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09BUENOSAIRES142	(C) ARGENTINA: CFK'S STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] (C) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) has made a series of positive comments about President Obama dating from last August. CFK's words signal that she hopes to turn a new page in bilateral relations and reflect genuine admiration for our new president and the process t [...]	2009-02-11 18:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PGOV PHUM PINR PREL AR

09BUENOSAIRES169	ARGENTINA SHARES U.S. DURBAN CONCERNS [...] (U) Acting Polcouns raised on February 18 with MFA Director General for Human Rights Silvia Fernandez reftel points on USG participation in the intergovernmental working group (IWG) of the Durban Review Conference. Fernandez welcomed USG participation in the IWG, saying that U.S. participatio [...]	2009-02-18 20:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNHRC AR
09BUENOSAIRES171	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-19 11:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES172	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-19 11:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES200	ARGENTINE PARTICIPATION AT SHARM AL-SHEIKH [...] (U) Poloff discussed February 25 the upcoming Sharm al-Sheikh conference per instructions (reftel) with Argentine Foreign Ministry Counselor Guillermo Nicolas, in the Office of North Africa and the Middle East. Nicolas reported that Argentina's delegation would be led by Ambassador Gabriel Fu [...]	2009-02-26 16:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EFIN KPAL KWBG PHUM PTER EAID AR
09BUENOSAIRES205	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-27 13:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES214	Argentina: Farmers Strike, then Talk; GOA Threatens to [...] (SBU) Summary: Two hours after the end of a four-day farm strike in which Argentine producers did not market grains and cattle, the government and the farm lobby groups met on February 24 to begin a new round of discussions on farm policy. The government announced after the meeting new measu [...]	2009-03-02 11:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES220	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-03 18:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES231	Argentina: Production Minister Giorgi on G-20 and Bilateral [...] (SBU) Production Minister Debra Giorgi met with Ambassador February 25. The discussion included the G-20 process and related agricultural technical assistance the GoA is providing to poorer countries as well as outstanding bilateral trade frictions. Giorgi noted the significant increase in 20 [...]	2009-03-04 19:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES234	ILEA LATIN AMERICA - ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR ARGENTINE [...] (U) Following is a list of the vetted candidates who will be attending the "ILEA Latin America Trafficking in Persons for Law Enforcement Professionals (G/TIP)", course Lima, Peru from March 9-20, 2009. Guillermo Alfredo SANGUINETTI (Captain) Head of the Department for Illegal Smuggling and [...]	2009-03-05 11:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN SNAR SMIG ELAB EAID PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES235	ARGENTINA WELCOMES USG BACK TOTHE UNHRC [...] (SBU) Poloff raised with MFA Director General for Human Rights Silvia Fernandez ref A points on the USG's return to the UN Human Rights Council. Fernandez welcomed the news and joked "Now you can suffer with the rest of us." She suggested using her upcoming March 23 meeting in Washington wit [...]	2009-03-05 17:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNHRC AR
09BUENOSAIRES246	Argentina: Farmers Reach Agreement with GOA [...] (SBU) The GOA and the local farm groups signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on March 3 that included measures agreed upon the previous week -- support measures for the wheat, dairy, and beef sectors, and regional products -- with some additional concessions by the GOA. Several farm lead [...]	2009-03-06 21:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES249	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-09 13:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES252	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-09 18:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES253	ARGENTINA: CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, below please find post's input to reftel's request for information on Argentina's efforts to implement their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Post requests that the Department of Labor not cite the Embassy as a source in its [...]	2009-03-09 19:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EINV ETRD PHUM SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES267	U.S. Beef Legislation Targeting Argentina: Sending the [...] (SBU) Argentine industry and government contacts are concerned by U.S. legislative proposals to restrict approval of the country's fresh beef exports to the United States, including provisions in the Omnibus Appropriations Bill. The Argentine Government has placed a high priority on regaining [...]	2009-03-12 15:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES269	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-12 18:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES285	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT PROPOSES MOVING UP LEGISLATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced March 13 that she will ask Congress to change the date of this year's national legislative elections from October 25 to June 28. To do so, Congress needs to change the election law by March 28. CFK argued that [...]	2009-03-13 21:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES287	ARGENTINA: ICE EXPERTS DELIVER TIP TRAINING [...] Summary. In an effort to strengthen the Argentine government's anti-trafficking efforts, Post,s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attache Office in coordination with the political section brought down two ICE experts to address three conferences on trafficking in persons (TIP). The f [...]	2009-03-13 21:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP PHUM PREL KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB KWMN
09BUENOSAIRES294	Argentina: G7-Plus Ambassadors on Economy, Protectionism [...] (SBU) Local G7-plus representatives were upbeat on the ability of crisis-tested Argentina to weather the current economic downturn, at least through 2009, but complained about growing Argentine protectionism via non-automatic license non-tariff barriers. Ambassadors also agreed on the importanc [...]	2009-03-16 21:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES304	ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO DOL LIST OF GOODS BELIEVED TO BE [...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. This is an action request. See para 3. SUMMARY/COMMENT --------------- 3. (SBU) Below please find post's response to ref A's request for additional information on the Department of Labor's list of goods [...]	2009-03-18 13:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KTIP PHUM EAGR EINV ETRD SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES314	Argentina: Farm Dispute Marks An Unhappy First Anniversary [...] (U) The conflict between the Argentine government and the farm sector is now over a year old, with no sign of a solution. On Tuesday, March 17, the GOA and the farm sector met for a fourth round of discussions on agricultural policy issues. Early rumors indicated that the government, eager t [...]	2009-03-19 17:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES315	ARGENTINE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES APPROVES NEW DATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's Lower House approved President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) proposal to move up the date of this year's national legislative elections from October 25 to June 28. With a vote of 136 in favor, 109 against, and eight abstentions, the ruling Victory Front al [...]	2009-03-19 17:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES317	ARGENTINA: EMBASSY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT [...] Summary. Embassy Buenos Aires celebrated International Women's Day the week of March 8th with a variety of events and two op-eds centered around the UN theme of "women and men united to end violence against women and girls." On March 10, the Ambassador, accompanied by Buenos Aires Provincial [...]	2009-03-19 21:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KPAO PHUM PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES328	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 19:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES329	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 19:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES330	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 19:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES342	ARGENTINE FARM SECTOR DECLARES SEVEN-DAY STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Farm groups initiated a seven-day strike on March 21 to protest against high export taxes and the lack of government support for the sector. Producers have stopped marketing most grains, oilseeds, and cattle, and are blocking some highways in rural areas. Support for the strik [...]	2009-03-25 12:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES35	ARGENTINA'S 2008 EPHEDRINE BUBBLE MAY BE POPPED, [...] (SBU) Summary: The legal entry into Argentina of ephedrine bound for illicit uses appears to have slowed substantially by late 2008 following government decrees to sharply limit permitted trade in the chemical, though law enforcement continues to pursue up to eight metric tons of excess ephed [...]	2009-01-09 14:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN AR
09BUENOSAIRES360	ARGENTINE CONGRESSIONAL MIDTERMS NOW SET FOR JUNE [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's Senate approved (42-26-4) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) proposal to move up the date of this year's national legislative elections by four months to June 28. Theruling Victory Front alliance (FpV) obtained a comfortable majority, with five more vot [...]	2009-03-27 17:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES380	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-01 18:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES381	ARGENTINE JUSTICES TO VISIT U.S. IN MAY, HOST RULE OF LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Argentine Supreme Court is organizing a regional conference on rule of law issues in early September, bringing together Supreme Court justices from throughout the Americas, Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti and Associate Justice Juan Carlos Maqueda told Ambassador Wayne in a [...]	2009-04-01 19:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM KPAO AR
09BUENOSAIRES385	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-01 20:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES386	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-01 21:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES391	ARGENTINA PASSES NEW LAW TO PROTECT WOMEN FROM VIOLENCE [...] Summary. The Argentine Congress recently passed a law to prevent, punish, and eradicate violence against women. The new legislation replaces a national law on domestic violence that considered violence against women a misdemeanor and only penalized crimes against sexual integrity. The new law [...]	2009-04-03 14:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KPAO PHUM PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES396	ARGENTINA WELCOMES USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-03 19:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNHRC AR
09BUENOSAIRES397	ARGENTINA ABSTAINS AND CONTINUES EVALUATING [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-03 19:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KIRF UNHRC AR
09BUENOSAIRES398	ARGENTINA TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER USG CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-03 19:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL OAS XM CA IAHRC
09BUENOSAIRES415	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-07 20:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES417	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-08 17:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES424	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-09 17:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES426	ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO DOL LIST OF GOODS BELIEVED TO BE [...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. This is an action request. See para 4. 3. (SBU) Post appreciates the U.S. Department of Labor's notification (ref A) of its decision to remove lemons and sugar from its proposed list of goods produced in Arg [...]	2009-04-09 19:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KTIP PHUM EAGR EINV ETRD SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES428	Argentina: Playing the Judicial Blame Game [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) set off a political firestorm between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches on who is to blame for Argentina's increasingly dysfunctional judicial system. The courts have long been plagued by an overwhelming demand for [...]	2009-04-09 21:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM ASEC SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES43	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-12 18:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES445	ARGENTINA: MFA CONCERNED ABOUT DOL-FUNDED RESEARCH [...] (SBU) MFA North America Director Antonio Trombetta expressed concern to CDA April 14 about the DOL's intention to include Argentina in a multi-country study on the incidence of forced and child labor. (Note: DOL informed the GOA in January that Argentina was one of the eight countries to be [...]	2009-04-15 19:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KTIP PHUM EAGR EINV ETRD SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES450	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-16 21:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES457	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-20 20:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES47	SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods [...]	2009-01-15 20:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES471	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES472	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES475	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES485	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-27 17:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES486	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-27 17:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES49	SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods l [...]	2009-01-16 12:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES499	Argentina: International Donor Community [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador hosted a roundtable coffee with the international donor community to discuss the impact of the global economic crisis on international assistance to Argentina. The roundtable was co-organized with the Argentine Network for International Cooperation (RACI) and the [...]	2009-04-30 21:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECON SOCI PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES50	SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods l [...]	2009-01-16 12:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES501	ARGENTINA HOSTS OAS TIP CONFERENCE; [...] (U) Summary. The Argentine government recently hosted the Organization of American States (OAS) Second Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking in Persons (TIP),which included representatives from governments, international organizations and civil society organizations. As head of t [...]	2009-04-30 21:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL KCRM SMIG AR
09BUENOSAIRES502	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-04 13:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES503	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-04 13:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES504	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-04 13:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES513	ARGENTINE MOD GARRE OFFERS TEMPORARY SOLUTION FOR [...] (C) Following up on Argentine FM Taiana's suggestion (reftel),the Ambassador called MOD Garre, who indicated she had just signed a response to the Ambassador's March 31 letter regarding the MOD eviction of the Military Group from MOD headquarters and two other facilities. 2. (C) Garre said [...]	2009-05-04 21:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PGOV ASEC AMGT PHUM KPAO AR
09BUENOSAIRES520	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-05 16:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES521	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-05 16:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES534	(C) ARGENTINA: RECENT UNSETTLING DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: Recent moves by the Government of Argentina (GoA) undermine the independence and efficacy of Argentine agencies with jurisdiction over corruption cases. In early March, Manuel Garrido, Argentina's chief prosecutor for corrupton cases resigned, claiming frustration over perc [...]	2009-05-06 21:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PHUM KFRD SNAR ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES548	Glyphosate Herbicide, a Catalyst for Argentine Politics [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's pro-government press has been waging a campaign against the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's widely used Roundup herbicide, which appears to be driven more by local politics than health concerns. The press campaign started with reports in the l [...]	2009-05-07 20:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SNAR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM TBIO AR
09BUENOSAIRES549	UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF [...] (SBU) Action Request: The Ambassador received from Leandro Despouy, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers a May 4 letter (in English) requesting the USG support the candidacy of Amcit Reed Brody to replace him. Text of letter follows in para 2. Embassy requests [...]	2009-05-07 21:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES56	Argentina: Supreme Court gradually reasserts itself [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although Argentina's overall court system is still perceived as inordinately slow and ineffective, the Supreme Court gained considerable ground in 2008. By rendering politically-sensitive judgments in leading cases or mandating executive branch action in some areas, Argentina's [...]	2009-01-16 20:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KJUS ELAB SENV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES563	Argentina: Hidden Camera Investigation Uncovers TIP in [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Argentine press recently reported a hidden camera investigation conducted by anti-trafficking NGO La Alameda that appears to show drug and human trafficking activity in brothels located in the capital city of Santa Cruz, the home province of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirch [...]	2009-05-12 15:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES568	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-13 13:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES57	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-20 11:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES585	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-18 15:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES592	ARGENTINA: AMIA SPECIAL PROSECUTOR READY TO [...] (C) Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman called on the Ambassador May 19 to notify us that the following day he would ask Judge Rodolfo Canicoba-Corral to indict a new suspect in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA). Nisman described his painstaking effort to establ [...]	2009-05-19 22:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC MASS PHUM SNAR KJUS IR LE AR
09BUENOSAIRES594	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-19 23:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES597	ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON VISIT [...] (U) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your May 28-30 visit to Argentina, which occurs one week before I leave post for my next assignment, in which I will oversee U.S. non-military assistance to Afghanistan. We propose to schedule meetings for you with Argentina's Minister o [...]	2009-05-21 13:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM OREP ECON PTER MASS ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES599	ARGENTINA: 15 ARRESTED FOR ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine police have arrested 15 persons for their involvement in a violent attack on a Buenos Aires city celebration May 17 marking the 61st anniversary of the founding of Israel. The attack left five persons injured, including two federal police officers. On May 18, two sy [...]	2009-05-21 13:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PREL ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES612	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-26 18:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES620	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-27 21:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES621	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-27 21:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES626	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR THANKS SUPREME COURT CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador paid a farewell call, May 26, on Supreme Court Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti, commending the Court for its efforts to strengthen the judicial system and to improve its functioning and access for the country's most vulnerable sectors. The Chief Justice had rec [...]	2009-05-28 21:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KJUS SNAR PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES631	ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT OPENS THE DOOR FOR AMIA [...] (SBU) On May 27, Argentina's Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the investigation into the so-called "local connection" involved in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA). The court ruled 4 to 2 that Carlos Telleldin, who was previously acquitted, should be tri [...]	2009-05-29 15:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC MASS PHUM SNAR KJUS IR LE AR
09BUENOSAIRES644	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SECURITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-02 20:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES647	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 17:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES648	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 17:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES649	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 17:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES656	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-04 20:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES657	ARGENTINA: CFK PRAISES U.S. ROLE IN OAS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary and introduction: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) praised the USG's role in the the OAS decision to lift the ban on Cuba's participation, which she called "historic" and a portent of "new winds" blowing in the hemisphere. Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana took credit f [...]	2009-06-04 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD OAS CU AR
09BUENOSAIRES666	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-09 11:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES669	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-09 16:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES684	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 20:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES693	ARGENTINA: CFK ANNOUNCES CUBA HAS AUTHORIZED [...] (SBU) Argentine media are reporting that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced June 12 that Cuban authorities issued a passport to dissident neurosurgeon Hilda Molina and are allowing her to leave the island. For 15 years, Molina had been seeking permission to travel to Arg [...]	2009-06-12 22:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU AR
09BUENOSAIRES698	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER USES DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE ARM [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's husband and former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) reportedly has called on Argentina's Secretariat of Intelligence (SIDE) to dig up dirt against his closest competitor, Peronist dissident Francisco De Narvaez, and other politica [...]	2009-06-16 10:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR KJUS PHUM ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES700	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-17 17:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES701	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-17 17:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES702	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-17 17:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES704	ARGENTINE JUDGE INDICTS DOZEN INVOLVED IN MAY 17 [...] (SBU) Summary: An Argentine judge has indicted a dozen persons for their involvement in a violent attack (reftel) on a Buenos Aires city celebration May 17 marking the 61st anniversary of the founding of Israel. The Israeli Ambassador and the head of the Jewish community's political advocacy [...]	2009-06-17 20:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PHUM ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES706	SUBJECT: (C) ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER "VERY [...] (C) Summary. On the instructions of Argentine FM Jorge Taiana, MFA Chief of Staff Alberto D'Alotto called CDA June 17 to express the GOA's irritation with the State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report which placed Argentina on the Tier 2 Watch List. D'Alotto said Taiana was "ver [...]	2009-06-17 22:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIP KCRM ELAB PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC
09BUENOSAIRES712	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-19 18:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES739	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-25 14:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES740	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-25 14:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PTER AR

09BUENOSAIRES741	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-25 14:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES742	ARGENTINA'S JUNE 28 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS: THE [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentina's ruling Victory Front alliance (FpV) appears headed for a nationwide defeat in the June 28 mid-term congressional elections and will likely lose its majority in the Chamber of Deputies and possibly in the Senate. The election is unlikely to clarify ful [...]	2009-06-25 21:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES757	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK PLANNING TO ESCORT ZELAYA [...] (SBU) Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced during a June 29 press conference regarding the previous day's legislative elections (septel) that she had spoken June 28 with Honduran President Zelaya, Chilean President Bachelet, and Ecuadorian President Correa regardin [...]	2009-06-30 21:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OAS HO AR
09BUENOSAIRES773	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-02 14:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES783	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 17:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES784	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 17:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES787	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED FROM [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) returned to Buenos Aires July 6 from a 60-hour trip that took her to Washington and El Salvador in a failed attempt to restore Manuel Zelaya to the presidency of Honduras. In El Salvador, CFK argued that she was on a missi [...]	2009-07-06 21:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM OAS HO AR
09BUENOSAIRES790	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-07 19:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES794	ARGENTINA: PROFILING KEY KIRCHNER-ALLIED PIQUETERO LEADERS REF: (A) BUENOS AIRES 0526 (B) 08 BUENOS AIRES 1550 AND PREVIOUS (C) 08 BUENOS AIRES 1715 (D) BUENOS AIRES 0315 (E) BUENOS AIRES 0750 AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite sharing the same goals -- job creation, social inclusion, and state intervention in the economy -- the leaders of Argentina's social activist movements, known as ""piqueteros,"" differ on how to achieve those objectives. Indeed, former President Nestor Kirchner's efforts t [...]	2009-07-07 21:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI ASEC PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES799	ARGENTINA PONDERS A POST-KIRCHNER WORLD [...] (C) Summary and introduction: As Argentines continue to sort through the implications of the June 28 congressional mid-term elections, it is still too early to determine whether president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her husband Nestor (NK) suffered a mortal blow or merely a tempo [...]	2009-07-08 19:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES816	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-13 20:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES819	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-14 13:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES824	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-14 19:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES831	(C/NF) ARGENTINA: INTELLIGENCE CHIEF IN SANTA CRUZ [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Local press recently linked Wilfredo Roque, the chief of the Santa Cruz provincial office of Argentina's intelligence agency, SIDE, to a trafficking in persons (TIP) ring led by Alejandro Guerrero and his wife "Yani." A local TV show aired footage showing Roque's right hand m [...]	2009-07-16 13:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SNAR ASEC ELAB AR
09BUENOSAIRES857	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-22 21:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES861	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-23 16:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES862	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-23 19:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES863	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-23 19:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES869	ARGENTINA: JEWISH COMMUNITY STILL SEEKS JUSTICE 15 [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Jewish community commemorated the fifteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) with a small, informal gathering on July 18. The CDA attended the gathering, as did Chief Cabinet Minister Anibal Fernandez, who afterwa [...]	2009-07-24 22:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PREL PGOV KJUS KTIP SNAR KCRM AR
09BUENOSAIRES870	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-27 20:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES871	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-28 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES899	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - Hostage [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-04 20:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES900	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-05 12:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES907	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - MILITARY [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-06 14:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES909	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - MILITARY [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-07 12:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES91	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S VENEZUELA VISIT GIVES THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) January 21-23 visit to Caracas following her stop in Cuba (reftel A) sustained local interest in -- and criticism of -- her trip to Cuba and Venezuela. The visit prompted questions about the GOA's judgment on timing (as [...]	2009-01-28 12:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES912	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-07 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES921	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-11 20:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES924	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-12 13:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES925	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-12 14:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES926	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - TRAFFICKING [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-12 20:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES94	Argentina: President Declares Drought Emergency; Farmers [...] (U) Summary: The GOA declared an agricultural emergency on January 26 due to the severe drought affecting most Argentine provinces. Under the decree, the GOA will allow producers in affected regions to delay payment of income taxes and personal property taxes for one year. The GOA will also [...]	2009-01-29 12:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES944	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - LATIN [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-18 20:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES968	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - SEARCH AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-25 19:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES969	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - Career [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-25 19:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES978	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - LATIN [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-26 19:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES997	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-02 16:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR
09BUJUMBURA181	PENAL CODE: HOMOSEXUAL ACTS, TORTURE, AND TIP ARE [...] (C) Summary: The Burundian National Assembly passed a draft law revising the Burundian Penal Code March 26, rejecting a Senate amendment that would have removed a provision criminalizing homosexual activity. UN Representative for Human Rights in Burundi Jean Luc Marx told PolOff March 25 tha [...]	2009-04-07 16:05:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	BY KDEM PHUM PREL
09BUJUMBURA196	INCLINED TOWARDS KOSOVO IMF/WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP, [...] (SBU) In a meeting with the DCM April 17, Ministry of External Relations Chef de Cabinet Gaudence Sindayigaya said Burundi is favorably disposed towards IMF and World Bank membership, particularly since the IMF Executive Board has approved Kosovo's membership application, and because Burundi [...]	2009-04-17 11:57:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL PHUM KV BY
09BUJUMBURA267	GOVERNMENT FINALLY REGISTERS SINDUHIJE'S MSD PARTY [...] (U) On June 8 the Minister of Interior registered Alexis Sinduhije's Movement for Solidarity and Democracy (MSD) as a political party. The requisite documents were signed by MSD Secretary General Audette Ntahiraja instead of MSD President Alexis Sinduhije, who is in Europe. Sinduhije, former [...]	2009-06-10 15:36:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BY
09BUJUMBURA279	CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS ENCOURAGED TO PURSUE TRUTH [...] In a June 25 farewell meeting with a consortium of civil society leaders, the Ambassador praised their crucial work despite Burundi's challenging environment and strongly encouraged them to continue their advocacy for human rights and democracy in the run up to 2010 elections. She also urged [...]	2009-06-25 10:54:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BY
09BUJUMBURA301	BURUNDI -- VIEWS OF A DEPARTING AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: After three years as Ambassador to Burundi, I am convinced that this small, poverty-stricken, conflict-ridden nation has the potential to fulfill its promise as a durable African success story. Despite the just-resolved 15-year civil conflict, lack of infrastructure, deep-roote [...]	2009-06-30 15:28:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	BY CH LY MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL RW SU
09BUJUMBURA306	RUDUDURA AWAITS A NEW HEARING IN A NEW COURT, [...] (U) In a very quiet, unpublicized decision on June 15, Burundi's anti-corruption court ruled that it does not have the authority to try the case of Juvenal Rududura, the labor union vice-president charged with defamation of the president who has languished in prison since September 15, 2008 (re [...]	2009-07-08 15:37:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BY
09BUJUMBURA324	ATTACK ON NGO VEHICLE IN BURUNDI; NO AMCITS [...] Post has learned of an attack in Burundi on the morning of 13 July 2009 which did not directly involve American citizens, but did involve employees of an American NGO operating in Burundi, Village Health Works (VHW). One employee was killed, presumably by gunfire, while three others sustaine [...]	2009-07-14 04:50:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL
09BUJUMBURA339	MINISTER OF INTERIOR PLAYS WITH ELECTORAL CODE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 9, Minister of the Interior Eduard Nduwimana, believed to be "President Nkurunziza's man," set off a political firestorm by presenting to the Council of Ministers a different draft Electoral Code than the consensus version prepared during a June round-table of political p [...]	2009-07-17 12:39:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BY
09BUJUMBURA356	RADJABU'S UPD PARTY GAINING GROUND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite apparent attempts by the ruling CNDD-FDD to sideline former party president Hussein Radjabu, including evicting him from the party and subsequently imprisoning him for 13 years for "threatening state security" (ref A),Post assesses that Radjabu continues to exert politica [...]	2009-07-27 14:03:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BY
09BUJUMBURA394	MSD LEADER SINDUHIJE REQUESTS "TEMPORARY ASYLUM" [...] (C) Summary: Aspiring Presidential candidate Alexis Sinduhije called on DCM at her residence August 11 to request that he be allowed to stay in US embassy housing for a few days to avoid anticipated political harassment. As there was no life threatening situation, DCM listened to him and pers [...]	2009-08-12 16:00:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM BY
09BUJUMBURA414	CONSULTATIONS ON TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE UNDERWAY; [...] (C) Summary: Burundi has started broad based popular consultations for a Transitional Justice mechanism to deal with the events of years of conflict. While consultations are will be completed at year's end, we are detecting concerns about launching a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or si [...]	2009-08-18 17:12:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	BY KAWC PHUM PREL
09BUJUMBURA584	BURUNDI RECEPTIVE TO U.S. UNGA OBJECTIVES [...] (U) Acting Director of the Department for International Organizations at the Ministry of External Relations, Roseline Uwimana, told Emboff in an October 27 meeting that the Government of Burundi would carefully consider U.S. objectives as outlined reftel. Given that the Director himself was [...]	2009-10-27 15:05:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BY
09BUJUMBURA60	BURUNDI: UN FIELD COVERAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN's Human Rights operation in Burundi consists of two administratively separate but operationally integrated missions: the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) and United Nations Integrated Bureau in Burundi (BINUB). Forty UN human rights employees are he [...]	2009-02-03 09:35:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM USUN BY
09BUJUMBURA663	BURUNDI WILL VOTE WITH EU, VATICAN, AND U.S. ON [...] Burundi will support the U.S. position on the "Defamation of Religions" resolution, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director General for International Organizations, Adolphe Nahayo. In Ambassador Nahayo's December 3 meeting with PolOff, Nahayo explained that Burundi wishes to wo [...]	2009-12-03 14:10:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNGA BY
09BUJUMBURA83	BURUNDI LAWMAKERS VOTE OVERWHELMINGLY FOR [...] (U) The Burundian Senate and National Assembly confirmed February 13 President Nkurunziza's nomination of five individuals to the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI),voting 41-5 and 108-4 in favor, respectively. The confirmed CENI members represent a compromise between Presiden [...]	2009-02-18 15:01:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BY
