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Even Hardcore Tigers Won't Be Held Indefinitely – Vol. 29 No. 274 Wednesday 6th October, 2010, 44 pages Rs. 20 Registered in Sri Lanka as a Newspaper - City Edition How to lose Research Reports on your laptop 7 Muslims’ Grievances Page 3 Page 6 Ratings are high, FDI Iraq’s 11 Vatican: Nobel to marathon: in Sri Lanka IVF pioneer Fight over raises questions leader, then posts Page 14 attraction low Geert Sri Lanka responds to International Commission of Jurists: Wilders trial suspended FINANCIAL REVIEW after he attacks judge Wednesday October 6th, 2010 Biscuits are a popular food item from children to elders. Jak fruit is also an all time Sri Lankan Foreiiggn Even hardcore Tigers won’t favourite dish. Older Sri iinntteelligence Lankans have agents in India had Jak fruit as their toto foil attacks main meal of on Games P the day. ritain, the United States and Australia have be held indefinitely Britain’s Prince Charles, right, 10 sent intelligence teams to India to help stop and Camilla, Duchess of B Cornwall, second from right, Pakistan-based groups launching a terrorist arrive for the opening ceremony attack during the Commonwealth Games, The of the 19th Commonwealth Games at the Jawaharlal Nehru Daily Telegraph has learnt. stadium in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. (AP) See Page 16 Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe Come the proper way Vatican: Nobel to IVF says of 11,696 Tigers held at the – DEW to obtain pardon for pioneer raises questions conclusion of war in May last year, only about 900 face Fonseka - UPFA legal action. Pointing fingers BY FRANKLIN R. SATYAPALAN BY SHAMINDRA The Constitution FERDINANDO clearly states ways ehabilitation and Prisons Reforms and means of Minister D. E. W. Gunasekera has obtaining a Rassured hardcore LTTE cadres that Presidential pardon the government will not detain them indefi- VATICAN CITY (AP) - The and if bankrupt Vatican’s top bioethics official nitely. political parties like said Robert Edwards, who The pledge was given in the presence of the UNP and the received the Nobel Prize in med- Commissioner General of Rehabilitation JVP want to get for- icine Monday for developing in Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe, the senior mer Army officer in charge of the ongoing project to Commander Sarath vitro fertilization, opened “a new Susil and important chapter in the re-integrate them with society. Fonseka released from prison, they field of human reproduction” but Minister Gunasekera last week met could follow the procedures in the is also responsible for the almost 900 male LTTE cadres comprising Constitution, UPFA General destruction of embryos and the members of various fighting units such as Secretary and Minister of creation of a “market” in donor intelligence and suicide cadres at a school Petroleum Resources Susil eggs. in Omanthai close on the heels of the Premajayanth says. International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) “These two parties don’t have a alleging Sri Lanka has failed to adhere to platform to campaign from and are Iraq’s international law in detaining suspected attempting to divert the attention of LTTE cadres. poor masses, who rejected and marathon: Among the detained are those responsi- dumped them in the dustbins of his- Fight ble for major attacks in Northern and tory,” Minister Premajayantha told over leader, then posts Eastern provinces and the South over the the media yesterday. “The people are past 20 years. not willing to tolerate such mislead- The ICJ alleged the detention of nearly ing and futile exercises as poster 8,000 LTTE suspects for months without a Opposition political parties yesterday launched a signature campaign near the Fort Railway sta- campaigns, press conferences and trial was perhaps "the largest mass deten- tion, seeking the release of former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, now serving a 30-month demonstrations against one of the tion in the world". It rigorous imprisonment term imposed by a Court Martial. JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe, most popular governments.” requested Sri Lanka's flanked by UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, and Deputy leader Karu Jayasuriya stresses a point donors and the UN to the DNA’s Tiran Alles. to urge Colombo to (Photo-Chandrasiri Weerasinghe) improve its human rights situation. BAGHDAD (AP) - Minister Monk, two others Gunasekera Ranil pleads for close the first chapterThe offlurry Iraq’s to seven-month political drama is reminded the fined for stealing suddenly intense with angry detainees that those Sunnis pledging to dig in for a fight arrested during 1971 Fonseka’s release while Shiite Prime Minister Nouri and 1987-1990 JVP-led statue al-Maliki tries to win over the last insurgencies had BY S. K. KALUARACHI AND few allies he needs to stay in been detained for a BY SAMAN INDRAJITH CHAMINDA