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		<title>Attacks on JVP political offices continue, A’pura office ransacked</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 December 2009,
Supporters of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) are on the rampage in several areas in the south attacking offices of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) since the latter extended its full support to General Sarath Fonseka, who is to contest as the common opposition candidate in the forthcoming presidential [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&blog=6045446&post=2573&subd=sunandadeshapriya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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by Dr. Jehan Perera
Monday, 30 November
One of the ironies of the end of the war was the escalation in some aspects of security, with the number of checkpoints on the roads connecting Colombo to the north and east, and within Colombo itself, seeming to increase.  The government appeared to be quite content with having the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&blog=6045446&post=2569&subd=sunandadeshapriya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Communications tapping, taping and paranoia in Sri Lanka</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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An excerpt from a story published in the Sunday Leader, 29th November 2009, demonstrates the reach of communications surveillance in Sri Lanka, and the sheer paranoia of the Rajapakse administration that drives it.
Painfully aware of the chinks in their armor the former Chief of Defense Staff could exploit, the Rajapaksas have moved swiftly, decisively and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&blog=6045446&post=2566&subd=sunandadeshapriya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two arrested suspects released on bail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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By Supun Dias
Two persons were arrested by the Moneragala police yesterday and later released under police bail as they were pasting posters saying ‘get ready for the SF mission’.
They were taken into custody on suspicion as they were putting up posters in the Moneragala town.
They were released as the posters had no anti-state slogans and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&blog=6045446&post=2562&subd=sunandadeshapriya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EC Promises Int’l Monitors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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By Raisa Wickrematunge
The Elections Commissioner has promised to provide local and international monitors in order to facilitate a free and fair election process, in a meeting with several opposition members on Friday.
UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya said the Elections Commissioner promised that there would be personnel from the EU, the Commonwealth, the Association of Asian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&blog=6045446&post=2558&subd=sunandadeshapriya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Govt. continues to obstruct holding JVP rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Saturday, 28 November 2009 12:49
After the government manipulated the police to cancel their rally to be held at Ananda Samarakone Arena at Nugegoda on the 30th under the theme “Let’s build people’s power against frenzy of the executive, nepotism and hunger for power” for which all necessary permission had been obtained, The JVP had taken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&blog=6045446&post=2554&subd=sunandadeshapriya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JVP condemns repression against Jaffna newspapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, 27 November 2009 20:02
The JVP has protested against the thug attacks carried out against media offices of Tamil newspapers published in Jaffna. This is stated in a communiqué issued with the signature of the Information Secretary of the JVP Vijithe Herath.
Full text of the communiqué:
Condemn government repression on Tamil newspapers!
A group of people who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&blog=6045446&post=2550&subd=sunandadeshapriya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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(Lanka-e-News 26.Nov.2009 6.00PM)
US President Obama has sent an urgent letter to the President Mahinda Rajapakse for the release of Senior Journalist Tissainayagam who was sentenced to jail some months ago by the Supreme Court of SL.
Tissainayagam was sentenced under the Terrorist investigation Dept. charges in the misdst of a huge storm of protests locally and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com&blog=6045446&post=2545&subd=sunandadeshapriya&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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By Ananda WeerasuriyaWhen the trial into the assassination of Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunga was taken up yesterday, the counsel looking after the interests of Mr. Wickrematunga’s family asked court to transfer the case to the CID as the Mirihana police appeared to be moving in slow motion.
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		<title>Police change mind after permitting JVP rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov 26, 2009 2:15 PM · Police have refused to allow the JVP to hold a rally at Ananda Samarakoon Memorial Theatre, Nugegoda on November 30 after giving the necessary permission.
The JVP alleges the change of mind has come at the behest of the government.
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