Tight scrutiny prevents gem smuggling
It was a busy Monday morning at the Bandaranaike
International Airport departure lounge. Scores of passengers boun d
for various destinations were in queues to attend to formalities.
Emigration and Customs officials were on duty.
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It was just a routine flight :
Weather gods behind the crash?
He alights from the Y12 light aircraft and as
usual starts singing “Till the moon and the sun last we will not
die, we will not die” (- Sanda hiru tharu pavathina thuru api
merenne ne, api merenne ne) - a famous lyric sung by veteran singer
Victor Ratnayake.
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Defeat of LTTE:
Capturing pooneryn, a turning point
The Tissamaharama police station was facing
mayhem on January 16, 2008. Every room was filled with grieving
parents, mourning widows and crying children. It was the morning
that the LTTE exploded a claymore in Buttala targetting a CTB bus
that was carrying innocent civilians and uninjured victims were
gathered at the police to give evidence against this brutal attack.
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