LALITH power. longer period. The Opposition Leader Ranil Three persons, including, Galle Corrs. a monk, Communist Party Wickremesinghe in Parliament yester- who pleaded guilty to stealing an WORLD VIEW General Secretary said that theD. police E. W and day requested President Mahinda ment and the President had subsequent- ancient bronze Buddha statue from the the Attorney General's Department had Rajapaksa to release former Army ly confirmed the verdict as the relevant Atapattam Viharaya in Elliot Road been asked to expedite investigations. Commander Sarath Fonseka from authority under the Army Act, he said. Galle, were fined Rs. 400,000 and sen- Speaking to prison. Wickremasinghe said that the tenced to one year’s rigorous imprison- Minister GunasekaraThe Island emphasised that the yesterday, Wickremasinghe said that it was the President, when he met members of the ment suspended for 10 years by Galle government was keen to wrap up the reha- considered view of the Opposition that Maha Sangha at Polonnaruwa, had said Chief Magistrate Thamara Tennekoon. bilitation project as quickly as possible. the action taken against Fonseka was not that he would consider pardon if an Gonalagoda Acharige Janaka just and fair. appeal was made accordingly. He said: Kumara, Kankanamge Chaminda and Fonseka had been convicted and sen- “General Sarath Fonseka is a Member of Paraigama Sumana thera were accused tenced to a term of 30 months imprison- Parliament sitting in the Opposition of stealing the Buddha statue on June benches and therefore I consider 29, 2010. The accused were fined Rs. 100,000 Welgama sees bus fares each for stealing while the first and second accused were fined a further Rs decreasing next year 50,000 each for defacing the statue. The Magistrate directed the Police to take Transport Minister Kumara Welgama House to be steps to arrest the fourth accused who says that there will be no bus fare hike was absconding. next year. Instead, he says there will be a to the Mahinda Chinthanaya informed about The prosecution was conducted by fare decrease. by devoting more time to improve the ! Ranil says Gen. Fonseka won policies and OIC Galle Special Crimes Bureau IP “In view of the dwindling bank inter- State run bus service. Chinthaka Panawela and PS Kapila the ground war. est rates, not only bus fares but prices SF’s jail conditions The Minister revealed that feasibility Abeysinghe. ! Isn’t he the guy who said of certain other goods, too, could Thoppigala was a jungle not come down,” Welgama said at a func- studies had been carried out on !Ranil visits Fonseka at Welikada, worth taking and the army did tion in Panadura, where he inaugu- the electrification of the train not know map reading? rated two new bus services. service and under that project wants security strengthened the services between New ASPs to He said that the State run bus serv- BY ZACKI ice should have at least 7,500 buses to Veyangoda and Kalutara would Opposition and UNPJABBAR Leader Ranil compete with the private sector, which get priority. Wickremasinghe said yesterday travel by bus A mother at 12 had a fleet of 18,000. He said that he He reminded bus com- that he would be filing a report BY had been able to resuscitate the Sri muters that if all of them pur- NORMAN B in parliament about the securi- PALIHAWADENA Y SAMAN U Lanka Transport Board by adhering chased tickets, the earnings of PUL PINIDIYA ty and other conditions under For the first time in Akuressa Corr. , the SLTB could be the history of the A 12-year-old girl developed which Retired General Sarath labour pains and delivered a baby increased by another 20 per Police Department, Welgama cent. Fonseka, MP, was being held at while travelling in a three wheel- Assistant er recently. She was admitted to the Welikada jail. Superintendents of the Morawaka Hospital. Powerful forces block NCPA efforts to helpFonseka beggar children Police (ASPs) have Hospital sources said both, to travel by public mother and baby, were in good transport in uniform health. BY D on official duties. The National Child ILANTHI J Investigations have revealed Protection Authority said yes- AYAMANNE One hundred six that the girl and her mother had terday that it faced several diffi- abodes in the early hours, the children’s ‘earnings’ and officers were recently been employed as domestic aides transported in vehicles and promoted as ASPs but there aren’t in a house in Morawaka and the culties in getting beggar chil- after paying the parents or dren off the streets and rehabil- dropped at some points in the guardians their due, pocketed preference by beggar enough vehicles to be distributed girl had been sent to school by city and suburbs. They were mudalalis among all of them. Although the Police her employer. itating them as begging had the balance. ,” an NCPA source become an organised industry provided with lunch, if a well Even if the street children said.
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