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This time around a choice between immediate resolution of Jayasinghe told a press conference in we will abstain from applying for paper the problem and facing trade union yesterday. marking,” he said. action. Teachers organised by the CTSU, General Secretary of the EPA “Teachers islandwide will stage a two- Education Professionals Association and Wasantha Dharmasiri said teachers had day sick note campaign on June 11 and All Ceylon United Teachers’ Union have already informed the President of their 12. This time our fight for the rectifica- boycotted applying for the evaluation of decision on April 2 and thereby given the tion of salary anomalies will not be Advanced Level answer scripts this year. government adequate notice to act. Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa carry the casket containing relics to be placed on the tusker. Pic by Dimuthu Premaratne Two more LTTE cadres arrested Dissident MP’s USAID gives B’caloa brother killed dairy farmers fresh hope in Paris taking the total to 21 The brother of dissident JVP Dairy farmers in Batticaloa were Thushyanthan. Puttalam District MP, Weerakumara given fresh hope with the opening of a The dairy sector holds great promise French police detained two leaders of another four months. The Court was Dissanayake was shot dead opposite new milk chilling plant at Vellavelli, on for improving the livelihoods of thou- the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam informed that the suspects would be tried the Batticaloa police station on the site where the original structure sands of farmers throughout who evaded arrest last year and fled the in April 2008 for several criminal activi- Tuesday evening National Freedom was completely destroyed in 1990. the island, especially in conflict-affected country when the police closed in on ties including extortion, intimidation, Front sources said. The new plant was inaugurated on areas such as the districts of Ampara, them during the major round up of top forceful fund collection, money launder- The killing is believed to have been Tuesday by Michael E. Hess, Assistant Batticaloa and Trincomalee, Hess said. Tamil Tigers operating in Paris. The ing and fraudulent finance dealings. carried out by the LTTE pistol gang. Administrator for USAID’s Bureau of USAID, the US government agency in Sous-Directorate Anti-Terrorism (SDAT) The sources in Paris said that another The deceased, Kumudu Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian charge of delivering development assis- of France announced that two leading detainee, Thuraisamy Jayamurthy alias Udayakumara Dissanayake, was a Assistance in Washington. tance from the American people, will LTTE activists Subramanium Muhundan Sinna Jeya was in-charge of finance and police constable. He had been serving As part of the project, through a continue to work with farmers in the grant to international NGO World and Yogarasa Sivarasan were apprehend- money laundering. 16 consecutive years in the opera- East, with the private sector and with Concern and in partnership with Milco ed in Paris on May 13 after painstaking Ranjan and four others were appre- tional areas. Most of the time, he had the Sri Lankan government to establish Private Ltd., USAID constructed 40 cat- investigations lasting several months. hended after questioning the first group served in the East. The funeral conditions that will fuel growth in this arrangements will be notified later, tle sheds and five milk collection points, Muhundan and Sivarasan were the of 14 who were arrested in April. Though key sector for years to come, he said. sources said. provided 300 milk cans and trained 160 head of LTTE political and finance wings Ranjan was keeping a low profile, French “What we’ve done here in Vellaveli farmers in feeding technologies, animal with World Concern and Milco is a good respectively since the arrest of 26 LTTE police were monitoring the activities of health and business planning. In all, start,” Hess said. “But for sustainable cadres, including top most leaders of all the LTTE’s second rung, after nabbing nearly 2,000 households in the area have results, the dairy sector in Eastern Sri the divisions of the terrorist organization the top leaders. benefited. Lanka needs more private investment. on April 01, 2007. After preliminary inves- The SDAT officers informed the JVP... From page 1 “USAID hopes that by supporting That will increase milk production even tigations, 11 of them were released but courts that they had uncovered a large the livelihoods of these farmer families The end result was a major split in the party further – and prices for farmers as the top 14 leaders were remanded without it can help build confidence and restore number of documents from several LTTE resulting in the loss of eleven MPs including well.” He said bail. The detained include LTTE’s French normalcy to this formerly conflict- offices and other front organizations and Wimal Weerawansa, a large number of provin- According to World Concern statis- leader Nadaraja Mathinatharan alias affected area,”, Hess said at the open- it would take several months to examine cial and local government level representatives tics, total milk production in the Parithi and the Political Leader ing. all the evidence. They added that if the and full timers in almost all districts,” Priyankara Vellaveli catchment area during April Aravindan Thuraiswamy alias Metha. At Joining him at the opening ceremo- suspects were released on bail it would said in his letter. 