SRI LANKA NEWS UPDATES - SRI LANKA DAILY NEWS

(Jan 2005) Sri Lanka ‘s air force on Saturday detained two unassembled helicopters that arrived with tsunami aid supplies, saying they presented a potential threat to national security. The Sri Lanka airport says that one of the two special helicopters detected by them was a jet ranger. Certain parts of this helicopter were concealed in [...]

The Patriotic National Movement, in a press statement issued yesterday (24), warned the authorities to be wary of certain NGOs backed by some foreign bodies which were, under the cover of providing humanitarian assistance to tsunami affected areas of the country, importing helicopters, vehicles, heavy machinery and other material to be handed over to LTTE. [...]