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Cultural festival in Switzerland:
LTTE uses children for fund raising propaganda
THE vast majority of Tamil diaspora members and
Swiss nationals who attended a cultural festival in Thurgau in
Switzerland were shocked to see schoolchildren as young as eight
years enacting a drama dressed as child combatants using replicas of
most lethal weapons.
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Massive influx of people to Colombo a security risk - Defence
Secretary
PEOPLE who had come to Colombo and suburbs and
are staying without any valid reason are creating a huge security
concern, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told the Daily News.
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Issue of NICs to estate dwellers to be expedited
PRIME MINISTER Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka has
instructed authorities to obtain the assistance of Estate
Superintendents for issuing National Identity Cards for the estate
community.
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Sethusamudram to miss deadline
THE controversial Sethusamudram ship channel to
link India’s eastern and western coasts to avoid a 785-km detour
around Sri Lanka is expected to overshoot its October deadline, as
petitions against it are still pending in courts and only 25 per
cent of the work has been completed, officials said.
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