The International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), invited by President Mahinda Rajapakse to oversee the work of the Committee of Inquiry (CoI) appointed to look into 16 selected cases of human rights violations, is suspending its work.
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The International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), invited by President Mahinda Rajapakse to oversee the work of the Committee of Inquiry (CoI) appointed to look into 16 selected cases of human rights violations, is suspending its work.
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Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna Parliamentarian S. Sivanesan was killed when his vehicle came under a claymore mine attack in Kilinochchi.
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Officers from Department of Census and Statistics in Colombo were brought by the Jaffna kachcheri (district secretariat) in order to fill the vacuum that occurred when four census officials of the kachcheri were badly injured in a road accident in Kayts on 26 January.
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Parliament extended the state of emergency in the country by a majority of 88 votes, with only the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) casting 14 votes actively opposing the extension.
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During the debate in parliament yesterday to extend the state of emergency in the country, government admitted to the security forces losing 104 personnel (KIA) while 822 were injured, last month, in the war against rebel LTTE.
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Minister of Justice Dilan Perera told parliament yesterday that more powers than what is envisaged in the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution had to be devolved for a resolution of Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict.