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e Page 16 The Constitution Se says of 11,696 Tigers held at the Pointing fingers clearly states ways Vatican: Nobel to IVF conclusion of war in May last and means of year, only about 900 face obtaining a pioneer raises questions legal action. Presidential pardon and if bankrupt political parties like BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO the UNP and the JVP want to get for- ehabilitation and Prisons Reforms mer Army Susil Minister D. E. W. Gunasekera has Commander Sarath Rassured hardcore LTTE cadres that Fonseka released from prison, they the government will not detain them indefi- could follow the procedures in the nitely. Constitution, UPFA General The pledge was given in the presence of Secretary and Minister of VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Petroleum Resources Susil Vatican’s top bioethics official Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe, the senior Premajayanth says. said Robert Edwards, who officer in charge of the ongoing project to “These two parties don’t have a received the Nobel Prize in med- platform to campaign from and are icine Monday for developing in re-integrate them with society. attempting to divert the attention of vitro fertilization, opened “a new Minister Gunasekera last week met and important chapter in the almost 900 male LTTE cadres comprising poor masses, who rejected and field of human reproduction” but members of various fighting units such as dumped them in the dustbins of his- is also responsible for the intelligence and suicide cadres at a school tory,” Minister Premajayantha told destruction of embryos and the in Omanthai close on the heels of the the media yesterday. “The people are creation of a “market” in donor International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) not willing to tolerate such mislead- eggs. alleging Sri Lanka has failed to adhere to ing and futile exercises as poster international law in detaining suspected campaigns, press conferences and LTTE cadres. demonstrations against one of the Iraq’s Among the detained are those responsi- most popular governments.” ble for major attacks in Northern and marathon: Fight Eastern provinces and the South over the Opposition political parties yesterday launched a signature campaign near the Fort Railway sta- over leader, then posts past 20 years. tion, seeking the release of former Army Commander , now serving a 30-month The ICJ alleged the detention of nearly rigorous imprisonment term imposed by a Court Martial. JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe, 8,000 LTTE suspects for months without a flanked by UNP leader , and Deputy leader stresses a point trial was perhaps "the largest mass deten- to the DNA’s Tiran Alles. (Photo-Chandrasiri Weerasinghe) Monk, two others tion in the world". It requested Sri Lanka's fined for stealing donors and the UN to urge Colombo to statue improve its human Ranil pleads for rights situation. BY S. K. KALUARACHI AND LALITH Minister CHAMINDA, Galle Corrs. Gunasekera Fonseka’s release Three persons, including a monk, who pleaded guilty to stealing an BAGHDAD (AP) - The flurry to reminded the close the first chapter of Iraq’s detainees that those BY SAMAN INDRAJITH ancient bronze Buddha statue from the seven-month political drama is arrested during 1971 Atapattam Viharaya in Elliot Road suddenly intense with angry and 1987-1990 JVP-led Opposition Leader Ranil ment and the President had subsequent- Galle, were fined Rs. 400,000 and sen- Sunnis pledging to dig in for a fight insurgencies had Wickremesinghe in Parliament yester- ly confirmed the verdict as the relevant tenced to one year’s rigorous imprison- while Shiite Prime Minister Nouri been detained for a day requested President Mahinda authority under the Army Act, he said. ment suspended for 10 years by Galle longer period. The al-Maliki tries to win over the last D. E. W Rajapaksa to release former Army Wickremasinghe said that the Chief Magistrate Thamara Tennekoon. Communist Party few allies he needs to stay in Commander Sarath Fonseka from President, when he met members of the Gonalagoda Acharige Janaka power. General Secretary said that the police and prison. Maha Sangha at Polonnaruwa, had said Kumara, Kankanamge Chaminda and the Attorney General's Department had Paraigama Sumana thera were accused been asked to expedite investigations. Wickremasinghe said that it was the that he would consider pardon if an WORLD VIEW of stealing the Buddha statue on June Speaking to The Island yesterday, considered view of the Opposition that