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Riots and Strikes
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Normalcy returns
2 November 2000
Peter Cassie Chitty reporting from Ginigathhena
SSP Nihal Samarakoon who is ...
"We lost control of the crowd" : UPF
2 November 2000
by Bharatha Malawaraarachchi
The Upcountry Peoples Front(UPF) yesterday rejec...
Normal upcountry train services to resume today
2 November 2000
by Ranil Wijayapala
Train services on the upcountry line which were restricte...
Arrest of UPF leader a political conspiracy, says Secy
3 November 2000
The Upcountry People’s Front(UPF), Secretary, M.
Sivalingam alleged at a pr...
75 troublemakers in the hillcountry arrested, say police
6 November 2000
Seventy five suspects have been arrested on charges of
creating trouble in the u...
Batty writes to AG
6 November 2000
Justice Minister Batty Weerakoon has written to the Attorney
General requesting ...
Chandrasekeran released
7 November 2000
by Sarath Malalasekera
The Upcountry People's Front (UPF) President P.
Chand...
Sri Lanka releases lawmaker detained over riots
6 November 2000
COLOMBO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Monday released an
opposition Tamil part...
Secretary of the Upcountry Peoples Front arrested
6 November 2000
Frederica Jansz in Colombo, 1.15 p.m. SLT Monday November 6.
Mr. Murugan Sivalin...
Arrest of Chandrasekeran criticised even by some PA ministers, says Kodituwakku
8 November 2000
"The arrest and detention of UNP parliamentarian, P.
Chandrasekaran in conn...
Chandrasekeran discharged
8 November 2000
by Franklin R. Satyapalan
Upcountry People’s Front (UPF) and UNP parliame...
The Special Report: And now refugee camps for Sinhalese in the hill country
12 November 2000
Living in fear
Shane Seneviratne from Talawakelle
More than 150 people fr...
Plantation workers go on strike
15 November 2000
Frederica Jansz in Colombo, 9.15 p.m. SLT Wednesday November
15. Estate workers...
Two dead as race riots worsen in Hill Country
30 October 2000
Waruna Karunatilake in Colombo, 1920 SLT 30.10.00. Two people
are reported to ha...
Police fire on Sri Lanka mobs
29 October 2000
By RAVI R. PRASAD
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct 29 (UPI) -- Police opened fire Sunda...
Troops sent to quell central Sri Lanka riots
29 October 2000
COLOMBO, Oct. 29 — Troops moved in to restore order in
central Sri Lanka on...
Sri Lanka fears more bloodshed after prison massacre
29 October 2000
COLOMBO, Oct 29 (AFP) - Sri Lanka was bracing for retaliatory
attacks by Tamil T...
Army deployed amid violence in central Sri Lanka
29 October 2000
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Authorities deployed army units and
appealed for calm ...
Bindunuwewa fallout: People returning from victim’s funeral run amok
30 October 2000
By Norman Palihawadana and Jayakody Ratnayake, Nuwara Eliya
Corr.
The army i...
Dangerous Gambles
30 October 2000
On the aftermath of the tragic incident at the Bindunuwewa
detention camp, viole...
Curfew lifted in Sri Lankan riot-torn districts
30 October 2000
Colombo, Oct. 30. (UNI): The curfew imposed in two Central
districts of Nuwera E...
Sri Lanka arrests opposition lawmaker over riots
30 October 2000
TALAWAKELLE, Sri Lanka, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan police
detained an opposit...
Curfew imposed as Sri Lanka riots spread
30 October 2000
TALAWAKELLE, Sri Lanka, Oct. 30 — Sri Lanka reimposed a
curfew on Monday as...
Curfew re-imposed at N'Eliya - Hatton
30 October 2000
Frederica Jansz in Colombo, 2.20 p.m. SLT Monday October 30. A
police curfew was...
Riots break out in central Sri Lanka, curfew imposed
30 October 2000
Christine Jayasinghe
Colombo: Rioting broke out and an overnight curfew was i...
Troops ordered to the streets in central Sri Lanka after riots
30 October 2000
COLOMBO, Oct 30 (AFP) - Police re-imposed a curfew Monday as
hundreds of heavily...
Curfew in central Sri Lanka
30 October 2000
By Alastair Lawson in Colombo
Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, ha...
Mobs spread terror on Sri Lankan highway of hate
30 October 2000
GINIGATHHENA, Sri Lanka, Oct. 30 — A week ago the only
surprises awaiting t...
Sri Lanka-Tea Workers -2: Trouble Spells Supply Shortage
30 October 2000
COLOMBO (Dow Jones)--Thousands of Sri Lankan plantation
workers stayed away from...
Tense situation in upcountry: MP Chandrasekeran and ten others arrested
31 October 2000
By Norman Palihawadana and Jayakody Ratnayake, Nuwara Eliya
Corr.
Leader of t...
Chandrasekeran taken in for questioning
31 October 2000
Upcountry People's Front (UPF) President and UNP MP P.
Chandrasekeran was taken ...
Lankan Army moves in to check Tamil reprisals
31 October 2000
COLOMBO: Police arrested a Tamil lawmaker as soldiers moved
into two more towns ...
Tea garden Tamils brew trouble for Kumaratunga
31 October 2000
Christine Jayasinghe
Colombo: Barely two weeks after cobbling up a coalition
...
Sri Lanka: Arson, rioting continues in central hills
30 October 2000
By Nirupama Subramanian
COLOMBO, OCT. 30. The leader of the Up-Country People...
Curfew eased in central Sri Lanka after riots
31 October 2000
COLOMBO, Oct 31 (AFP) - A curfew in central Sri Lanka was
eased Tuesday but hund...
Tensions simmer upcountry
31 October 2000
Frederica Jansz in Colombo, 10.10 a.m. SLT Tuesday October 31.
Even while police...
Sri Lanka President appeals for calm, curfew reimposed
31 October 2000
COLOMBO, Oct 31 (AFP) - Sri Lanka President Chandrika
Kumaratunga Tuesday appeal...
Riots give way to tense calm in Sri Lanka's hills
31 October 2000
COLOMBO, Oct. 31 — A tense calm settled on Sri Lanka's
central hills on Tue...
N’Eliya-Colombo road cleared for traffic
31 October 2000
The Nuwara Eliya, Colombo road via Talawakalle and
Ginigathhena, which was close...
Chandrasekeran taken into custody: President moves in armed forces, police to quell violence in N’Eliya
1 November 2000
The government on Sunday said that following incidents that
occurred in and arou...
Senior DIG sent to N’Eliya
1 November 2000
By Franklin R. Satyapalan, Saman Indrajith and Norman
Palihawadana As sporadic i...
Tamils and Sinhalese clash in central Sri Lanka
1 November 2000
Ethnic violence has erupted in central Sri Lanka in the wake
of last week's mass...
Sri Lanka party slams arrest of Tamil MP over riots
1 November 2000
COLOMBO, Nov 1 (AFP) - A minority Tamil party Wednesday
accused the Sri Lankan g...
Disturbances were engineered
2 November 2000
P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya
The immediate restoration of peace, fostering m...
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