http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20070528_Ratmalana_Bomb.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20060615_Kebithigollewa_Massacre.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/chronology_of_suicide_bomb_attacks_by_Tamil_Tigers_in_sri_Lanka.htm
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> US, Sri Lanka in diplomatic row
>
> By Mendaka Abeysekera in New York
> The United States and Sri Lankan Governments are on a diplomatic
> collision course over former UNP MP Ali Zaheer Moulana being posted to
> a high ranking diplomatic position at the Sri Lankan Embassy in
> Wa****ngton DC.
>
> Moulana, who was instrumental in the defection of one time LTTE
> Eastern Commander, Karuna Amman, assumed duties as the minister
> consular to the Sri Lankan Embassy in Wa****ngton DC on November 26,
> 2007.
>
> However, sources revealed to The Nation that the US State Department
> was yet to accept his credentials, which were submitted by Sri Lankan
> Foreign Ministry officials five weeks ago.
>
> This delay has probably been caused due to Moulana's direct links with
> Karuna Amman and his armed group.
> The Nation learns that Sri Lankan Tamil lobby groups had strongly
> protested to the US State Department over Moulana's high ranking
> diplomatic posting in Wa****ngton DC. They pointed out that the Karuna
> group has been accused of recruiting child soldiers into its
> organisation, violating international law.
>
> They also pointed out that a US Senate re****t had accused Karuna's
> political party of other gross human rights violations while the
> United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative for Children
> and Armed Conflict Radhika Coomaraswamy's re****t and right
> organisations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have
> also made similar claims.
>
> Sri Lankan Tamil lobby groups urged the US Government to refuse
> Moulana's credentials as the minister consular to the embassy in
> Wa****ngton DC.
>
> Former UNP MP Moulana's appointment was yet another highly
> controversial posting by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa-led
> administration. The Nation learns that Moulana has President
> Rajapaksa's fullest sup****t and consent for his high-ranking
> diplomatic posting
>
> Earlier Sri Lanka's Embassy in Wa****ngton made the news with Foreign
> Minister Rohitha Bogollagama appointing his intended son-in-law,
> Aminda Rodrigo, as a second secretary to the mission.
>
> Moulana, who was the UNP MP for Batticaloa, resigned in 2004 after
> admitting to having escorted LTTE renegade leader Karuna Amman to
> Colombo, when he broke ranks with the LTTE in March 2006.
>
> The Nation learns that Karuna Amman had been lobbying for a diplomatic
> post for Moulana, before fleeing to the United Kingdom.
>
> Moulana had met with President Rajapaksa in New York last year, when
> the President visited New York to address the UN General Assembly.
>
> ****
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