Sri Lanka Seizes Tamil Tiger Rebel Ship
December 21, 2009 by Trend PK
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s military said Monday it had seized a cargo ship suspected of being an arms smuggling vessel used by the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels at an undisclosed foreign port.
Navy spokesman Captain Athula Senarath said the 90-metre (300-feet) long Princess Christina had been captured at a foreign port but refused to reveal the location or identify the country.
“We can’t say from where we seized the ship, but we deployed our own crew and brought it to Sri Lankan territorial waters,” he said.
Sri Lanka Seizes Tamil Tiger Rebel Ship was first posted on December 21, 2009 at 3:51 pm.
Israel Collected Organs in 90’s Without Permission
December 21, 2009 by Trend PK
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Israel Collected Organs in 90’s Without Permission, Israel has admitted forensic specialists harvested organs from bodies, including Palestinians, without permission from their families during the 1990s.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel’s main forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. An American academic conducted the interview in 2000, but decided to release it now because of a controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians to harvest their organs. Israel fiercely denied the charge. In the interview, Hiss says corneas were taken from dead bodies without family consent. Hiss was dismissed from the institute in 2004, and Israel’s Channel 2 TV quoted the health ministry saying that the practice stopped a decade ago.
Israel Collected Organs in 90’s Without Permission was first posted on December 21, 2009 at 4:12 pm.
