2 Thursday 15th December, 2011 The Island Home News Beggar killer to be charged BY JAYANTHA DE SILVA Police investigating the killing of 15 will be produced in both courts. in smashing the heads of 15 beggars and beggars in Colombo and its suburbs, in the PC Hemantha Hettiaarachi, of the Mt. also that of a businessman who had slept recent past, will produce a suspect before Lavinia Police, prosecuting, said that the the night on the pavement under the influ- the Fort Magistrate and the Colombo suspect was believed to be involved in the ence of liqour. Magistrate’s Court, respectively,on Dec. 20. night time killing of 15 beggars sleeping He had allegedly used stones and con- On a directive given by Mt. Lavinia on the pavements and sidewalks in the city crete blocks to attacks his victims. Chief Magistrate Nirosha Fernando on and suburbs. The spate of killings, which induced Wednesday (14), Clarence alias Liyanage Earlier, the Mt. Lavinia Police, filing a fear amongst the beggars, was reported alias ‘Pu’, held on a charge of killing 15 ‘B report’ said that the suspect, a dumb from Borella, Kollupitiya, Kotahena, Mt. persons who were sleeping on pavements, person, was believed to have been involved Lavinia and Moratuwa. Wanted u’grads Sri Lanka doesn’t identified need outside help to

BY CYRIL WIMALASURENDRE KANDY – The three undergraduate sus- solve problems – GL pects, wanted in connection with incidents of inhumanly ragging a new entrant to the BY SAMAN INDRAJITH accrued and enjoyed by such a policy. University of Peradeniya, have been identi- All the attempts engineered against Sri fied, Senior DIG H. N. B. Ambanwala said. Sri Lanka does not need an interna- Lanka on the international front have The trio will be arrested at any time. tional policeman to solve the country’s been defeated. An attempt to bring a res- Many of the suspects in the case of internal problems, External Affairs olution against Sri Lanka at the Human Minister Prof G. L Peiris told Rights Commission in Geneva alleged ragging Parliament yesterday. failed. One country planned to have been traced CLASSIFIED “The Government is firmly move a motion against Sri according to ADVERTISEMENT for solving the country’s Lanka holding the sources but they internal issues by itself,” the Commonwealth meeting. That The JVP held a massive protest in Colombo on Wednesday against the government’s failure are yet to be Minister said while winding too had been defeated. These arrested, they up the committee stage victories have been achieved to provide relief to those struggling to make ends meet through budge6 2012. A section of said. debate of the External with so much work and cor- the crowd is pictured moving towards the Fort Railway station. Pic by Nishan S. Priyantha The victim Affairs Ministry. rect the plans implemented He said the Government under the foreign policy of from Beliatta, as rejects with disgust the sug- this government. So how can well as the sus- gestion made by TNA MP R. one simply say that our for- pects are from the Sampanthan that there eign policy is not right?” the Arts Faculty of Minister queried. Politics blamed for should be an international the University of mechanism to look into MP Samapanthan also Peradeniya. human rights related issues spoke for the need of allowing in Sri Lanka. “There are dangerous the R2P norm to be implemented loss to Pakistan undertones to his speech,” Minister against Sri Lanka, the minister said. But we would not allow any internation- Peiris said. BY SAMAN INDRAJITH al involvement in our internal affairs. Value or the achievements of the for- Sports Minister Mahindananda been conveyed to me during a recent Sri Lanka was against the appointment eign policy of a country is determined Aluthgamage said that the national meeting I had with senior players of the of a human rights commissioner in the by how much benefits the people have cricket team lost their recent Pakistan national team,” he said. Commonwealth with the same aim. tour due to political reasons. “It was “Cricket has become commercialized “Qatar’s Prime Minister expressed due to pure politics between the players now, something that was not prevalent willingness to give four projects for the that we lost on that tour,” he said. when my friend Arjuna Ranatunga was development of Sri Lanka. They are Sri Lankan cricket has been plagued playing the game. This is a bad exam- worth over one thousand million US by two problems and action