TamilNet newsbriefs 10/27/97 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source: news@tamilnet.com Mon Oct 27 08:33:12 1997 TamilNet's Newsdesk has filed following recently: For full story please visit: http://www.tamilnet.com/ AGOTIC President passes away [TamilNet, October 27, 1997] Dr. K. Velaythappillai , the president of the Action Group Of Tamils In Colombo (AGOTIC) died late last night of illness in Colombo. Sri Lanka will not ban LTTE [TamilNet, October 27, 1997] "We will not proscribe the Liberation Tigers because we want to keep the doors ajar for negotiations with them" said Prof. G.L Pieris , Sri Lanka's Minister for constitutional affairs and deputy minister for finance, answering questions at a press conference at 11 am. this morning in Colombo. SLA mines plague Jaffna residents [TamilNet, October 27, 1997] The left foot of a school girl called Kalpana Kanagalingam was blown off when she stepped on an anti-personnel pressure mine which was buried in the garden of her house. Tamil student dies after ragging [TamilNet, October 27, 1997] The first year Tamil engineering student of Peradeniya University who had a kidney failure recently following severe ragging by senior students died last night in a hospital in Colombo. Tamils demonstrate at CHOGM [TamilNet, October 27, 1997] Over a thousand Tamil people demonstrated in Edinburgh on Saturday during the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM), which was attended by the Sri Lankan President. Tamil cultural shows were given at a custom built marquee and a vigil was held outside the conference centre. --------------------------------------------------------------------- [Reproduction of this news item is allowed when used without any alteration to the contents and the source, TamilNet, is mentioned.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytas-10.28.97-12:06:44-32348