The Cabinet of Ministers have approved the proposal by PresidentRanil Wickremesinghe to build monument in Colombo to commemorate those who have died as a result of armed conflicts, political unrests or civil disturbances in Sri Lanka since independence.
Accordingly, the monument will be built to commemorate all civilians, including members of the armed forces and police and also ex-combatants. (Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya)
The historic hour long discussion between Anton Balasingham, Chief Negotiator of Liberation Tigers of TamilEelam (LTTE), and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremesinghe, took place today at the Holmenkollen Park hotel situated in Oslo. The discussion was arranged by Norwegian facilitators ahead of the 19 country Donor meeting in Oslo Monday being convened as part of the Norway-led peace process to find a negotiated solution to Sri Lanka’s civil war.The Aranthalawa massacre was the massacre of 33 Buddhist monks, most of them young novice monks, and four civilians by cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization (the LTTE, commonly known as the Tamil Tigers) on June 2, 1987, close to the village of Aranthalawa, in the Ampara