09CAIRO1	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: DECEMBER 31 [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-01 02:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO1014	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND THE MANDATE OF THE SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR REF: STATE 55852 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 14:26:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SU EG
09CAIRO1044	COURT RELEASES 10 MEN DETAINED IN HOMOSEXUAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-09 13:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1054	CA/FPP AND CAIRO FPU IDENTIFY TWO COPTIC PRIESTS AS [...] (SBU) Summary: CA/FPP and the Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) have been reviewing visa and PIERS records in an effort to identify additional cases of the baby trafficking network described in reftels. Through an analysis of PIERS records, a Fraud Prevention Officer (FPO) at CA/FPP linked and [...]	2009-06-10 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CMGT CASC KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO1058	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 11:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UN SU EG
09CAIRO1059	PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MINISTER ON CT AND PLACES OF WORSHIP LAWS REF: A. CAIRO 858 B. CAIRO 814 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reason 1.4 (b). [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 12:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO106	EGYPT: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR CHILD LABOR [...] SUMMARY: The Government of Egypt (GOE) continues to make progress towards restricting and regulating child labor. In June 2008, Egypt's Parliament passed a comprehensive set of amendments to the Child Protection Law raising the minimum age for employment from fourteen to fifteen years, and the [...]	2009-01-22 10:49:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO107	NORTH SINAI REACTION TO GAZA CONFLICT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a trip to the North Sinai Governorate on January 19-20, we met with local leaders and discussed the recent fighting in Gaza, and its effect on the neighboring communities in Egypt. All the leaders, with whom we met, noted that the local population--which is a mixture of [...]	2009-01-22 14:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL PREF EAID PHUM KISL ECON IS EG
09CAIRO1094	IO DELEGATION'S POSITIVE MULTILATERAL HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-15 14:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KISL UN EG
09CAIRO1109	COURT REJECTS CHRISTIAN CONVERT'S IDENTITY [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 14:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG
09CAIRO1139	MFA OFFICIALS STRIKE A POSITIVE TONE MFA OFFICIALS STRIKE A POSITIVE TONE WITH A/S BRIMMER REF: A. CAIRO 680 B. CAIRO 572 C. CAIRO 484 D. CAIRO 397 E. CAIRO 217 F. 08 CAIRO 2584 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-21 13:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAL KPKO SCUL IS SU EG
09CAIRO1140	CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS, U/S BURNS DISCUSS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-21 13:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1148	AMENDMENT ON WOMEN'S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-22 10:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO1180	EGYPTIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON AN INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT REF: STATE 58579 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-23 13:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA PGOV PHUM EWWT MARR KCRM SO EG
09CAIRO1181	NDP INSIDER PRESSING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-23 13:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1182	QUARTERLY UPDATE ON POLICE BRUTALITY CASES - JUNE [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-23 13:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO1185	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS' VISIT TO EGYPT [...] Key Points: -- (S/NF) Since your last visit in December 2008, President Obama's well-received Cairo speech has reinvigorated the tenor of our bilateral relationship. -- (S/NF) However, a sense of renewal in our bilateral relationship has not yet resulted in tangible improvements in our m [...]	2009-06-24 08:19:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MASS MOPS IR IS KPAL PHUM KDEM
09CAIRO1196	EGYPTIAN BLOGGERS FIXATED ON IRANIAN UNREST [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) Egyptian bloggers remain fixated on the unrest in Iran, even as the story drops from the front pages of local newspapers. -- (U) Bloggers have reported on developments, using traditional and "new" media sources, and posting photos and videos of the protests and killings. [...]	2009-06-25 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR EG
09CAIRO1220	U.S.-EGYPT STRATEGIC DIALOGUE OF JUNE 7 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-30 03:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER SCUL PHUM SU SO IR AF PK SY
09CAIRO1222	EGYPTIAN MFA REACTIONS TO 2009 TIP REPORT REF: A. 08 CAIRO 2525 B. 09 CAIRO 386 C. 09 CAIRO 721 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-30 07:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG
09CAIRO1223	PUBLIC REACTION TO THE 2009 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Key Points: -- Public reaction to the 2009 TIP Report has varied from condemnation by certain Government of Egypt (GOE) officials to support from civil society representatives. -- The Minister of Family and Population and head of the National Commission for Motherhood and Childhood, Mu [...]	2009-06-30 07:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG
09CAIRO1226	HIGH COURT GRANTS CUSTODY TO CHRISTIAN MOTHER, BUT RULES CHILDREN ARE MUSLIMS REF: A. CAIRO 1109 B. CAIRO 485 C. CAIRO 477 D. 07 CAIRO 2622 E. 07 CAIRO 1427 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor William R. Stewart for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-30 12:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF SOCI EG
09CAIRO1229	INTERIOR MINISTRY EAGER TO CONTINUE POLICE TRAINING [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-01 07:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR EG
09CAIRO1231	COURT SENTENCES JOURNALIST TO PRISON TERM FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-01 07:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO1263	GOE HOLDS PROMINENT BLOGGER AT AIRPORT, SEIZES HIS [...] (C) Blogger Wael Abbas told us GOE passport and customs officials held him at Cairo International Airport for 13 hours on June 30 upon his return from a conference in Sweden. Abbas said the officials did not ask him any questions, but searched him very thoroughly in what amounted "almost to a [...]	2009-07-02 14:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1266	RUMORS OF THE DISSOLUTION OF EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 05:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO1305	GOE JAILS JOURNALIST CONVICTED OF DEFAMATION REF: A. CAIRO 1231 B. CAIRO 284 C. CAIRO 180 D. 08 CAIRO 2152 E. 08 CAIRO 2122 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald Blome for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-09 12:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1307	SECURITY FORCES PREVENT COPTIC CEREMONY, [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR),a credible NGO, briefed us July 7 on its fact-finding mission to the village of Ezbet Boushra where sectarian clashes broke out June 21. -- (C) EIPR said the clashes began when security forces prevented village Copts fr [...]	2009-07-09 15:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1332	GOE RELEASES JOURNALIST FROM PRISON AFTER FIVE DAYS [...] (C) On July 11, the GOE released independent editor Yasser Barakat from prison five days after police arrested him to implement a sentence imposed by Cairo Criminal Court June 24. The court handed down a six-month sentence against Barakat for allegedly defaming MP Mustafa Bakry in a November 2 [...]	2009-07-13 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1333	EGYPT'S SPEAKER OF THE PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-13 12:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO134	IMPRISONED QURANIST BLOGGER RELEASED [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-26 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO1366	EGYPT: PROPOSED EXAPANSION OF JUDICIAL BODY BRINGS [...] Key Points: -- (C) The proposed expansion by presidential decree of the constitutionally-mandated Supreme Judicial Council (SJC),the judiciary's governing body, has drawn fire from judges who accuse Minister of Justice Mamdouh Marei of seeking to exploit the changes to the SJC to increase the numb [...]	2009-07-15 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM EG
09CAIRO1393	POWER POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE DELTA CITY [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) On July 15 we visited the Delta city of Mansoura, with a population of 1 million, high unemployment and a formerly agricultural economy transitioning to light manufacturing and other trade. -- (C) One local businessman and NGO leader told us that in the past six months t [...]	2009-07-19 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG
09CAIRO1394	MINERS CLASH WITH POLICE IN UPPER EGYPT [...] (C) On July 16, in the most recent example of Egypt's ongoing wave of labor strikes and demonstrations (ref A),quarry workers and owners protesting a local government imposed tariff on cut stone clashed with police in the Upper Egyptian city of Minya. According to local media reports, a pol [...]	2009-07-20 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO1416	USG-FUNDED SMALL BUSINESS PROJECT FOR WOMEN IN THE [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) On July 20, we visited the USG-funded kiosk project, which aims to provide a small business livelihood for low-income women in a poor, agricultural section of the Nile Delta Governorate of Menufiya, approximately 75 miles north of Cairo. -- (U) The USD 43,000 ESF grant [...]	2009-07-22 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM ECON SOCI EG
09CAIRO142	AYMAN NOUR LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-27 10:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1433	MFA LOOKS AHEAD TO THIRD UN EXPERT VISIT, 2010 UPR [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-27 05:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER SENV KIRF KTIP UN EG
09CAIRO1447	RECENT GOE ACTIONS TO SUPPRESS CRITICAL OPINION [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) A recent series of selective GOE actions against journalists, bloggers and even an amateur poet illustrates the variety of methods available to the GOE to suppress critical opinion, including an array of investigative authorities and public and private legal actions. -- [...]	2009-07-28 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1457	EGYPT'S SHI'A CRACKDOWN [...] Key Points -- (C) According to Mohamed al-Darini (ref A),a leader of the Egyptian Shi'a Supreme Council of the Descendants of the Prophet, Egyptian security forces have arrested approximately 300 Shi'a since mid-April. The Council's headquarters has been shut down by authorities. -- ( [...]	2009-07-30 04:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF KISL PTER EG IR
09CAIRO1464	"APRIL 6" MOVEMENT CONSOLIDATES RANKS, LOOKS [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) "April 6" movement leader Ahmed Saleh told us July 26 that the group has ejected Islamist and Nasserist members to try to preserve its secular, western orientation. -- (C) Saleh urged U.S. pressure on the GOE for international monitors for the 2010 and 2011 elections. He [...]	2009-07-30 13:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1467	RAMPING UP PRESSURE ON THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN [...] Key Points: -- (C) High profile arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) have continued to pick up speed since May. Most recently, three MB-affiliated bloggers critical of government tactics against the MB, including the wave of arrests, have been detained themselves. -- (C) MB attempts [...]	2009-07-30 14:39:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KTER KJUS EG
09CAIRO1493	MB PARLIAMENTARY LEADER ON INCREASED GOE [...] KEY POINTS -- (S) Muslim Brotherhood (MB) MP and leader of the MB bloc in the People's Assembly (PA) Dr. Mohammed Saad Katatni said pressure on the MB has increased in the lead-up to the 2010 parliamentary elections, and is greater than before the 2005 and 2008 elections. He called the rece [...]	2009-08-03 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1495	EGYPT'S BAHA'I FRUSTRATED WITH LACK OF PROGRESS ON [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) During a July 28 meeting, leaders of Egypt's Baha'i community reported no progress in obtaining government identification documents. -- (C) According to the Baha'i, following the April 15 issuance by the MoI of a decree establishing procedures for members of "unrecognized" religio [...]	2009-08-03 13:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1503	FM ABOUL GHEIT ON MUBARAK VISIT, MB, STRATEGIC [...] (C) Key Points: -- FM Aboul Gheit said Egypt's main goal for the upcoming Washington visit was to build "rapport" between the two presidents, emphasizing Egypt's "strategic" relationship with the U.S. and continuing discussion of key regional issues. -- The Muslim Brotherhood remains a "challenge" [...]	2009-08-04 10:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1514	INITIATIVES TO COUNTER TORTURE IN EGYPT [...] Torture is a serious problem in Egypt, and there are ongoing efforts in the country to prevent its practice and protect victims. Several Egyptian NGOs have ongoing programs to provide legal assistance, and psychological and physical rehabilitation for torture victims. Human rights attorneys [...]	2009-08-05 13:17:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM UN EG
09CAIRO1532	STATE SECURITY'S SELECTIVE INTERFERENCE WITH CIVIL [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) Recent discussions with NGO contacts illustrate some of the factors which shape Interior Ministry State Security Investigative Services' (SSIS) decisions to interfere with certain civil society activities. -- (C) State Security seems to target certain NGO leaders based o [...]	2009-08-09 13:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1547	STRIKES AND MOULIDS IN NILE DELTA TEXTILE CENTER [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-09 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM KISL SOCI EG
09CAIRO155	PROSECUTION ACTS ON CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST SAAD [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-29 13:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM EAID EG

09CAIRO1556	EGYPT ISSUES ID CARDS TO BAHA'IS [...] (SBU) On August 9, Egypt's Ministry of Interior (MoI) issued national identification cards to two Baha'is, teenage brother and sister Nancy and Imad Hindy. The identity cards include a dash in the field that normally reflects the bearer's religion (with the GoE recognized religions of Islam [...]	2009-08-10 14:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1578	EGYPT'S INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION FLEXES MUSCLE [...] (SBU) On August 11, the Real Estate Tax Collector's Union (RETU),Egypt's only independent trade union, held a one day strike to protest a decision by the Ministry of Finance (MoF),the employer of RETU's 35,000 members, to give a rival state-controlled union responsibility for RETU members' pensio [...]	2009-08-13 14:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO159	JUDGE RELEASES POLICE OFFICER CHARGED WITH SAMALUT [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-29 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO17	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 5 [...] (S) On January 5, Egyptian military officials briefed defense attaches on the situation in Gaza. The Egyptian military reports that the Egyptian-Gaza border remains stable, with no breaches since December 28. Egyptian border guards successfully prevented subsequent attempts to breach the bor [...]	2009-01-05 14:41:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM EG IS
09CAIRO172	EGYPTIAN COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF RECONVERT [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-01 13:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF SOCI EG
09CAIRO1739	EGYPT NOTIFIED OF DEPARTMENT OF LABOR LIST OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-09 10:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO1758	THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CHILDHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-10 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG
09CAIRO1760	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-10 15:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN UNHRC EG
09CAIRO1778	MFA DIPNOTE AGREEING TO CONTINUE POLICE TRAINING [...] This is an action request; please see para 4. 2. On September 14, we received a diplomatic note from the MFA agreeing to continue USG-funded police training consistent with the terms of our April 21 dipnote (refs C, D). 3. Begin text of MFA dipnote (informal MFA and embassy translation) [...]	2009-09-14 16:35:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR EG
09CAIRO180	JUDGE FINES FOUR EDITORS ON APPEAL, STRIKES PRISON [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-02 11:40:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1818	TIP PROSECUTOR TALKS ABOUT THE COMPREHENSIVE TRAFFICKING LAW REF: CAIRO 1758 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-17 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG
09CAIRO1819	"APRIL 6 MOVEMENT" RAISES ITS PROFILE TO ATTRACT [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On September 15, "April 6 Movement" leader Ahmed Saleh told us that the group is working to attract new members through a campaign of helping citizens "stand up for their rights" and receive government services. -- (C) As part of this effort, he said "April 6" has succes [...]	2009-09-17 15:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1828	FPU REVIEW OF DIVERSITY VISA CASES REVEALS ANOTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) reviewed Diversity Visas (DVs) issued by post to identify additional cases of the baby trafficking network described in reftels. A number of cases were found that raised the possibility that some DV lottery winners applied with newborns that [...]	2009-09-23 11:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CMGT CASC KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO1834	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONSTRUCTIVE OUTCOME FROM THE GOLDSTONE REPORT REF: STATE 98567 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reason 1.4 (b). [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-23 14:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER UN KISL KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO1836	UPDATE ON BLOGGER CASES - SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) Human rights attorney Gamal Eid, who represents all of Egypt's detained bloggers, told us September 15 he had learned through third party sources that prison officials have tortured jailed Coptic blogger Hany Nazir to pressure him to convert to Islam. The prison has not allowed [...]	2009-09-23 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1848	EMBASSY RAISES HAASSMENT OF EGYPTIAN CONVERTS WTH MFA [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 14:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1850	NDP INSIDER ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS AND LEGISLATION [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On September 17, ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Shura Council Member Hossam Badrawi told visiting NEA/ELA desk officer and poloff that high turnout in the 2010 parliamentary elections would benefit the NDP over the Muslim Brotherhood. -- (C) He called for a numbe [...]	2009-09-24 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO1857	ENGAGING AYMAN NOUR [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-27 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO1892	FOUNDER OF EGYPT'S FIRST INDEPENDENT UNION ON [...] Key Points: -- (C) On September 30, Makram Labib, who with Kamal Abu Eita established the Real Estate Tax Collectors Union (RETU),Egypt's first independent trade union (ref B) since the 1950s, told us that RETU has achieved most of its economic objectives through negotiation with the Ministry of F [...]	2009-10-01 15:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1893	REPORTS OF DIVISIONS WITHIN THE MB FOLLOWING THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-01 16:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KISL EG
09CAIRO1918	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT PUSHES BACK ON THE NIQAB [...] Key points: -- (C) Leadership of both Islamic and secular educational institutions are increasingly critical of the niqab, a full facial veil exposing only the wearer's eyes, and have announced or intend soon to announce restrictions. These restrictions fall far short of a general prohibition. -- ( [...]	2009-10-08 06:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL KIRF SOCI EG
09CAIRO1948	INDEPENDENT NGO COALITION FOR UPR REPORT SPLINTERS [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) The coalition of independent NGOs formed to submit a September report for the February 2010 UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) splintered following disagreements over using legal versus "political" language in the introduction. -- (C) The Egyptian Or [...]	2009-10-13 15:57:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM UN EG
09CAIRO1967	EGYPT TRAINS POLICE ON PROTECTING TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) On October 11, Poloff attended the opening ceremony of an International Organization for Migration (IOM) training program for Egyptian law enforcement officials on "Protecting Victims of Trafficking and Investigating Traffickers." The two-week program, conducted under the auspices of Egypt's [...]	2009-10-15 08:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP PHUM PREL PGOV EG
09CAIRO1971	NEWSPAPER SHUT DOWN OVER ALLEGING ACTORS' [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-15 13:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG
09CAIRO1975	ALEXANDRIA: NDP, WAFD FOCUS ON SOCIAL SERVICES TO [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In advance of the 2010/2011 elections, the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is working in Alexandria in cooperation with NGOs to improve the city's infrastructure and education. -- (C) NDP-linked and independent NGOs are working in poor areas to provide social serv [...]	2009-10-18 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1977	EGYPT: POLITICAL ACTIVISTS SUGGEST CHANGE [...] (C) Key Points -- Political activists at an Ambassador-hosted lunch were pessimistic that the upcoming elections would offer opportunities for real change. -- Most agreed that voter apathy and low voter turnout in previous elections can be explained by the absence of a "political culture," pressu [...]	2009-10-19 08:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO1984	EGYPTIAN CONVERT CONVICTED OF FORGERY [...] (SBU) On October 14, a Cairo criminal court convicted Einas Refaat Mohamed Hassan, a convert from Islam to Christianity, of forgery for possessing a false national identity card. Hassan apparently used documents formerly belonging to a deceased Christian woman to obtain a national identity card lis [...]	2009-10-19 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO1997	ACTIVISTS' ANGER OVER U.S. POSITION ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-20 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL UN IS EG
09CAIRO2	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: DECEMBER 31 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Arab League ministerial went into closed session at 1:00pm local time and as of 6:00 pm local time we have not gotten any comment on the status of the talks, either from the Egyptians or other delegations. Egypt closed and evacuated the Rafah terminal several times overn [...]	2009-01-01 02:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO2022	"APRIL 6" PLANS PARALLEL MEETING TO REFUTE NDP [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-22 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO2031	POLICE HARASSMENT AT NOUR EVENT [...] (C) Key Points: -- (C) Ayman Nour confirmed reports of police harassment at an event for artists and poets held on the evening of October 21 in support of his campaign against succession. Items seized by police were returned except a laptop used to store information about the campaign. Nou [...]	2009-10-22 16:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG KDEM
09CAIRO2044	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE PRIORITIES [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-26 16:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN EG
09CAIRO2052	2009 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT PREVIEW FOR THE MFA [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-28 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG
09CAIRO2064	POLICE BRUTALITY UPDATE: LAWYERS ALLEGE SEVERE [...] KEY POINTS -- (S) Credible human rights lawyers representing members of the Hizballah cell detained since late 2008 believe the GOE tortured the suspects with electric shocks and sleep deprivation to reduce them to a "zombie state." -- (S) The lawyers believe the GOE used the same torture on a se [...]	2009-10-29 17:09:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PTER KPAL LE EG
09CAIRO2066	AYMAN NOUR HARASSED IN HURGHADA [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-29 17:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO207	FRAUD TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES CONTINUE TO DISMANTLE NETWORK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable highlights the effective fraud tools and techniques that have uncovered the network of fraudulent birth registrations reported in refs (A) and (B). The Fraud Prevention Manager (FPM) and A/RSO-I continue to use a wide variety of fraud resources to not only identify ad [...]	2009-02-04 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CMGT CASC KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2083	EGYPT PROSECUTES FACILITATORS OF UNDER-AGE [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On October 19, an Egyptian court in Al Gharbeya Governorate (in the Nile Delta region) sentenced a marriage registrar, or "ma'zoun," to two years in prison, under the provisions of the 2008 amendment to Egypt's child law, for registering the marriages of 144 girls under the age [...]	2009-11-03 09:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP PHUM PREL PGOV EG
09CAIRO2102	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMPLEMENTARY STANDARDS [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-05 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UN EG
09CAIRO2111	CIVIL SOCIETY'S EXPECTATIONS FOR ELECTIONS LOW, [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-05 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ELAB EG
09CAIRO2112	NOUR TRAVEL PERMISSION DENIED [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-05 16:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO2137	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-16 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNGA EG
09CAIRO2155	"APRIL 6" HOLDS PARALLEL NDP CONFERENCE DESPITE [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 12:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO2157	POPULATION MINISTER FOCUSING ON FAMILY PLANNING [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN KIRF ELAB EG
09CAIRO2164	ACTIVISTS BELIEVE POLICE BRUTALITY CONTINUES [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 15:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KIRF EG
09CAIRO2178	COPTIC CHOIR BOYS UNCOVERED AS INTENDING IMMIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) uncovered a scheme to have young men pose as Coptic choir boys in order to be issued visas for travel to the United States. The applicants used bogus letters from churches in Egypt and the United States to facilitate the fraud. Egyptian State [...]	2009-11-19 11:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD KIRF CVIS CMGT KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO219	TEN MEN DETAINED FOR ALLEGED HOMOSEXUAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-05 15:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG
09CAIRO2190	ADVERSE INFORMATION FOUND FOR ASYLUM REQUESTS [...] (SBU) As per ref A, A/RSO-I is providing the following adverse information for the asylum requests of Saleh, Samouel Ishak Koryakos (D/POB: 13-Sep-1986, Menia, Egypt),Botros, Antonious Thrwat Shouky (D/POB: 11-Sep-1986, Menia, Egypt),Dief, Kerolos Adly Roshdy (D/POB: 01-Jan-1991, Menia, Egypt). [...]	2009-11-23 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KFRD CVIS KIRF PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2205	BLIND COPTIC GIRLS' CHOIR USED FOR ALIEN SMUGGLING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) has identified seven individuals who were successfully smuggled to the United States through their inclusion with a church group of blind Coptic girl singers. The church group was organized and sponsored by an Egyptian-American man in the Uni [...]	2009-11-25 14:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD KIRF CVIS CMGT KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2207	EGYPTIAN TEXTILE FACTORY STRIKE ENDS [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) Workers at Tanta Flax and Oil Company, a large textile factory in the Nile Delta City of Tanta (Gharabeya Governorate),who had been on strike since May, returned to work on November 21. -- (SBU) The strike, which the GoE-controlled General Union of Textile Workers supported, e [...]	2009-11-25 15:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO2223	POST NOMINATION FOR THE 2010 SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) Nehad Aboul Komsan, Embassy Cairo's nominee for the Secretary's International Women of Courage Award, deserves USG commendation for her tireless campaigning on behalf of women's rights in Egypt. -- (U) Aboul Komsan's efforts as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Egyp [...]	2009-12-01 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO EG
09CAIRO2229	EGYPTIAN QURANIST DETAINED, RELEASED [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On November 18, security officials at Cairo International Airport detained Abdel Latif Mohamed Saied, a member of the heterodox Islamic Quranist movement, when he attempted to board a flight for Khartoum. -- (C) On November 24, Embassy Cairo raised Saied's detention with Deputy [...]	2009-12-02 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO2236	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT ASSERTS TIP PROGRESS TO [...] (SBU) Ambassador at Large for Combating Human Trafficking Luis CDeBaca visited Egypt November 13 through 15 and met with GoE officials and others involved in Egypt's anti-trafficikng efforts, including Egypt's Public Prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmoud, Egypt's Minister of State for Family and Populati [...]	2009-12-03 12:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB PGOV UN EG
09CAIRO2258	ASWAN: GOE ENLISTS LOYAL NGOS TO COOPERATE ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-07 12:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO2263	EGYPT: 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) Per reftel A, the following is Embassy Cairo's interim assessment of the GoE's efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2009. ------------------------- Law Enforcement Activity ------------------------- 2. (SBU) Since May 2009, there have been a number of high profile prosecut [...]	2009-12-07 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP EG
09CAIRO2268	MIXED CIVIL SOCIETY REACTION TO UN ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-08 12:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UN EG
09CAIRO2277	GOE UPR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT FOCUSES ON COMMITMENTS, BUT IS SHORT ON DETAILS REF: A. CAIRO 2164 B. CAIRO 1948 C. CAIRO 1925 D. CAIRO 1836 E. CAIRO 1433 F. CAIRO 814 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reason 1.4 (b). [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-10 12:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF KTIP CT UN EG
09CAIRO229	STATE SECURITY DETAINS EGYPTIAN-GERMAN BLOGGER AND GAZA ACTIVIST REF: A. 09 CAIRO 79 B. 08 CAIRO 2431 C. 08 CAIRO 862 D. 08 CAIRO 797 Classified By: ECPO Mincouns William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-09 15:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAL GE EG
09CAIRO2291	Baby Traffickers Resurface in Alexandria [...] (SBU) Summary: An American Citizen couple attempted to register a newborn as their biological child during a scheduled consular outreach visit held at the American Center in Alexandria. The couple fit the profile developed by the Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) in reftels and the case was re [...]	2009-12-13 14:59:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CMGT CASC KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2299	NDP REFORMER SEES LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROGRESS REF: A. CAIRO 2283 B. CAIRO 2166 C. CAIRO 1850 D. CAIRO 1181 Classified By: Economic-Political Minister-Counselor Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 14:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM EG
09CAIRO2301	EGYPTIAN LABOR ACTIVISM AS A POLITICAL FORCE [...] Key Points: - (SBU) In 2009, there have been over 300 strikes and other worker protests in Egypt, despite legal restrictions and a lack of support for strikers from GoE-affiliated trade unions. -- (C) Worker activism is driven by economic, not political, concerns. Some workers' rights advocates non [...]	2009-12-15 15:30:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO2308	EGYPT: CAN KIFAYA REGAIN LOST MOMENTUM? [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO2323	AMBASSADOR, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST DISCUSS SECRETARY'S SPEECH, ELECTIONS, SUCCESSION REF: A. CAIRO 2299 B. CAIRO 2283 C. CAIRO 2277 D. CAIRO 1925 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 16:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM EAID EG
09CAIRO2380	EGYPT'S GOVERNMENT-BACKED UNION LEADER ON STRIKES, [...] Key points: -- (SBU) On December 22, we met with XXXXXXXXXXXX a GoE-controlled trade union umbrella organization. XXXXXXXXXXXX one of 23 ETUF-member unions, also participated in the meeting. -- (C) According to XXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX does not oppose strikes, which he believes are necessary in s [...]	2009-12-28 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO242	STATE SECURITY RESPONDS TO DRAFT LETTER ON POLICE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-10 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG
09CAIRO243	BLOGGER POSTS GRAPHIC VIDEO OF ALLEGED POLICE SODOMY REF: A. 09 CAIRO 79 B. 07 CAIRO 3214 Classified By: ECPO Mincouns William R. Stewart for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-10 15:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG
09CAIRO246	AYMAN NOUR-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-11 10:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO255	GOE RELEASES EGYPTIAN-GERMAN BLOGGER, CRACKS DOWN [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-11 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GE EG
09CAIRO26	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 6 [...] (S/NF) The Egyptian military reports Egyptian security forces are controlling the Egypt/Gaza border. Egypt delivered humanitarian aid through the Rafah and al-Aouja crossing points. 18 Palestinian casualties entered Egypt yesterday for medical treatment. IDF ground forces are reportedly ope [...]	2009-01-06 14:08:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM EG IS
09CAIRO267	UNHCR UPDATES ON REFUGEE SITUATION IN CAIRO [...] (C) Summary: We attended the Cairo Office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) multilateral meeting on February 4 to discuss refugee developments and UNHCR's plans for 2009. UNHCR partners, NGO's, and western embassies also participated. Following the meeting, UNHCR Re [...]	2009-02-12 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM PGOV ECON ELAB SU ER ET SO
09CAIRO284	COURT FINES INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST FOR DEFAMING CONTROVERSIAL MP REF: A. CAIRO 180 B. CAIRO 70 C. 08 CAIRO 2405 D. 08 CAIRO 2280 E. 08 CAIRO 2198 F. 08 CAIRO 2001 Classified By: ECPO Counselor Catherine Hill-Herndon per 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-17 15:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO288	FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE GOE AGREES TO A SPECIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-18 09:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO3	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 2 [...] (SBU) As of 1500 hrs. local on January 2, we have received no reports of demonstrations, attacks, or other problems at the Rafah border crossing into Gaza; however, local USG staff report clashes on January 2 between police and demonstrators in Al-Arish in North Sinai, about 20 miles from the G [...]	2009-01-02 14:20:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM EG IS
09CAIRO300	AYMAN NOUR'S RELEASE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-19 09:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO321	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING SUPPORT FOR DURBAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-22 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC EG
09CAIRO325	CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS OFFER MIXED ASSESSMENT OF THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT REF: CAIRO 246 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reason 1.4 (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-23 12:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR ECON EFIN EG
09CAIRO330	ACTIVISTS DISCUSS WAY FORWARD ON REFORM WITH [...] (C) Summary: On February 18, civil society activists and an opposition party leader discussed democratic reform in Egypt with Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT),the Ambassador and the DCM. President of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights Hisham Kassem said that over the next 15 years Egy [...]	2009-02-23 16:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO36	EMBASSY MEETS WITH ERITREAN COMMUNITY LEADERS IN [...] Summary: The Embassy met with Eritrean community leaders in Cairo on January 4 to discuss the increased flow of Eritrean migrants, the plight of Eritreans in Egypt, and the recent Egyptian refoulement of Eritrean migrants. Eritrean leaders estimate there are 10,000 Eritreans living in Cairo. [...]	2009-01-08 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF ER EG
09CAIRO37	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL FOR GOE [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (U) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following security officials from the Egyptian Central Security Force and Special Operations Force, who have been selected to participate in COESPU training courses in Vicenza, Italy January 12 [...]	2009-01-09 12:04:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV MASS EG
09CAIRO378	GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT'S UPDATE ON REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian MFA Refugee Office Director Tarek Maaty told us on February 9 that the disagreement over the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' call to open the Gaza borders had passed (reftel). He said that a senior UNHCR official will come to Cairo to work on a combined vision for refu [...]	2009-03-03 11:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PREL ER SO SU EG
09CAIRO380	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) On March 3, we demarched MFA Deputy Director for Human Rights Omar Shalaby regarding the U.S. decisions on resuming participation as an observer at the UN Human Rights Council, and on the Durban Review Conference (ref A). We also delivered the Cairo-specific points per ref A. On Durban, [...]	2009-03-03 14:49:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC EG
09CAIRO386	CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING [...] (U) This cable contains U.S. Embassy Cairo's response to Trafficking in Persons (TIP) contribution requirements (reftel A). The following text contains responses to paragraphs 23-29 in the original tasking cable. 2. (U) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: -- A. The available sources of informat [...]	2009-03-04 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
