Archive for June, 2007
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Prolonged
counter-insurgency operations, with little time for rest and recuperation, are
exacting a heavy toll on the physical endurance and mental health of
soldiers.
Paltry salaries, lack of basic amenities, problems of their
families back home, ineffectual leadership and the constant fear of being
accused of human rights violations only add to the explosive ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
A dramatic
declaration by little-known Al Queda Hind, claiming to be a chapter of Al Qaida,
of a 'holy war' against India put security agencies on their toes as they began
investigating the antecedents of the outfit and its links with jehadi
organisations.
While the initial assessment of intelligence officials
in New Delhi and ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Karaikal Struggle Group (KSG), an organisation fighting for Union Territory
status for Karaikal enclave of Puducherry, has requested the Centre to send a
fact finding team to study the "discrimination" faced by the
area.
Ramasrinivasan, the
founder member of the non-political organisation, alleged that Karaikal region
was being neglected by the Puducherry
Government.
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Media organisations here on Friday received a VCD and a statement purportedly
from the Al-Qaida saying it is declaring war on
India.
The VCD shows a man
called Abu Abdul Rehman Ansari, who describes himself as a top member of the
terror group.
Wearing a black
mask and ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Hundreds of Tamils,
including the elderly and sick, were forced out of bed just before dawn on
Thursday and bundled into overcrowded buses and taken to Jaffna, Vavuniya,
Trincomalee and Batticaloa as part of a crackdown on LTTE rebels. ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
"We call upon
the Government of Sri Lanka to stop the forcible removal of its citizens from
Colombo, to make public the destinations of those already removed, and to ensure
their safety and well-being," it said.
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
It said the US understood and
supported Sri Lanka's obligation to defend itself against terrorism. "But this
action can only widen the ethnic divide at a time when important efforts are
underway to reach a national consensus to end Sri Lanka's nearly quarter-century
old conflict."
...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
"The United States condemns
the forced removal of Tamils from Colombo. Such measures violate the Sri Lankan
Constitution's guarantee that every citizen has the right to freedom of movement
and choice of residence within Sri Lanka," the US embassy said in a statement.
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Washington's comments came
even as hundreds of people, including a large number from the majority Sinhalese
community took to the streets here to protest the government's action.
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
"The
order-book of all the Indian yards is full," he said adding the budget
allocation for the purchase of new ships has already been
allocated.
Besides this, India would also be buying six submarines.
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