Tuesday, July 8, 2008 :In a blatant effort to scuttle tomorrows one-day strike by hundreds of unions, the Sri Lankan government has mounted a terrorist scare, claiming to have information that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) could set off bombs in the South this week. At a press conference on Monday, Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said that the LTTE would launch a major attack to mark Black Julythe vicious anti-Tamil pogroms in July 1983 that triggered the countrys long-running civil war. In such a situation would it be reasonable to call workers out? he said. We have received information and it is our duty to protect the state institutions. Tomorrows strike spearheaded by unions affiliated to the opposition Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and United National Party (UNP) is to demand a 5,000-rupee...
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