appeal was made accordingly. He said: 29, 2010. Minister Gunasekara emphasised that the the action taken against Fonseka was not “General Sarath Fonseka is a Member of The accused were fined Rs. 100,000 government was keen to wrap up the reha- just and fair. Parliament sitting in the Opposition each for stealing while the first and bilitation project as quickly as possible. Fonseka had been convicted and sen- benches and therefore I consider second accused were fined a further Rs tenced to a term of 30 months imprison- 50,000 each for defacing the statue. The Magistrate directed the Police to take steps to arrest the fourth accused who was absconding. House to be The prosecution was conducted by Welgama sees bus fares OIC Galle Special Crimes Bureau IP informed about Chinthaka Panawela and PS Kapila decreasing next year Abeysinghe. Transport Minister to the Mahinda Chinthanaya policies and SF’s jail conditions says that there will be no bus fare hike by devoting more time to improve the next year. Instead, he says there will be a State run bus service. !Ranil visits Fonseka at Welikada, New ASPs to fare decrease. The Minister revealed that feasibility “In view of the dwindling bank inter- studies had been carried out on wants security strengthened est rates, not only bus fares but prices the electrification of the train BY ZACKI JABBAR travel by bus Ranil says Gen. Fonseka won ! of certain other goods, too, could service and under that project Opposition and UNP Leader Ranil the ground war. BY NORMAN PALIHAWADENA come down,” Welgama said at a func- the services between Wickremasinghe said yesterday ! Isn’t he the guy who said tion in Panadura, where he inaugu- Veyangoda and Kalutara would that he would be filing a report For the first time in Thoppigala was a jungle not rated two new bus services. get priority. in parliament about the securi- the history of the worth taking and the army did He said that the State run bus serv- He reminded bus com- ty and other conditions under Police Department, not know map reading? ice should have at least 7,500 buses to muters that if all of them pur- which Retired General Sarath Assistant compete with the private sector, which chased tickets, the earnings of Superintendents of Fonseka, MP, was being held at had a fleet of 18,000. He said that he the SLTB could be Police (ASPs) have had been able to resuscitate the Sri increased by another 20 per the Welikada jail. to travel by public A mother at 12 Lanka Transport Board by adhering Welgama cent. Fonseka transport in uniform on official duties. BY SAMAN UPUL PINIDIYA, One hundred six Akuressa Corr. A 12-year-old girl developed officers were recently labour pains and delivered a baby promoted as ASPs but there aren’t while travelling in a three wheel- Powerful forces block NCPA efforts to help beggar children enough vehicles to be distributed er recently. She was admitted to among all of them. Although the Police the Morawaka Hospital. BY DILANTHI JAYAMANNE the children’s ‘earnings’ and preference by beggar headquarters instructed divisional after paying the parents or mudalalis,” an NCPA source Hospital sources said both, The National Child abodes in the early hours, mother and baby, were in good guardians their due, pocketed said. Protection Authority said yes- transported in vehicles and the balance. A recent random survey con- health. terday that it faced several diffi- dropped at some points in the Investigations have revealed Even if the street children ducted by the NCPA has culties in getting beggar chil- city and suburbs. They were that the girl and her mother had were to be brought to rehabilita- revealed that there are more dren off the streets and rehabil- provided with lunch, if a well been employed as domestic aides tion centres with the help of the than 2,000 street children in the in a house in Morawaka and the itating them as begging had wisher failed to give meals and Police, they invariably reverted city. An effective mechanism girl had been sent to school by become an organised industry transported back home in the to beggary. The mudalalis tar- should be devised to get the her employer. backed by certain powerful ele- evening. The process was geted not only orphans but also children off the streets and The police are conducting ments. repeated again the following handicapped adults. “Persons rehabilitate them to be good cit- investigations. The NCPA said that the chil- morning, the NCPA said. with chronic disabilities and izens, the NCPA spokesperson dren were picked up from their Beggar mudalalis collected incurable diseases are given said.