2008 – after training had completed, and that time, several LTTE cadres including ny were Velaveli Divisional Secretary hamper investigations and it would be “In a recent TV interview the General when the chilling center unofficially Muhundan and Sivarasan crossed over to Udayakumar Uthayasridar, Milco difficult to get witnesses as the LTTE is reopened for business – was at least 50 neighbouring countries though the open Secretary said that there was no JVP branch in Chairman H. M. K. B. Hellarewa, Milco well known for intimidation of hostile border points. Japan. If he could utter those words without Working Director Rhumi Jauffer and percent higher than during the months witnesses. After the arrest of the top two leaders, shame, disregarding the sacrifices made by our Regional Programme Manager for of April in each of the previous four the LTTE appointed Stalin Savarimuthu Earlier, when the suspects were pro- comrades on foreign soil, all we can say is that World Concern Mallathamdhi years. alias Ranjan and Ravi Manikkam alias duced before the courts, LTTE’s top inter- the party leadership will stoop to lower levels,” Utha Ravi to the top two posts. But within national lawyer Rudrakumar, who also he said. Priyankara accused Tilvin Silva of violating months, the SDAT arrested them together assisted the LTTE team at peace talks, party discipline by publicising a document carry- with three others taking the total LTTE came to France to get them out on ing ‘self-criticism’ made by Wimal Weerawansa. detainees to 19. remand custody. However, the court Probe into blast rejected the bail plea of the top notch “The JVP, as a revolutionary party has a policy Although the lawyers submitted sev- Combined teams of the Army The bomb believed to have con- LTTE lawyer and ordered further custody. of not divulging any matter related to self-criti- eral appeals for release, the Magistrates and Police have commenced investi- tained about one kilogram of explo- While keeping the 21 LTTE detainees, cism. This sin was committed by the General of Paris refused bail for 19 LTTE leaders. Secretary himself and such a disgusting tactic gations into an explosion that took sives, had not had the desired the French police continue its search of The French police produced the would never be pardoned or approved by any place at midnight on Tuesday (20) impact. the Tamil miscreants who are mainly detainees before five judges in groups and member of the party,” he said. on the Railway Bridge close to The train service between their bail applications were rejected and involved in the acts of challenging The Japanese Branch will not fund the JVP Navayalatenna, Katugastota on the Kandy and Matale was suspended their custody period was extended by French authority. anymore and there would be no further connec- Kandy – Matale railway line. until further notice. tions with the party, he said. The National Freedom Front, formed by Wimal Weerawansa and dissidents, seemed to be fulfiling a long felt need in Sri Lankan politics and the JVP’s Japan Branch would extend its fullest support to the new party, he said. Priyankara would soon be appointed a cen- tral committee member of the NFF, party sources said adding that this would be a major blow to the fund raising activities of the JVP. The JVP branches in Norway, Italy and sev- eral Middle Eastern countries would follow suit in the near future and all of them would discon- tinue funding the JVP. The JVP activists who left the country during the crackdown of the late 1980s had formed those branches abroad and collected funds for the party. These members were now joining forces with the NFF and soon there would be branches of the NFF in place of JVP branches, sources said. JVP’s International Affairs Secretary, MP said that there was no committee or branch of the JVP in Japan. “We have friends and activists but there is no committee or branch. Saman Priyankara, too, was such a friend of the party. Since there was no party Our photographer Jude Denzil Pathiraja captured this scene at a Lanka IOC pumping sta- branch there we do not think that it would affect tion at Kotahena Wednesday night, immediately after the company announced increase in us. He is only an individual,” Herath told The The scene of the Kandy blast. (story on page 1) Pic by Thiwanka Abeyarathne the price of a litre of diesel by Rs. 20 Island.

Priyanee... From page 1 Both, the Overseas Relations Office which ment. “This didn’t come up for discussion after the Meanwhile, the Auditor General is in the Although successive governments had another advisor. On his instructions, several other oversees the Commonwealth Parliamentary prorogation of Parliament,” he told The Island. process of scrutinising CPA and IPU accounts appointed various people as advisors and con- advisors and consultants had been appointed. Association (CPA) and Inter-Parliamentary Union Despite the official denial, The Island learns the which hadn’t previously been made available to sultants, under the present administration there Among them were T. M. Sangadasa and D. S. de (IPU) and the Scholarship Board, are funded by pensioner would be brought back to Parliament. the AG’s Department. The sources asserted that had been a significant increase in such appoint- Silva, former national cricketer who had received the Treasury. We recently revealed the state of During Mrs. Wijesekera’s tenure as the Secretary the inquiries were in preliminary stages. ments. President alone had the best possible deal from the government with affairs at the Scholarship Board which had grant- General, the Overseas Relations Office had been Referring to The Island report headlined ‘AG appointed over a dozen advisors including the taking the burden, the ed only three scholarships over the past seven under her supervision. wants hush-hush accounts probed,’ on the front- , Lakshman Jayakody, Richard sources said. years. Lokubandara’s predecessor Anura page of the November 26th issue, Speaker Pathirana, A. H. M. Azwer, Sunimal Fernando, The sources said the previous UNP govern- Well informed sources said Mrs. Wijesekera’s Bandaranaike, too, had engaged retired Secretary Lokubandara on November 28, said all CPA Dhammika Amarasinghe, Professor P. W. ment had created a record by paying an over- new appointment would be effective on June 1. General Nihal Seneviratne as a consultant. accounting matters had been handled by Ernest Epasinghe, Rohana Weerasinghe, Nazeer seas consultant Rs. 127 million between Others said this had been discussed at a Interestingly, successive administrations had and Young. That decision had been taken by the Ahmed, L. S. Wanigathunga, Prasanna December 2001 and December 2005. The recent executive committee meeting of the CPA taken employees to the Overseas Relations executive committee of the CPA. “We aren’t Gunawardena, Chandra Fernando, Daya Upali sources said for want of set procedure in appoint- and IPU and the members had been divided over Office under the Shop and Office Act whereas the opposed to the AG investigating accounts. But Hewapathirana, Professor B.A. Jagath ing consultants and advisors, successive govern- the unprecedented move. An authoritative official correct procedure would have been to recruit only the CPA’s executive committee could Balasooriya and S. Sathasivam. Recently the ment had acted brazenly and taken decisions at denied any knowledge of the proposed appoint- workers on a special scheme, the sources said. approve it.” President brought in as the expense of the taxpayer.