09CAIRO393	AYMAN NOUR DISCUSSES HIS RELEASE, FUTURE [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On February 26, poloff met with former presidential candidate and opposition party leader Ayman Nour, who was released from an Egyptian prison on February 18, and his wife, Gameela Ismail. -- (C) Before Nour arrived, Ismail told poloff that on the day of his release, [...]	2009-03-05 14:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO397	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNHRC FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION [...] (C) On March 5, we demarched MFA Deputy Director for Human Rights Omar Shalaby on Egyptian plans to sponsor a freedom of expression resolution at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) March session, urging Egypt not to pre-empt Canada (ref A). Shalaby responded that Egypt's position is that the [...]	2009-03-05 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN EG
09CAIRO402	EGYPT: COMMENTS ON DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Post appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's (DOL) draft list of goods that it has evidence are produced with child or forced labor. (ref A) For Egypt, the DOL proposes listing limestone and cotton as such goods. 2. (SBU) With respect to limestone, Post rec [...]	2009-03-08 13:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO44	PROGRESS ON WOMEN'S ISSUES, DESPITE SOME GOE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The past six months have seen significant progress on women's issues in Egypt. Recent advances for women on combating female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual harassment and assault have stood out in an environment characterized by backsliding on issues such as pre [...]	2009-01-12 09:02:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO451	INTERIOR MINISTER ON KHAN BOMBING, GAZA SMUGGLING [...] (S) KEY POINTS -- (S) On March 12, Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly told the Ambassador that evidence indicates "one or two" individuals were responsible for the February 22 Khan Al-Khalili market bombing. He said the MOI believes the individuals were not linked to any organized group, but r [...]	2009-03-16 11:02:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM KPAL ASEC SU EG
09CAIRO452	INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS FINED FOR VIOLATING GAG [...] (C) On February 26, a Cairo court fined the editors of the independent newspapers "Al-Masry Al-Youm" and "Al Wafd," and three reporters from the papers, LE 10,000 (1,800 USD) each for allegedly violating a November 16, 2008 gag order on the ongoing murder trial of regime insider Hisham Talat Mu [...]	2009-03-16 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO453	EGYPT'S BAHA'I WIN LEGAL BATTLE [...] KEY POINTS - (SBU) On March 16, Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court dismissed a legal challenge filed by an Islamist lawyer that had heretofore blocked the implementation of a January 2008 court decision directing the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to issue identification documents to members [...]	2009-03-16 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO454	COURT SENTENCES NINE MEN TO DEATH FOR GANG RAPE [...] (U) On March 4, the Criminal Court in the Delta town of Kafr Al-Sheikh sentenced nine defendants to death and one juvenile to 15 years in prison for the armed gang-rape of 28 year-old Fatma Mahmoud Amin in 2006. One of the convicted men planned the rape as revenge against Amin's husband who r [...]	2009-03-16 15:21:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN EG
09CAIRO462	EGYPT: ADDITIONAL CONCERNS REGARDING DRAFT LIST OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-17 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO463	AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOREIGN MINISTER ON FREEDOM OF [...] (C) On March 14, the Ambassador spoke to Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit regarding Egypt's tabling of a freedom of expression resolution at the current session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). She urged Egypt to withdraw its text to allow Canada to a run a resolution at the June session of [...]	2009-03-17 15:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN EU UK EG
09CAIRO464	NDP OFFICIALS ON PARTY DYNAMICS, POLITICAL PARTIES [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-17 15:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO468	"APRIL 6" LEADER PESSIMISTIC ABOUT STRIKE; [...] (S) KEY POINTS -- (S) "April 6 Movement" leader Ahmed Saleh is pessimistic the group will be able to organize an effective strike on April 6 to protest political and economic conditions. He cited an Egyptian public distracted by other problems and probable State Security (SSIS) interference [...]	2009-03-18 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KISL EG
09CAIRO470	DARFURI LEADERS IN CAIRO SUPPORT ICC ARREST [...] Key Points -- (C) We met with Cairo office representatives from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA)-Minni Minawi, SLA-Unity, The Sons of the Fur (who have strong ties to SLA-Abdel Wahid al-Nur),and the Darfuri Arab Democratic Popular Front (DPF) on March [...]	2009-03-18 15:53:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PREF KPKO PHUM KICR KISL EAID QA LY ER
09CAIRO477	EGYPTIAN CONVERT STRUGGLES FOR ACCEPTANCE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-19 14:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG
09CAIRO484	PRESSING THE GOE ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION [...] (C) On March 22, Economic-Political Minister-Counselor underscored the U.S. position on the 2009 UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Freedom of Expression Resolution to MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for North American Affairs Amin Meleika. Mincouns emphasized that the U.S. strongly believes Canad [...]	2009-03-22 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UN KDEM EG
09CAIRO485	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DISCUSSION WITH EGYPT'S MFA [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-22 15:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO504	UPDATE ON POLICE BRUTALITY CASES [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In recent weeks we have followed up with human rights attorneys on several police brutality cases. Lawyers are working to file suits against the police for the torture of a Cairo woman who complained about police abuse of her husband, and for the torture of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"Apr [...]	2009-03-24 15:44:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI EG
09CAIRO520	AMBASSADOR'S DEMARCHE TO FM ABOUL GHEIT ON SUDAN [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Ghayt at opening of business Wednesday, March 25, conveying reftel points regarding the visit of Sudanese President Bashir to Egypt. She stressed that the U.S. could not accept any justification for denying humanitarian assistance to [...]	2009-03-25 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL SU EG
09CAIRO532	EGYPT SEEKS ENGAGEMENT WITH U.S. ON SUDAN [...] (C) Key Points --The Government of Egypt (GOE) views stability in Sudan as essential to its national security because of concern over its access to Nile waters and increased Sudanese refugee flow into Egypt. --Egypt disapproves of the GOS' expulsion of NGOs from Darfur, and is focused fin [...]	2009-03-26 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO PHUM QA SU EG

09CAIRO544	BLOGGERS MOVING FROM ACTIVISM TO BROADENING DISCOURSE AND SELF-EXPRESSION [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-30 13:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF KWMN SOCI EG
09CAIRO547	EGYPTIAN SHI'A LEADER ON RELATIONS WITH GOE, IRAN [...] Key Points: --(C) We met recently with Mohamed al-Darini, leader of the Supreme Council of the Descendants of the Prophet, an Egyptian Shi'a organization. According to al-Darini, there are approximately 60,000 Shi'a in Egypt, not counting Iraqi refugees. --(C) Al-Darini said Egypt's Sh [...]	2009-03-31 11:58:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF KISL PREF SOCI EG IR IZ
09CAIRO550	FORMER SUDANESE PM AL MAHDI SPELLS OUT PLAN FOR [...] (C) Key Points -- Former Sudanese PM Sadiq Al Mahdi said a "catastrophic scenario" is unfolding in Sudan that threatens the humanitarian situation in Darfur, the future peace talks and the unity of the country. -- Al Mahdi is proposing a "National Forum" composed of eight political partie [...]	2009-03-31 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO PHUM PREF UN QA CD SU EG
09CAIRO567	INFLUENTIAL SUDANESE BUSINESSMEN ADVOCATE "NO [...] (C) Key Points -- Two influential North Sudanese businessmen in Cairo, Kamal Ibrahim Ahmed (protect),Chairman of TransExport Trading Company and Muhammad Abdel Moneim (protect),Chairman of Wadi El Nil Flour Mills urged the USG not to compromise with the Government of Sudan (GOS),warning t [...]	2009-04-02 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF SU EG
09CAIRO572	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN [...] (C) On April 2, DCM informed MFA Spokesman and Senior Advisor to the Foreign Minister Hossam Zaki that the U.S. is seeking election to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),and requested the GOE's vote in May (reftel). DCM underscored that the U.S. believes it can do more to advance human right [...]	2009-04-02 18:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN EG
09CAIRO575	NEW MINISTER ON FAMILY PLANNING, GIRLS' EDUCATION [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On March 29, New Minister for Families and Population Moushira Khattab told the Ambassador and the USAID Mission Director that significant economic development in Egypt will not be possible without limiting population growth. -- (C) Minister Khattab said that girls' educa [...]	2009-04-05 08:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KWMN SOCI EG
09CAIRO580	GOE RELEASES BLOGGERS, BUT MOVES AGAINST "APRIL 6" [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) With the March 27 release of pro-Palestinian blogger Dia Gad who was detained February 6, the GOE has freed all bloggers arrested in the past 6 months. Earlier in March, the GOE released two bloggers, Mohammed Adel (ref B) and Abdul Aziz Al-Mugahed, who had been detained s [...]	2009-04-06 14:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO591	APRIL 6 STRIKE AND PROTESTS FIZZLE INTO A NON-EVENT [...] KEY POINTS -- (SBU) The strike planned by the "April 6 Movement" to protest political and economic conditions failed to disrupt normal traffic and business activity throughout Egypt, in contrast to the more successful April 6, 2008 strike. -- (U) In downtown Cairo, there were a few demonst [...]	2009-04-07 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM ELAB SOCI EG
09CAIRO598	MFA ON MULTILATERAL HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In an April 6 meeting with MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd, we reiterated our request for Egyptian support for a U.S. seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC),and emphasized that the U.S. wants to improve cooperation on multilateral human r [...]	2009-04-07 15:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UN SOCI EG
09CAIRO600	UPDATE ON CASE OF FRAUDULENT BIRTH REGISTRATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Working with the Canadian Embassy in Cairo, the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) has identified at least five cases from the Canadians that fit the profile of the confirmed baby trafficking cases described in reftels. In addition, the FPU has uncovered one additional case from the no [...]	2009-04-08 07:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT CVIS EG KFRD KOCI PHUM SMIG
09CAIRO604	CODEL MCCONNELL'S APRIL 5 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Key Points -- President Mubarak told CODEL McConnell he feared that the new Israeli government would be "very difficult to work with," in particular Foreign Minister Lieberman, whose public statements have already had a very negative impact on Arab public opinion. -- On Palestinian re [...]	2009-04-08 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PHUM KDEM PTER PARM PGOV SOCI SY
09CAIRO624	SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER [...] (SBU) The Egyptians and I warmly welcome you to Cairo. Our partnership in law enforcement and security cooperation remains solid. Your visit provides the opportunity to review and reinforce our law enforcement cooperation with the State Security Investigative Service (SSIS),which is under the aus [...]	2009-04-13 08:34:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PTER PREL PHUM PGOV KJUS EG
09CAIRO63	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 13 [...] (S) According to Ministry of Defense sources, on January 12, an unexploded Israeli bomb landed in an open field on the Egyptian side of the border. No injuries were reported. The Egyptians informed the Israelis, who offered to send a team to safely dismantle the bomb and noted that it was "U [...]	2009-01-13 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM CASC EG IS
09CAIRO639	DARFURI WOMEN REFUGEE LEADERS DESCRIBE [...] (C) Key Points -- We met with two Darfuri women chosen to represent the views of Darfuri refugee women to the U.S. Embassy. They told us that they held protests at UNHCR's Cairo office demanding better housing allowances, medical care, and resettlement options. -- Both women said they we [...]	2009-04-14 11:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN SU EG
09CAIRO64	AYMAN NOUR'S WIFE ON LATEST TRAVAILS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting, Gameela Ismail, wife of imprisoned Ghad party leader Ayman Nour, told us that Nour has been baselessly accused of assaulting a prison guard, and now faces solitary confinement as punishment. She said that Nour is "terrified" of solitary confinement, as the [...]	2009-01-13 14:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO656	MEETING WITH HEAD OF THE SUDANESE NATIONAL [...] (C) Key Points: -- Kamal al-Din Hassan Ail, the Director of the Sudanese National Congress Party's (NCP) office in Cairo told us April 1 that the ICC arrest warrant sent the wrong message to rebel groups. He said the Sudanese people are united behind Bashir, and Bashir's trip to Egypt was a [...]	2009-04-15 13:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPKO EAID PGOV SU EG
09CAIRO668	EGYPT'S INTERIOR MINISTRY APPROVES ISSUANCE OF [...] KEY POINTS -- (SBU) On April 14, Egypt's Ministry of the Interior (MOI) published a decree in Egypt's Official Gazette authorizing members of "non-recognized religions" (all other than Islam, Christianity and Judaism) to obtain identification cards with a dash in the mandatory religious [...]	2009-04-16 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO68	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 14 [...] (S) According to MoD sources, the Rafah border area has been relatively quiet today, with no collateral damage on the Egyptian side, and no reports of Palestinian firing on Egyptian Border Guard Forces. -------------- Demonstrations -------------- 2. (SBU) Contacts reported that on Janu [...]	2009-01-14 13:20:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM CASC EG IS
09CAIRO680	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTION DIPNOTE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-21 12:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UN EG
09CAIRO684	EGYPT'S INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION SEEKS GOVERNMENT [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On April 22, Egypt's real estate tax collectors, government employees who in December 2008 announced the formation of an independent union, submitted an application for government recognition of their new organization to the Ministry of Manpower and Migration (MOMM). [...]	2009-04-22 15:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KDEM PHUM PGOV EG
09CAIRO685	EGYPT'S INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION SEEKS GOVERNMENT [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On April 22, Egypt's real estate tax collectors, government employees who in December 2008 announced the formation of an independent union, submitted an application for government recognition of their new organization to the Ministry of Manpower and Migration (MOMM). [...]	2009-04-23 05:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KDEM PHUM PGOV EG
09CAIRO694	POLICE PROGRAM DIPNOTE DELIVERED TO THE MFA [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-23 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR EG
09CAIRO695	"APRIL 6" LEADER PLANS U.S. TRAVEL; DESCRIBES [...] (C) On April 22, "April 6 Movement" leader Ahmed Saleh told us that he plans to travel to Washington from May 2 to May 9 to testify in a May 7 Congressional hearing on a draft resolution on human rights in Egypt sponsored by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA). Saleh said that Dina Guirgis of the Washingt [...]	2009-04-23 15:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO7	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 4 [...] (S) As of 1500 hrs. local on January 4, Egyptian military contacts said Egypt closed the Rafah border crossing on January 4 after the Israelis gave advanced warning of their ground invasion and additional air strikes on the smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Rafah border. According to the Egypt [...]	2009-01-04 13:28:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM EG IS
09CAIRO70	COURTS FINE PRO-GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPERS IN LIBEL [...] (C) On December 21, 2008, a Cairo court ordered the pro-government paper "Al-Ahram" and one of its journalists, Gaber Asfour, to pay 50,000 Egyptian Pounds (8,000 USD) in compensation to Sheikh Youssef El-Bedry for characterizing El-Bedry as a "terrorist" in an August 2007 article. The "Al-Ah [...]	2009-01-14 15:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO713	QURANIST BARRED FROM TRAVEL TO U.S. [...] KEY POINTS: -- (SBU) On April 24, Egyptian security officials prevented Abdel Latif Mohamed Saied from boarding a flight to the United States. Saied, a member of the heterodox Islamic Quranist movement, intended to travel to Washington to participate in the Center for the Study of Islam [...]	2009-04-27 12:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO721	EGYPT MAKING PROGRESS TO COUNTER TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Key Points: -- Since the November 2008 visit of G/TIP Coordinator, Ambassador Mark Lagon to Egypt, the Government of Egypt (GOE) has continued to make progress to address trafficking in persons by beginning to implement the anti-trafficking amendments to the child law (reftel),opening [...]	2009-04-28 14:51:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KJUS EG
09CAIRO748	GOE REMINDS PROMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS NGO THAT IT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (SBU) A prominent independent human rights NGO, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) received a letter April 27 from The Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS) reminding it that MOSS is authorized to dissolve EOHR for receiving unauthorized foreign funding. EOHR is [...]	2009-04-30 16:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO786	GOE APPARENTLY BACKING DOWN ON DISSOLUTION OF [...] (C) Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) Secretary-General Hafez Abu Seada told us May 6 that he recognizes that the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS) has publicly denied any intention to dissolve EOHR, but he noted that EOHR has asked MOSS for written assurances to that effect. A [...]	2009-05-07 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO79	GOE STRUGGLING TO ADDRESS POLICE BRUTALITY [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-15 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO81	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 15 [...] (SBU) Gilad visits; leaves disappointed. Demonstrations in support of Gaza continue throughout Egypt. Public opinion is strongly pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli; Israeli pilgrims are barred from a holy site. Embassy consular officers prepare for a potential evacuation of American citizens an [...]	2009-01-15 15:54:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM CASC EAID MOPS EG IS
09CAIRO814	NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (U) The quasi-governmental organization, the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR),released its 2008 human rights report on May 6, criticizing the GOE for specific violations and offering 25 recommendations. -- (U) The report criticizes the GOE for human rights violations s [...]	2009-05-13 07:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF EG
09CAIRO822	S/E GRATION MEETS WITH EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS ON SUDAN [...] (C) Key Points -- U.S. Special Envoy (S/E) for Sudan General Gration met in separate meetings on April 30 with Egyptian General Intelligence Services (EGIS) Chief Soliman and Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit to explain his vision for Sudan and enlist Egypt's support and cooperation in r [...]	2009-05-14 05:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF SU CD EG
09CAIRO823	S/E GRATION MEETS FORMER SUDANESE PM AL MAHDI [...] (S) Key Points -- U.S. Special Envoy (S/E) for Sudan, General J. Scott Gration told former Sudanese PM Imam Sadiq al-Mahdi on April 29 that he was working on an interim ceasefire in Darfur so that humanitarian efforts could be improved. Al Mahdi said the effort to obtain a ceasefire was adm [...]	2009-05-14 05:34:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PHUM SU CD EG
09CAIRO824	S/E GRATION MEETS WITH ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA [...] (C) Key Points -- Special Envoy (S/E) for Sudan, J. Scott Gration, explained to with Arab League (AL) SYG, Amre Moussa the USG's immediate focus to obtain a ceasefire in Darfur to provide humanitarian assistance, an environment for a peace talks that will lead to a political solution to Dar [...]	2009-05-14 05:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SU CD EG
09CAIRO839	NGO SAFE -- FOR NOW [...] (C) On May 10, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) received a letter from the Ministry of Social Solidarity's (MOSS) Director of Central Administration for Associations noting that the ministry is not attempting to dissolve EOHR. EOHR Secretary-General Hafez Abu Seada told us Ma [...]	2009-05-14 13:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO858	FIRST VISIT OF A UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR TO EGYPT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (C) UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin, visited Egypt from April 17-21. This was the first visit of a UN Special Rapporteur the GOE has allowed. The MFA said the GOE will i [...]	2009-05-17 14:50:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CT UN EG
09CAIRO88	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 18 [...] (SBU) Humanitarian Assistance: On January 18, 140 tons of medical aid from the Red Crescent, Qatar, Bahrain, and Morocco were delivered through Rafah, along with 42 casualties. The Red Crescent delivered 90 tons of flour and rice through Kerem Shalom and 400 tons of food aid entered through A [...]	2009-01-19 15:03:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM CASC EAID MOPS EG IS
09CAIRO887	EGYPT ISSUES DOCUMENTS TO BAHA'IS [...] Key Points -- (SBU) On May 20, the GoE issued birth certificates, containing dashes in the religion field, to two of the three Baha'is who sued the GoE seeking such documents. (ref B) -- (SBU) The third plaintiff, who is seeking a national identification card, has not yet received the [...]	2009-05-20 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO892	AMBASSADOR RAISES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, BLOGGERS AND [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In a May 20 meeting with Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly, the Ambassador raised identity documents for Baha'is, and urged the release of a Coptic priest jailed for performing the wedding of a Christian convert who allegedly held forged identity documents. -- (C) The Ambassador u [...]	2009-05-21 12:20:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF CASC EG
09CAIRO900	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ECOSOC COMMITTEE ON NGOS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-21 13:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UN SOCI EG
09CAIRO928	APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM PRISON [...] (U) On May 25, a Cairo appeals court reversed an August 2008 court ruling against Saad Eddin Ibrahim (SEI) in a civil lawsuit by an NDP activist for "tarnishing Egypt's image abroad," and overturned the two-year prison sentence and LE 10,000 (1,886 USD) fine imposed against him (ref B). The a [...]	2009-05-25 14:48:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM EAID EG
09CAIRO929	FORMER REGIME INSIDER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR POP [...] (U) On May 21, a Cairo court convicted former regime insider and powerful businessman Hisham Talat Mustafa, and sentenced him to death for ordering the July 2008 Dubai murder of his former girlfriend, the Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim. Mustafa, who remains a ruling National Democratic Par [...]	2009-05-25 14:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI EG
09CAIRO930	UPDATE ON BLOGGER CASES [...] KEY POINTS: -- (U) The following bloggers remain in prison: 1) Karim Amer, convicted of insulting Islam and Mubarak, and sentenced to a four-year term in 2007; 2) Musad Abu Fagr, jailed in December 2007 following posts about the Sinai Bedouin's difficulties; 3) Hany Nazir, jailed in October [...]	2009-05-25 14:54:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI KIRF EG
09CAIRO934	AYMAN NOUR INJURED BY UNIDENTIFIED ASSAILANT [...] Key Points: -- (U) On May 23, an unidentified assailant attacked opposition politician Ayman Nour, released from prison in February (ref A and B),with flames from an ignited aerosol can. -- (U) Nour, who on May 21 announced his intention to run for president in 2011, suffered first [...]	2009-05-26 09:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EG
09CAIRO999	ARAB DARFUR LEADERS IN CAIRO ADVOCATE FOR DARFUR [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-02 12:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SU CD QA SA EG
09CANBERRA132	COMPARING GAZA TO HOLOCAUST CAUSES MUSLIM-JEWISH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Australia's Jewish community leaders have threatened to sever relations with their Muslim counterparts after the chairman of Australia main Islamic group refused to withdraw his comparison of the Israeli Gaza incursion with the Holocaust. During Israel's push into Gaza in January, [...]	2009-02-06 07:45:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI AS
09CANBERRA165	AUSTRALIA TO BACK U.S. AT DURBAN REVIEW CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-18 07:04:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL AS
09CANBERRA206	AUSTRALIA WELCOMES U.S. UNHRC PARTICIPATION; NO [...] Although Ref A arrived too late on Friday, February 27, to pass the points before the U.S. public announcement March 1, we delivered the message at opening of business on Monday, March 2, to Craig Maclachlan, Assistant Secretary for International Organisations, Department of Foreign Affairs a [...]	2009-03-02 05:42:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL AS
09CANBERRA231	12TH AUSTRALIA-CHINA HR DIALOGUE: SOME PROGRESS, [...] (C) Australia saw some incremental progress in its latest Australia-China Human Rights Dialogue, particularly in China's agreement to admit more NGOs into meetings, including for the first time Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists; in the range of topics it was pr [...]	2009-03-06 06:16:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL CH AS
09CANBERRA253	AUSTRALIAN INTERIM REPLY TO PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS [...] (SBU) On March 10, Poloff delivered reftel talking points, requesting the Government of Australia to respond generously to the UN and ICRC IDP funding appeals, to Lisa Rice-Madan and Rebecca Curtis, Director and Executive Officer respectively for Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Central Asian Repu [...]	2009-03-13 08:11:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PK PREF AS
09CANBERRA272	SHARM AL-SHEIKH FOLLOW-UP - AUSTRALIA STILL [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-19 23:49:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER AS
09CANBERRA300	AUSTRALIAN AID AGENCY'S REPLY TO PAKISTAN'S IDP [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-25 05:42:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PK PREF AS
09CANBERRA306	AUSTRALIA WILL SIGN DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF [...] Despite the previous government's misgivings that the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples would elevate customary law above Western law and conflict with aspects of government policy, the Rudd government has adopted a policy to support the declaration and will follow through on [...]	2009-03-26 06:06:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV AS
09CANBERRA317	UPDATE - AUSTRALIA WILL SIGN DECLARATION ON RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-27 04:30:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV AS
09CANBERRA323	AUSTRALIAN MEDIA SEEK GREATER TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) Saying that Australia lags well behind most major democracies in press freedom, 12 major media outlets have joined together to push for reforms in Australian laws on freedom of information, privacy and whistleblower/shield protections. The group, which has organized its effort as Austral [...]	2009-03-30 21:01:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PGOV PHUM PINS AS
09CANBERRA324	AUSTRALIAN MEDIA SEEK GREATER TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) Saying that Australia lags well behind most major democracies in press freedom, 12 major media outlets have joined together to push for reforms in Australian laws on freedom of information, privacy and whistleblower/shield protections. The group, which has organized its effort as Austral [...]	2009-03-30 21:01:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV PHUM PINS AS
09CANBERRA326	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE: URGING IRAN TO RELEASE DETAINED AMERICAN, MS SABERI [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-31 06:26:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL AS EZ IN IR NO NZ TU VT EUN PHUM
09CANBERRA334	AUSTRALIAN DEMARCHE TO IRANIANS URGING THE RELEASE OF DETAINED AMERICAN, MS SABERI [...] (S/NF) Further to Ref B, April 2, Hugh Jeffry, Director of Iran Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Poloff that, in response to Ref A request, the GOA had delivered a message to the Iranian ambassador, Mahmoud Movahhedi, in Canberra requesting the freeing of the American ci [...]	2009-04-02 06:33:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL AS EZ IN IR NO NZ TU VT EUN PHUM
09CANBERRA340	AUSTRALIA'S STATEMENT ON SUPPORT FOR UN [...] Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin made a public statement April 3 on behalf of the GOA announcing that Australia had changed its position on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and has issued a statement of support. The [...]	2009-04-03 07:21:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV AS
09CANBERRA365	AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR IN TEHRAN DEMARCHES IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) The Australian ambassador in Tehran demarched Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Akhmondzadeh on April 7 on behalf of Ms Saberi. Akhomdzadeh, just back from The Hague, expressed surprise to learn that Saberi had not yet been released. The Australian Embassy believes that the GOI indictmen [...]	2009-04-09 06:43:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL CASC EZ IN IR NO NZ TU VT
09CANBERRA381	USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-14 07:57:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	AS PHUM PREL
09CANBERRA387	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO CONDITIONS PLACED ON TCG [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-15 07:32:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM AS
09CANBERRA398	BORDER PROTECTION CONTINUES TO DOMINATE POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Border protection is dominating the political debate this week as investigations into last Thursday's boat explosion continue (Ref A). The Opposition maintains there is a link between the government's immigration policies and the increased flow of asylum seekers, while the gove [...]	2009-04-21 06:19:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AS PHUM PREF PREL
09CANBERRA401	INDIGENOUS ISSUES: STILL LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: After thirty years of bipartisan support for a range of policies based on self-determination and self-management, the Australian Government, in reaction to increasing evidence of policy failure, has embarked on policies involving direct intervention in the lives of indigenous [...]	2009-04-21 08:21:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AS PHUM SOCI
09CANBERRA414	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH JAPANESE DEPUTY FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: During a bilateral meeting on the margins of the U.S.-Australia-Japan Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) Senior Officials Meeting in Canberra on April 21, Under Secretary Bill Burns and Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Kenichiro Sasae agreed that the United States and Japan woul [...]	2009-04-28 00:17:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC KNNP MOPS PARM PHUM PREF PREL PTER AS JP
09CANBERRA459	AUSTRALIA THANKED FOR SABERI INTERVENTION [...] (SUB) On May 15, post forwarded a letter to the Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, signed by the Charg d'Affaires,Daniel A. Clune, thanking the Australian government for its help in the Saberi case and seeking additional assistance in the cases of AMCITS Robert Levinson and Esha Momeni. 2. [...]	2009-05-15 07:14:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IR AS JA PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC
09CANBERRA472	AUSTRALIAN REPLY TO PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS [...] (SBU) May 18, poloff delivered reftel talking points on the worsening crisis among IDPs in Pakistan to David Holly, Assistant Secretary for South and West Asia Branch at Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),Lisa Rice Madan, Director of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Central As [...]	2009-05-18 23:40:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID PHUM PK PREF AS
09CANBERRA476	AUSTRALIAN REPLY TO PAKISTAN'S IDP CRISIS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-19 06:40:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID PHUM PK PREF AS
09CANBERRA486	AUSTRALIA DOUBLES ITS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 20, Australian Foreign Minister Smith announced an AUD $12 million (USD $9.2 Million) contribution to the IDP crisis in Pakistan, double the amount they had expected to contribute only two days earlier (reftel). The GOA decided to increase the amount for UNICEF and added [...]	2009-05-21 07:08:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM PK AS PREF
09CANBERRA512	AUSTRALIA TO CONSIDER FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] (SBU) On June 1, poloff conveyed to Lisa Rice-Madan, Director of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Central Asian Republics Section, at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) the gratitude of the USG for Australia's USD $9.2 million contribution to the IDP crisis in Pakistan. 2. (SBU) Ms Rice [...]	2009-06-01 22:05:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PK AS PREF
09CANBERRA533	SPECIAL ENVOY MEETS GOA ON UIGHUR DETAINEES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Deputy National Security Advisor Angus Campbell, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure Daniel Fried asked Australia to resettle some of the Uighur detainees in Guantanamo. Campbell listened politely, but because the ultimate decision rests with Prime Minister [...]	2009-06-05 07:32:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	KDRG PHUM PINR PTER AS
09CANBERRA541	AUSTRALIAN CIVILIANS DEPLOYED BY AUSAID IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Currently, AusAID has six long-term civilian experts in Afghanistan, who are working on a range of educational, health, agricultural, and institutional development activities. Besides these there are seven Australians regularly in the country on short-term assignments. AusAID is [...]	2009-06-09 06:51:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM AS IZ AG PREL
09CANBERRA548	AUSTRALIA TO CONTRIBUTE ANOTHER AUD 5 MILLION TO [...] (SBU) June 10, Peter Waddell-Wood, Director of the Afghanistan/Pakistan Task Force at AusAID told poloff that Foreign Minister Smith plans to announce sometime before June 17 a further Australian contribution of AUD $5 million (USD $4.04 million) to the IDP crisis in Pakistan. The World Food [...]	2009-06-11 06:04:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PHUM PREF AS PK
09CANBERRA55	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON EXTENSION OF [...] (SBU) On January 16, Poloff delivered U.S. talking points on the extension of the Mandate of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) to Jeannie Henderson, Director for Burma at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and to Jillian Ray, filling in for Sue Nelson, her equivalent at Aus [...]	2009-01-16 04:40:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM AS
09CANBERRA564	AUSTRALIA HAS RECEIVED ITS PORTION OF THE 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 07:20:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AU
09CANBERRA565	AUSTRALIA ASKS IRANIAN MINISTRIES ABOUT AMCIT [...] (SBU) In reply to the Charge's letter of thanks, reftel, to Foreign Minister Smith for Australia's help in the release of AMCIT Roxana Saberi, Smith's Chief of Staff, Frances Adamson, wrote on June 9: Start text Thank you for your letter dated 15 May 2009 thanking the Government for its assi [...]	2009-06-16 07:20:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	IR AS JA PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC
09CANBERRA588	CORRECTED COPY: AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION LAWS CONTINUE TO BE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Australian government has restricted the ability of the Immigration Minister and his department to cancel visas on character grounds, continuing the Rudd government's softening of immigration laws. This has been welcomed by human rights advocates, particularly in the context [...]	2009-06-25 06:52:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM AS
09CANBERRA600	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO CABLE RE:PIRACY OFF COAST [...] (U) Andrei Seeto, Executive Officer, United Nations and Commonwealth Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade received reftels on June 30. Seeto had attended the May 29 conference, but appreciated the USG read-out and our points on the growth of the group. Seeto will respond to both [...]	2009-06-30 06:19:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL AS
09CANBERRA619	FOREIGN MINISTER SMITH ANNOUNCES AUD $5MILLION FOR [...] (U) Summary: Foreign Minister Smith announced on July 1 AUD $5 million for Pakistani IDPs and AUD $1 million for Afghan election observers. End summary 2. (U) On July 1, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith announced Australia would provide AUD $5 million (USD $4.1 million) for displaced people [...]	2009-07-02 01:14:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM PREF AS PK
09CANBERRA698	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-31 06:50:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UN AS
09CANBERRA710	AUSTRALIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S RESPONSE TO THE [...] (U) The Australian Attorney General's Department has prepared a multi-agency response to the president's request for a report on initiatives countering torture from various allies. 2. (U) The Australian response: Begin text.. Australian Initiatives to Counter Torture and Assist Victims - [...]	2009-08-04 06:11:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UN AS
09CANBERRA73	CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR GSP 2008 REPORT [...] Reftel requested information on new developments regarding child labor in Australia's overseas territories, of which there are three inhabited territories: Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and the Cocos Islands. There has been no change over the past year regarding Australia's implementatio [...]	2009-01-21 06:51:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID
09CANBERRA833	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SRI LANKAN IDPS [...] (C) Pol/Econcouns delivered on September 8 reftel points on freedom of movement for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka to Gary Cowan, Director of the India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives section in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and raised the issue sep [...]	2009-09-10 05:33:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN CE
09CANBERRA926	AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON GOLDSTONE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Australia will support the U.S. position on the Goldstone Report (State 106423) and will instruct its UN Missions in New York and Geneva to coordinate with their U.S. counterparts. DFAT Security Council Task Force Head Bassim Blazey, who is acting First Assistant Secretary for [...]	2009-10-14 06:52:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL
09CANBERRA974	AUSTRALIA ON BOARD WITH U.S. UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Australia supports U.S. priorities for the 64th UNGA Third Committee session. Sandra Vegting, a Director in the International Organizations Branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, confirmed that Australia shares our views on both the country specific and thematic resolut [...]	2009-10-30 03:35:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UN
09CANBERRA981	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (SBU) Australia generally shares the U.S. position on the Goldstone report. Pol/Econ Couns delivered reftel demarche regarding the UNGA debate on the Goldstone report to Acting First Assistant Secretary Bassim Blazey of the International Legal Department. Blazey said that Australia is still [...]	2009-11-04 07:02:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	AS IS KPAL PHUM PREL PTER
09CANBERRA995	AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA: MOVING BEYOND ASYLUM SEEKERS [...] (C/NF) Summary: During a recent visit to Jakarta, Prime Minister Rudd told Indonesian President Yudhoyono that Australia is committed to working with Indonesia on a number of regional and global issues. Australia believes Indonesia sees itself as a leading regional actor that wants to be more [...]	2009-11-09 04:58:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREF SMIG PHUM ID AS
09CAPETOWN197	SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT HOLDS ROBUST DEBATE ON [...] Summary: South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi recently gave his first budget speech to a packed Parliament chamber. The Minister's speech came at a difficult time with an ongoing doctors' strike and a public health sector in dire straits. Minister Motsoaledi outlined the gover [...]	2009-09-04 15:29:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV PHUM SOCI TBIO SA
09CARACAS1013	34 RADIO/TV STATIONS SILENCED, MEDIA CRIME LAW [...] (C) Summary: During the weekend of August 1-2, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) shuttered 32 independent and/or opposition radio stations and two TV stations across the country. One day prior to the closings the GBRV released the names of 35 largely pro-Governme [...]	2009-08-03 22:52:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1019	CONATEL THREATENS TO SEIZE RADIO STATION [...] (SBU) On July 31, Minister of Public Works and Housing, Diosdado Cabello, named Puerto La Cruz-based radio station Orbita Radio 107.5 as one of 34 radio and television stations to be closed by the media regulatory agency Conatel. Following weekend shutdowns of numerous stations across Venezu [...]	2009-08-05 21:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1070	PETTY POLITICS SURFACE DURING HEAVY RAINS [...] (U) A torrential downpour in Caracas on August 12, flooded roads, closed highways and muddied Chavista credibility. While Globovision, the last remaining opposition television broadcaster showed cars in water up to their windows, Jacqueline Farias, Chavez's appointed Chief of Government for [...]	2009-08-14 16:47:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE
09CARACAS1079	PRO-GOVERNMENT GROUPS ATTACK EDUCATION LAW [...] (SBU) Demonstrations for and against the controversial Education Law turned violent August 13. Several hundred educators, university students, and parents marched toward the National Assembly (AN) on August 13 to call for a delay in the vote on the law. About 2000 pro-government demonstrato [...]	2009-08-14 22:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAO VE
09CARACAS1090	CANADIAN-VENEZUELAN RELATIONS AT A LOW POINT [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Duddy August 18, Canadian Ambassador to Venezuela Perry Calderwood said that Canada's bilateral relations with Venezuela were as bad as they had ever been. In addition to disrupting Canada's Diplomatic pouches, not issuing license plates, and making i [...]	2009-08-19 18:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1132	GBRV POLICE TARGET USAID/OTI-FUNDED DEMOCRACY [...] (S) Summary: Action request in para 7 below. On August 26, police officers from the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC) presented citations requiring XXXXXXXXXXXX to appear on September 1 before the police. XXXXXXXXXXXX is a contractor for USAID/OTI in Caracas. XXXXXXXXXXXX [...]	2009-08-27 23:10:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL CASC VE
09CARACAS1144	CHAVEZ CLAIMS VICTORY AND SPINS UNASUR AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. President Hugo Chavez stressed three themes in his August 30 "Alo Presidente" broadcast, which were reinforced on the government television station (VTV) throughout the weekend. First, although the Summit did not censure Colombia for its Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with [...]	2009-09-01 22:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS1147	CHAVEZ GIVES OBAMA AFRICAN PRIDE ADVICE [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on a September 1 state visit to Libya to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Qadhafi's revolution, urged President Obama to "rise to the height of his African blood," adding that although he may have good ideas, his hands are tied by the "North A [...]	2009-09-02 20:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS1168	CHAVEZ UPS THE ANTE: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF [...] (C) Summary: With the number of protests on the rise across Venezuela, the Venezuelan government (GBRV) is increasingly using the threat of investigation, arrest and incarceration as a political strategy to discourage demonstrators and intimidate the political opposition. Intimidation and h [...]	2009-09-04 21:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1186	HIGH PROFILE MURDER HIGHLIGHTS ANOTHER BLOODY [...] (C) Summary: The kidnapping and murder of a Guardia Nacional (GN) colonel combined with a spike in the overnight murder rates in Caracas and Valencia on September 5 surprised Venezuelan media. However, overall homicide statistics for the weekend remained steady at about one murder per hour. [...]	2009-09-10 14:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SNAR VE
09CARACAS1187	29 MORE RADIO STATIONS THREATENED; THE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Venezuelan government announced on September 7 its intention to close another 29 radio stations for alleged administrative and tax irregularities, bringing to 61 the number of radio stations targeted and/or closed since July 31. The timing of the closures and the names of [...]	2009-09-10 16:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE

09CARACAS1201	GLOBOVISION TV PLAYS WITH FIRE; BURNED A 6TH TIME [...] (C) Summary: On September 7, CONATEL, the Venezuelan government's telecommunications regulatory commission, opened a sixth administrative proceeding against Globovision Television, this time for its September 3 broadcast of text messages from viewers warning of a coup and calling for people to resi [...]	2009-09-15 17:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1224	ANOTHER OPPOSITION POLITICIAN SEEKS ASYLUM IN PERU [...] (C) Summary: Local papers report that Oscar Perez, a close ally of opposition Mayor of Greater Caracas Antonio Ledezma, presented his petition to the Peruvian Government September 17 for political asylum. Perez has been in hiding for nearly three weeks after an arrest warrant was issued for [...]	2009-09-18 19:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1262	HR DEFENDERS WARN OF AUTHORITARIANISM, ARBITRARY [...] (C) Summary: During a September 24 breakfast hosted by Embassy Caracas' human rights officer, Venezuelan human rights defenders expressed profound concern to 22 Caracas based diplomats about the increasingly limited democratic space within the country. They expressed concern about the disc [...]	2009-09-29 15:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL VE
09CARACAS1269	STUDENT-LED HUNGER STRIKE BROADENS APPEAL; FOCUSES [...] (C) Summary: As of September 29, a student-led hunger strike entered its 7th day, expanding from an initial group of 33 protesters in front of the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Caracas to upwards of 160 students, unionists, journalists, and prisoners in severa [...]	2009-09-30 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1279	STUDENTS END HUNGER STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: The 7 day student-led hunger strike, initially launched on September 24 as a protest against the arrest of student activist Julio Rivas, ended late the evening of September 30. The students called off the protest and claimed victory, stating that their demands had been fully [...]	2009-10-02 17:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1284	AFRICA-SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT SHORT ON SUBSTANCE, LONG ON HEADACHES [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-05 20:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE UNCHC EAID
09CARACAS1287	GOVERNMENT FURTHER REDUCES SPACE FOR INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan government has announced that radio stations will be required to broadcast 3.5 hours/day of government-selected programs and another 2 hours/day of nationally-produced programming. The new rules would also essentially end syndicated radio programming. The gover [...]	2009-10-05 20:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1292	STUDENT HUNGER STRIKES ENDED, BUT APPEALS FOR OAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Student protests calling for a visit by the Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) of the Organization of American States (OAS) continue. However, an October 3 march was poorly attended and ended with students "mooning" National Guard troops. On October 5, 15 students in the bor [...]	2009-10-06 21:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS135	CARACAS SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED, CHAVEZ BLAMES [...] (C) Summary. A group of unidentified armed gunmen vandalized a prominent Caracas synagogue during the late night-early morning hours of January 30-31. The intruders appeared to have planned the attack well, defeating the synagogue's security system and subduing two contract guards. They not [...]	2009-02-02 21:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL ASEC VE IS
09CARACAS1351	VIEW FROM THE BARRIOS: CARITAS EXPLAINS CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary: Yaneth Marquez (protect),the Andean regional director of the Catholic charity Caritas, described to PolCouns on October 15 the political perspective of people in Venezuela's poorest areas where Caritas works. Marquez said the standard of living of Venezuela's poor had increased [...]	2009-10-20 16:53:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1391	VENEZUELAN REACTION TO THE 2009 IRF REPORT [...] (C) Summary: Reaction to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report has been muted in Venezuela, despite initial press headlines implying that the report grouped Venezuela and Cuba together. A short October 28 article in the government paper Diario Vea said "all religions enjoy t [...]	2009-10-30 20:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF VE
09CARACAS1401	VENEZUELA'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEES "DARK HORIZON" [...] (C) Summary: In an October 28 breakfast meeting with the Confederacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Venezolanas (CAIV) Board of Directors, XXXXXXXXXXXX, said he privately encouraged Brazilian senators to allow Venezuela to join MERCOSUR. At the same time, Jewish community leaders told PolCouns th [...]	2009-11-02 21:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1489	Students Occupy Embassies; Plan Second Hunger Strike [...] (C) On November 19 student activist Julio Rivas told Polcouns and Human Rights Officer that students would convene a demonstration in Caracas on November 21 in which they would announce their initiation of a second round of political actions, to include a hunger strike by about 50 student [...]	2009-11-20 20:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM VE
09CARACAS1507	CHAVEZ GIVES IRANIAN LEADER WARM WELCOME; SIGNS MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Hugo Chavez provided a warm welcome to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his November 24-26 visit to Venezuela, declaring he and his Iranian counterpart were , "together to the end." The Iranian's visit attracted small protests from student, Venezu [...]	2009-11-27 21:36:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL IR VE KISL
09CARACAS151	CHAVEZ DECLARES SUDDEN HOLIDAY TO HONOR HIMSELF [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez declared on February 1 that February 2 would be a holiday to celebrate his ten years in power. The Venezuelan president's surprise was late, and the vague announcement of this last minute holiday created considerable confusion at businesses, schools, and other i [...]	2009-02-04 21:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ELAB VE
09CARACAS1511	VENEZUELA - Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There is little to no progress to report for the interim period. The Government of Venezuela (GBRV) refused to meet with Post regarding TIP and remains reluctant to share trafficking information, however it did provide some responses to Post's recent inquiries. While of [...]	2009-12-01 20:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SMIG KWMN KTIP KCRM VE
09CARACAS1523	RE: Second Student Led Hunger Strike at Risk of Fizzling Out [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the November 21 announcement by student activist Julio Rivas of a second student-led hunger strike to demand a visit by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH),the number of students participating in the hunger strike has dropped from its pea [...]	2009-12-03 22:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM VE
09CARACAS1535	DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS DEMARCHE [...] (C) As requested in Reftel, PolCouns demarched Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials on December 4 on the "combating defamation of religions" resolution before the UN General Assembly. Using the non-paper, PolCouns urged the Venezuelan government against supporting the resolution. The officia [...]	2009-12-07 21:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	UNGA PHUM VE
09CARACAS1545	OAS Visit Ends Student Hunger Strike; Student Confrontation [...] (SBU) Summary: Student activist Julio Rivas claimed victory and ended his 18-day hunger strike on December 8 after a visit to Caracas by an OAS team that listened to the students' concerns and announced a January 2010 visit to Venezuela by OAS Secretary General Insulza. In a separate i [...]	2009-12-10 23:31:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM VE
09CARACAS1565	TRIBAL DEATHS HIGHLIGHT GOVERNMENT LAND TRANSFER PROGRAM IN [...] (C) Summary: The October 13 killing of three members of the Yukpa tribe in the border state of Zulia highlighted the tension surrounding the Venezuelan government's (GBRV's) land transfer program. The killings, supposedly by other Yukpa members, followed the alleged theft of 124 cattle two d [...]	2009-12-17 16:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR VE
09CARACAS1589	Chavez Calls for Cedeno's Extradition and 35-Year Sentence for the Judge [...] (C) During a December 21 broadcast, President Chavez announced that fugitive banker Eligio Cedeno had been detained in the United States and asked the relevant government ministries to quickly put together the necessary documentation for an extradition request to the United States (see reftel for b [...]	2009-12-22 21:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV VE
09CARACAS1597	Dueling Expectations regarding Cedeno's Return [...] (U) During a December 22 press conference to discuss the results of Copenhagen-15, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said that all the documentation required under the U.S.-Venezuela Extradition Treaty to request fugitive banker Eligio Cedeno's return had been provided to the United States so that Ce [...]	2009-12-23 20:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV VE
09CARACAS184	GBRV DETAINS 11 PERSONS FOR ATTACK ON SYNAGOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan authorities arrested eleven persons over the February 7-8 weekend in response to the January 31 Caracas synagogue attack (Ref A). Five officers and a sub-inspector in the Caracas Metropolitan Police Force, as well as a detective from Venezuela's national criminal po [...]	2009-02-10 22:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC VE IS
09CARACAS212	VENEZUELA'S 2009 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post submits the following information for inclusion in the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for Venezuela. Political Officer Douglas Fisk is Embassy's point of contact. Telephone: 58-212-907-8052; fax 58-212-907-8033; Email: FiskDA@state.gov Forty hours were de [...]	2009-02-13 21:33:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KTIP KWMN
09CARACAS238	VENEZUELA: UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel request for current information on child labor as well as government efforts to address the problem. Venezuelan law protects children from exploitation in the workplace, but enforcement is often lacking. The Ministry of Labor and the National Institute for [...]	2009-02-20 20:09:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI VE
09CARACAS258	CHAVEZ STRONGLY REJECTS HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez, Foreign Minister Maduro, and other senior Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) leaders strongly criticized the Human Rights Report February 26-27. Chavez phoned a late night pro-government political talk show to denounce the report as hypo [...]	2009-02-27 21:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV VE
09CARACAS272	SUPREME COURT ELECTIONS HIGHLIGHT JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) will hold internal elections March 4 to determine the president, vice-president, and a number of other posts. Current TSJ president Luisa Estella Morales is likely to be reelected to a third consecutive two-year term, arguing that the passage [...]	2009-03-03 21:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM VE
09CARACAS281	ANTI-SEMITISM UPDATE - TENSIONS ABOUND ONE MONTH [...] (C) Summary: Anti-Semitism continues to be a problem in Venezuela despite the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV's) pledge to address this issue in the wake of the January 31 attack on the Caracas synagogue. On February 26, unknown assailants threw a small explosive [...]	2009-03-05 18:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VE
09CARACAS306	SUPREME COURT ASSESSMENT UNDERSCORES REFLEXIVE [...] (C) Summary: A legal study quantifying the level of partisanship in the Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) was released the week of March 2 to a number of local Venezuelan dailies. The study, conducted by legal scholar Antonio Canova, finds that the court has been unwilling to rule in favor of [...]	2009-03-10 21:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM VE
09CARACAS309	STUDENT LEADER NIXON MORENO FLEES HOLY SEE MISSION [...] (C) Summary. Early on March 9, former student leader Nixon Moreno fled the Holy See Mission in Caracas, where he had been sheltered for almost two years. The 35-year-old opposition activist was granted political asylum from the Holy See in June 2008, following his plea for political asylum a [...]	2009-03-11 15:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KDEM VE VT
09CARACAS322	CHAVEZ CONCENTRATES MORE POWER AT THE EXPENSE OF [...] (C) Summary: The Chavista-dominated National Assembly (AN) approved an amended Organic Law of Decentralization March 12 which enables President Chavez to take control over state infrastructure, goods, and services that are "in the general public's interest." Chavez ordered the military on [...]	2009-03-16 22:10:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SNAR VE
09CARACAS353	PROSECUTOR CALLS FOR ARREST OF MARACAIBO MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) prosecutor Katiuska Plaza issued an arrest order request March 19 for Maracaibo Mayor and former 2006 presidential candidate Manuel Rosales. The senior prosecutor accused the former Zulia State Governor (2000-2008) of " [...]	2009-03-20 19:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV VE
09CARACAS398	SUPREME COURT INITIATES ANOTHER JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: The pro-Chavez Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) has announced an "integral restructuring" to combat corruption, although it is almost certainly a measure to remove judges or court officials who have not sufficiently demonstrated their "revolutionary" credentials. Judicial expert [...]	2009-03-27 15:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV KDEM PHUM VE
09CARACAS438	GENERAL BADUEL ARRESTED AGAIN [...] (SBU) With guns drawn, plain clothed agents of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM),on April 2 unceremoniously pulled former Defense Minister General Raul Baduel out of his vehicle after leaving his sub-division in the city of Maracay. According to Baduel's wife, Cruz Maria Baduel [...]	2009-04-03 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE
09CARACAS442	CUBAN MEDICAL PERSONNEL FLEE VENEZUELA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Caracas notes a significant number of Cuban medical personnel applying to be paroled into the United States under the Significant Public Benefit Parole (SPBP) for Cuban Medical Professionals outside of Cuba (CMPP). During Consular Section interviews in March, Cuban Medical [...]	2009-04-06 21:49:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP VE CU
09CARACAS443	PRO-CHAVEZ COURT SENTENCES POLICE COMMISSIONERS TO [...] (C) Summary. A pro-Chavez court handed down harsh sentences on April 3 ending the politically motivated trial of three former Caracas police commissioners and eight other police officers charged with the deaths of pro-Chavez supporters during an April 2002 coup attempt. Former Caracas Metr [...]	2009-04-06 22:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV VE
09CARACAS471	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POISED TO SILENCE INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly is reportedly poised to pass a revived version of the 2006 Law on International Cooperation. If promulgated in its current form, the law would severely limit the ability of foreign donors to support development, human rights, counternarcotics, and pro-dem [...]	2009-04-16 12:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE
09CARACAS486	GBRV STEPS UP PRESSURE ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Catholic Conference of Bishops (CEV) issued a highly critical April 6 communique warning that Venezuela's democratic system is "at risk of collapse". In response, President Chavez (using parallels from liberation theology) insinuated on Easter Sunday in his nati [...]	2009-04-17 16:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KDEM VE VT
09CARACAS497	TECHNOCRAT-TURNED-RADICAL APPOINTED AS CARACAS VEEP [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez named Jacqueline Faria, a civil engineer and former cabinet member, as the new Vice President of Caracas on April 15 -- an office and appointment designed to undercut opposition Mayor of Greater Caracas Antonio Ledezma. Farias earned a reputation as a technocra [...]	2009-04-21 13:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR VE
09CARACAS50	CATHOLIC BISHOPS CRITICIZE INDEFINITE REELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Conference of Bishops (CEV) issued a January 13 communique sharply criticizing President Chavez's proposal to change the 1999 Constitution to eliminate term limits for all elected positions. The CEV expressed doubts about the legality of Chavez's upcoming referendum [...]	2009-01-15 14:32:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL VE
09CARACAS539	CHAVEZ CONTINUES ATTACKS ON THE OPPOSITION AND [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez is now using Venezuela's highly politicized judiciary to go after well-known, but vulnerable, political supporters. He and his supporters also continue to put pressure on the opposition media, pursuing charges against prominent opposition journalist Teodoro Pe [...]	2009-04-29 15:04:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
09CARACAS540	GRV RECALLS AMBASSADOR FROM PERU AND WELCOMES [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) ordered its ambassador home from Peru on April 27 to protest the Peruvian government's decision to grant opposition leader Manuel Rosales asylum. On the same day, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro welcomed a senior Pal [...]	2009-04-29 18:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PE VE
09CARACAS546	PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE - APRIL 2009 [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivaran Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continued to put pressure on the independent media during April. President Chavez used the occasion of the anniversary of the April 2002 failed military coup to lambaste both the United States and opposition-oriented [...]	2009-04-30 20:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL VE PGOV
09CARACAS560	POOR TURNOUT FOR VENEZUELAN LABOR DAY MARCHES; [...] (C) Summary: Government supporters and the opposition organizers organized competing May 1 Labor Day marches in Caracas. Both sides attracted only modest turn-outs at the start of a long weekend when Venezuelans traditionally head to the beach. Members of the Caracas metropolitan police an [...]	2009-05-05 19:34:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PHUM PREL VE
09CARACAS561	EU AND OTHERS CONCERNED OVER NGO LAW; FEW WILLING [...] (C) Summary: The local diplomatic community is concerned about the increasing authoritarianism of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV),including the draft law that would restrict NGO activities. Domestic economic concerns, reluctance to interfere in internal affairs, [...]	2009-05-05 20:21:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE
09CARACAS583	INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WORKING QUIETLY TO STOP [...] (C) Summary: The international diplomatic community is quietly questioning the Venezuelan government about the proposed law restricting international financing of NGOs. Several European Union (EU) ambassadors are not convinced that the law will pass, at least not in its most aggressive form. Nor do [...]	2009-05-11 11:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE
09CARACAS595	CHAVEZ THREATENS TO CLOSE LOCAL TV NEWS STATION [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez threatened to close the opposition-oriented cable television news network Globovision during the May 10 broadcast of his weekly "Alo, Presidente" talk show. Chavez's threat follows Globovision's May 4 broadcast of U.S. Geological Survey seismic data as well as [...]	2009-05-12 16:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS663	GBRV STEPS UP ATTACKS ON PRESS IN MAY [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolvarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) accelerated its attacks on independent media outlets and journalists in May. President Chavez threatened to close opposition-oriented cable news network Globovision, and government officials raided the home of Globov [...]	2009-05-28 21:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS730	CHARGE'S MEETING WITH CARABOBO GOVERNOR SALAS FEO [...] (C) Summary: Carabobo Governor Henrique Fernando Salas Feo discussed increasing economic problems, his disagreements with other opposition parties, and concerns about the future of elections in a June 9 meeting at his home with the Charge d'Affaires. Governor Salas Feo asserted that Presiden [...]	2009-06-11 21:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE
09CARACAS766	GBRV TIGHTENS SCREWS ON TV NEWS STATION [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) is increasing the pressure on the opposition-oriented Globovision cable news network. President Chavez has repeatedly asked his cabinet to use whatever means available to "stop Globovision." A range of GBRV ministrie [...]	2009-06-19 21:28:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM VE
09CARACAS779	TIP REPORT "AN OBSTACLE TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS" [...] (C) Embassy Caracas delivered an advance copy of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 16, as requested in Reftel. No Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) official has responded directly to the Embassy regarding the report. [...]	2009-06-22 20:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KTIP VE
09CARACAS831	PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE - JUNE [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezeula (GBRV) continues to intimidate, threaten and harass independent media outlets in Venezuela. President Chavez frequently calls for the closure of Globovision, the last free-to-air opposition-leaning TV station, and the GBRV ha [...]	2009-07-01 21:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS847	240 RADIO STATIONS THREATENED WITH CLOSURE [...] (C) Summary: Diosdado Cabello, a top aide to President Hugo Chavez, announced July 4 the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) would potentially revoke the licenses of 240 radio stations across the country. Citing incomplete tax payments and improper regulatory filings [...]	2009-07-06 17:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS85	ATTACKS ON OPPOSITION BY PRO-GOVERNMENT GROUPS [...] (C) Summary. Pro-government gangs in Caracas threw tear gas canisters at the home of a prominent media director, the Holy See Mission, and student groups, as well as firebombed the car of a university student leader during the January 18-19 weekend. In addition, Chavista thugs carrying police [...]	2009-01-21 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC VE
09CARACAS887	NEW MEASURES PROPOSED TO ELIMINATE INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: Pressure and attacks against the independent media have continued during the first-half of July. Government Minister Diasdado Cabello told lawmakers that any draft legislation on media social responsibility should include provisions to limit radio networks, restrict joint prog [...]	2009-07-13 20:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS912	NATIONAL GUARD DRIVES OUT LOCAL POLICE [...] (C) Summary: In the early hours of July 15, Venezuelan National Guard (GN) soldiers, using tear gas, took over a Miranda state police substation in the small town of Curiepe. Townsfolk who gathered to protest the takeover were driven off with plastic bullets and tear gas. The GN soldiers were [...]	2009-07-17 23:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SNAR VE
09CARACAS934	VENEZUELAN TV BROADCASTS OUTRAGEOUS MONTAGE OF [...] (C) Summary: An altered "parody version" of Secretary of State Clinton's July 7 interview with the host of opposition oriented Globovision TV's "Hello Citizen" was broadcast on both the internet and Venezuelan Government television station VTV over the weekend. The doctored broadcast falsi [...]	2009-07-20 21:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS967	THREATS AGAINST INDEPENDENT MEDIA CONTINUE IN JULY [...] (C) Summary: As of the second half of July, pressure continues against independent media in Venezuela. New charges were brought against opposition-oriented Globovision station owner, Guillermo Zuloaga, for "conspiracy to commit a crime." A judge barred Zuloaga from leaving the country but [...]	2009-07-27 20:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CASABLANCA12	2008 MOROCCO UPDATE OF THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Summary: This message provides requested updates for the Department of Labor's annual report on the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Morocco's commitment to combat and eliminate them. It updates information provided by Post in 2007 and years prior, concerning Morocco's child labor laws and regu [...]	2009-01-21 17:18:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND EAID PHUM SOCI KWMN MO
09CASABLANCA141	THE CASABLANCA EXCEPTION [...] (C) Summary: Notwithstanding the widely reported Palace machinations, the final composition of the City Council in Morocco's largest city Casablanca consists of a broad political alliance between the Palace-favored Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM)and the Islamist-oriented Party of Jus [...]	2009-07-20 14:43:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MO PGOV PHUM PINS
09CASABLANCA160	VIOLENCE AT UNHCR HIGHLIGHTS MOROCCO,S REFUGEE [...] (SBU) Moroccan police clashed with sub-Saharan refugees after a two-week long sit-in at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) headquarters in Rabat, resulting in five arrests and numerous injuries including a senior police officer. The five detained refugees were initially [...]	2009-08-07 12:29:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREF
09CASABLANCA168	PALACE PREVENTS ISLAMIST PARTY FROM TAKING [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-19 12:31:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PHUM
09CASABLANCA169	Abortion and Family Planning in [...] SUMMARY: Despite significant advances to women's legal rights by the passage in 2003 of a new family code (Reftel),pregnant unmarried women in Morocco still face intense social alienation and economic hardships. Contraception is widely available and heavily subsidized by the government of M [...]	2009-08-19 15:43:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KWMN PGOV MO
09CASABLANCA181	AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO: ON THE EDGE OF [...] (SBU) Every year thousands of sub-Saharan migrants enter eastern Morocco from Algeria intent on making the final push to Spain. While some are successful, many more end up languishing in the transit towns or settling into longer term residence in Morocco. Poloff visited the camps of clandest [...]	2009-09-15 17:17:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PTER PINR MO AG
09CASABLANCA182	AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO: ON THE EDGE OF [...] (SBU) Every year thousands of sub-Saharan migrants enter eastern Morocco from Algeria intent on making the final push to Spain. While some are successful, many more end up languishing in the transit towns or settling into longer term residence in Morocco. Poloff visited the camps of clandest [...]	2009-09-15 18:51:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER PINR MO AG
09CASABLANCA189	MOROCCO CRACKS DOWN ON ISLAMIST DISSIDENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the first half of September Moroccan security forces launched a campaign of arrests across the country against the banned Islamist group Al-Adl wal-Ihsan (AWI). The raids forcibly broke up AWI meetings at private residences in three cities and resulted in brief detentions [...]	2009-09-26 13:55:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PHUM
09CASABLANCA194	WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN MOROCCO: A MODEL FOR THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the last decade Morocco, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, has implemented a wide variety of social and economic reforms with the aim of modernizing the country. One the areas where this has been the most apparent is in the advancement of women's rights. This prog [...]	2009-10-14 09:18:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI KWMN MO
09CASABLANCA213	WOMEN'S RIGHTS ADVANCING AS ISLAMIST APPEAL WANES [...] SUMMARY: On November 22, the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, Melanne Verveer, met with Morocco's most prominent women policy makers, civil activists, journalists, and CEOs in Casablanca. Some of the country's leading women were highly critical of the Islamist-oriented Party of [...]	2009-11-30 09:43:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PHUM KWMN SOCI MO
09CASABLANCA216	WESTERN SAHARA: CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN-administered Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in Western Sahara have thus far fallen short in achieving their underlying political goal of pushing the parties to interact regularly and build a relationship for future negotiations. The CBMs, however, have provided a vit [...]	2009-11-30 10:25:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV SMIG PREL PHUM MO AG
09CASABLANCA225	MOROCCAN FM CRITICIZED FOR HAIDAR CASE [...] (C) At a small December 7 dinner XXXXXXXXXXXXX spontaneously raised the case of Aminatou Haidar (reftels). He harshly criticized FM Fassi Fihri for not having provided King Mohammed VI with better counsel regarding the likely consequences and world reaction. "At a number of levels, our dec [...]	2009-12-08 12:10:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF PREL MO
09CASABLANCA228	EXPATRIATE CHRISTIANS EXPELLED FOR ALLEGED PROSELYTIZING [...] (C) Summary: On December 4 a group of Moroccan Christian converts and foreigners gathered in a home in the town of Saidia for a weekend of study and spiritual retreat. Moroccan police raided the house, confiscated personal items and religious material, and detained those present. The Morocc [...]	2009-12-23 12:33:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV ASCH MO
09CASABLANCA27	MOROCCO: 2009 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) This cable responds to action request (Ref A) for updated information on the Moroccan government's efforts to combat trafficking in persons from April 2008 to February 2009. ------------------------- OVERVIEW: Plus Ca Change... ------------------------- 2. (SBU) The Government of M [...]	2009-02-13 14:57:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP PREF ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN MO
09CASABLANCA78	WESTERN SAHARAN STUDENTS IN MOROCCO: BITING THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-23 10:27:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MO
09CASABLANCA79	WESTERN SAHARAN STUDENTS IN MOROCCO: BITING THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Students from the Western Sahara seeking higher education have no choice but to attend university far from home in Morocco. These students, the future leaders of the Saharan political society, cut their teeth on politics in the radicalized and at times violent world of universit [...]	2009-04-23 10:27:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MO
09CASABLANCA90	ISLAMISTS CALL FOR DIALOGUE WITH SALAFIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the 2003 Casablanca suicide bombings the government of Morocco (GOM) detained and prosecuted thousands of suspected Islamic extremists. The creation of a concentrated Salafist population in the prisons has presented the GOM with new challenges including the b [...]	2009-05-11 18:12:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS KISL PHUM MO
09CHENGDU102	SOUTHWEST CHINA: CONVERSATIONS WITH XICHANG CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Summary: According to Catholic and Protestant church members in the city of Xichang in southern Sichuan Province, urban and rural churches in the area operate relatively freely. The local Catholic community boasts nine priests and 25 nuns, regularly receives priests from South Korea and Ta [...]	2009-06-11 03:21:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF SOCI PGOV CH
09CHENGDU115	SOUTHWEST CHINA: TIBETAN NEW EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: According to local official media, ten thousand Tibetan middle school graduates students are to be given three-year government scholarships under the new "Sichuan Tibetan Areas Nine Plus Three Free Education Plan." The Tibetans will attend schools in Chinese-speaking parts of S [...]	2009-06-30 01:51:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PGOV CH
09CHENGDU117	TIBETAN TEACHER ON PACIFYING KHAM BY JOBS AND EDUCATION [...] (C) Summary: According to an ethnic Tibetan teacher from Aba Prefecture in western Sichuan Province, government job programs begun there over the past few years aim to give young people something to lose so they think twice about "stirring up trouble." A new program that will send ten thousa [...]	2009-07-01 01:59:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU141	SW CHINA: CHENGDU ENVIRONMENTALIST INDICTED FOR BLOOD DRIVE [...] (SBU) Chengdu environmentalist Tan Zuoren, who organized protests against a USD 5.5 billion petrochemical plant near Chengdu (ref A) and published online politically sensitive lists of the numbers of children killed when their schools collapsed in the May 12, 2008 earthquake (ref B),was i [...]	2009-08-04 09:49:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SENV
09CHENGDU147	SW CHINA: A TIBETAN PAP OFFICER SPEAKS POSITIVELY OF POLICE [...] (S/NF) Summary: A young Tibetan People's Armed Police (PAP) graduate of a nationalities university, leads a unit of 28 ethnic Han Chinese primary school graduates in Ngari (Ari) Prefecture in the western part of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Tibetans in this remote area commonly displa [...]	2009-08-06 08:16:00	Consulate Chengdu	SECRET	MCAP PHUM PGOV CH
