V-Day 2nd Anniversary: Peace Under Pressure

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A Sri Lankan solider blocked traffic last month on the main road in Jaffna to allow a military convoy to pass through the city at high speed.

22 May, 2011 Dayan Jayatilleka

Original image by J. Adam Huggins for The New York Times
Every mayoralty in Paris has tablets on which are inscribed the names of those from that locality who died in the many wars which France fought. Many are the works of art in the glorious buildings in Paris, which depict these battles, from Jeanne d’Arc (Joan of Arc) onward. Many are the military parades in remembrance.
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Army Corporal and wife remanded for assaulting District Judge

(May 23, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) An Army Corporal and his wife were today remanded until June 6 over the alleged assault on the Matara District Judge Saman Kumara and his wife on Sunday.

Chief Magistrate Udesh Ranatunga also ordered the Senior Superintendent of Police to arrest some 15 others - all of them army personnel involved in the incident and produce them in Courts.

The corporal's wife has got herself admitted to hospital claiming she was assaulted as well.  Read More