One boat carrying 44 asylum-seekers, believed to be from Sri Lanka, was intercepted by officials from Border Protection Command late last night and was escorted into Christmas Island’s Flying Fish Cove. Passengers remain on board the moored boat this morning waiting to be taken ashore.
Within hours another boat arrived off the island and was this morning being escorted by the navy into Flying Fish Cove. It is unclear how many people are aboard the second boat or where they are from.
Later this morning, authorities said they were preparing to intercept a third boat about 30 nautical miles from Christmas Island. The new boat arrivals came as federal parliament broke up for its winter break with no solution to the deadlock over asylum-seeker policy.
There are currently around 1300 detainees on the island, Australian media reports. | 
Three more asylum boats have arrived at Christmas Island in the hours following federal parliament’s failure to agree on a way of halting the flow of boatpeople to Australia.
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Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
Students of Jaffna University commemorated death anniversary of people killed in the Mulliwaikal war. [
A woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her 3 children in Vavuniya this morning. [
Man who has married mother and daughter of same family arrested. [
International community continuously hold debates on genocide attacks carried out by the racist government against Tamil’s in SriLanka. [
Peoples Front has pasted posters in Jaffna Peninsula on urging area residents to celebrate the war victory ceremony. [
The Ministry of Health re-appoints Mrs.Bawani Pasubathi raja has director of the Jaffna Teaching hospital. [
“Mann expressed concern that government forces had given excessive freedom to the LTTE-breakaway “Karuna group,” which was using this freedom destructively. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [