Colombo, Sept 1: Sri Lanka will continue to detain hundreds of terror suspects and outlaw the defeated rebel Tamil Tiger group despite wartime state of emergency laws being lifted, an official said Thursday.
The laws that have curbed civil and political liberties for most of the past 30 years lapsed on Tuesday and the government did not present a motion to renew them.
But President Mahinda Rajapaksa approved four regulations under the powerful Prevention of Terrorism Act that became effective Tuesday, Attorney General Mohan Peiris said.
The first two regulations will continue to proscribe the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group and the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization, which received donor funds to carry out rehabilitation work in then rebel-controlled areas and was accused of also using them to finance the rebels.
From: http://ping.fm/ixR1S
Popular Posts
-
India’s star mid-fielder Sardar Singh and striker S V Sunil has featured in Sultan Azlan Shah’s XI, the best 11 players of this year’s Azlan...
-
Russian conglomerate Sistema today said it has approached the Indian government seeking protection of its USD 3.1 billion investment and pla...
-
Director Michael Bay plans a fresh take on shape-shifting robots with the fourth installment in his “Transformers” franchise. From: http://p...
-
Thane police have arrested a 27-year-old youth Dashrath Yadav on charge of raping and then murdering a 14-year-old girl Sankranti Yadav, a r...
-
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed a whirlwind 20-ball 51 down the order to catapult Chennai Super Kings to a challenging 187 for 5 agains...
-
Internationally acclaimed sand artist from Odisha Sudarshan Pattnaik has been congratulated by President Pratibha Patil and a host of other ...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment