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		<title>India, China compete in Indian Ocean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The International Herald Tribune
This battered harbor town on Sri Lanka&#8217;s southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over energy supply routes that fuel much of the global economy.
An impoverished place still recovering from the devastation of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hambantota [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka attacks &#8220;bad&#8221; war reporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Alan Johnston 
[BBC, South Asia Desk] 
The Sri Lankan Defence Ministry has launched a bitter attack on what it says is irresponsible media analysis of military affairs and the progress of the war in the north of the island. 
The Ministry, in a statement on its website, vowed to take action to stop what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gotabhaya the traitor : Ranil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Related Update: Protesters call Ranil &#8216;The Traitor&#8217;  [Sandeshaya]
The leader of the opposition in Sri Lanka has described the powerful Defence Secretary as a traitor for leaving the country as war against the LTTE intensified.
Ranil Wickramasinghe said Gotabhaya Rajapaksa left Sri Lanka Army (SLA) to live in the United States while the SLA engaged with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell on earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bombs and battering of journos. Bare-faced lying and stealing. Law of the jungle; immunity for the chosen few. All of Sri Lanka is left wondering, &#8216;can it get any worse?&#8217;
By Dharisha Bastians
The abduction and assault of Keith Noyahar, Deputy Editor and Defence Columnist of The Bottom Line&#8217;s sister publication The Nation was outrageous and brutal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transcurrents.com/tamiliana/archives/659</link>
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		<title>Communal violence disrupts relief efforts in the east</title>
		<description><![CDATA[COLOMBO, 3 June 2008 (IRIN)-Communal clashes and ethnic tension between Tamils and Muslims have been disrupting humanitarian work in the eastern Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka since 22 May, UN and other relief workers said.
Two Tamils and five Muslims have been killed. Relief officials told IRIN they were reluctant to send staff into the field [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sampur Thermal Power Plant: Cleansing for power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ethnic cleansing? No thanks, just cleansing for power
By Namini Wijedasa
Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) sources said last week that the proposed thermal power plant in Sampur will proceed on schedule despite strong rumblings over civilian displacement.
&#8220;A feasibility study being conducted by the National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) is due to be finished by December,&#8221; said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disregard pressure from chauvinists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne
It was a new experience for me, to watch the Human Rights Commission sittings, chaired by Nissanka Udulagama. I know Nissanka as a soft but fast spoken person with a precision mind. A true noble, ever so humble and never gives into perks or pressures. Perhaps the truth will come out from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Killing of T.M.V.P Leader Shanthan in Kaathaankudi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The morning of Thursday May 22nd saw a comic scene being enacted in Colombo. Devouring humble &#8220;kanji&#8221; (porridge) before his excellency President Mahinda Rajapakse was the &#8220;honourable&#8221; Mohamed Lebbe Alim Mohammed Hisbullah. 
The reputed party-hopper from Kaathaankudi was being sworn in as a minister of the eastern provincial council headed by Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contradictory Positions on Media Freedon Encourage Impunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement by National Peace Council of Sri Lanka:
The silencing of journalists by killing and intimidating them has become a major problem in Sri Lanka. The National Peace Council condemns the killing of Paranirupasingam Devakumar who is the ninth journalist to be killed in the past two years. We are appalled at the brutal manner of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://transcurrents.com/tamiliana/archives/654</link>
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		<title>TV reporter hacked to death in Jaffna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement by Reporters Without Borders:
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Paranirupasingam Devakumar, a television reporter of Tamil origin, who was hacked to death yesterday evening as he was returning to his home a few kilometres outside the northern city of Jaffna. A friend who was with him was also killed in the [...]]]></description>
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