DIFFERENT PRIORITIES IN THE SINHALA AND TAMIL PRESS |
Tamil Headlines
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Virakesari: UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk urges government to establish a special judicial mechanism to handle cases | Pictorial: Red moon observed in Sri Lanka Thinakaran: Investigation into human rights violations of the final conflict: Sri Lanka announces accountability will be through a domestic mechanism; rejects external interference or methods, states Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath in Geneva | No-confidence motion against Minister Aruna Jayasekara; Speaker’s decision today | New vaccine that cures cancer |
Thinakkural: “The domestic mechanism (to address) human rights violations in Sri Lanka must be strengthened” – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Türk reiterates | “We will not accept any external mechanism” – Minister Vijitha Herath categorically declares in Geneva | Is Katchatheevu becoming a smuggling hub? Troops intensify surveillance Thamilan: “National People’s Power Government categorically rejects international inquiry”; Minister Vijitha Herath announces stance in Geneva! | Independent Council for Justice! UN Human Rights Council announces, emphasises accountability | Politicians linked to the underworld; Minister Nalinda says details will be revealed soon |
Sinhala Headlines
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Lankadeepa: 20 names of ministers and MPs that are linked to the underworld to be revealed in parliament? Much information has been revealed | “Sri Lanka rejects any external mechanisms into the investigation of human rights” – Vijitha Herath states at the UNHRC session Divaina: Another secret revealed at Peliyagoda: 150 kg of chemicals found; chemicals had been laid out as rocks in the garden; two of Padme’s ‘ice’ factories found in Nuwara Eliya and Kandana: individual who rented the house for the factory at Rs. 150,000 per month, missing Mawbima: ‘Harak Kata’ to be detained until the hearing on orders from the secretary of defense – AG informs court | “The chemical haul that was found in Kandana came from Middeniya” – Accomplice of ‘Panadura Nilanga’ reveals
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Dinamina: “[Sri Lanka] rejects any external mechanism related to investigations into human rights; the issue faced by the country must be solved within a local mechanism” – Herath at UNHRC session | A list revealed by Madush containing 80 names of politicians who are said to be linked to the underworld and drug dealing had been swept under the carpet during Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s tenure: no information as to what happened to Madush’s properties; the murderers have not yet been arrested Aruna: “Do not give money to garbage collectors that work in municipal and pradeshiya sabha councils” – Minister of Local Government states that garbage collection is a public service Anidda: This paper is published on Fridays only |
TAMIL PRESS PRIORITIES Photo credits: ONLANKA UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk urges government to establish a special judicial...