09CHENGDU154	SW CHINA: A FALUNGONG ALERT, BUT ANNIVERSARY PASSED [...] (C) Summary: Local governments in Sichuan issued an internal order to be on high alert in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the issuance on July 20, 1999, of the internal PRC government document ordering a nationwide crackdown on the spiritual movement known as the Falun Gong. A local off [...]	2009-08-17 06:55:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU157	SW CHINA: JUNE FOURTH DISSIDENT, U.S. LPR ZHOU YONGJUN [...] (SBU) Summary: US LPR Zhou Yongjun, who was reportedly seized by PRC mainland authorities in Hong Kong in September 2008 and subsequently detained in Guangzhou and Sichuan, will go on trial in Suining, Sichuan on August 21. Zhou's lawyers at the Beijing "Mo Shaoping Law Firm" legal opinio [...]	2009-08-19 09:58:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PHUM PGOV CH
09CHENGDU165	HUMAN TRAFFICKING REMAINS SERIOUS IN YUNNAN PROVINCE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Yunnan faces more serious human trafficking issues than other Chinese provinces, particularly cross-border trafficking of women for forced marriages and children for ille [...]	2009-08-25 08:07:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KWMN PHUM SMIG PGOV CH
09CHENGDU168	SW CHINA: BLOGS, TWITTER ALERT PUBLIC TO DISSIDENT'S TRIAL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Supporters of Chengdu environmentalist Tan Zuoren, put on trial for incitement to overthrow state power on August 12, used blogs and twitter text messages to raise public awareness of the case. Tan's two lawyers, both active bloggers, and other supporters put the [...]	2009-08-26 05:05:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU170	TIBETAN-HAN TENSIONS; LHASA TOURISM UP; HOTELS, HOSPITAL [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: Conoffs traveled July 16-20 to Tibet to evaluate hotel options for a possible high-level U.S. delegation, as well as to evaluate emergency preparedness in Lhasa. The number of Chinese and foreign tourists in Lhasa is up from last year, when tourism halted for se [...]	2009-08-26 09:27:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PHUM PGOV CH
09CHENGDU171	YUNNAN OFFICIALS ON EVOLVING ECONOMY, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Yunnan Province lags behind other provinces in economic development, though its rich resources offer great potential. Its economy is slowly shifting from traditional sec [...]	2009-08-27 03:19:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD SENV PREL PHUM CH
09CHENGDU181	TIBETAN SURVIVAL IN SHANGRI-LA: TOURISM, BUDDHISM, AND [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit to Shangri-la by CG and ConGen staff found a booming tourism industry that some say threatens the local Tibetan Buddhist landscape, though the local Party Secretary asserts that it benefits religious life, bringing necessary financial support. New high-end, Tibetan- [...]	2009-09-03 01:25:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU182	AMBASSADOR HUNTSMAN MEETS SICHUAN GOVERNOR JIANG [...] (C) Summary: In an August 28 meeting in Chengdu with Ambassador, Governor Jiang praised U.S. private and government assistance to Sichuan after the May 2008 earthquake and reported that good progress had been made in rebuilding homes, schools and hospitals. Ambassador recalled how, like oth [...]	2009-09-03 09:15:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PGOV PHUM ECON
09CHENGDU184	TIBET: US NGO SAYS T.A.R. OFFICIALS WANT THEM OUT [...] (C) Summary: Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) officials want foreign residents, particularly those who speak Tibetan, out of the TAR, Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF) Country Director Tony Gleason said. The situation of international NGOs (INGOs) in the TAR has steadily worsened since the [...]	2009-09-04 07:08:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU187	TIBET: NGO WORKING TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY IN NW YUNNAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting USG-funded projects to support Tibetan livelihood in NW Yunnan run by the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund (TPAF),CG and ConGen staff saw successful programs that teach engine repair and business skills and support craftspeople by connecting them with international marke [...]	2009-09-10 02:44:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU189	TIBET: MANY INTERNATIONAL NGOS FORCED OUT SINCE 3/08 [...] (U) This is the second of two reports on the current situation faced by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),following Chengdu 184. This cable was coordinated with Embassy Beijing. 2. (SBU) Summary: Since March 2008, TAR officials [...]	2009-09-14 08:04:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU195	SW CHINA: TIBETAN HIGH SCHOOLERS ARRIVE IN SICHUAN HAN [...] (C) Summary: An Aba Prefecture plan to send many Tibetan middle school graduates to Sichuan high schools has been delayed a year, an ethnic Tibetan former middle school teacher from Aba Prefecture in western Sichuan Province said. The plan overall has more students than originally planned, wi [...]	2009-09-17 03:11:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU203	PRC-BURMA BORDER: CHINESE ACADEMICS SAY PRC INFLUENCE [...] (C) Summary: Chinese officials from both the central government and Yunnan Province are directly involved in current negotiations between the Government of Burma (GOB) and the leadership of ethnic minority "ceasefire groups" in northern Burma, according to a Kunming-based scholar. Other Chines [...]	2009-09-25 08:40:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09CHENGDU206	BURMA: YUNNAN LOCALS ON THE BORDER SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A range of local Kunming residents, including jade sellers and travel agencies with ongoing business along the border, expressed uncertainty regarding long-term security in border areas following the August conflict in Kokang. A larger jade operation in Kunming, and local seller [...]	2009-09-28 08:56:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF BM CH
09CHENGDU208	SICHUAN SEES HUMAN TRAFFICKING INCREASE SINCE 2005 [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Sichuan Province has seen a dramatic increase in human trafficking cases since 2005, a Sichuan Public Security Bureau (PSB) official reported, though in the past five mont [...]	2009-09-29 06:10:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KWMN PHUM SMIG PGOV CH
09CHENGDU210	CHONGQING LABOR LAWYER SEES LEGAL SYSTEM PROGRESS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: After 13 years of advocating for migrant workers' legal rights, Chongqing lawyer Zhou Litai says he has seen positive progress, especially in the PRC's legal system. Zhou [...]	2009-09-29 07:20:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU212	CHENGDU MINORITIES UNDER WATCH FOR OCTOBER HOLIDAY [...] (C) Summary: Uighur students studying in Chengdu are being closely monitored by security personnel in the run-up to the October 1 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and continue to worry about anti-Uighur sentiment from Han Chinese. Some Han continue to fear [...]	2009-09-30 08:43:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU213	TIBET: TIGHT SECURITY IN LHASA IN OCTOBER 1 LEAD UP [...] (C) Summary: An elderly Tibetan couple visiting Chengdu described to PolEconOff the environment in and around Lhasa in the weeks leading up to Chinese National Day on October 1 as "very tense" with "soldiers everywhere." The environment they described tracks closely with observations by ConOff [...]	2009-09-30 09:31:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU220	TIBET EXPERT ON BREAKDOWN IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH PRC; BEIJING [...] (C) Summary: Both the Dalai Lama and the PRC leadership are to blame for the breakdown in Tibetan-China negotiations, the Director of the Mountain Institute's China Program told us. This Amcit Director, a seasoned Chinese and Tibetan-speaker, said irredentist Tibetans fail both to focus on the [...]	2009-10-08 09:54:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU228	TIBETAN MONKS SAY VOA BROADCASTS ARE INFORMATION LIFELINE [...] (S) Summary: Chengdu ethnic Tibetan LES (strictly protect) in early October spent a week at Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province, visiting family and senior monks -- including the chief religious tutor to the Beijing-recognized 11th Panchen Lama. The tutor did not have a picture of the young P [...]	2009-10-15 09:20:00	Consulate Chengdu	SECRET	PHUM SOCI VOA CH

09CHENGDU23	SOUTHWEST CHINA: PARTY ORDER TO ENFORCE DISCIPLINE OF [...] (S/NF) Summary: Classified regulations issued in late 2007 by the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China's Sichuan Province outline in detail sanctions to be taken against Communist Party members who participate in Dalai Lama teachings abroad or allow their children to study to [...]	2009-02-06 06:14:00	Consulate Chengdu	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR CH
09CHENGDU230	TOP LAWYER USING YUNNAN ENVIRONMENTAL COURTS TO EXPAND [...] (C) Summary: An open-minded chief judge and new guidance for environmental courts make Yunnan Province the logical place to pursue public interest environmental litigation, one of China's top public interest lawyers said. Similar courts and early cases in Guizhou and Jiangsu have set new prece [...]	2009-10-16 05:06:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PGOV PHUM CH
09CHENGDU248	TIBET PARTY OFFICIAL DERIDES DALAI LAMA, YET WELCOMES HIM [...] (C) Summary: The Dalai Lama bears exclusive responsibility for the breakdown in talks with PRC officials, which Beijing is open to resuming once the Dalai Lama abandons his "hidden agenda" for independence and accepts "history" that Tibet has always been a part of China, a Tibet Communist Party [...]	2009-11-06 07:33:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH
09CHENGDU251	TIBET VICE GOVERNOR: SLAMS DALAI LAMA, DENIES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Dalai Lama and his "clique" masterminded the "March 14" incident as part of a bid to take back feudal power in Tibet, Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Vice Governor Wu Yingjie told Consul General October 20. The many people praying at temples in Lhasa testify to the government [...]	2009-11-09 06:36:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV EAGR SENV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU252	TIBET 15 YEARS LATER: CONGENOFF'S OBSERVATIONS OF CHANGING [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: ConGen Chengdu Officer visited Lhasa in mid-October for the first time since 1994, when he was a university student in religious studies (including Buddhism). This cable provides his informal vignettes of life in Lhasa. ConGenOff noted that Western tourists in Lhas [...]	2009-11-09 07:49:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
09CHENGDU257	LHASA STORIES: MONK, CONSTRUCTION WORKER, WRITER, CAB [...] (C) Summary: Conversations with non-official Han and Tibetan residents of Lhasa reflect continuing tight government controls and the quiet determination of many Tibetans to remain loyal to their religious leader, the Dalai Lama. Young monks at Sera Monastery showed off a cell phone picture [...]	2009-11-13 02:00:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU263	RED ALERT! U.S. DIPLOMATS VISIT (QUASI-) CLOSED CITY OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Consul General recently visited Mianyang, Sichuan Province's second largest city, and a "Science and Technology City" where Beijing carries out research for its nuclear weapons program. The city is also home to Changhong, a former military-industrial company that no [...]	2009-11-18 08:29:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON EINV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU270	FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DURING [...] (U) The message contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for distribution on the internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Former President Jimmy Carter, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and officials from the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity, traveled to Sichuan Province November [...]	2009-11-29 01:38:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID ECON PGOV SOCI OVIP KPAO CH
09CHENGDU280	A TIBETAN ENGLISH TEACHER TALKS TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: A Tibetan English teacher, school principal, and amateur drama director discussed navigating Tibet's difficult political climate and introducing students to foreign cultures through English language instruction. Norbu once worked with foreign NGOs, but since friends in the Tibeta [...]	2009-11-30 17:19:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI VOA CH
09CHENGDU283	TIBET: NEPAL SEEKS INCREASED PRC TRADE/AID/TRANSPORT LINKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Nepal seeks to be a transit point between India and China and hopes to see increased development assistance and investment from the PRC, Nepalese Consul General in Lhasa told CG recently during a visit to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Nepal seeks lower content requirement [...]	2009-12-02 07:46:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EAID EINV ELTN SOCI NP CH
09CHENGDU288	TIBET: RELIGION MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS EXPLAIN THEIR SYSTEM [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information and is not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Tibetan Autonomous Region's (TAR) Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau recently presented to Consul General in Lhasa the strictly Chinese government, official view [...]	2009-12-07 07:58:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU289	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN CHINA: CASE STUDY OF RURAL JINTANG [...] (U) This message is contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Sichuan's rural Jintang County has a small Protestant community of 1000 persons organized under one "patriotic" church (a legally registered religious venue),with [...]	2009-12-07 08:49:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU293	GUIZHOU HUMAN TRAFFICKING TRENDS MIRROR THOSE OF YUNNAN, [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Human trafficking patterns in Guizhou are very similar to neighboring Yunnan province, and are dominated by forced marriages and illegal adoptions, Guizhou Public Secu [...]	2009-12-08 09:46:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SNAR KTIP KWMN CH
09CHENGDU305	TIBET: TAR JUSTICE SERVES THE PARTY, SOCIALISM, AND UNITY [...] (U) This message contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Deputy Director of the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Justice Bureau recently outlined to Consul General the TAR prison system, reeducation-through-labor system, and [...]	2009-12-15 06:04:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV CH
09CHENGDU313	SW CHINA: SELF-IMMOLATION CASE IN CHENGDU HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Three recent cases in southwest China -- including a high-profile case where a Chengdu citizen set fire to herself to protest a demolition of a property -- illustrate how Chinese citizens [...]	2009-12-18 09:17:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KJUS ECON EFIN CH
09CHENGDU315	TIBET PARTY LINE PITFALL: "TIBET HAS BEEN PART OF CHINA [...] (U) This message contains sensitive but unclassified information. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The politically charged historical statement "Tibet has been part of China since ancient times" has been widely used in the PRC media and officials since 2008 and became [...]	2009-12-18 09:39:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KPAS VOA CH
09CHENGDU316	SICHUAN PERSPECTIVES: THE APPARATCHIK, THE CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: A Sichuan People's Congress committee chairman, a professor of constitutional law at Sichuan University, and a Chinese blogger recently gave their differing takes on the outlook for Chinese reform: -- the Sichuan People's Congress committee chairman said that strong pres [...]	2009-12-18 10:09:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI CH
09CHENGDU41	SICHUAN SECURITY PREPARES FOR TIBETAN ANNIVERSARIES [...] (S) Summary: Although still well below last year's levels, the security presence in Chengdu's Tibet-town and some other areas of the city is steadily growing in lead-up to the March 10 fiftieth anniversary of the Lhasa uprising against Communist authorities. Groups of six People's Armed Polic [...]	2009-03-05 09:38:00	Consulate Chengdu	SECRET	PGOV PHUM CH
09CHENGDU87	TIBETAN LANGUAGE INTERNET IN THE PRC [...] (SBU) Summary: The nascent growth of Tibetan language internet in China slowed with the closure of several websites and detention of Tibetan e-activists over the past year. Tibetan language email and websites are nevertheless becoming increasingly popular among students and intellectuals, low [...]	2009-05-22 04:49:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI EINT CH
09CHENGDU99	SOUTHWEST CHINA: LOCAL SCHOLAR ON TIANANMEN ANNIVERSARY AND [...] (C) Summary: Indicating that controls over media in Sichuan Province have notably increased over the past year, a senior-level Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) researcher described how Communist Party officials applied additional pressure on him and other independent website editors [...]	2009-06-04 06:58:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO SOCI CH
09CHENNAI100	BHARAT BALLOT 09: "FORCED CONVERSIONS" FUEL POLITICAL [...] (U) Summary: Political conversations in Karnataka are peppered with references to "forced" or "forcible" conversion. Although the term has been defined in various states' legal statutes and interpreted by the Indian Supreme Court, different religious communities in the state -- particularly H [...]	2009-04-02 06:29:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI IN
09CHENNAI104	BHARAT BALLOT 09: KERALA CATHOLIC LEADERS URGE FLOCK TO [...] (SBU) Summary: During Sunday services Catholic priests across Kerala read a pastoral letter to their congregants that essentially told them to vote against the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) and its allies in the Left Democratic Front (LDF). The pastoral letter was just the latest [...]	2009-04-06 05:33:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09CHENNAI107	BHARAT BALLOT 09: ALLIANCE ARITHMETIC IS A KEY FACTOR IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: No single party is likely to win a majority of the seats in India's parliament in the upcoming elections. As a result, whichever party ultimately forms the next government will need to do so by building a coalition government. This cable outlines the broad features of allianc [...]	2009-04-08 06:53:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09CHENNAI109	BHARAT BALLOT 09: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN KERALA [...] (SBU) Summary: The 21.6 million voters in the state of Kerala will go to polls on April 16 in the first of five phases of India's national elections. During a road tour of Kerala, we found the Congress party in an upbeat mood expecting to win a majority of the 20 seats that are up for grabs, [...]	2009-04-15 03:54:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF PHUM IN
09CHENNAI112	BHARAT BALLOT 09: ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN KERALA [...] (SBU) Summary: The 21.6 million voters in the state of Kerala will go to polls on April 16 in the first of five phases of India's national elections. During a road tour of Kerala, we found the Congress party in an upbeat mood expecting to win a majority of the 20 seats that are up for grabs, [...]	2009-04-16 00:36:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF PHUM IN
09CHENNAI116	BHARAT BALLOT 09: BJP SITTING PRETTY IN KARNATAKA [...] Summary: On April 23 voters in seventeen districts of the southern state of Karnataka will cast their votes in the state's first phase of voting in India's national elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did exceptionally well in 2004, winning eighteen seats. Congress came in second with [...]	2009-04-23 21:46:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF OTRA IN
09CHENNAI126	HONEST POLITICIAN FACES UPHILL FIGHT IN BANGALORE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent trip to the south Indian state Karnataka, we followed a Congress party candidate as he campaigned through the streets of Bangalore. The candidate's campaign events were modest in size and the reception he received varied based on the location's political leanin [...]	2009-04-30 07:16:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF IN PREL KDEM
09CHENNAI133	BHARAT BALLOT 09: POLITICAL SUCCESS REQUIRES GRASSROOTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Often lost in the coverage of India's elections are the details of how the process works on the local level. Local political figures in Kerala explained that direct contact with voters is critical. Political parties rely on "booth committees," pulled from extensive networks of [...]	2009-05-08 03:21:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM IN
09CHENNAI144	BHARAT BALLOT O9: CASH FOR VOTES IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (C) Summary: Bribes from political parties to voters, in the form of cash, goods, or services, are a regular feature of elections in South India. Poor voters expect bribes from political candidates, and candidates find various ways to satisfy voter expectations. From paying to dig a community w [...]	2009-05-13 05:11:00	Consulate Chennai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IN
09CHENNAI145	BHARAT BALLOT 09: UPA FACES SETBACK IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: Tamil Nadu has played a crucial role in the formation of India's recent coalition governments. In 2004, a DMK-led alliance swept the polls, contributing all of the state's parliamentary seats to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). But the tables have turned, with the DMK [...]	2009-05-13 07:08:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09CHENNAI151	TAMIL NADU QUIET AFTER PRABHAKARAN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) Summary. Mixed but moderate responses in Tamil Nadu followed the news of the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),from relief to indifference to occasional outright denial. Despite the efforts of political parties to turn concern over [...]	2009-05-22 05:22:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM PREL IN ASEC CE
09CHENNAI157	Over Half of Tibetan Visitors from India Overstay Visas [...] (SBU) Summary. Mission India recently conducted a validation study of the 496 B1/B2 tourist visas granted in CY-2007 and CY-2008 to stateless individuals carrying Indian-issued identity papers. All butQ of those applicants was Tibetan. Over half of these travelers appear to be potential overs [...]	2009-05-26 23:17:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS ASEC PHUM PREL PREF IN
09CHENNAI161	ANDHRA POLICE KILL KEY MAOIST LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Police in Andhra Pradesh (AP) killed two top members of a violent Maoist group ("Naxalite") in an encounter on May 24. They also recovered several firearms. The police link one of those killed to several high-profile terrorist attacks, including assassination attempts against [...]	2009-05-28 06:37:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV ASEC PHUM IN
09CHENNAI163	BHARAT BALLOT '09: MAY 28 SOUTHERN SNAPSHOTS: ELECTION [...] (U) This report is part of a periodic series covering items of interest in South India not featured in our other reporting. This edition of "Southern Snapshots" covers: -- Tamil Nadu: Parties unable to leverage the plight of Sri Lanka's Tamils for political gain -- Andhra Pradesh: Sops tr [...]	2009-05-29 02:21:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09CHENNAI168	ANDHRA PRADESH CONVICTS HUMAN TRAFFICKERS, SCORES OTHER [...] Summary: The state of Andhra Pradesh (one of India's largest, with a population exceeding 80 million) continues to be one of India's most active states in combating trafficking in persons (TIP),as highlighted by a recent series of arrests, convictions, and lengthy prison sentences handed out [...]	2009-06-03 02:55:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP PHUM PGOV KWMN SOCI KCRM IN
09CHENNAI185	BHARAT BALLOT 09: TAMIL NADU ANALYSIS: CONGRESS-DMK [...] (SBU) Summary: The alliance between the Congress Party and the regional DMK party surprised nearly all observers by winning a thumping victory in Tamil Nadu in the recent parliamentary elections. Most commentators expected an opposition led by an alliance of regional and communist parties to [...]	2009-06-15 00:16:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09CHENNAI213	DEADLY HINDU-MUSLIM RIOTS HIT MYSORE [...] (SBU) Summary: Clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the town of Mysore (in the state of Karnataka, 150 km west of Bangalore) left three dead on July 2. The immediate cause of the riots was the discovery of two pig heads in a building housing a mosque and madrassa (a type of Islamic school). [...]	2009-07-07 03:04:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR IN
09CHENNAI248	CHILD LABOR PERSISTS IN SOME PARTS OF FORMAL FIREWORKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Three children died in an explosion at a licensed fireworks factory near Madurai in southern Tamil Nadu. The factory was in violation of a number of regulations at the time of the accident, including India's prohibition against employing children in the manufacture of explosiv [...]	2009-07-30 23:38:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON ELAB IN
09CHENNAI25	HINDU EXTREMISTS ATTACK WOMEN IN MANGALORE PUB [...] (U) Summary: Approximately 40 male Hindu extremists on January 24 forced their way into a pub in Mangalore, Karnataka (300 km west of Bangalore) and attacked several women customers for "drinking in public and acting in an obscene manner." Local police took action only two days later, arrestin [...]	2009-01-30 08:35:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF IN
09CHENNAI269	PROSECUTIONS ON THE RISE, BUT CORRUPTION STILL PLAGUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Tamil Nadu has seen a series of arrests of bureaucrats for official corruption in the recent months. The cases have included several high-profile arrests of senior officers of the Indian Administrative Service, as well as lower level officials. Consulate contacts report that t [...]	2009-08-21 09:08:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ETRD IN
09CHENNAI289	ENGAGING WITH THE KARNATAKA GOVERNMENT ON RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) The Consul General (CG) met with Karnataka's Chief Minister and Governor separately on August 31. Chief Minister Yediyurappa spent most of the meeting reiterating his state's plea for a U.S. Consulate in Bangalore. He also sought the CG's support for an "investor's summit" that will be [...]	2009-09-09 07:36:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR IN
09CHENNAI317	SRI LANKAN REFUGEES IN INDIA UNLIKELY TO RETURN ANYTIME [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and cessation of hostilities in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu are unlikely to return to their homeland anytime soon. Release of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from confinement in IDP camps is a [...]	2009-10-30 05:03:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PTER PHUM SOCI IN CE
09CHENNAI327	SOUTH INDIA'S FIRST BJP GOVERNMENT MUDDLES THROUGH A [...] (SBU) Summary: South India's first state government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) teetered on the verge of collapse for nearly two weeks as Karnataka's Chief Minister fought off attempts by the Tourism Minister to unseat him. National-level BJP authorities brokered a truce on Novemb [...]	2009-11-12 07:57:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF IN
09CHENNAI38	SRI LANKAN WAR HEATS UP TAMIL NADU POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary: A dramatic self-immolation by a young man in Chennai protesting Tamil civilian casualties in Sri Lanka gave opportunistic fringe parties a political opening. Their efforts to whip up more widespread protests through the call for a statewide general strike, however, fell flat d [...]	2009-02-06 08:12:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM PREL IN CE
09CHENNAI53	MAOISTS SUFFER FURTHER BLOW IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) Konapuri Ilaiah ,former Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Committee (APSC) of India's indigenous Maoist insurgency (also known as Naxalites),surrendered to police on February 15, allegedly because of his ill health. Deputy Inspector General of the Special Intelligence Branch B. Shiv [...]	2009-02-24 06:48:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM IN
09CHENNAI57	SRI LANKA PERMEATES VISIT TO CHENNAI [...] (SBU) Summary: Issues related to the war in Sri Lanka dominated SCA/INS Acting Director Diane Kelly's February 3 to 5 visit to Chennai. Local concern for the civilians trapped in the fighting was a constant theme as she visited an NGO that supports refugees from the war and had lunch with Sri [...]	2009-02-26 02:10:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ECON IN CE
09CHENNAI59	BHARAT BALLOT O9: SRI LANKA BECOMES AN ELECTION ISSUE, WILL [...] (C) Summary: Increasingly harsh coverage of the war in Sri Lanka in the Tamil Nadu press has shifted public opinion in the state. Expressions of support for the LTTE, once limited to the fringe of the state's politics, are becoming more commonplace. Representatives of an umbrella organizatio [...]	2009-02-27 01:48:00	Consulate Chennai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CE IN
09CHENNAI66	BHARAT BALLOT 09: KERALA CPM STILL FLOUNDERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters in Kerala are increasingly dissatisfied with the state's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) in the run-up to the national election. The Kerala CPM has been gripped by a personal dispute between its two senior-most members, the Chief Minister and the party chief [...]	2009-03-06 00:20:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM IN
09CHENNAI70	BHARAT BALLOT 09: SETTING THE SCENE FOR SOUTH INDIA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the Election Commission's announcement of national election dates (April 16 - May 13),we have composed brief political scenesetters for the four South Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. These four states, with a combined population of r [...]	2009-03-09 08:04:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM IN
09CHENNAI76	BHARAT BALLOT 09: MARCH 12 SOUTHERN SNAPSHOTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of election highlights from Consulate General Chennai that did not feature in our other reporting on India's upcoming elections: -- Tamil Nadu: Congress/DMK partnership set to reprise 2004's grand alliance? -- Tamil Nadu: a brief fast for Sri Lankan Tamils [...]	2009-03-12 07:47:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09CHENNAI81	WOMEN IN INDIA: TAMIL NADU'S IRON LADY J. JAYALALITHAA [...] (SBU) Summary: Movie-star turned politician J. Jayalalithaa's political career embodies many of the contradictions inherent in the history of successful female politicians in India's otherwise patriarchical society. A man brought her into politics but she rose to the height of power on her own [...]	2009-03-19 03:44:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM IN
09CHENNAI83	WOMEN IN INDIA: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT THROUGH [...] Summary: Self-help groups are at the vanguard of women's empowerment in South India. Small groups of women organized by government and non-governmental organizations encourage poor women to pool funds and allow them to access loans from the formal banking sector. In so doing, the groups aff [...]	2009-03-20 00:39:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM IN
09CHENNAI86	BHARAT BALLOT 09: MARCH 24 SOUTHERN SNAPSHOTS, VOLUME 2 [...] (U) This report is the second in a periodic series of election-related items in South India that highlight important information not featured in our other reporting. This edition of "Southern Snapshots" covers: -- Tamil Nadu: BJP searching in vain for alliance partners in Tamil Nadu -- Ta [...]	2009-03-24 07:21:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09CHENNAI98	BHARAT BALLOT 09: SIX MONTHS LATER, RELIGIOUS MINORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly six months after the anti-Christian violence that drew international media attention (refs C-E),Christian groups in the seaside town of Mangalore, Karnataka are still nervous. While the media attention has died down and large-scale violence like what transpired in Septe [...]	2009-04-02 06:21:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI IN
09CHIANGMAI10	IN NORTH, PRO-THAKSIN VOTE DROPS SHARPLY AS VOTES FOR [...] (U) In January 11 by-elections in two northern constituencies, the Democrat Party (DP),the largest party in the new governing coalition, garnered over 40,000 more votes than it did in the 2007 national elections in the same two districts. Despite this increase, the pro-Thaksin Puea Thai Par [...]	2009-01-15 09:19:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TH
09CHIANGMAI101	EXPERT ON BURMESE ECONOMY SPEAKS ON MICROFINANCE [...] Dr. Sean Turnell, a leading expert on Burmese economics, spoke at Payap University, Chiang Mai on July 2, providing attendees a basic foundation for understanding Burma's current economic situation. Dr. Turnell briefly explained Burma's chaotic past, the evolution of its financial system, a [...]	2009-07-15 05:26:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECON EFIN EINV ETTC PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
09CHIANGMAI103	HMONG IN NORTHERN THAILAND ARE ASSIMILATING AND NETWORKING [...] (U) Over the past twenty years, the Hmong in northern Thailand have accepted a sedentary lifestyle and continue to assimilate into Thai society. Today, there are many agricultural Hmong communities in northern Thailand where trade in handicrafts and other products is growing. These Thai-Hm [...]	2009-07-17 01:56:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECIN ECPS EINT EIND ELAB ETRD EINV PHUM
09CHIANGMAI109	IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: HILL TRIBES, ENVIRONMENTALISM, [...] (SBU) In northern Thailand, differing opinions of environmental cause and effect have led to highly charged debates about forest management policies, often pitting "conservationists" against agriculturally-dependent ethnic hill tribe minorities and their supporters. The Royal Forest Departm [...]	2009-07-24 09:55:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI11	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: STALLED PEACE DIALOGUE AWAITS SIGNAL [...] (S) Mark Tamthai, former RTG point-man for secret talks with southern insurgents, has expressed cautious optimism that the peace dialogue might be resumed under the new Democrat Party-led government. He told CG January 14 that PM Abhisit has asked if he would be willing to resume his former r [...]	2009-01-22 05:35:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH MY ID
09CHIANGMAI114	GOING "GREEN" TO EARN GREEN: CONSERVATION POLICIES USED TO [...] (SBU) In the past, the Thai Royal Forest Department (RFD) has encouraged and, sometimes forced, upland dwellers to resettle outside of highly valued national parks and protected forests. Recently, NGOs have begun to worry that carbon trading initiatives designed to slow climate change will [...]	2009-07-30 02:48:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI115	LAND CRUNCH AND AGRIBUSINESSES HURT HIGHLAND AGRICULTURE AND [...] (SBU) Agriculturally-dependent hill tribe people, as well as other upland farmers, face increasing pressures stemming from a general shortage of available agricultural land, problematic development policies, and the growth of agribusinesses in northern Thailand. In recent years, development p [...]	2009-08-03 02:23:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI125	BURMA: SHAN VILLAGES BURNED, FORCIBLY RELOCATED [...] (SBU)Burmese troops operating in Shan State burned 10 villages and forcibly relocated an additional 30 in late July, according to Shan contacts in Thailand and Burma. Shan groups also accuse the troops of other grave human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrest, torture, gang rape, and arb [...]	2009-08-20 10:36:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL MOPS BM TH
09CHIANGMAI132	REDSHIRTS, YELLOWSHIRTS DOWNPLAY RECONCILIATION CALL [...] (SBU) According to both anti-government redshirt and anti-Thaksin yellowshirt groups based in Chiang Mai, the joint private sector-academic community's call for political reconciliation to facilitate economic recovery issued in August was "misdirected" and does not carry any weight. While bot [...]	2009-09-18 07:18:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PHUM TH
09CHIANGMAI136	BURMA: A KNU PERSPECTIVE ON ETHNICS, PEACE TALKS [...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion on September 17, Ner Da Mya, the son of late Karen National Union (KNU) Chairman General Bo Mya, told us that despite the KNU's militarily weakened state, conflict in Karen State could go on for years. He added that the prospect of peace talks between the Burm [...]	2009-09-25 09:06:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI138	RED-SHIRTS, YELLOW-SHIRTS BEGIN DIALOGUE [...] (C) Spurred on by a U.S. speaker program that focused on the role of opposition political parties and non-party actors (Ref B),members of red-shirt and yellow-shirt groups in Chiang Mai held an initial meeting on September 23 to iron out some differences and search for common ground. Though [...]	2009-09-29 09:51:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KDEM PROP TH
09CHIANGMAI141	BURMESE EXILES APPLAUD USG POLICY REVIEW, URGE SKEPTICISM [...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with CG and P/E Chief, three prominent Chiang Mai-based Burmese exiles warmly welcomed the outcome of the USG's Burma policy review, but urged us to proceed cautiously and with a healthy dose of skepticism. They expressed concern that the U.S. might take big s [...]	2009-10-02 07:56:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI160	RED-SHIRTS, YELLOW-SHIRTS CONTINUE DIALOGUE AT A SLOWER [...] (C) In separate meetings with red-shirt and yellow-shirt groups, leaders told CG they want to move ahead with their fledgling reconciliation efforts, though they are afraid of a backlash from extreme elements on both sides. Nonetheless, they have met repeatedly, established a plan of work, an [...]	2009-10-22 09:23:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM ECON TH
09CHIANGMAI166	BURMA: NATIONALITY VERIFICATION ON-GOING AT NORTHERN-MOST [...] (SBU) Thai Government and business contacts in Chiang Rai Province told us during an October 19-20 visit that the nationality verification process for Burmese workers is proceeding smoothly at the Mae Sai-Tachilek center, although at a slow pace. Problems they cited that are keeping the proc [...]	2009-11-06 09:22:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG KTIP BM TH
09CHIANGMAI167	THAI INTELLIGENCE KEEPS WARY EYE ON BURMA BORDER [...] (C) Thai intelligence service "Burma Watchers" in northern Thailand do not believe conflict is imminent between the Burma Army and United Wa State Army (UWSA). In their view, the Wa's military and economic strength, the degree of support the Wa enjoy from China, and the regime's hope that it [...]	2009-11-06 10:50:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR PINR PREF BM
09CHIANGMAI171	SOUTHERN THAILAND: SKEPTICAL ARMY LEADERSHIP STEPPING [...] (S) PM Abhisit appears to be bringing a skeptical Thai military leadership more fully on board with his policy to resume a secret dialogue with insurgents as a means to resolve the long-running ethnic Malay Muslim insurgency in the country's deep south. At an Abhisit-chaired November 2 meetin [...]	2009-11-13 07:08:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM PTER TH MY
09CHIANGMAI172	RED-SHIRTS CALL FOR U.S. TO BOYCOTT RTG [...] (SBU) Capitalizing on the on-going visit to Chiang Mai of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, over 50 members of red-shirt groups protested in front of Consulate Chiang Mai on November 16, strongly criticizing the current Royal Thai Government (RTG),and asking the U.S. to "boycott and not sup [...]	2009-11-16 09:50:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC TH
09CHIANGMAI173	NORTHERN RED-YELLOW DIALOGUE EXPANDS TO INCLUDE GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) The low-key dialogue launched in recent months by local red-shirt and yellow-shirt groups, aimed at lowering the political temperature in Chiang Mai, continues to gain legs. Spurred on by positive media coverage and the constructive roles in the process played by academics and business [...]	2009-11-19 08:08:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TH
09CHIANGMAI178	PM'S PLANNED NOV. 29 VISIT GALVANIZES RED-SHIRTS TO ACT IN [...] (C) In the wake of anti-government red-shirt rhetoric tantamount to death threats against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, red-shirts and supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin are gearing up for a potential showdown with security forces in Chiang Mai during Prime Minister Abhisit's plan [...]	2009-11-25 11:10:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM CASC ASEC TH
09CHIANGMAI18	TOUGHER TIMES AHEAD FOR PRO-THAKSIN FORCES IN NORTH [...] (SBU) Despite reports from multiple sources of a decline in their support base, pro-Thaksin "redshirt" groups in northern Thailand continue to intimidate officials and supporters of the present government, even when they travel to northern Thailand on personal business. In the latest spate of [...]	2009-02-02 08:33:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PROP TH
09CHIANGMAI184	SOUTHERN THAILAND: READOUT ON ABHISIT-NAJIB, LOCAL [...] (S) During a joint visit to southern Thailand by the Thai and Malaysian Prime Ministers, PM Abhisit reportedly raised with PM Najib - indirectly - RTG concern over official Malaysian pressure on Malaysia-based insurgent leaders involved in secret peace talks with the RTG. In a post-Najib-visi [...]	2009-12-21 06:24:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PTER TH MY
09CHIANGMAI2	CITIZENSHIP MANUAL OUTLINES LEGAL MAZE FACING STATELESS HILL [...] UNESCO has collaborated with the Thai Government (RTG) and an NGO to publish a Citizenship Manual that will serve as a "how to" guide for government officials and civil society on citizenship procedures among stateless hill tribe minorities. Broadly speaking, a highlander who is born in Thaila [...]	2009-01-06 02:01:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG ELAB PREF PGOV PREL SNAR KWMN TH BM
09CHIANGMAI23	SOUTHERN INSURGENCY: SECRET DIALOGUE INCHES FORWARD IN FACE [...] (S) Mark Tamthai, former RTG point-man for secret talks with southern insurgents, is nervously ambivalent about the recent renewal of the discussion channel. He told CG February 10 that the resumption lacks a formal mandate from the RTG Cabinet, and instead proceeds unofficially under encoura [...]	2009-02-12 18:25:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TH PTER
09CHIANGMAI24	BY-ELECTIONS, REDS AND MIGRANTS TAKE CENTER STAGE [...] (SBU) The past few days have seen a flurry of political activity in Chiang Mai, kicking off with a protest by pro-Thaksin redshirts on February 8. Separately, the Election Commission certified the results of January by-elections in two Northern provinces, and election officials here told us m [...]	2009-02-13 07:43:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM SMIG ELAB ASEC TH BM
09CHIANGMAI28	AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHTS U.S. "SOFT POWER" IN VISIT TO NORTHERN [...] (U) The Ambassador's February 17-20 visit to four northern provinces highlighted the array of "soft power" tools the USG brings to bear in its 175-year-old relationship with Thailand. After opening the visit by participating in the closing ceremony of the 28th annual Cobra Gold military exerci [...]	2009-02-26 07:39:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF PHUM ECON SCUL KPAO TH
09CHIANGMAI3	REDSHIRTS FLEX THEIR MUSCLE IN NORTH AHEAD OF BY-ELECTIONS [...] Over the past few weeks, pro-Thaksin (redshirt) protestors in northern Thailand have come out in force to show their opposition to the current Democrat Party-led coalition government, and intimidate its officials and supporters. Though not violent in nature, these protests have included block [...]	2009-01-07 06:59:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PROP TH
09CHIANGMAI30	PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES CLAMP DOWN ON MIGRANT WORKERS [...] (C) According to Chiang Mai's Vice Governor, the strict enforcement of rules governing migrant workers that he initiated in the Province in the wake of the February 7 rape and murder of a local university student (Reftel),which aims to ensure that all migrant workers are "in the system," will [...]	2009-02-27 09:58:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB SMIG KJUS TH BM
09CHIANGMAI32	REDS SPOIL TWO RALLIES, CANCEL ONE OF THEIR OWN [...] (SBU) The last two weeks of February saw a flurry of activity by pro-Thaksin "redshirt" groups in two northern provinces. The leading Rak Chiang Mai 51 (RCM51) group disrupted the rallies of two apolitical groups (corn farmers and gay activists),and redshirts cancelled a rally due to infigh [...]	2009-03-05 06:43:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS TH
09CHIANGMAI37	KNU UNDER INCREASED PRESSURE AS INFLUENCE WANES [...] (C) According to multiple sources, both inside and outside the Thai Government, Thai pressure on the Karen National Union (KNU) to lay low and for its army commanders to relocate to Burma has intensified in recent weeks. Several KNU commanders have departed Thailand's Tak Province for Karen S [...]	2009-03-13 09:14:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS BM TH
09CHIANGMAI42	RAIDS NET FIVE SUSPECTED HUMAN TRAFFICKERS; TWO VICTIMS [...] (SBU) Coordinated raids at two Chiang Mai karaoke bars on February 18 led to the arrest of five suspected traffickers and the rescue of two victims -- minors who were allegedly forced into prostitution. The suspects remain in custody while the police collect evidence and assemble witnesses. [...]	2009-03-24 11:26:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP SMIG KWMN KJUS PHUM PGOV PREL TH BM CH
09CHIANGMAI49	BURMA-KNU: KNU SEEKS PRECONDITIONS FOR TALKS [...] (C) Despite the Burmese regime's offer reported in Ref A for unconditional talks with the Karen National Union (KNU),which has been waging a conflict against the regime for over 50 years, the KNU placed several conditions on its participation in future talks with the regime during its April 6 [...]	2009-04-10 07:31:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI58	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: INSURGENT LEADERS PRESS AHEAD ON PLAN TO [...] (S) Mark Tamthai, former RTG point-man for secret talks with southern insurgents, reports that militant leaders continue to meet among themselves to flesh out a proposal they aim to present as a basis for resuming direct dialogue with the RTG. He told CG April 28 that this effort, now broadene [...]	2009-04-29 02:42:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09CHIANGMAI59	COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS REMAIN OPEN; REDSHIRT LEADERS TURN [...] (SBU) Though raided on April 17 and ordered to cease politically-charged broadcasts that could incite violence by the Provincial Government, pro-redshirt community radio stations in Chiang Mai continue to broadcast under the terms of an MOU negotiated with Provincial authorities. In a separat [...]	2009-04-30 03:34:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SCUL PROP ECPS SOCI TH
09CHIANGMAI60	STATE DEPT GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS RISKS OF TRAFFICKING TO [...] (SBU) Consulate staff spent the night in a hill tribe village April 7-8 to monitor an NGO's implementation of a $20,000 grant it had received from the Department's Women's Issues Fund to conduct anti-trafficking-in-persons campaigns. Village authorities and the NGO have different views of the [...]	2009-04-30 09:45:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KWMN PHUM TH
09CHIANGMAI61	BURMA: KNU ON PEACE TALKS, POLITICAL GOALS, BORDER [...] (C) The Karen National Union (KNU),which has been in a protracted military conflict with the Burmese regime, has two preconditions for peace talks with the GoB: the talks must be held in a third country, and the KNU must negotiate with a regime leader. The KNU wants to see the establishment [...]	2009-05-01 03:30:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI75	NGOS ASSIST HILL TRIBES IN DIVERSE WAYS, BUT CAPACITY [...] (U) Although the Royal Thai Government (RTG) passed two laws in 2008 that improved citizenship eligibility, stateless persons living in northern Thailand still face a host of legal, administrative, and practical obstacles to citizenship. Recognizing the many disadvantages confronting statele [...]	2009-06-04 09:49:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON SMIG PREF PREL KWMN BM TH
09CHIANGMAI77	FIVE RELIGIONS, ONE VOICE: CHIANG MAI INTER-FAITH GROUP [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-09 09:38:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI TH
09CHIANGMAI89	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: POSSIBLE RESUMPTION OF SECRET DIALOGUE [...] (S) Mark Tamthai, former RTG point-man for secret talks with southern insurgents, sees a potential silver lining in the recent surge in violence in southern Thailand following the June 8 mosque killings and subsequent reprisals. He told CG June 24 that the uptick in violence and the military' [...]	2009-06-25 09:06:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09CHIANGMAI91	ASEAN MPS HEADLINE ASSK BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION [...] (U) Four members of the ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) called for tougher action against Burma by Thailand and other ASEAN nations at a June 19 event jointly hosted by Chiang Mai University to mark Aung San Suu Kyi's 64th birthday. Atypically for Burma events here, a large p [...]	2009-07-02 06:55:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM TH BM RP MY SN
09CHIANGMAI93	U.S. ACADEMIC DISCUSSES OPPOSITION PARTY POLITICS WITH RED [...] (U) As redshirt, yellowshirt, and other politically active groups struggle to define their roles in Thai society, Consulate Chiang Mai hosted a U.S. speaker, who discussed with them the role of opposition parties in the U.S. system. An expert on the American political system, Dr. Larry Berman [...]	2009-07-02 09:21:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM SCUL SOCI TH
09CHIANGMAI94	BURMA: KNU REPORTS BURMA ARMY MAY RESUME ATTACKS IN KAREN [...] (C) The Burma Army (BA) and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA -- a pro-Burmese regime splinter group) may be preparing to renew their offensive against the KNU (Karen National Union -- a group engaged in armed resistance against the Burmese regime),according to KNU contacts. The sources s [...]	2009-07-08 10:21:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PREF PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI96	REDSHIRTS TARGET PUBLIC HEALTH MINISTER, REGIONAL POLICE [...] (SBU) In their latest wave of protests July 6 and 9, redshirts in northern Thailand confronted Public Health Minister Wittaya Kaewparadai, the Chiang Mai Regional Police Commissioner and the seat of the Provincial Government. The Minister is the latest in a string of visitors supportive of th [...]	2009-07-10 08:19:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PROP ECPS TH
09CHISINAU108	MOLDOVA: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-18 06:55:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC ELAB KTIP KWMN MD PGOV PHUM SMIG
09CHISINAU137	MOLDOVA RECEIVES TALKING POINTS ON USG PARTICIPATION IN HRC [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-27 11:04:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL MD
09CHISINAU15	CHISINAU HEADS OF MISSION QUESTION [...] (C) Summary: Western heads of mission met President Voronin on December 22 to raise concerns about pre-electoral media freedoms; Ambassador Chaudhry raised the residence-permit issue of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) country director. Voronin replied disappointingly in public on th [...]	2009-01-12 14:21:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MD
09CHISINAU20	Ambassador Presses Senior Presidential [...] (C) Summary: In a January 13 meeting, Ambassador Chaudhry once again pressed senior presidential advisor Sergiu Stati to renew the work and residence permit of National Democratic Institute (NDI) Country Director Alex Grigorievs. Repeating his December 8 reply (ref B),Stati said the issue w [...]	2009-01-14 07:39:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD

09CHISINAU216	VORONIN BELIEVES NDI IS FOMENTING PRO- [...] (C) Summary: Following discussions of 2-plus-1 and Transnistria, the Ambassador raised the issue of NDI in his March 19 meeting with President Voronin (ref A). Anticipating that NDI would be raised, Voronin took from his desk a "fresh" intel report dated March 19 and read it to us. The rep [...]	2009-03-20 15:07:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU221	MFA ASKS AMBASSASDOR NOT TO GO TO [...] (C) Summary: On March 23 MFA Americas Desk Officer Mariana Roibo called on Pol/Econ Section Chief to deliver points on two issues. The MFA requested that the Ambassador not travel to Iasi, Romania, to attend the Moldova's Black Sea Conference on March 27. Participation on that date (which [...]	2009-03-23 15:04:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RO MD
09CHISINAU268	MOLDOVA 2009 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: With the April 5 at-large parliamentary elections rapidly approaching, the electoral campaign is at its final stage. The most recent poll shows a relatively high 26.4 percent of voters as still undecided, and likely to make up their minds in the very last days. At this point [...]	2009-04-02 13:56:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MD
09CHISINAU271	WHY COMMUNISTS AND LIBERALS SHARE THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Domestic social problems have been the main focus of campaign discussions. The global economic crisis and its impact on the Moldovan economy has proven a largely irrelevant issue on the parties' electoral agenda. Since almost all parties share the same position on foreign po [...]	2009-04-03 15:18:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL MD
09CHISINAU272	WHY COMMUNISTS AND LIBERALS SHARE THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-03 15:21:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL MD
09CHISINAU273	Post Meets Disaffected Politicians in All [...] (SBU) Summary: In the run-up to the April 5 parliamentary elections in Moldova, Pol/Econ officers visited all 32 raions to meet members of political parties and to assess the overall conduct of the campaign. The political parties all reported that they had been actively engaged in reaching o [...]	2009-04-03 15:56:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MD
09CHISINAU281	MOLDOVA ELECTIONS GIVE PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliamentary elections in Moldova have yielded a bare majority nationwide for the Party of Communists (PCRM). Depending upon the methodology used for calculating the distribution of parliamentary seats, it appears that the PCRM has won 60-61 seats of 101 in Parliament. With 61 [...]	2009-04-06 15:48:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU283	JOINT DECLARATION 2-PLUS-1: MISTAKES WERE [...] (C) Summary: Minister for Reintegration Vasile Sova and former Presidential Advisor Marc Tkaciuk called on Ambassador on March 24, upon instructions from President Voronin, to provide further explanation about the March 18 2-plus-1 meeting and the Joint Declaration. It is not patently clear [...]	2009-04-07 14:48:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RO MD
09CHISINAU287	Election Protests Turn Violent - President and Parliament Buildings Trashed [...] (SBU) Summary: After unoffiial April 5 election results gave a majority t the ruling Party of Communists (PCRM),thousand of Moldovans took to the streets on Monday, Aprl 6. A candle-lit vigil of some thousands on te evening of April 6 remained peaceful with calls for democracy and electio [...]	2009-04-08 14:59:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU288	PROTESTS PEACEFUL, FOCUS TURNS [...] (SBU) Summary: Political protest continued April 8, but the crowd remained peaceful, and was much smaller than the previous day. Speeches and slogans continued, but to a much smaller crowd in a relaxed atmosphere. The focus has now turned from the streets to political accusations. Both R [...]	2009-04-08 16:28:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD RO
09CHISINAU290	SPEAKER LUPU DISINFORMS AMBASSADOR ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: In a public pull-aside, Moldovan Parliament Speaker Marian Lupu informed Ambassador Chaudhry that Coalition 2009, Moldova's election- watching NGO coalition, had its own vote figures, which agreed with Central Election Commission (CEC)figures showing a win for the Party of Commu [...]	2009-04-10 14:47:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MD
09CHISINAU293	President Calls for Full Vote Recount, [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-10 15:16:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EU MD
09CHISINAU294	NO DEMONSTRATIONS JUST [...] (SBU) Summary: Demonstrations abated on April 9, with no more than a few hundred gathered in front of the main government building. However, the city continued to be tense with anticipation, as further demonstrations are being planned for April 10 and April 12. The government has been imp [...]	2009-04-10 15:27:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU295	President Calls for Full Vote Recount, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on April 10 with President Vladimir Voronin, Ambassador Chaudhry stated USG concerns about arrests of protestors, beatings of journalists, threats to expel students from school for participating in anti-government demonstrations earlier in the week and pressure on t [...]	2009-04-10 15:43:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EU MD
09CHISINAU296	GOVERNMENT USING INTIMIDATION [...] (SBU) Summary: President Voronin's crackdown on student rioters, journalists, and other outspoken critics of the government over the last two days has created a sense of fear among potential demonstrators. Cyberspace messages cautioned demonstrators not to go downtown because they risked a [...]	2009-04-10 15:52:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU301	SOME 10,000 GATHER FOR PEACEFUL [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday April 12 an estimated 7-10,000 people gathered for a peaceful demonstration in support of the opposition. The demands have largely shifted from the initial elections-related demands to concerns for the well-being of those arrested in connection with the violent Apri [...]	2009-04-13 14:59:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU302	MOLDOVA FACING CHALLENGES TO INSTALLING A [...] (SBU) Summary: With the immediate threat of street violence diminished, Moldova continues to face a political crisis which will preserve a state of uncertainty until the vote recount is finished, the Parliament meets and a new President and Cabinet is put in place. Parliament faces signific [...]	2009-04-14 06:03:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU305	AMBASSADOR RAISES TORTURE CONCERNS WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: In an April 14 meeting Ambassador Chaudhry raised his concerns with Prime Minister Greceanii about the reports of harsh treatment of those participants in the April 7 demonstrations who had been arrested. The Ambassador stressed USG abhorrence of violence and underlined that any [...]	2009-04-14 15:54:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RO MD
09CHISINAU316	MOLDOVA RECEIVED DEMARCHE ON USG [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-16 15:12:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL MD
09CHISINAU317	ELECTION RECOUNT, VOTER LIST [...] (C) Summary: A comprehensive recount of ballots cast in Moldova's parliamentary elections began on April 15. As of late afternoon April 16 results were still being tallied, and final results may be announced either on April 17 or after the (Easter) weekend. Leaders of the three opposition [...]	2009-04-16 16:44:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU331	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MEDIA REPS TO HEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with a group of journalists and representatives of independent media outlets on April 17 at their request to hear their concerns regarding recent actions of law enforcement bodies against independent media, such as intimidation, detention and beatings of jour [...]	2009-04-28 05:42:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO MD
09CHISINAU337	POST-ELECTION HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Numerous reports have documented human rights concerns about arrests in connection with the violent April 7 demonstrations and beatings of those detained. The Ministry of Interior confirmed 317 arrests in connection with this demonstration, and reported on April 22 that all bu [...]	2009-04-28 14:39:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU34	AMBASSADOR MEETS UNCOMPROMISING LIBERAL [...] (C) Summary: Liberal Party (PL) leader Mihai Ghimpu responded with guarded hope to the Ambassador's encouragement of democracy in Moldova. He calmly described the "imposed dictatorship" of the Party of Communists (PCRM) and his disappointment with betrayers of democracy. Ghimpu touted his [...]	2009-01-16 13:26:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU35	AMBASSADOR CHAUDHRY MEETS "PIVOT PARTY" [...] (C) Summary: In a January 13 meeting with Democratic Party (PD) leader Dumitru Diacov, Ambassador Chaudhry questioned Diacov on pre- election conditions and stressed that the world was watching Moldova. Diacov acknowledged the importance of the elections, thanked the USG for its democratizat [...]	2009-01-16 13:30:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU355	NATO PULLOUT PART OF LARGER PICTURE: [...] (C) Summary: In a May 6 meeting Acting Foreign Minister Valeriu Ostalep acknowledged Russian pressure on Moldova to pull out of the NATO exercises in Georgia, but claimed that this decision did not represent a larger change in Moldova's ongoing interactions with NATO. Ostalep said that Mold [...]	2009-05-08 13:44:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM NATO EU RS MD
09CHISINAU375	VORONIN TO INTRODUCE CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In a May 18 meeting with President Voronin to discuss the current political situation, the Ambassador also raised the importance of taking action to turn around the damage done to Moldova's world image by human rights violations following the April 7 events. Voronin and the Amba [...]	2009-05-19 15:30:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU377	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR MARK TKACIUK PREFERS [...] (C) Summary: In a May 18 meeting with the Ambassador, Presidential Advisor Mark Tkaciuk argued that Moldova has emerged from each of its previous political crises as a stronger state. He believed that cutting a deal to find the "golden vote" would be possible, but would leave the country di [...]	2009-05-20 14:37:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU397	PRESIDENTIAL VOTE POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE 3; [...] (C) Summary: On May 28 the Parliament gathered for the anticipated presidential voting. The Communists proposed a postponement until June 3, which passed. The time between the Parliament's initial failure to elect a president on May 20, and the May 28 session has been filled with meetings [...]	2009-05-29 07:49:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU42	AMBASSADOR CHAUDHRY HEARS ALL THE RIGHT [...] (C) Summary: In a January 15 meeting with Liberal Democratic Party (PLDM) leader Vlad Filat, Ambassador Chaudhry questioned Filat on pre- and post-election conditions, and received positive responses on freedoms and democratization in Moldova. Filat described his plans for an energetic, coun [...]	2009-01-22 10:27:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU430	Embassy Enhances Continuing Legal [...] (SBU) Summary: During an April seminar, the Embassy, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and the Government of Moldova's (GOM) National Justice Institute trained 57 judges and prosecutors to understand Moldovan law and relevant UN conventions; taught them how to seek evidence from countries su [...]	2009-06-05 14:24:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MD
09CHISINAU449	AMBASSADOR TO FM STRATAN: MOLDOVA HURTING [...] (C) Summary: In a June 12 meeting with Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan, Ambassador delivered tough points on IRI/NDI and media freedoms. Ambassador told Stratan that GOM actions were creating an increasingly negative impression of Moldova. He pointed to the GOM's recent failure to find a wa [...]	2009-06-12 13:41:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU457	MOLDOVA RECEIVED INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 06:34:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA MD
09CHISINAU465	PM CALM ABOUT TIP DEMARCHE, DEFENSIVE ON [...] (C) Summary: In a June 16 meeting with Ambassador Chaudhry, Prime Minister Zinaida Greceanii responded with thanks for the advance warning on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report (reftel),and promised that a Government of Moldova (GOM) coordinator for TIP would be named soon. When the A [...]	2009-06-17 14:29:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU487	DEMARCHE REPLY ON EUROPEAN [...] (C) Reftel talking points were delivered to Anatol Urecheanu, Head of the Department of Multilateral Cooperation, at the Moldovan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration on June 16, 2009. Urecheanu stated that the MFA's delegation was in the process of preparing for the Minister [...]	2009-06-22 14:36:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE EU NATO
09CHISINAU49	MOLDOVA CHILD LABOR UPDATE FOR TRADE AND [...] Conditions for children in Moldova are difficult. Child poverty is widespread in families in both rural and urban areas. Children living in households without one or both of their parents (generally as a result of parents' out- migration to find work) make up about one-third of children in [...]	2009-01-23 10:36:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI MD
09CHISINAU492	VORONIN HEARS POINTS ON ELECTIONS, TIP [...] (C) Summary: In a June 25 meeting, the Ambassador informed President Voronin about the MCC Board of Directors' discussions on Moldova at their June 10 meeting. The Ambassador explained that instead of going ahead with approving the Investment Memo at their next meeting, the MCC Board had ask [...]	2009-06-25 14:07:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KTIP RO MD
09CHISINAU5	GRINCH STEALS CHRISTMAS AGAIN IN MOLDOVA [...] (SBU) Summary: Once again, the central government has interfered with Chisinau Christmas celebrations in an attempt to thwart Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca and assert its control over public space in the capital. Like last year, the confrontation began with a wandering Christmas tree; this y [...]	2009-01-06 13:06:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU525	NEW DEPUTY PM ROSCA PROMISES ACTION ON [...] (C) Summary: In two meetings with Ambassador Chaudhry, June 24 and 26, newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Rosca promised to use his new authority to correct human rights abuses in Moldova and rejuvenate the country's efforts against trafficking in persons (TIP). He noted that bette [...]	2009-07-06 15:01:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KTIP KWMN CASC MARR MD
09CHISINAU545	TERRORISM FINANCE: UN AND U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-15 08:56:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID PK MD
09CHISINAU561	DEMARCHE REPLY: SUPPORTING NGO INVOLVEMENT AT THE UNITED [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-17 14:13:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM MD
09CHISINAU575	LUPU DEFECTION FROM COMMUNISTS CREATES [...] (C) Summary: The departure of former Parliamentary Speaker Marian Lupu from the Party of Communists (PCRM) on June 10 has transformed the deeply-divided Moldovan political map by introducing a new political center. Immediately following Lupu's announcement, the Ambassador met with key polit [...]	2009-07-24 15:13:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU576	DEPUTY PM ROSCA PROMISES RETRACTION ON [...] (C) Summary: In a July 23 meeting with Ambassador Chaudhry, Deputy Prime Minister Iurie Rosca expressed shock at a defamatory anti-IRI and NDI article that appeared in his party's newspaper, and promised a retraction. The retraction appeared the next day, on the front page. Rosca also desc [...]	2009-07-24 15:16:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU581	All-Party Mud Wrestling as Campaign [...] (SBU) Summary: As Moldova's July 29 repeat parliamentary election nears, the political parties have been using this campaign period to try to exploit the controversies which followed April 5 elections and the violent demonstrations of April 7. The ruling Communists have extensively used cam [...]	2009-07-27 14:38:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU582	FOREIGN MINISTER STRATAN [...] (C) Summary: In a July 27 meeting with Ambassador Chaudhry, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Stratan promised, without much certainty or enthusiasm, that he would fix the problems created when the Government of Moldova (GOM) refused accreditation to the majo [...]	2009-07-27 14:51:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU586	Mud Wrestling Ends; Voting Proceeds [...] (SBU) Summary: After a mud-slinging polarized campaign, peaceful voting has begun on July 29. Procedures are in place, and nearly 2,000 polling stations (PEBs) are reporting high turnout. Problems are predominantly minor, such as errors on voting lists and occasional high-handed pronouncemen [...]	2009-07-29 13:46:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM MD
09CHISINAU587	POLLING RESULTS SHOW CONCERN, [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent polling by the International Republican Institute (IRI) on the eve of July 29 repeat parliamentary elections, shows that Moldovans' concerns are overwhelmingly economic and that most people believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. A separate recent poll by [...]	2009-07-30 08:10:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU588	EMBASSY OBSERVERS NOTE BOTH GOOD AND BAD [...] (SBU) Summary: On voting day, fourteen teams of Embassy election monitors noted wide discrepancies in polling station management, quality of voter lists, quality of local-observer participation, and vote counting and posting at the precinct and district levels. In many polling stations elec [...]	2009-07-30 15:46:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM MD
09CHISINAU595	OPPOSITION HAS BIG PLANS TO LEAD MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary: The opposition plans to work within its narrow parliamentary majority of 53 seats to elect the Speaker and then attempt to use their legislative mandate to try to form a government. Although Voronin would continue on as Acting President, with the speaker in place (possibly Fil [...]	2009-07-31 15:59:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU603	MOLDOVA CIVICS 101: WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH 53 MPs [...] (SBU) Summary: While there is a great deal of speculation about who might form a government in Moldova following repeat parliamentary elections on July 29, facts, in the form of numbers, remain stubborn things. Acting President Voronin will remain in office until 61 (out of 101) MPs vote to [...]	2009-08-03 14:46:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KDEM MD
09CHISINAU604	MOLDOVA CIVICS 101: WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH 53 MPs [...] (SBU) Summary: While there is a great deal of speculation about who might form a government in Moldova following repeat parliamentary elections on July 29, facts, in the form of numbers, remain stubborn things. Acting President Voronin will remain in office until 61 (out of 101) MPs vote to r [...]	2009-08-03 15:16:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KDEM MD
09CHISINAU608	What Comes Next: Expert Views [...] (SBU) Summary: Moldovan experts agree that the July 29 elections offer a chance for opposition parties to exercise power, although the constitutional provisions for establishing a government will make the process complicated. The current ruling Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova (PCR [...]	2009-08-04 13:52:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU61	HUNGARIAN AMBASSADOR THINKS LIKELY [...] (C) Summary: In a January 22 meeting, Hungarian Ambassador to Moldova Gyorgy Varga shared Ambassador Chaudhry's concerns that the Government of Moldova (GOM) was backsliding on media, political, and economic freedoms in the run up to elections. Varga told the Ambassador that President Voroni [...]	2009-01-30 13:48:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU623	OPPOSITION WORKING TO FORM RULING [...] (C) Summary: In the first full week since the July 29 elections, the four non-communist party leaders have met almost daily to work on reaching a coalition agreement. Though they immediately agreed in principle on the need to work together, one week later they were still hashing out the de [...]	2009-08-07 13:22:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MD
09CHISINAU627	Non-Communist Parties Unite; Now the [...] (SBU) Summary: The four non-Communist parties, who were elected to a combined parliamentary majority of 53 out of 101 seats on July 29, formed an official Alliance for European Integration on August 8. If, as is increasingly being predicted, the Party of Communists (PCRM) "designates" eight [...]	2009-08-10 15:45:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM MD
09CHISINAU636	DEMARCHE REPLY: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-14 11:01:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM OSCE MD
09CHISINAU670	Alliance Candidate Ghimpu Elected Speaker [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The first session of the Parliament elected on July 29 convened on August 28. After the Party of Communists (PRCM) temporary chair adjourned the session and the 48 PCRM deputies departed the hall, the 53 MPs of the Alliance for European Integration (AIE) reconvened and elect [...]	2009-08-28 15:45:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM MD
09CHISINAU675	Voronin Announces Intention to Resign as [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the "rump" Parliament of 53 Alliance for European Integration (AIE) MPs was meeting at the National Palace, President Voronin told a PCRM Party Plenum that he would renounce his position as Acting President and continue as Member of Parliament and head of PCRM faction. His [...]	2009-09-02 15:46:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU704	It's Official Q President Voronin has [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the morning of September 11, President Vladimir Voronin formally resigned. His Message to the People of Moldova was headlined in the morning newspapers and also broadcast on national television. Following Voronin's announcement, Parliament met on the afternoon of Septem [...]	2009-09-11 17:06:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU713	Ghimpu Confirmed As Acting President, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 17, the Constitutional Court confirmed the legality of Parliamentary Speaker Ghimpu's assumption of the position of Acting President. Ghimpu promptly nominated Liberal Democratic Party leader Vlad Filat as his candidate for Prime Minister. Filat will have up to [...]	2009-09-17 15:13:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09CHISINAU770	DEMARCHE REPLY: INTERNATIONAL MARITIME [...] We delivered reftel demarche to Dorin Panfil, Head of NATO and Politico-Military Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MFA),on September 28, 2009. Panfil responded that the Government of Moldova would duly consider this request and that he would pass the [...]	2009-10-07 06:03:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM AORC IMO EWWT PHSA UK MD
09CHISINAU771	DEMARCHE REPLY: EXISTENCE OF A COVERT URANIUM ENRICHMENT [...] We delivered reftel demarche to Dorin Panfil, Head of NATO and Politico-Military Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MFA),on September 28, 2009. Panfil responded that the Government of Moldova would support the U.S. without question on this issue as the [...]	2009-10-07 06:03:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM IR KNNP MNUC PARM MD
09CHISINAU842	DEMARCHE REPLY: 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] We delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Alexei Iatco, First Secretary, OSCE and International Security Directorate, Multilateral Cooperation Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (MFA&EI),Republic of Moldova, on October 27, 2009. Mr. Iatco noted that he would forward [...]	2009-10-29 05:51:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UN MD
09CHISINAU875	Prime Minister Demands Action on TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 9, for the first time ever, a Moldovan Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the National Committee for Combating Trafficking in Persons. Moreover, PM Vlad Filat did so in the presence of five cabinet members, and other high officials, to whom he gave very clear mar [...]	2009-11-12 11:18:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KTIP MD
09CHISINAU877	Prime Minister Demands Action on TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 9, for the first time ever, a Moldovan Prime Minister chaired a meeting of the National Committee for Combating Trafficking in Persons. Moreover, PM Vlad Filat did so in the presence of five cabinet members, and other high officials, to whom he gave very clear mar [...]	2009-11-13 09:14:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KTIP MD
09CHISINAU895	FM LEANCA DESCRIBES MOLDOVAN FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Speaking to DAS Dan Russell on November 19, Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Iurie Leanca discussed Moldova's need for a total U-turn in Moldova's foreign policy, from firing "useless" ambassadors, to normalizing relations with Romania, [...]	2009-11-20 14:03:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM MD
09CHISINAU896	ACTING PRESIDENT GHIMPU DISCUSSES RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 19 meeting with DAS Dan Russell, Acting President (and Speaker of Parliament) Mihai Ghimpu criticized Russian actions in Transnistria and the Caucasus, made recommendations about the Moldova-NATO relationship and the five-plus-two, and described plans for a nationa [...]	2009-11-20 14:06:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM MD
09CHISINAU898	MOLDOVA INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Moldova's new government (GOM),in place only since late September, has moved quickly to push reforms and address the problem of trafficking in persons (TIP). Per ref B, Prime Minister Vlad Filat chaired the GOM's first meeting of the National Committee for Combating Traffick [...]	2009-11-23 12:12:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG MD
09CHISINAU93	PM UPDATED ON TIP QUESTIONS, REFERS NEC [...] (C) Summary: In a February 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Greceanii responded positively to USG requests for information on Government of Moldova (GOM) actions against trafficking in persons; reacted sharply to allegations of GOM human rights violations as "provocations"; promi [...]	2009-02-12 10:27:00	Embassy Chisinau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR ABLD MD
09CHISINAU958	Religious Extremists Desecrate Chanukah [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the afternoon of Sunday December 13, followers of a small, radical Christian Orthodox religious group desecrated the menorah erected by the Jewish community in celebration of Chanukah in Chisinau's central square. After the incident, representatives of the Jewish community t [...]	2009-12-16 13:58:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR MD
09COLOMBO1006	MFA CALLS IN AMBASSADOR OVER DHS QUESTIONING OF [...] (C) On November 2, Foreign Minister Bogollagama called in Ambassador regarding reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had requested that Sri Lankan Chief of Defense (CHOD) Sarath Fonseka come in for a "voluntary" interview with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office [...]	2009-11-02 12:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1012	THE MALDIVES AGREES TO ACCEPT FIVE UIGHUR DETAINEES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 27, Ambassador Daniel Fried, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure, held meetings with senior officials from the Government of the Republic of the Maldives (GORM) to discuss the possibility of the GORM accepting five ethnic Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Followi [...]	2009-11-04 09:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS MV
