SL ready for rights allegations
Sri Lanka hopes
that the UN Human Rights Council
will not raise any matter against
the country, Minister Nimal Siripala
de Silva said yesterday and added
that if they do, the Lankan
delegation was well prepared to
answer their charges.
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Milinda Moragoda
to Colombo voters:
Go beyond narrow politics and
endorse ability
United People’s
Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Colombo
mayoral candidate Milinda Moragoda
yesterday launched his policy
platform entitled ‘Making Colombo a
Centre of Excellence’ that promised
to restore efficiency, transparency
and accountability at the Colombo
Municipal Council and to restore the
stature of the city and dignity of
its citizens.
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Govt resettlement
action plan:
Curtain falling on IDP camps
Welfare camps in
the Eastern and Northern provinces
have been closed with over 95
percent of the quarter million
internally displaced persons in them
having returned to their homes. The
government is set to provide them
with permanent houses, Resettlement
Ministry officials told the Daily
News yesterday.
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Lies Agreed Upon:
Sri Lanka ready to clear any
misconceptions
The government
yesterday reiterated its commitment
to reply queries raised in any
quarter in the international arena
in respect of the humanitarian
operation launched by the Security
Forces to free over 300,000 people
who were held hostage by the LTTE
terrorists, any time.
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Britain, European govts helped
US commit ‘countless’ crimes,
colluding with torture
Britain and other
European governments have helped the
US commit “countless” crimes by
colluding with torture and illegal
rendition operations in America’s
war on terror, Europe’s human rights
watchdog has said.
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