Amb Dhanapala before Lessons Learnt Com today Former Peace Secretariat Chief Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala will testify at Jayantha the Lessons Learnt and Commission todayReconciliation at 2 pm. He was pre- Lessons Learnt Commission: ceded by two Peace Secretariat Chiefs, Ambassador Bernard Goonetilike and Rajiva supports Professor Rajiva Wijesinha. post-war role for military Vol. 29 No. 239 Wednesday 25th August, 2010, 44 pages Rs. 20 Registered in Sri Lanka as a Newspaper - First Edition BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO Elders: Answering a Former Peace call to relish carrion The Union Hostel Secretariat Chief UPFA 8 MP Professor Rajiva of the University Wijesinha says a liaison comfort between the military Page 8-9 Page 7 and civilian adminis- e flies, a Pakistan floods: 10 A sho ... a British public ‘shaming of Ceylon ks leader duc tration is needed. MP ? world politicians’ with SL assess rn trend is bo £29m donations performances after Rajiva Wijesinha says there is Page 15 German doctor absolutely nothing wanted for wrong in the military playing a role in manslaughter 16 earning slot in final accused of drugging and re-building of the Northern and Eastern raping women Wednesday August 25th, 2010 UNP in fresh crisis as Karu J moves Provinces. Australian Government forces finished off the PM could be LTTE on the banks of the Nanthikadal decided by lagoon May last year. Since then they against ‘a common and ruthless enemy’ have been engaged in a massive effort to Queen’s resettle, rehabilitate and reconstruct representative BY SHAMINDRA FERDINANDO war devastated areas. ustralia is facing a A fresh crisis is developing constitutional stand- Aoff and the contest for in the UNP with its Deputy Responding to a query by Chandi who runs the country may finally have to be decided by Chanmugam, a member of the Lessons the Queen’s representative, Leader Karu Jayasuriya taking the Governor-General. Learnt Commission, MP Wijesinha said Protesters pose near a hot air balloon a tough stance against President wearing giant head caricatures of Australian federal election candidates Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard in front of on Monday (Aug. 23) that a small section Parliament House Canberra, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Canberra, Australia. Rajapaksa’s government amid party. Sources say a consensus of the military may not be tactful, but See Page 16 ongoing consultations between the SLFP and the UNP over pro- is developing that the post of the majority had shown the capacity to posed constitutional reforms. the Deputy Leader should go to take on big tasks. The military is imagi- Pakistan MP Premadasa, while some native and capable of handling over- in political Political sources say the UNP crisis amid allegations of seems to be sharply divided over suggest responsibilities can be whelming tasks, he said. its strategy, though the party divided between incumbent Although some donors had been flooding aid corruption Ranil recently managed to resolve the Jayasuriya, MP and MP opposed to a military role in civilian leadership crisis at least for the time being. Karu Premadasa. Political sources work, the Sri Lankan armed forces could said that this was a con- UNP leader Ranil Sajith play an important role, MP Wijesinha Wickremesinghe had three one- on-one meetings with Sajith tentious issue, which could said. Premadasa to defuse tensions trigger tensions among vari- over the leadership crisis in the ous factions. Continued on UNP joins page 2 Continued on Lankan asylum-seekers he embattled government page 2 of President Asif Ali anti-dengue battle must stay in jail, TZardari slipped further into crisis after its largest coalition The UNP plans to launch Canada says partner called for a military coup a special programme to erad- to tackle corruption and failures icate dengue. August 24, 2010 over flooding. Gampaha District MP Dr More than 400 Sri Lankan Tamil Jayalath Jayawardena says refugees who arrived in Canada aboard a Taiwan craftsman the Opposition can play an cargo ship 11 days ago have been told important role in support of they must stay in jail. seeks to save the government efforts. The Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board agreed with government printing heritage Responding to a query by The Island, MP Jayawardena requests for more time to check the said that the UNP would migrants’ identity papers. launch the programme today (AugJayalath 25) at Government officials want to estab- Cambridge Terrace with the participation of lish whether there are militants from UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe. the Tamil Tigers, a group banned in Canada. MP Jayawardena said that the UNP would dis- tribute 500,000 leaflets to educate the public of Some 49 children arrived with the the signs and symptoms of dengue. group, but they have not been detained. UNP MP Rosy Senanayake recently urged Government officials said the chil- unched over a metal UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to launch an dren were either in jails with their moth- casting machine, Chang ers, or in the care of social services care HChieh-kuan carefully anti-dengue project. Addressing the Working guides a tiny copper mold into Committee, MP Senanayake emphasized the need if they had arrived unaccompanied. a hydraulic press. Seconds on the part of the UNP to assist the public strug- Under Canadian law, asylum seekers later he extracts a piece of lead gling to cope with the dengue threat. The held in custody are allowed periodic type with the Chinese charac- Colombo District MP proposed MP Jayawardena detention hearings. ter for “happiness.” to lead their effort. The Sri Lankan Tamils arrived in Canadian waters aboard the MV Sun Sea MP Jayawardena said that the government WORLD VIEW had failed in its duty to take preventive meas- on 13 August. They had reportedly spent ures. Dengue claimed the lives of 195 persons this 90 days travelling from Thailand, cross- year. ing the Pacific and being turned away in Australia. Asked why the UNP delayed its campaign until almost 200 innocent people died of dengue, One migrant died during the voyage. RamazanRa MP Jayawardena said that it was the govern- It was the second boat carrying Tamil Fasting/Prayermaz Timesa n ment’s responsibility to tackle the threat. He migrants to arrive in Canadian less than August a year, BBC reports. 24-26 recalled how former Health Minister Nimal Sahar Ends Siripala de Silva declared that a government Fajr 4.31 which had the strength to destroy Tigers would- The Island Sunrise 4.46 Zuhar 6.04 n’t be scared of mosquitoes. www.island.lk 12.14 Asar (SF) Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete is crowned Miss Universe during the Miss Maghrib 3.25 Universe pageant, Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 in Las Vegas. Isha 6.22 7.34 Lankan Tamils appeal rejection of asylum in Australia (AP) MR orders pavement August 24, 2010: CANBER- RA, Australia — Two Sri hawkers in Colombo Lankans appealed to 7,2,10 be relocated Australia’s High Court on Tuesday to reconsider them for a federal government contrac- BY asylum and challenged as tor for Christmas Island cases ZACKI JABBAR unfair the handling of their upheld the decision. As a result, they face deportation back to Hawkers on ! refugee claims offshore. UNP leaders join Sri Lanka. the pavements of anti-dengue battle The two members of the Colombo 7, 2 and Tamil ethnic group were The asylum seekers, identi- 10 are to be relo- ! detained in October 2009 at fied only as M61 and M69, are What! They waited till cated, on a dengue claimed nearly 200 Christmas Island, a remote pro- pleading a lack of procedural Presidential directive. lives cessing centre for would-be Australia by boat. fairness because the immigra- Informed sources said that immigrants trying to reach An immigration department tion minister failed to personal- the order had been given dur- official assessed their cases ly consider their cases, said ing a meeting between the before asylum was rejected, and David Manne of the Refugee President and Chief City and Immigration Legal Centre. Administrator Omar Kamil on Monday. “Those evicted,would be Continued on housed in five by four feet page 2 Continued on page 2.