09COLOMBO1016	JVP: PLAYING IT CLOSE TO THE CHEST--FOR NOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with PolOff, MP Vijitha Herath of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP, the People's Liberation Front) offered guarded comments indicated the leftist-nationalist party was probably waiting for a more certain political climate to declare publicly its political intention [...]	2009-11-06 06:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1017	SIGNIFICANT IDP RELEASES CONTINUE IN SRI LANKA [...] (C) Significant numbers of IDPs continue to be released from camps in Manik Farm and elsewhere. Exact figures differ on just how many have been released, depending on whether the source of the information is the UN or the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL). The bottom line is that in dramatic cont [...]	2009-11-06 12:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1018	FONSEKA'S U.S. VISIT AND RECALL MAKE WAVES IN SRI [...] (C) News of CHOD General Sarath Fonseka's visit to the U.S. and subsequent interaction with DHS dominated the local headlines in Colombo during the week of November 1. Many news outlets and political actors strongly criticized the U.S. for this apparent attempt to question Fonseka and possib [...]	2009-11-06 12:26:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1019	MUSLIM CONGRESS LEADER ON ELECTIONS, FONSEKA, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with PolOff, Chairman of Sri Lanka Muslim Council (SLMC) and Eastern Provincial opposition leader Basheer Segudawood spoke of his party's strategy to defeat President Rajapaksa at the upcoming elections. The strategy included forming a broad coalition with the UNP and [...]	2009-11-06 12:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1030	HANGING CHOD? GENERAL SARATH FONSEKA SUBMITS HIS [...] (C) Chief of Defense (CHOD) General Sarath Fonseka submitted his resignation to President Rajapaksa on November 12. Senior military officials in the Office of Chief of Defense Staff (OCDS),a Ministry of Defense official, United National Party (UNP) insiders and a retired military general wit [...]	2009-11-12 14:16:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1031	TAMIL LEADER SAMPANTHAN FORESEES "HOT" ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 10 meeting with PolChief, Tamil National Alliance Chairman Rajavarothiyam Sampanthan said President Rajapaksa told him there would be early presidential elections. He affirmed General Fonseka's intention to run but noted that a Rajapaksa/Fonseka contest would "spli [...]	2009-11-13 10:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1032	MISSION ANNOUNCES RE-DIRECTION OF ASSISTANCE AWAY [...] (C) On November 11, Ambassador met with Basil Rajapaksa, senior advisor to the president and chief of the Sri Lankan Government's relief and reconstruction efforts, to announce the U.S. decision to redirect aid from closed camps to returnees, host families, and open camps by March 2010. Rajapa [...]	2009-11-13 10:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1038	PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA GETS COLD FEET ON ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a much-anticipated nationwide speech on Sunday night failed to announce either a presidential or general election. Rajapaksa instead largely gave a speech that extolled the virtues of his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and took thinly-veiled swi [...]	2009-11-16 13:02:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1043	MALDIVES OPPOSES IRAN'S NO-ACTION MOTION ON UNGA [...] (C) On November 16, Vice President Ahmed Shaheed assured Ambassador of the support of the government of the Maldives (GOM) and of the Maldives intention to oppose the &no-action8 motion on the human rights resolution on Iran. Shaheed instructed their mission in New York not to participate in t [...]	2009-11-17 10:08:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER UNGA MV
09COLOMBO1044	SRI LANKA REMAINS OPPOSED TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) On November 17, Ambassador delivered reftel points urging Sri Lanka to vote against "no-action" motions and for substantive resolutions on human rights abuses in Iran, Burma, and the DPRK to MFA Foreign Secretary Romesh Jayasinghe. Jayasinghe promised to convey our concerns to his princip [...]	2009-11-17 11:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	UNGA PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO1046	MALDIVES POISED TO CHANGE POSITION ON ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (C) On November 18, PolChief delivered reftel points urging non-support of Anti-Israel UN Resolutions to the Maldives High Commissioner Ali Hussain Didi. While he could not commit to a definitive response, Didi assured Pol Chief of government of the Maldives (GOM) serious consideration of the [...]	2009-11-18 12:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER UNGA MV
09COLOMBO1047	SRI LANKA WILL NOT OPPOSE UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] (C) On November 18, PolChief delivered ref A points urging Sri Lanka to oppose UNGA resolutions with anti-Israel bias to Sri Lankan MFA U.N. and Multilateral Affairs Director General (DG) Ambassador Aruni Wijewardene. Wijewardene informed us that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) would continu [...]	2009-11-18 12:22:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID MOPS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER UNGA CE
09COLOMBO1050	Committee to Monitor Investigations into Abductions and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 17, Ambassador met with Deputy Minister P. Radhakrishnan, a member of parliament who also serves as the Deputy Minister of Vocational and Technical Training and as the Convener of the Committee to Monitor Investigations into Abductions and Disappearances. Although P [...]	2009-11-20 01:58:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO1051	PRM PDAS WITTEN EXAMINES IDP ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The November 12-16 visit of PRM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Samuel Witten came during a critical period in the ongoing humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka. The Government is accelerating releases from closed camps, a move welcomed by the international community but on [...]	2009-11-20 10:03:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1054	SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE (SFRC) FACT FINDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 2-8, Senate Foreign Relations staff members Nilmini Rubin and Fatema Sumar visited Sri Lanka and held meetings with senior government officials, international organizations, political leaders, civil-society activists, and journalists to discuss post war reconciliation [...]	2009-11-23 02:40:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO1059	SRI LANKA: ICRC ROLE INCREASINGLY UNCERTAIN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 12-16 visit to Sri Lanka on a range of post-conflict humanitarian issues, PRM Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Sam Witten discussed the situation of LTTE ex-combatants (including rehabilitation programs) in separate meetings with Minister of Justice Milin [...]	2009-11-23 08:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CE
09COLOMBO106	INDIAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER STRESSES [...] (C) Summary: In a briefing on the January 27 visit to Sri Lanka of External Affairs Minister Mukherjee, Indian Deputy High Commissioner stressed that Mukherjee registered deep concern over the current humanitarian crisis in the Vanni, where Tamil civilians are caught in the crossfire between milit [...]	2009-01-29 12:27:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM IN CE
09COLOMBO1061	TAMIL PARTIES CONFUSED AND UNDECIDED ON WAY FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sri Lanka's main Tamil parties remain disorganized and unsure of their strategy for the upcoming election season. Faced with the possible role of kingmaker in the upcoming presidential election, the Tamil parties generally are uncomfortable with the prospect of supporting the ree [...]	2009-11-23 12:25:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1062	TRUST BUT VERIFY: SRI LANKA ANNOUNCES IDP FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 21, 2009, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) announced its intention to increase freedom of movement for internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in camps in northern Sri Lanka. While specifics are unclear, it appears that as of December 1, IDPs will be able to leav [...]	2009-11-23 12:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1066	BATTLE OF THE TITANS BEGINS [...] (U) Late on November 23, President Mahinda Rajapaksa began the process to hold an early presidential election and instructed the Elections Commission to begin preparations for the election. Rajapaksa issued the instructions at a meeting with leaders of political parties constituting the ruling [...]	2009-11-24 05:57:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1069	EMBASSY COLOMBO P-1 REQUEST [...] (SBU) This is an action request for PRM,s Admissions Office. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Post requests access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for a Sri Lankan national well-known to the Embassy Public Affairs Section who is planning to flee the country within day [...]	2009-11-25 08:24:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PHUM PREF SCUL CE
09COLOMBO1070	COLOMBO ACTIVITY FOR ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN [...] On November 25, 2009, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Post coordinated with the Legal Aid Commission of Sri Lanka to organize a ceremony in recognition of the Commission's efforts to support women and end gender-based violence in Sri Lanka. 2. [...]	2009-11-25 10:28:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO CE
09COLOMBO1073	RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE: UNP LEADERS BELIEVE THEY ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of the main opposition United National Party (UNP) are upbeat about the party's electoral prospects and are confident that UNF alliance candidate General Sarath Fonseka can beat President Rajapaksa in the upcoming presidential election. UNP party members noted that the U [...]	2009-11-25 12:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1074	MALDIVES: OVERVIEW OF RECENT LEGISLATION PASSED BY [...] SUMMARY: The Maldivian parliament recently passed the Child Sexual Abuse Act and an amendment to the penal code that decriminalizes defamation. President Nasheed has signed the former into law and is expected shortly to sign the latter. While local journalists and international press freedom [...]	2009-11-27 02:19:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM MV
09COLOMBO1094	SHOW ME THE MONEY: KEY TAMIL LEADER DELAYS [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-02 13:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1110	IDP UPDATE: SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS WITH CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Large numbers of returns of internally displaced persons (IDPs) over the past several months and recent advances in freedom of movement policy are very encouraging. The returns process will continue to be complex, however, and long-term reintegration may present new challenges [...]	2009-12-04 05:01:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1111	SRI LANKA ABUZZ OVER FONSEKA CANDIDACY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The announcements of an early presidential election January 26 and of General Fonseka's candidacy have dramatically altered the political landscape in Sri Lanka and created a palpable sense of new possibilities. But the general is likely to face an uphill battle in his attempt to [...]	2009-12-04 05:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1112	IDP UPDATE: SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS WITH CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Large numbers of returns of internally displaced persons (IDPs) over the past several months and recent advances in freedom of movement policy are very encouraging. The returns process will continue to be complex, however, and long-term reintegration may present new challenges [...]	2009-12-04 05:01:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1113	SRI LANKA ABUZZ OVER FONSEKA CANDIDACY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The announcements of an early presidential election January 26 and of General Fonseka's candidacy have dramatically altered the political landscape in Sri Lanka and created a palpable sense of new possibilities. But the general is likely to face an uphill battle in his attempt to [...]	2009-12-04 05:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE

09COLOMBO1117	Re-declaration of Disaster for the Complex Emergency in Sri [...] (U) Background: Continued civil strife in the North of Sri Lanka has displaced upwards of hundreds of thousand people from their homes creating a complex emergency for the region. A disaster was initially declared in August of 2006 when almost 50,000 people had been displaced. In 2007 and 200 [...]	2009-12-04 10:03:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO1118	ELECTION SEASON MAY BRING INCREASED RISK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sunday Leader newspaper editor-in-chief Frederica Jansz, and chairman of Leader Publications Lal Wickramatunge reported feeling increasingly at risk as election season took off and expected that conditions would worsen after presidential nominations on December 17. The pair wer [...]	2009-12-04 10:12:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1129	RED ROVER: PARTY MEMBERS START CROSSING OVER [...] (C) On December 7, senior UNP leader S.B. Dissanayake resigned from his position as National Organizer for the UNP and his position as opposition leader of the Central Province provincial council. Local observers have noted in the past that Dissanayake was a possible presidential candidate ( [...]	2009-12-09 12:56:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1135	SRI LANKA: A/S BLAKE FINDS SITUATION IMPROVED BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During a December 8-10 visit, Assistant Secretary Blake found progress on humanitarian issues but also much that remained to be done. The IDP situation had greatly improved, with about three-fifths of the IDPs returned home or resettled, freedom of movement allowed f [...]	2009-12-14 06:28:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1139	SRI LANKA: ELECTIONS UPDATE NO. 1 [...] (SBU) Introduction: As an air of anticipation builds in Sri Lanka in advance of the upcoming Sri Lankan elections, including a presidential election scheduled for January 26 and a parliamentary election anticipated for later in the spring, post will provide update reports as events dictate, [...]	2009-12-14 13:50:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1140	UPDATE ON KEY IDP PROTECTION ISSUES [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 05:57:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1142	SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS: MALDIVIAN PARTIES LEARNING ABOUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 7 and 8, PolOffs traveled to Maldives to meet with political parties tomee Party (DQP),a member of the coalition party that recently broke away from government. As expected, there were dissenting opinions on the current state of the country but also several points of a [...]	2009-12-15 12:25:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL MV
09COLOMBO1145	SRI LANKA: ELECTIONS UPDATE NO.2 [...] (C) Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva spoke at an event organized by UNF member Mangala Samaraweera on December 15, criticizing the concentration of powers developed through the executive presidency under Mahinda Rajapaksa. Fonseka was a "surprise" guest at the event, and local media publis [...]	2009-12-16 12:59:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1146	A/S Blake Views IDP Freedom of Movement at Menik Farm [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 8, one week after the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) announced freedom of movement for internally displaced persons (IDPs),Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake visited the Menik Farms IDP camp complex and several communities to which Tamil-speaking civilians were [...]	2009-12-17 04:02:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL CE
09COLOMBO1147	A/S Blake Views IDP Freedom of Movement at Menik Farm [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 04:03:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL CE
09COLOMBO1148	UPDATE ON KEY IDP PROTECTION ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Civilian population displacement issues in Sri Lanka have evolved rapidly over the last several months. Key protection issues identified most recently by the humanitarian community in Colombo include freedom of movement, transferred displacement, de-mining and demarcation, singl [...]	2009-12-17 05:17:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1150	FORMER PRESIDENT NOTES DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE OF [...] (C) In a December 14 meeting with Ambassador, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga discussed President Rajapaksa's abuse of power and said that under his leadership, the economy, the political climate, health care, education and international relations had spiraled down reaching a new low in [...]	2009-12-17 09:54:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1152	SRI LANKA ELECTIONS UPDATE NO.3 [...] (C) With official nominations registered between 9:00 and 11:00 this morning, 23 candidates will be vying in the January 26 presidential election. Both President Rajapaksa from the UPFA and his main challenger former General Fonseka of the UNF and JVP handed in their nominations while hundreds [...]	2009-12-17 12:41:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1155	PUTTALAM'S "OLD" IDPS: A STABLE, IF LEAN, EXISTENCE [...] (SBU) On December 10-11, Embassy officials visited the Puttalam district and held meetings with senior government officials, international organizations, civil-society, and NGOs to assess the post-war humanitarian conditions and resettlement options of Muslim internally displaced persons (IDPs) [...]	2009-12-18 09:07:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO1156	TRUTH AND RECONCIALIATION COMMISSION PROPOSED FOR MALDIVES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Maldivian media reported December 18 that a South African-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) had been proposed following President Mohamed Nasheed's radio address last week, where he called on the Human Rights Commission of Maldives (HRCM) to look into past injustices [...]	2009-12-19 09:08:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL MV
09COLOMBO1159	DEFENSE SECRETARY DEFENDS SRI LANKAN POLICIES WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 8 meeting with A/S Blake, Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa discussed accountability and reconciliation; the State of Emergency; disarmament of ex-combatants and paramilitary groups; reconstruction in the North; rehabilitation of Liberation Tigers of [...]	2009-12-22 04:33:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1165	EASTERN PROVINCE: RETURNS NEARLY COMPLETE BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Emboffs met with local authorities, community leaders, United Nations (UN) officials, and returnees in Batticaloa and Trincomalee districts in the Eastern Province. Returns of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to these districts are nearly complete but land issues, livelihoods, [...]	2009-12-22 11:13:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1166	ELECTIONS IN THE EAST: TAMILS UNCONVINCED [...] (S) SUMMARY: A visit to the Eastern Province by Embassy officers found that Tamils in the East do not strongly support either President Rajapaksa or General Fonseka in the upcoming election and that many would spoil their votes. Only Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) authorities expressed strong c [...]	2009-12-22 11:13:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1177	SRI LANKAN ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER: FAQS FOR AND [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The following provides Post assessment of key issues related to the Sri Lankan Elections Commissioner and the upcoming presidential election scheduled for January 26. The message is organized in frequently-asked-question (FAQ) format and draws on Ambassador's Dec [...]	2009-12-22 12:50:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO1179	Action Request for FY 2010 Funds for Northern Sri Lanka [...] (SBU) This is an action cable. Please see paragraphs 7-13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The coming months offer a unique window of opportunity for the United States and other donors to assist the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) in supporting peace and reconciliation through development and assistance p [...]	2009-12-23 10:51:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PHUM PREF ECON CE
09COLOMBO1180	ACCOUNTABILITY: FONSEKA STIRS UP HORNETS' NEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The committee appointed by the president to look into allegations raised in the Department's October 21 incidents report to Congress will not issue a public report but rather a recommendation memo for President Rajapaksa's consideration. Although Sarath Fonseka was quoted as accu [...]	2009-12-23 12:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO127	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR WELCOMES CO-CHAIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 4 Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa, after expressing concerns over the description of India's role, privately welcomed the Co-Chairs statement, as did Foreign Minister Bogollagama. On February 5, Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa blasted the statement, calling [...]	2009-02-05 09:39:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PHUM PINS CE
09COLOMBO143	SRI LANKA: CHRISTIAN GROUPS CONCERNED OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 20 and February 2, separate evangelical Christian groups met Ambassador to discuss their concerns regarding the likely passage of "anti-conversion legislation." The legislation's vague language and harsh punishments would infringe on their rights of thought, conscience [...]	2009-02-10 05:17:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF CE
09COLOMBO146	SRI LANKA: GSL CENSORSHIP PROMPTS BBC TO PULL FM [...] (C) The BBC announced on February 9 that it was suspending its FM programming in Sinhala, Tamil and English from the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) due to "deliberate interference" by the government. According to a local BBC employee the suspension would affect 60-70% of the BBC's [...]	2009-02-10 11:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MOPS PREL CE
09COLOMBO155	MALDIVES: THE NINTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Post's submission for the ninth annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for the Maldives follows. Responses are keyed to questions in reftel. Post point of contact is ConOff Joel T. Wiegert, telephone +94-11-249-8635, fax +94-11-249-8590. One officer, FS-04, spent 24 hours in the [...]	2009-02-16 06:23:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG MV
09COLOMBO166	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 14: ICRC to Ship Food Aid into [...] (SBU) On Monday, the ICRC evacuated by sea 400 wounded persons, who are now receiving medical treatment in Trincomalee. This brings the total number of medical evacuations by sea to 1145. ICRC Country Director Paul Castella told Ambassador that an ICRC-flagged ship carrying 30 tons of food pl [...]	2009-02-17 12:45:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO173	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 15: Heavy Fighting Continues; UN [...] (SBU) Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa informed Ambassador and DATT on February 17 that the military has now occupied almost all the former safe zone and is now engaged in house to house combat with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Puthukkuduyiruppu (PTK) town. LTTE continue [...]	2009-02-18 12:21:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO174	Sri Lanka Humanitarian Update, 02/18/09 [...] The U.N. reports 30,000 internally displaced people from Sri Lanka's northern Vanni Region are receiving humanitarian assistance at 17 locations in the Vavuniya District. International organizations report they are responding to the food and non- food emergency needs of the displaced and that a [...]	2009-02-18 12:23:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM PREF CE
09COLOMBO180	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 16 [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes began his visit to Sri Lanka, which will likely bring renewed international attention to the Sri Lankan conflict. Ambassador stressed to Holmes and Foreign Minister Bogollagama that Sri Lankan forces would likely con [...]	2009-02-19 13:53:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO186	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 17 [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 20, the Defense Secretary told the Ambassador that the army expects to push the remaining LTTE back to the safe zone within the next week (February 21-27). He assured the Ambassador that the Government would at that point enter "passive mode" to permit civilians to f [...]	2009-02-20 10:21:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO199	SRI LANKA: UN LAUNCHES 2009 COMMON HUMANITARIAN ACTION PLAN [...] Summary: On February 18, 2009, the United Nations launched its 2009 Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP) for Sri Lanka. The 2009 CHAP requests US$ 155 million for 103 projects proposed by 42 organizations. Priority activities for immediate requirements are estimated at $75.7 million. The [...]	2009-02-23 11:54:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM PREF CE
09COLOMBO201	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 18 [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 20, Sri Lankan Air Defenses shot down two light planes sent by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on suicide missions to attack targets in the Colombo area. The planes narrowly missed their targets. The visit by UN U/SYG John Holmes made clear to both the [...]	2009-02-23 12:18:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO204	SRI LANKA: NEW IDPS ARRIVE IN JAFFNA; HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On a February 10-11 trip to Jaffna, DCM and RSO discussed conditions for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the human rights situation on the peninsula with government, military, and civil society representatives and the UN. They also participated in the launch of a prog [...]	2009-02-24 10:02:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL ECON EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO208	CORRECTED COPY (NEW SUBJECT) SRI LANKA: IDP ARRIVALS AT [...] SUMMARY: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has transported 1,611 people from the Mullaitivu conflict area to a reception center at the Trincomalee Hospital in northern Sri Lanka. USAID Office of Foreign Disaster regional advisor (OFDA R/A) was given access to the hospital, wh [...]	2009-02-24 13:46:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM PREF CE
09COLOMBO218	SRI LANKA: TAMIL NEWSPAPER EDITOR'S "WHITE VAN" ARREST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Eyewitnesses reported that several men, some in plain clothes and some in police uniforms took Tamil newspaper editor M. Vidyatharan at gunpoint at about 9:45 am local time on February 26 and bundled him into a white van. Vidyatharan was taken as he came out of a funeral parlor [...]	2009-02-26 13:08:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PTER PREL CE
09COLOMBO229	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT LAUNCHES ANTI-CHILD SOLDIER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 26 Charge attended the launch of the GSL campaign against child soldiers. In his remarks at the event President Rajapaksa focused on the LTTE's use of children in combat but pointedly singled out Eastern Province Chief Minister Pillaiyan in an oblique reference to the [...]	2009-02-27 08:51:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MOPS CE
09COLOMBO26	GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA BANS LTTE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 7, the Government of Sri Lanka banned the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Under the ban's regulations, anyone found guilty of promoting, encouraging or aiding and abetting the LTTE would be sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. On January 8, Ambassador attended [...]	2009-01-08 12:03:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER PREF CE
09COLOMBO265	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 28 [...] (SBU) Summary: Both government and pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sources reported heavy fighting and high casualties after counterattacks by the remaining LTTE forces in and near Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK) and Chalai. One source said the LTTE pushed back the Sri Lankan army about [...]	2009-03-09 11:28:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO266	SRI LANKA: PILLAIYAN'S TMVP HANDS IN SOME OF ITS [...] (SBU) On March 7, cadres loyal to Eastern Provincial Council Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan ("Pillaiyan") surrendered 150 weapons and 7,000 rounds of ammunition to government security forces in Batticaloa. Press reports characterized the ceremony as the "official disarming" of Pi [...]	2009-03-09 11:50:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER MARR EAID CE
09COLOMBO277	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 29 [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN reports heavy shelling within the safe zone on March 10, resulting in many civilian casualties. A medical team arrived from India to establish and run a field hospital in Pulmoddai that will treat medical evacuees from the safe zone. Despite Government pledges to cease u [...]	2009-03-11 12:14:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO278	SRI LANKA: KARUNA JOINS THE SLFP AND BECOMES A [...] (U) After months of growing tension between former comrades-in-arms Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan ("Pillaiyan") and Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan ("Karuna Amman") (refs C, D, E),Karuna officially left the TMVP (a breakaway faction of the LTTE formerly known as the "Karuna group") and joined Pr [...]	2009-03-11 12:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO281	SRI LANKA: OPPOSITION MEDIA ADVISOR ABDUCTED, THEN [...] (U) At approximately 19:30 local time on March 11, Professor Dhammika Ganganath Dissanayake, the former Chairman of the State Broadcasting Corporation, was abducted by men in civilian clothes who came in a white van. Early in the morning of March 12 Dissanayake was released unharmed more than [...]	2009-03-12 11:43:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PINS CE
09COLOMBO283	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 30 [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 12 meeting Ambassador pressed Defense Secretary to minimize civilian casualties. The U.N. reports 2,683 killed and 7,241 injured in fighting from January 20-March 7. UN Resident Representative Buhne informed Ambassador that 72 persons were killed and 91 injured as t [...]	2009-03-12 12:53:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO287	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 31 [...] (U) SUMMARY: WFP will complete delivery of 500 MT of food aid to the no-fire zone today. The ICRC is planning an evacuation of 400 wounded from the no-fire zone as soon as March 14. Indian DCM reported that the Indian-supplied field hospital will begin operating today in Pulmoddai. End Summ [...]	2009-03-13 07:55:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO288	SRI LANKA: PRINCIPLES FOR POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and USAID Mission Director hosted bilateral and multilateral donors and the UN Resident Representative on March 11 to discuss principles and plans for possible future reconstruction in Sri Lanka's North, where the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) appears to be on the verge of [...]	2009-03-13 08:15:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM MOPS CE
09COLOMBO294	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 32 [...] (U) Summary: The March 13 statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights attesting that 2,800 civilians have died in fighting in the north since January 20 and that the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) may have committed "war crimes" met with angry [...]	2009-03-16 12:29:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO299	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 33 [...] (U) Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reports basic medical supplies are still urgently needed in the safe zone; this plea is repeated by health administrators in the safe zone. The UN accuses the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of forcibly recruiting a loc [...]	2009-03-17 11:33:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO300	SRI LANKA: UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 13 U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights released a statement in which she raised the possibility that war crimes were being commited by the Sri Lankan military and the LTTE. Human Rights Minister Samarasinghe responded for the government describing the statement as [...]	2009-03-17 11:49:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PINS UN CE
09COLOMBO304	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 34 [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador pressed Foreign Minister to allow in medical supplies and to stop shelling near civilian concentrations. ICRC reports that some medicine "may" be loaded onto a passenger ferry departing this evening (March 18) from Trincomalee for the safe zone. Unconfirmed reports we [...]	2009-03-18 12:24:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO307	SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES ON SAFE ZONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 18 Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Bogollagama to urge him to fulfill GSL commitments not to shell the safe zone and to allow medicine to reach civilians trapped there. Ambassador called claims that the army was not shelling the safe zone "not credible" and echoed [...]	2009-03-19 09:50:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS PINS CE
09COLOMBO308	A SUGGESTION FOR GETTING MANY OF SRI LANKA'S [...] (C) Summary: While the US and some others are engaged in intensive efforts to protect the estimated 120-150,000 civilians trapped in the "safe zone" of northern Sri Lanka from shelling, and assure they have adequate food and medicine, the international community needs a plan to evacuate as ma [...]	2009-03-19 11:18:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF EAID CE
09COLOMBO310	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 35 [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Resident Coordinator informed Ambassador of reports of planes dropping bombs in the Government-designated "safe zone" on March 18. Multiple accounts substantiate reports of civilian retaliation against the LTTE on March 18. Larger numbers of civilians are fleeing into G [...]	2009-03-19 11:43:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO314	SRI LANKA: ENGAGING THE TAMIL DIASPORA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Tamil Diaspora is vocal, internet-savvy and heavily influenced by hard-line views. Recent demonstrations across North America and Europe showed the diaspora unafraid to label the GSL "genocidal". In response to hundreds of e-mails received, Ambassador and other Mission staff [...]	2009-03-20 04:47:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINS CE
09COLOMBO316	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 36 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government claims sufficient medicine has been sent to civilians trapped in the conflict zone; however, ICRC reconfirms that there have been no recent medical shipments. According to UN local staff, LTTE fighters have become reluctant to challenge or fire on large groups of [...]	2009-03-20 10:08:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO32	DISCUSSION WITH PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA ON MEDIA [...] (c) Summary: In a January 8 meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa requested by Ambassador, the President offered little hope that investigations into recent attacks on the press would lead anywhere, but agreed to provide security for two prominent critics. He predicted the Sri Lankan mil [...]	2009-01-09 08:35:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO320	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 37 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government provided a 2-ton shipment of medical supplies for civilians in the conflict area on March 22, the first in a month. Following on the death of a local CARE worker in the conflict area, the Government accused both CARE and the deceased of supporting the LTTE. The [...]	2009-03-23 12:18:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO321	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 38 [...] (SBU) Summary: Local contacts report LTTE abuses against civilians trapped in the conflict zone. World Food Programme plans next shipment to conflict zone will depart the weekend of March 28-29. The Government's delivery of medical supplies on March 22 lacked some supplies necessary to trea [...]	2009-03-24 11:49:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO322	SRI LANKA: FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSES GSL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 23 meeting, the Foreign Minister questioned why the U.S. was supporting a briefing to the United Nations Security Council on the fighting in northern Sri Lanka. Ambassador stressed that continued shelling of civilians in the safe zone was a major concern of the United [...]	2009-03-24 13:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MOPS PINR UN CE
09COLOMBO329	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 39 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sri Lankan Air Force confirms that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fired shoulder-mounted missiles from the safe zone on March 25. The Government publicly assails humanitarian agencies, free media, and civil rights activists, among others. UNHCR reports access [...]	2009-03-25 12:00:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO33	SRI LANKA: AFTER THE FALL OF KILINOCHCHI, WHAT WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The government of Mahinda Rajapaksa has achieved considerable success in its military campaign against the LTTE. The Defense Ministry under his brother, Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, has had top priority for funding and other support, and has used this mandate to transform the [...]	2009-01-09 11:00:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
09COLOMBO342	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 40 [...] (U) Summary: The Foreign Minister summoned the UN Resident Coordinator to defend the UN's much publicized civilian casualty figures; the UN continues to stand by its estimate of 2,683 dead and over 7,000 injured from January 20-March 5. On March 30, the UN World Food Program (WFP) will load [...]	2009-03-26 11:51:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO35	U.K., India and Japan Call for Political Solution [...] The recent capture of Kilinochchi, the former capital of the LTTE in northern Sri Lanka, to the Sri Lankan Armed Forces elicited similarly cautious responses from the British Foreign Office, the Indian Foreign Secretary, and an unnamed Japanese foreign ministry official. UK Calls for Sustaina [...]	2009-01-12 02:29:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV UK IN JA CE
09COLOMBO351	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 41 [...] (SBU) Summary: Contrary to various reports that the LTTE retains control over just one square kilometer of land in addition to the "safe zone", the Sri Lankan army continues to face heavy fighting a few kilometers west of the "safe zone". The Ministry of Resettlement has instructed two inter [...]	2009-03-27 10:45:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO356	SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT OPENS DIALOGUE WITH TAMIL DIASPORA [...] (U) Twenty Tamils from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, France, and Switzerland attended a two-day conference hosted by the Sri Lankan Government on March 29-30 2009. The initiative grew out of a meeting Sri Lankan Foreign Minster Rohitha Bogollagama held with Australian [...]	2009-03-30 11:16:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO357	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 42 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Foreign Minister announced the GSL would suspend attacks against the LTTE for a short period of time. He did not indicate when the suspension would begin. 1000MT of food and non-food items are set to be delivered to the safe zone on March 31. Basil Rajapaksa outlined steps [...]	2009-03-30 11:27:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO360	SRI LANKA: ASSESSMENT OF DISPLACED PERSONS CAMPS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two USAID officials recently concluded separate trips to the Districts of Vavuniya and Mannar in Sri Lanka's Northern Province. Through meetings with local officials and implementing partners, visits to IDP sites ("camps"),and informal conversations with IDPs, they assessed t [...]	2009-03-30 12:15:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO368	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 43 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Walter Kaelin, UN Special Rapporteur for IDPs will visit Sri Lanka April 2-6. ICRC President Kellenberger has tentative plans to visit Sri Lanka starting April 9. India is sending additional equipment and personnel to support the GOI's field hospital in Pulmoddai. Last week's [...]	2009-03-31 11:11:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO374	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 44 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.N. now reports 3937 civilians killed and more than 9000 injured since January 20. 78% of those killed were in the safe zone. The U.N. has received reports that the Army has fired on escaping civilians. The planned food aid shipment to the safe zone has been delayed. UNH [...]	2009-04-01 12:37:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO384	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 45 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Sri Lankan Army reports it has surrounded hundreds of LTTE cadres in the eastern sections of PTK. The military reports the LTTE is moving portions of the civilian population to the southern section of the safe zone. 1,030MT of food aid and non-food items have arrived off th [...]	2009-04-02 11:15:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO393	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 46 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.N. satellite imagery documented clear indications of damage from sustained shelling and air strikes in the safe zone. Ambassador hosted a briefing for Co-Chair Heads of Mission by U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of IDPs Walter Kaelin. Norwegian Minister for Intern [...]	2009-04-03 07:33:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO396	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 47 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Army Commander Fonseka reported to Ambassador that the LTTE controls only 3 square kilometers outside the safe zone. Fonseka also estimated that the LTTE only had 600-700 hard core cadres and 300 Sea Tigers left. Defense Secretary Rajapaksa told Reuters that the military was i [...]	2009-04-06 11:49:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO397	SRI LANKA: POLICE ACADEMY SUPERINTENDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: H. L. Jamaldeen the Superintendent of Police (SP) of the Kalmunai police division was shot and killed on April 5 outside of a mosque in Kalmunai, Ampara District. Jamaldeen was also the Director of Kalladi Police Training College and USAID's main point of contact for a DoD-fund [...]	2009-04-06 12:11:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC CE
