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3 hrs ago | The Courier Mail

'Send Sri Lankans home'

AN Australian customs ship holding 78 asylum seekers off Indonesia should be sent to Sri Lanka, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce says.

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8 hrs ago | Tehran Times

Latest News : Sri Lanka police beat suspect to death before TV cameras

A man who jumped into the Indian ocean to escape arrest drowned after being badly beaten by Sri Lankan police in the water in front of a large crowd and television cameras, police said Saturday.

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16 hrs ago | Malay Mail

Sri Lankan kidnapping syndicate busted

AN international syndicate, believed to be headed by expatriate Sri Lankan Tamils, are targeting their countrymen in Malaysia to make a fast buck.

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Yesterday | www.dailymirror.lk | newslanka

Displaced increasingly returning home from camps – UN

About 90,000 Sri Lankans displaced by the conflict in Sri Lanka have returned to their homes in the past three months, and the pace of returns has begun to accelerate, the United Nations refugee agency reported.

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Yesterday | www.google.com | newslanka

Sri Lanka boat people leader 'a known trafficker'

The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied.

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Yesterday | Colombo Page

UNHCR says 90,000 IDPs returned home in Sri Lanka

Sat, Nov 7, 2009, 12:02 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 07, Colombo: The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR said some 90,000 of Sri Lanka's Internally Displaced Persons have returned to their homes in the past three months under the Sri Lankan government's resettlement program.

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Fri Nov 06, 2009

The Courier Mail

Oceanic Viking given week to leave

INDONESIA extended by a week from today a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.

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Newkerala.com

Sri Lanka steps up mine clearance

Colombo, Nov 5 : The Sri Lankan government has stepped up clearing mines in former rebel-controlled areas aimed at resettling 159,000 war refugees before the end of January, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said Thursday.

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www.colombopage.com | newslanka

Asylum seekers spokesman a 'Kannan Gang' memeber deported from Canada

The spokesman for the 255 Sri Lankan asylum seekers staying on an Australian boat in Indonesia is a 27-year-old people smuggler known as 'Alex' alias Kulaendrarajah Sanjeev once belonged to 'Kannan Gang' involved in street fights and was deported from Canada in 2003, after being arrested for trouble making.

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www.island.lk | newslanka

War Crimes - The letter of the law

"International law is not as half as dumb as many people think. Any civilian facility including hospitals is open to attack if terrorist use them to launch attacks. If hospitals were given unconditional immunity, they will become the favourite hang outs for terrorists and the end of western civilization will start from hospitals! Article 31(1) ..."

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The Daily Star

Stuck in Saudi Arabia: Paperless migrants seek arrest

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Larita Delacruz sits on the concrete base of a bridge pylon, rubs her swollen belly and explains her predicament: she is five months pregnant with twins, and wants to go home to give birth.

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Thu Nov 05, 2009

New York Times

Australians' Immigration Fears Find a Focal Point Behind Razor Wire on a Remote Island

CHRISTMAS ISLAND, Australia - Deep in the jungle on this small island lost in the Indian Ocean, Australia's new $370 million refugee detention center reaches its full power after its lights come on at dusk.

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The Straits Times

Sri Lanka troops get wage hike

SRI Lanka's president has announced an immediate salary increase for all members of the country's armed forces amid plans to boost the strength of the security services.

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The Times of India

Sri Lanka hints at LTTE-Maoist links

COLOMBO: A top Sri Lankan official today said the rebel LTTE may have had links with the Maoists in India, days after Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that the left wing extremists were acquiring arms from abroad.

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TamilNet Newswire

Sri Lanka: SLN arrests 18 Tamil Nadu fishermen in the islets of Jaffna

Nearly 2000 fishermen in Puthukkoaddai in Tamil Nadu are boycotting fishing demanding the immediate release of their fellow fishermen, sources in Tamil Nadu said.

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Wed Nov 04, 2009

www.dailynews.lk | newslanka

Sri Lanka sets world record

Hurricane Katrina victims are still living in temporary shelters. Further most of these countries did not have a problem of land mines or security problems about their IDPs. Tiny Sri Lanka had set a world record by resettling a larger number of IDPs within few months

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The Times of India

Saudi beheads Indian, two Sri Lankans

RIYADH: Two Sri Lankans, one of them a woman, and an Indian were beheaded by the sword in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Wednesday for theft and murder, the Saudi interior ministry said.

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Colombo Page

General Fonseka returning to Sri Lanka

Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 07:48 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 04, Colombo: Sri Lanka government today said that the Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka has left the United States this morning to return to Colombo.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

Rudd ready to sit out boat crisis

Adjusting to new lives...Sri Lankan Tamil refugees speak to Reverend John Jegasothy of the Dulwich Hill Uniting Church Photo: Quentin Jones THE Federal Government has refused to take the 78 asylum seekers aboard the Oceanic Viking to Christmas Island, saying the deal between Jakarta and Australia to disembark the Sri Lankans in Indonesia needed to ...

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Colombo Page

Late Minister Fernandopulle's wife to contest at Sri Lanka's General Election

Sat, Oct 31, 2009, 08:09 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 31, Colombo: The wife of Late Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, Dr Sudharshini Fernandopulle will enter politics to contest at the upcoming General Election next year.

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