Erik Solheim travelled to Sri Lanka Monday 22, May 2000 with then-Undersecretary of State Raymond Johansen, among other things, to meet then Pesident Chandrika Kumaratunga. The Norwegian delegation was going to be in the country for three days.
“We assumed that the threat came from extreme Singhalese, said Solheim today, twelve years later.
He confirmed that he was briefed about the assassination plans. Police Security Service (PST), which at that time was named service, was made aware of the threat several days before Solheim travelled to Colombo. The tip came from people in Norway with knowledge of radical communities in Sri Lanka.
On Wednesday, 21-24. May 2000, the same day as Solheim left Sri Lanka, unknown perpetrators threw an explosive at the Norwegian Embassy in Colombo. Lankan government fails to comment on this issue | 
In an interview with the Norway media Erik Solhiem claims that there was a bomb attack planned to assassinate him.
Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka of Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) said yesterday that the UNP turned down a request from a former terrorist to contest the Northern Provincial Council elections under the party. [
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The entire world was asking Sri Lanka to give into the terrorists and avoid confrontation with them, but we chose to trust in the strength and courage of the country’s youth, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. [
Trade unions, opposition parties and civil society organizations are gearing up to hold a massive protest on the 21st against the electricity tariff hike and the performance of the government. [
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. [
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. [