Colombo, March 11 – Sri Lanka’s former army chief, General Sarath Fonseka, arrested after losing the country’s January presidential contest, will face court martial next week, it was announced Thursday.
Fonseka will face several charges under the Army Act, an army spokesperson said.
The charges against Fonseka include engaging in politics while serving in the army [...]
Colombo, March 10 – Sri Lanka’s former army chief General Sarath Fonseka, arrested over the charges of conspiring to topple the government, has called off his hunger strike after being allowed to speak to his daughters via his wife’s mobile phone.
Fonseka suspended his fast unto death Tuesday after the military granted him permission to talk [...]
Colombo, March 9 – Former Tamil rebels and ex-paramilitary troops were given fishing gear, carpentry tools and agricultural equipment as part of a rehabilitation programme, officials said Tuesday.
Some 500 ex-combatants received the aid in the eastern Batticaloa district under a programme funded by the US Agency for International Development with the International Organisation of Migration [...]
Chicago, March 9 – An Indian-American who was reported to have disappeared from her Maine Township home near here in January was found dead in the Des Plaines River and authorities suspected suicide in her drowning death.
The body of Sangitagen Patel, 32, was recovered Sunday afternoon in Allison Woods Forest Preserve in unincorporated Wheeling Township, [...]
Colombo/New Delhi, March 7 – India Sunday assured Sri Lanka of its support in resettling nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians displaced by the civil war in the island-nation and pushed for a political settlement when Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo.
Rao met Rajapaksa over lunch at Janadhipathi Manidiraya and congratulated [...]
Colombo, March 7 – Sarath Fonseka, the former Sri Lankan army commander and presidential candidate now being detained in a navy facility, has begun a hunger strike to protest his lack of access to a telephone, his wife announced Sunday.
Anoma Fonseka said her husband was prepared to fast to death.
Sarath Fonseka was taken into custody [...]
Colombo, March 7 – Sri Lanka has rejected the UN proposal to set up an advisory panel in the wake of alleged human rights abuse during the final phase of armed battle between the government forces and the LTTE rebels in the country.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that the intention was ‘unwarranted’ and such move would [...]
Bogota, Feb 28 (IANS/EFE) Colombia’s Constitutional Court has rejected a proposal to amend the country’s charter to allow President Alvaro Uribe to seek a third consecutive term.
Both the bill (to amend the constitution) and the legislative process that produced it were deeply flawed, court president Mauricio Gonzalez said Friday.
Uribe was first elected in 2002 for [...]
Colombo, Feb 25 – Sri Lanka lodged a protest with Britain Wednesday over Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s decision to address a Tamil group that Colombo claims is a front for the former guerrilla army.
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama summoned Mark Gooding, Britain’s acting high commissioner in Colombo, to protest Miliband’s planned address at the Global Tamil [...]
Colombo, Feb 23 – The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a plea for the release of former army commander General Sarath Fonseka in military custody for two weeks on charges of conspiracy against the government, officials said.
The high court agreed with the attorney general’s argument that General Sarath Fonseka should not be released because military proceedings [...]
