Bakery owners reduce the price of bread

Police use water cannon on Kotakethana demo

The police used a water cannon to disperse a protest staged in?Kotakethana this evening after the protesters blocked the main road in Kahawatte. Earlier today three people accused over the murder of a mother and her daughter in Kotakethana, Kahawatte in 2012 were acquitted by the Colombo High Court. The?mother and daughter were killed and the house was later set on fire. The victims were identified as U.Premawathi (59) and H. Pushpakumari. At the time it was the 14th instance where women had

28 May, 2015

Lankan refugee found guilty of stabbing

A man who fatally stabbed a fellow Sri Lankan refugee has been found guilty of murder by an Adelaide jury, which earlier heard the crime was committed after the victim called his killer a “lady boy”. Ketheshwaran Sivaperuman, 35, bled to death at his Elizabeth South home in January last year, .abc.net.au reported. The Supreme Court previously heard he was stabbed with a large kitchen knife with such force the blade damaged his spine and exposed his intestine. It took the jury just two hours t

29 May, 2015

Rudra’s TGTE wants Fonseka investigated

The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) led by V Rudrakumaran says it is pleased to hear of former Army Commander, Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka?s interview to The Guardian newspaper that he would welcome a war crimes investigation to prove his innocence for the mass alleged killing of Tamils and rape of Tamil women by the Sri Lankan Security Forces. ?There were no rapes, no torture during my command during the war,? Fonseka said in the interview. United Nations High Commissioner fo

29 May, 2015