help people to lose weight, says researchers, too much water can also cups of water before each meal. on,while emphasizing that agency reports quoting a US study. lead to serious health problems. Over the course of 12 weeks, hawkers should be given alter- A news report published by the The researchers presented their those drinking water lost about nate accommodation to contin- BBC on its web edition said: findings at the National Meeting of 15.5lbs while the others lost about ue with their livelihood, they Scientists from Virginia found that the American Chemical Society in 11lbs. said. slimmers can lose an average of 5lb Boston. A previous study found that mid- Over a thousand hawkers extra if they drink two cups of water All adults who took part in the dle-aged and older people who drank who were ousted recently from three times a day before meals. study were aged 55 to 75. two cups of water before eating a various parts of Pettah, are to They tested the theory on 48 older The first group followed a low- meal ate between 75 and 90 fewer be accommodated down adults, split into two groups, over 12 calorie diet but did not drink any calories during that meal. Bodhiraja Mawatha and Adittya weeks. extra water before meals. Road. Continued on While drinking water can make The second group followed the page 2 Continued on page 2