In brief
Killed
Reports say Jaffna municipal councillor Santhanam Kandeepan was killed by suspected LTTE cadre in May. The Tigers have repeatedly called on local councillors to resign and a number of them have been assassinated.
Extended
India extended the ban on the LTTE on 14 May for two years. The LTTE was proscribed in India in May 1992
following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi a year earlier.
Accused
Colombo newspaper Sunday Times says that eleven Supreme Court judges, have written to President Chandrika to clear their names, following her alleged accusations that a Supreme Court judge had accepted bribe from an LTTE supporter in a fundamental rights case.
Refused
A British firm has threatened to take the Sri Lankan government to court for refusing to pay part of £750,000 for 6,000 body armours supplied to the military. The company denies that the body armours were below standard and says unnecessary deaths could have been avoided if they were used.
Suspended
Following the introduction of new Emergency regulations on 3 May, the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation suspended relaying BBC’s Tamil radio service Thamilosai and Sinhala programme Sandesaya from 12 May.
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