Wimal Weerawansa confirms his suspension

Wimal Weerawansa Leader of the Parliamentary Group of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, in a speech to Parliament this morning said that his party has planned to remove him from the membership of the party amounts to assassinating him. He admitted that he has been suspended by the party.

He in his emotional speech added that the JVP had decided to officially announce his suspension after the conclusion of the Eastern Polls.

Speaking further, he alleged that a conspiracy within the party by
Western agents led him to be sidelined.

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Tamil rebels seek Norway help to stop Sri Lanka offensive

Tamil Tiger rebels asked peace-broker Norway on Tuesday to pressure Sri Lanka's government to stop a military offensive in the island's north, saying a venerated Catholic church was at risk.

Government forces backed by artillery are pushaing into territory held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the Wanni region, and the guerrillas said the Roman Catholic church of Madhu was in the line of fire.

The Tigers asked Norway's International Development Minister, Erik Solheim, who was also the top envoy involved in the failed peace efforts, to pressure Colombo to halt the offensive.

"We would like to place a request through you ... to the Norwegian government to take steps to immediately end the military assault of the holy Madhu shrine," the LTTE's political wing leader, B. Nadesan, wrote to Solheim.

Sri Lanka's military has denied engaging in operations in the Madhu church area, but security forces have maintained that they want to push into the Wanni region where the guerrillas maintain a de facto mini state.

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Lankan maid commits suicide -Kuwait

A Sri Lankan housemaid, whose identity has not been given reportedly jumped to her death from the third floor domestic labor office in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, reports Arrouiah daily.

The remains of the victim have been referred to Forensics. Police are investigating the incident.

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Lingering rebellion of Tamil Tigers

A SUICIDE Tamil Tiger bomber killed Sri Lankan Minister for Highways and Road Development and 14 others by targeting a road marathon organised in the Weliweriaya on Sunday. The Minister a vocal critic of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels and a member of Sri Lanka’s failed peace talks with the guerrillas was the second to be killed by the rebels this year.

The LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers, has used conventional, guerrilla, and terror tactics, including some 200 suicide bombings, in a bloody civil war that has claimed more than 60,000 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankans since it was founded in l972. It was involved in the assassinations of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1991 at a campaign rally in India and of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993.

Several rounds of peace talks between the Sri Lanka government and the LTTE have failed to produce any result. History is replete that such wars are supported by neighbouring countries otherwise no rebel group or separatist organisation can sustain its struggle. On the request of the Sri Lankan government US State Department and several West European countries declared the LTTE as a terrorist organisation and banned financial dealings with it.

However it is still continuing its war against the state for a separate home land for minority Tamils and surely it is receiving financial support and weapons smuggled into areas under its control through fast speed boats and several of them were destroyed by the Sri Lankan navy.

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