would be ple. It has become a cancer to the game dollars. Today we signed another agree- taken to remedy the current situation of cricket. We must all unite to eradi- ment with China for one more project. where the national team loses match cate this canker. These days it has which is worth over one million US dol- after match. become a problem that cricketers play lars. These are fruits we harvest from Winding up the debate on the votes of cricket according to the way their man- our foreign policy in practice today,” the Sports Ministry, during the third agers want them to. These persons Prof Peiris added. reading stage debate on the budget pro- influence the selection of the teams. posals, the minister said that senior They have become so strong as to even players of the national team had stated that there was a communication gap influence the selection of teams. They between the captain and the main have become so strong as to even influ- coach. “There was also a communica- ence the selection of the team captain. tion gap between the main coach and We must immediately stop this cricket the other coaches. There was no proper politicization carried out by these understanding between the senior play- cricket managers. If not, there will be a ers and the new comers and the captain massive downfall in the future of crick- does not get the fullest support from the et in Sri Lanka. We must all unite to senior players. These inadequacies had stop this,” he said. Pakistani medics study dengue control

BY MAHEESHA MUDUGAMUWA A special team of 60 Pakistani medical ernment and people of Pakistan that Sri professionals has commenced following a Lanka would provide the maximum assis- course in Dengue Epidemic Prevention, tance to overcome the disease. Control and The World Health Organization had Management. recommended Sri Lanka to Pakistan to They began the obtain the know how on managing the programme on last spread of dengue fever, considering the Friday (12). experience Sri Lanka had acquired by During the ten- handling a large number of dengue day training at the patients. Colombo National Hospital, Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Ragama Teaching hospital and DEATHS Sri Lanka Vector-Borne Diseases Control Bureau they will undergo a course in RENGANATHAN – HAZEL (nee clinical training and disease manage- Perera). Dearly beloved wife of the late P ment. The training is conducted by the Renganathan (Attorney-at-Law, Epidemiological Unit. Trincomalee), precious mother of The programme was organized by the Rajkumar (Renga), Kumudini and Punjab government, Punjab Management Sharmini, grandmother of Tiasha and Programme, Royal Thai Government, Tehani, sister of Lilamani, Priyantha, Dr Vector-Borne Disease Control Bureau, Sri Lanka Health Ministry, Epidemiology Chrishantha and Srinath, mother-in-law Unit Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) of Tania and Joe. Cortege leaves resi- and AIT Extension. dence No. 33/7, De Fonseka Place, Participating in the inauguration cere- Colombo 5 at 3.15 p.m. for cremation at mony at Galadari Hotel, Health Ministry the General Cemetery, Kanatte at 4 p.m. Additional secretary Dr. Palitha on Friday 16th December. (No flowers by Maheepala said that Sri Lanka successful- request). ly brought down the high death rate of dengue patients using the latest dengue patient management methods and treat- MAHMOOD – M. WAFFAN. Son of late ment. Dr. Abdul Rahman Mahmood & late In 2011 Sri Lanka was able to reduce Hajiani Sithy Kadija, husband of late the number of dengue victims by 29 per- Kamsun Zackiya, father of Nazreen, cent compared with the previous year, he Salma & Abdul Basith, brother of said. Hajiani Azeeza Wahid, Dr. Farook Sri Lanka earlier sent a 12-member Mahmood, Alhaj Hilmi Mahmood, medical team to Pakistan to instruct them Badurnoor Mahmood & Fathima Zarook, on how to control the dengue outbreak reported from Lahore in Punjab. Pakistan father-in-law of Haji Hussain Salahudeen authorities succeeded in controlling the (Registrar of Muslim Marriages), Haji spread of dengue outbreak within 10 days Afzal Saheer & Aneesa Basith, passed by following the instructions given by the away and the Janaza took place on Sri Lankan medical team. December 12, 2011 at 3.30 p.m. No. 107, Pakistani High Commissioner Seema Muthuwella Mawatha, Colombo 15. Illahi Baloch said that on a request made by the Pakistan Government Sri Lanka deployed two medical teams to Pakistan