Freeing civilians, Government’s key objective - President
In an interview to CNN-IBN in Colombo, President
Mahinda Rajapaksa has made it clear that the Government’s key
objective now was “getting the civilians out from the clutches of
the LTTE”. Noting that the military operations were “almost over,”
the President said the choice before the LTTE was “either surrender
or face the Army”. The interview:
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Foreign media hypocrisy
Most news items related to the conflict in Sri
Lanka by foreign media now include a permanent clause which says
that Tamils have been systematically discriminated by the Sinhala
people since Independence.
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Can BJP call for sanctions on Sri Lanka?
Yashwant Sinha, senior leader of Baharatiya
Janata Party, (BJP), the political face of Hindu extremist Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh, (RSS), has demanded that India imposes sanctions
on Sri Lanka for its treatment of Tamil civilians trapped in the war
zone.
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