Two TRO workers targeted again in two separate incidents
Krishnapillai Kamalanathan, Child Protection Officer of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO), was abducted by GoSL operated forces in Valaichenai, Batticaloa. Kamalanathan was riding his motorbike on Sunday, 2 July at about 10.30 am when paramilitary gunmen abducted him.
On Thursday, 29 June the Sri Lankan army (SLA) soldiers at the Manampitty Bridge SLA checkpoint stopped a lorry transporting 22 outboard boat engines that was from traveling from TRO’s Trincomalee office to Punochchimunai, Batticaloa. The engines are a part of TRO’s post-tsunami rehabilitation project, Back to Work, funded by an Italian NGO. Since Thursday, Mutturkumarasamy Uthayakumar, the driver of the lorry, the lorry and the boat engines have been in detention by the SLA. TRO appealed to the GoSL, human rights groups and the international humanitarian community for the release of Uthayakumar, the lorry and the engines. At the end of January, ten TRO aid workers were abducted by GoSL operated forces in two separate incidents in Welikande, Batticaloa. Seven of the TRO aid workers remain missing.
03 July 2006
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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