09COLOMBO399	SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES BOTH SUPPORTIVE OF US [...] (SBU) Ambassador conveyed reftel points concerning the U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council to Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona. DCM contacted Maldivian Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed. 2. (SBU) Foreign Secretary Kohona responded as follows: "We also believe that the [...]	2009-04-07 09:14:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA CE MV
09COLOMBO402	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 48 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the UN, 14,166 civilians have been killed or wounded in fighting between January 20 and April 6. The majority of those casualties have occurred in GSL-declared safe zones. The military announced the launch of an operation to free thousands of civilians. UNSR Kalin [...]	2009-04-07 11:39:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO411	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 49 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador intervened with Army Commander Fonseka to urge an end to heavy shelling of the GSL-designated safe zone on April 8. The Red Cross reported a disappointing result of ICRC President Kellenberger's visit to Sri Lanka, including the denial of access to IDP screening point [...]	2009-04-08 11:56:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO412	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 50 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GSL officials reported that military operations are ongoing to create corridors through which civilians could escape the safe zone. UNSYG Ban Ki Moon and President Rajapaksa discussed by phone a "humanitarian pause" in the fighting. Subsequently, UN Resident Representative Buh [...]	2009-04-10 08:18:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO413	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 51 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The government of Sri Lanka announced a 48-hour period of restraint, during which the armed forces would confine themselves to defensive operations. International observers noted that shelling of the "safe zone" had diminished on April 11 and 12, and that no firing was now bei [...]	2009-04-13 10:45:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO415	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 52 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Just a few hours before the government-declared period of restraint ends at midnight local time on April 14, the pause appeared generally to be holding. The UN, ICRC and Sri Lankan health and military authorities were all reporting relatively low numbers of wounded, mostly from [...]	2009-04-14 10:38:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO418	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 53 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador pressed Defense Secretary Rajapaksa to exercise restraint to ensure civilian casualties are minimized in the safe zone. Rajapaksa repeated the GSL offer of amnesty to all LTTE fighters, except LTTE leader Prabakharan and Intelligence Chief Pottu Amman. The governmen [...]	2009-04-15 10:56:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO424	SRI LANKA: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND EXPLOITATIVE [...] (U) Summary: Post is not aware of forced labor in the production of goods in Sri Lanka. Exploitative child labor may exist in the brick industry. Children working in the fireworks industry work at home and are engaged in non-hazardous forms of work. End Summary. ------------ Forced Labor [...]	2009-04-16 11:27:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI CE
09COLOMBO425	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 54 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNSYG CoS Vijay Nambiar met Ambassador and noted that the UN should play a "continuous," rather than "one-off", role in promoting an end to hostilities. Ambassador met Minister for Resettlement Bathiudeen and urged progress on benchmarks for the treatment of the IDP population. [...]	2009-04-16 11:27:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO431	SRI LANKA: VISIT BY UNSYG CHIEF OF STAFF NAMBIAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The April 16-17 visit to Sri Lanka by UNSYG Chief of Staff Vijay Nambiar yielded mixed results. After a one-on-one breakfast meeting with President Rajapaksa on April 17, Nambiar reported that Rajapaksa had left only a slim opening for the UN to pursue the release of civilians b [...]	2009-04-17 11:29:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM MOPS EAID UNGA CE
09COLOMBO432	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 55 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The visit of the UN Secretary General's Chief of Staff Vijay Nambiar brought limited progress, with some prospect of a working-level UN mission to try to negotiate the release of greater numbers of civilians from the LTTE-controlled "safe zone." The UN resident coordinator in Col [...]	2009-04-17 11:42:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO435	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 56 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The situation in the "safe zone" has taken a dramatic turn today, with a strong push by the Sri Lankan military. Reports indicate that early this morning Sri Lankan troops attacked LTTE positions near and in Putumattalan. High numbers of civilians appear to have crossed over i [...]	2009-04-20 12:32:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO44	SRI LANKA: ARMY TAKES ELEPHANT PASS; NOW CONTROLS [...] (U) In a significant victory, the Sri Lankan Army completed its reconquest of the entire Jaffna peninsula by seizing control of the key base at Elephant Pass, held by the "Tamil Tigers" (LTTE) since 2000. On January 9, the President announced in an address to the nation that after heavy fight [...]	2009-01-12 12:36:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS CE
09COLOMBO445	SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Post delivered diplomatic notes to the Governments of Sri Lanka and the Maldives on April 16 informing them of the candidacy of the United States for election to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the term 2009-2012, as well as a copy of the United States Human Rights Commitments [...]	2009-04-21 08:43:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL CE MV
09COLOMBO447	MALDIVES: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND EXPLOITATIVE [...] Post is not aware of forced labor or exploitative child labor in the production of goods in Maldives. ------------ Forced Labor ------------ 2. Forced Labor: Post is not aware of forced labor in the production of goods in Maldives. The Employment Act of 2008 prohibits forced labor. [...]	2009-04-21 11:12:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI MV
09COLOMBO448	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 57 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Events continued to move rapidly on April 21 in and around the No-Fire Zone (NFZ). Government forces reported splitting the NFZ in two, reaching the beach near Putumattalan. Civilian evacuees on April 20 totaled 35,000-40,000 according to Government statements, with an additiona [...]	2009-04-21 11:19:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO454	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 58 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Sri Lankan military continued operations in the NFZ area on April 22. The northern half of the NFZ was reportedly under control of the military, and heavy shelling in the upper portion of the southern half of the NFZ was reported early in the morning of April 22. Sources in [...]	2009-04-22 11:54:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO456	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 59 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Conditions continue to worsen for civilians caught inside the NFZ, as the GSL presses on in its pursuit of remaining LTTE cadres and leadership. The UN estimates between 50,000 and 80,000 civilians may remain inside the NFZ, while between 100,000 and 110,000 appear to have escap [...]	2009-04-23 10:56:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO457	SRI LANKA: BROTHER OF TAMIL MP SURVIVES ABDUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Urban planner Selvarajah Raveendran, brother of a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Member of Parliament, was abducted in front of eyewitnesses at a checkpoint in a high-security zone by unformed policemen and others in civilian clothes on March 24. At the request of the victim's b [...]	2009-04-23 11:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS CE
09COLOMBO459	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 60 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge called the Foreign Minister to support the UN Secretary General's request to allow a working-level UN team access into the "no-fire zone" (NFZ) to negotiate an LTTE surrender. The Minister was non-committal. The Sri Lankan military pressed on in its pursuit of remaining [...]	2009-04-24 12:29:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO464	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 61 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 27, the Government continued to reject calls for a ceasefire, but declared an end to combat operations. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) promptly accused Government forces of continuing to bomb civilians. UN Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs John Holme [...]	2009-04-27 11:26:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO468	SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT WINS BIG IN PROVINCIAL POLL [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) coalition delivered a resounding defeat to the opposition United National Party (UNP) in Western Provincial Council elections held Saturday, April 24. The two-thirds majority received represents the l [...]	2009-04-28 03:00:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO469	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 62 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 27, the Government announced it would end use of heavy weapons in the conflict zone given the threat to civilians. However, according to several still unconfirmed reports, shelling into the "safe zone" continued on April 28. The Government did not approve UN Undersecr [...]	2009-04-28 11:49:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO47	UNP ACCUSES GOVERNMENT OF ORDERING ATTACKS ON MEDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an intervention in Parliament on January 9, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe directly accused the Defense Secretary and the Army Commander of involvement in activities of "a few intelligence sections" responsible for the attack on the MTV station, the assassination of ne [...]	2009-01-13 11:26:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
09COLOMBO470	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 63 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite the Government's April 27 promise to end use of heavy weapons in the conflict, post continues to receive reports from multiple reliable Embassy sources with access to first-hand information of firing causing civilian deaths and injuries in the Government-designated "safe [...]	2009-04-29 11:46:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO473	SRI LANKA: STRUGGLE TO PROVIDE LIFE-SAVING ASSISTANCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From April 21 to 25, USAID Si Lanka Mission Director and USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID OFDA) actin regional advisor traveled to Northern Sri Lanka to assess the humanitarian situation of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled the so [...]	2009-04-30 05:17:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO474	SRI LANKA: STRUGGLE TO PROVIDE LIFE-SAVING ASSISTANCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From April 21 to 25, USAID Sri Lanka Mission Director and USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID OFDA) acting regional advisor traveled to Northern Sri Lanka to assess the humanitarian situation of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled the [...]	2009-04-30 08:04:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO477	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 64 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband conducted a one-day visit to Sri Lanka on April 29. They urged the Government to end hostilities in the North; however President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa rebu [...]	2009-04-30 12:10:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE

09COLOMBO484	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 65 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Rajapaksa has invited co-Chairs Ambassadors to a meeting on May 5; post requests guidance from Washington. The Government of Sri Lanka continued to refute reports of shelling in the civilian safe zone, and accused the UN of "spying" following the leak of a UNOSAT repor [...]	2009-05-04 10:39:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO488	SRI LANKA: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND LOAN [...] (C) Charge delivered ref a points to Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa on April 29 when, in a discussion initially concerning other issues, Rajapaksa said that the U.S. is blocking Sri Lanka's IMF request. Charge and Econ Chief underscored that the U.S. has not threatened publicly [...]	2009-05-05 05:45:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL EFIN ECON PHUM CE
09COLOMBO492	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 66 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge attended a meeting of Co-Chair Ambassadors with President Mahinda Rajapaksa on May 5. The UN appealed for 50 million USD in urgent humanitarian needs. The Sri Lankan Army advanced further south within the Government-designated safe zone. ICRC reports delay in food shipment [...]	2009-05-05 12:21:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO495	SRI LANKA: EMBASSY SHARES IMAGES OF SAFE ZONE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 5 meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona, Charge provided satellite images taken since April 27 of new shelling damage within the Government-designated "safe zone." The President maintained that Government forces have not been she [...]	2009-05-05 14:03:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MOPS PREF PTER CE
09COLOMBO501	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 67 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 5, President Mahinda Rajapaksa invited UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to visit the country. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) expects the "Green Ocean" ferry to depart Trincomalee on the evening of May 6 and offload food in the conflict zone on May 7. [...]	2009-05-06 12:02:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO502	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT DISCUSSES HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Rajapaksa discussed the participation of the international community in ongoing humanitarian relief efforts and future recovery efforts in the conflict-affected north with Co-Chair Ambassadors on May 5. Charge, acting as spokesman for the Co-Chairs, urged the Presiden [...]	2009-05-06 13:30:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM PGOV MOPS EAID CE
09COLOMBO507	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 68 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Mahinda Rajapaksa briefed the diplomatic corps on May 7 regarding the conclusion of the war with the LTTE and the Government's intentions of responding to humanitarian and development needs in the North. An ICRC ferry successfully reached the conflict zone on May 7 to [...]	2009-05-07 12:47:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO514	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 69 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Heavy shelling in the conflict zone on May 9 and 10 resulted in the deaths of at least several hundred civilians. Each side of the conflict blamed the other. Foreign Minister Bogollagama disputed accusations against Government forces in a May 11 meeting with Charge. The Govern [...]	2009-05-11 12:28:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO519	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 70 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Army is now advancing on LTTE positions from the south as well as the north of the conflict zone. Post received reports of continued shelling and heavy fire in the conflict zone through the morning of May 12. Senior Government officials continued to refute reports of any re [...]	2009-05-12 11:34:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO522	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 71 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite indications from within the safe zone that the trapped civilian population might attempt to escape on May 12-13, a large-scale exodus had not materialized as of 4 pm local time on May 13. Charge and Defense Attache liaised with Government officials and with contacts in [...]	2009-05-13 11:28:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO523	SRI LANKA: CB GOVERNOR DISAPPOINTED ABOUT IMF [...] (C) Summary: In a collegial but stern conversation, Central Bank Governor Cabraal told the Charge that the GSL is disappointed by the lack of U.S. support for its IMF Stand-by Arrangement (SBA) and concerned that U.S. attempts to place political conditions on the GSL's request are inappropriat [...]	2009-05-13 11:51:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL PHUM KDEM CE
09COLOMBO528	SRI LANKA: STATUS OF FIELD HOSPITAL REQUEST AND USG HEALTH [...] SUMMARY: Following several weeks of discussion with Ministry of Health (MOH) and other Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) officials, the US Government (USG) for a variety of reasons has decided not to provide a field hospital in the conflict-affected North. Key factors considered included rapidly [...]	2009-05-14 09:46:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO529	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 72 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge pressed Government officials to permit UN access to the conflict zone as soon as possible, and to facilitate a visit this month by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. At least 1,200 civilians escaped on May 14, and perhaps thousands of others are following, according to mi [...]	2009-05-14 11:21:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO531	MALDIVES: FORMER RULING PARTY NARROWLY WINS ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Maldives held its first multiparty parliamentary elections on May 9. Long delays in counting and announcing results led to unruly protests and some violence in the capital, Male'. Provisional results announced by the Elections Commission on May 11 showed that the party of former [...]	2009-05-14 14:32:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM MV
09COLOMBO533	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 73 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters in Geneva raised the alarm concerning an "unimaginable humanitarian disaster" unfolding in the conflict zone, and called on the Government and the LTTE to enable assistance to reach trapped civilians. Roughly 4,00 [...]	2009-05-15 10:40:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO535	NORTHERN SRI LANKA SITREP 74 [...] (C) SUMMARY: May 16-17 marked a watershed day in Sri Lanka's conflict with the LTTE, as an estimated 72,000 civilians escaped the safe zone. Remnants of the LTTE continued to mount resistance in an area of less than one square kilometer in the government's unilaterally declared "no fire zon [...]	2009-05-17 11:55:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO539	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 75 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Sri Lankan Military has announced that the war with the LTTE is over. Numerous sources reported that LTTE leader Prabhakaran was dead, but there had been no official announcement as 1630 local. There were reports that LTTE leaders Pullidevan and Nadesan wanted to surrender [...]	2009-05-18 11:54:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE ECON
09COLOMBO54	SRI LANKA: DEFENSE SECRETARY ESCALATES THREATS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 14, despite assurances from President Rajapaksa to senior editors and journalists that none of them would be harmed, threats to the media escalated. His brother, Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa, gave a rambling interview in which he accused the MTV television ne [...]	2009-01-15 13:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
09COLOMBO543	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 76 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Rajapaksa gave a victory speech to Parliament on the morning of May 19. While he discussed redevelopment of the North and political reform in broad terms, the speech was far from the olive branch to the Tamil people many had hoped it would be. It was defensively bell [...]	2009-05-19 10:41:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE ECON
09COLOMBO549	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 77 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Rajapaksa declared May 20 a national holiday to celebrate the victory over the Tamil Tigers (LTTE). In Ambassador's farewell call on him, the President acknowledged the importance of reconciliation with Sri Lankan Tamils and with the Tamil Diaspora to ensure that Tami [...]	2009-05-20 10:45:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE ECON
09COLOMBO557	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 78 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa told Ambassador late on May 20 that the GSL was firm in its decision to restrict access by UN agencies and others to IDP camps. He criticized the UN and ICRC and said that they had to decide whether to remain in Sri Lanka to help IDPs. He s [...]	2009-05-21 11:44:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE ECON
09COLOMBO559	Northern Sri Lanka SitRep 79 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN staff on the ground were preparing for Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's visit on May 23, but it was unclear if his schedule would allow a meeting with the Co-Chair Ambassadors. UN envoy Vijay Nambiar held a press conference where he described his flight over the desolation of [...]	2009-05-22 12:51:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE ECON
09COLOMBO563	SRI LANKA: IN FAREWELL, AMBASSADOR PRESSES HARD ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his round of farewell calls on Sri Lankan government officials, Ambassador Blake emphasized that having won the war against "Tamil Tiger" terrorism, the Sri Lankan government now needed to consolidate its victory by "winning the peace." Ambassador noted that following the mili [...]	2009-05-26 11:38:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS CE
09COLOMBO567	SRI LANKA: BAN KI-MOON BRIEFS CO-CHAIR AMBASSADORS [...] (C) Summary: In his messages to the government during a 24-hour visit to Sri Lanka on May 23, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon emphasized the key points of the need for a political process and reconciliation, better access by humanitarian workers to the IDP camps, early IDP returns, and grea [...]	2009-05-27 12:32:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM MOPS CE
09COLOMBO571	SRI LANKA: NEED FOR RAPID PROGRESS IN RESOLVING [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-28 14:07:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE ECON
09COLOMBO572	DEMINNG SRI LANKA'S NORTH - IMPRESSIONS FROM THE FIELD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) recently decided to begin de-mining operations in the Manthai West Division of Mannar District, one of five districts in the Northern Province and the scene of heavy fighting last year, when Government forces pushed the LTTE northward into the V [...]	2009-05-29 08:50:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO573	SRI LANKA: NEED FOR RAPID PROGRESS IN RESOLVING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID/OFDA and PRM officers' monitoring of Vavuniya area sites for internally-displaced persons (IDPs) on May 18-22 revealed the post-May 15 outflow of civilians from the conflict severely stretched the Government's capacity to respond. While US-funded UN agencies and INGOs are [...]	2009-06-01 03:03:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE ECON
09COLOMBO577	USAID/OFDA Humanitarian Assistance to Sri Lanka in FY 2009 [...] (U) SUMMARY: USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) has provided more than USD 6 million to U.N. and non-governmental organization (NGO) partners in Sri Lanka for emergency relief assistance to date in Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 primarily in northern Sri Lanka. The funding [...]	2009-06-01 12:46:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO594	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA'S VICTORY PARADE [...] (U) The Government of Sri Lanka's June 3 "National Victory Parade" was an elaborately staged tribute to the military forces' defeat of the LTTE. The event featured thousands of servicemen parading on Galle Face Green, displays of naval and air assets, and folkloric dancers, also numbering in [...]	2009-06-04 11:52:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO596	SRI LANKA: MORE THREATS TO AND ATTACKS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the Government's victory against the LTTE, GSL officials have begun openly criticizing journalists that it claims were on the LTTE payroll. Public comments by the Army Commander and Inspector General of Police have heightened concerns among journalists for their safety. Sinc [...]	2009-06-05 02:32:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KPAO CE
09COLOMBO598	GAPS IN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AT IDP CAMPS IN SRI LANKA [...] Summary. On May 29, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) briefed the media on needs, achievements, gaps, and challenges in camps for recently-displaced persons in Sri Lanka. Gaps remain in the shelter and settlements, protection, nutrition, agriculture, emergency edu [...]	2009-06-08 11:15:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE
09COLOMBO601	SRI LANKA DETAINS AND EXPELS CANADIAN SHADOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sri Lankan immigration authorities, apparently acting on instructions from the Defense Secretary, detained Canadian Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Toronto Bob Rae on arrival late on June 9. (Rae's consituency has a large Tamil minority.) Rae had previously requested an [...]	2009-06-10 12:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PREF PHUM CE
09COLOMBO602	SRI LANKA: CHARGE URGES FOREIGN MINISTRY TO SEEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with the Foreign Secretary and Foreign Minister on June 9, Charge emphasized that the U.S. goal is to get bilateral relations with Sri Lanka on a more constructive, cooperative basis, as they were in the past. Charge noted that since the war was now behind u [...]	2009-06-10 12:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PREF PHUM CE
09COLOMBO621	The Way Forward in the North - A Serious Discussion about [...] SUMMARY: Charge met with Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa on June 15 to ask about Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) priorities for de-mining and to discuss how the U.S. Government (USG) could support those within a strategic framework. M.S. Jayasinghe, Chairman of the National Steering Commit [...]	2009-06-17 13:16:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO623	SRI LANKA: "COMPETENT AUTHORITY" STILL IN CHARGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) has indicated that responsibility for camp management in Manik Farms and in the transit sites in and around Vavuniya District was being transferred from Competent Authority (CA) Major General Chandrasiri to Vavuniya Government Authority [...]	2009-06-18 10:45:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO624	SRI LANKA: DOUGLAS DEVANANDA - GOVERNMENT'S MAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: The leader of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EDPD),Douglas Devananda, has a long history of enmity with the recently defeated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He has been a favorite of successive Sri Lankan governments in Colombo. But Devananda has a violent and even cri [...]	2009-06-19 04:19:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER PINR EAID CE
09COLOMBO63	SRI LANKA: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR UPDATE -JANUARY 2009 [...] As requested by Ref A, below is an update of the worst forms of child labor information for Sri Lanka. Child Labor Legislation ----------------------- 2. Sri Lanka ratified International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 138 on Minimum Age for Employment on November 2, 2000, and ILO [...]	2009-01-20 07:47:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI CE
09COLOMBO633	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT'S SUPPORTERS CALLING FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A flurry of press reports and statements by GSL officials and ministers over the past several weeks has floated the idea of extending President Rajapaksa's term of office without a competitive election. These suggestions range from a proposal for a referendum that would allow [...]	2009-06-23 12:13:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR CE
09COLOMBO635	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT'S SUPPORTERS CALLING FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A flurry of press reports and statements by GSL officials and ministers over the past several weeks has floated the idea of extending President Rajapaksa's term of office without a competitive election. These suggestions range from a proposal for a referendum that would allow [...]	2009-06-24 05:02:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR CE
09COLOMBO637	SRI LANKA: IMPROVEMENTS IN THE NORTH BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From June 17 to 18, Charge, with the USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) regional advisor and information officer, traveled to Vavuniya District in northern Sri Lanka. They met with local Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) authorities and U.N. and non-gov [...]	2009-06-24 10:17:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO639	SRI LANKA: TWO LOCAL U.N. STAFF DETAINED, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two local UN staff members are being detained by government forces, possibly for alleged ties to a 2006 assassination attempt on Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa. The two men, who work as drivers for UNHCR and UNOPS, were taken into custody on June 12 and 13. The UN has bee [...]	2009-06-24 13:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER PREL UN CE
09COLOMBO643	SRI LANKA: JUNE 22 BILATERAL DONOR MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 22, Charge attended a bilateral donor meeting hosted by Australian High Commissioner Kathy Klugman to discuss current relief assistance to Sri Lanka and aid beyond the emergency phase. Officials from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Can [...]	2009-06-25 09:18:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO651	SRI LANKA: THE VAVUNIYA GOVERNMENT AGENT [...] (SBU) On June 18, Charge, with USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) regional advisor and information officer met with Mrs. P.S.M. Charles, the Government Agent (GA) of Vavuniya District. When asked how the transition from military to civilian control of the IDP camp [...]	2009-06-26 09:31:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO652	CORRECTED VERSION: SRI LANKA: JUNE 22 BILATERAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 22, Charge attended a bilateral donor meeting hosted by Australian High Commissioner Kathy Klugman to discuss current relief assistance to Sri Lanka and aid beyond the emergency phase. Officials from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, C [...]	2009-06-26 09:52:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO653	SRI LANKA: ICRC UPDATE: REGISTRATION OF EX-COMBATANTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge attended an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) briefing by Head of Delegation Paul Castella on June 25 to update heads of Mission on the status of ICRC's humanitarian activities, as well as on its efforts to register ex-combatants detained by the Government [...]	2009-06-26 11:25:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO691	SRI LANKA: FOREIGN SECRETARY WELCOMES IDP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge met with Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona on July 8 to deliver reftel points and USG benchmarks for progress on IDP conditions and resettlement. Kohona assured Charge that the GSL had no hidden agenda when it comes to the IDPs and that all IDPs would be resettled as soo [...]	2009-07-10 02:55:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO693	SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT PROMISES DEVOLUTION...LATER [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a June 30 interview with The Hindu reaffirmed his willingness to pursue a political solution, but said he was waiting for two things: participation and cooperation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and a fresh mandate from the people. The gove [...]	2009-07-10 10:01:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO695	DOCTORS RECANT EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF CIVILIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The five doctors who worked inside the final conflict zone (the government-declared "no-fire zone") and who released accounts of the situation and the numbers of killed and wounded civilians there gave a press conference press conference on July 8. The doctors said they were "pressur [...]	2009-07-13 10:33:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO697	NEW SRI LANKA MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND NEW SUPREME [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 2, President Rajapaksa swore in Milinda Moragoda as the new Minister of Justice and Law Reforms. Earlier in June, the President appointed a new Chief Justice, Asoka de Silva, to replace former Chief Justice Sarath de Silva, who many observers felt had "hyper-politicized" [...]	2009-07-14 04:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO704	Getting Set to De-Mine Sri Lanka's North - Stepping [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge and other U.S. Embassy officials met July 10 with Basil Rajapaksa, Special Advisor to the Sri Lankan president. Their discussion focused on de-mining in Sri Lanka's Northern Province - a prerequisite for the return of those displaced during the protracted conflict betwe [...]	2009-07-16 03:57:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM CE
09COLOMBO722	SRI LANKA: HUMAN RIGHTS INQUIRY (COI) DISBANDED; [...] (C) The GSL in mid-June disbanded the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, which hadbeen charged with investigating allegations of srious human rights violations since August 2005. Seventeen cases were being reviewed by the COI, ncluding the killing of 17 Action Contre la Faim (ACF) aid worker [...]	2009-07-22 07:02:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO726	SCENESETTER FOR JULY 25-28 VISIT BY PRM A/S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a critical time in US-Sri Lanka relations. During the October 2008 - May 2009 final military push to defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),the Government of Sri Lanka increasingly distanced itself from western nations who criticized its methods [...]	2009-07-22 15:04:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL CE
09COLOMBO728	SRI LANKA: RESOLUTION OF CHILD SOLDIERS ISSUE IN [...] (SBU) Summary. A/DCM, Poloff, and USAID met withUNICEF Representative and Protection Officer on July 17 to discuss GSL progress on facilitating release and rehabilitation of TMVP and LTTE child soldiers. UNICEF shared their data on under-age recruitment and noted progress on a number of fron [...]	2009-07-23 12:19:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO729	SRI LANKA: ICRC?S FUTURE UNCERTAIN [...] (C) Summary. A/DCM and Poloff met with ICRC Acting Head of Delegation Anthony Dalziel on July 21 to discuss ICRC?s current and future status in Sri Lanka. On July 1, ICRC received a letter from Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa requesting ICRC to terminate its operations in the East. A [...]	2009-07-23 14:43:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO740	SRI LANKA: POST-WAR TAMIL LEADERSHIP VACUUM [...] (C) Summary. Tamil National Alliance (TNA) member of parliament (MP) from Jaffna Pathmini Sithamparanathan met with Poloff on July 13 to discuss the TNA,s current status and post-war strategy. She said the TNA had begun talking with other Tamil parties about how to unite the Tamil polity a [...]	2009-07-28 09:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO744	UNP SEEKS NEW STRATEGY TO CHALLENGE RAJAPAKSA [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met recently with several key United National Party (UNP) figures to discuss the UNP,s post-war strategy. UNP contacts agreed that President Mahinda Rajapaksa is currently enjoying his post-war honeymoon, but felt that Sri Lankans would soon shift their focus to basic ec [...]	2009-07-29 10:19:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO753	Report Number One on Interagency Policy Committee (IPC) [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is the first of three monthly reports on the Government of Sri Lanka's progress in meeting benchmarks for as outlined in Ref (b). CAMP MANAGEMENT AND ACCESS: Acute humanitarian needs are being met in internally displaced persons camps (IDP) camps, although all sectors ar [...]	2009-07-31 07:31:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PREF PGOV PHUM MOPS ASEC CE
09COLOMBO768	A/S SCHWARTZ PRESSES FOR EARLY RETURN OF [...] (C) Summary: In his July 25-28 visit to Sri Lanka, PRM Assistant Secretary Eric P. Schwartz urged the government to undertake rapid returns of internally-displaced persons (IDPs) to their home villages and avoid prolonging the closed camp situation in the North. In meetings with President Mah [...]	2009-08-03 09:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO769	SRI LANKA: A/S SCHWARTZ VISITS IDP CAMPS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his July 25-28 visit to Sri Lanka, PRM Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz directly observed the humanitarian situation in Manik Farm, an expansive, yet congested, camp complex in northern Sri Lanka for 220,000 of the 280,000-plus Sri Lankans displaced in the final months of [...]	2009-08-03 10:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM CE
09COLOMBO773	UPDATE ON GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA'S PLANS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The rehabilitation and reintegration of former LTTE combatants will be crucial if Sri Lanka is to achieve sustainable reconciliation. With the launching this past week of a National Framework Proposal for Reintegration of Ex-Combatants, and the recent appointment of Major Gen [...]	2009-08-05 09:23:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID PREF PHUM CE
09COLOMBO774	SRI LANKA: SMALLER IDP CAMPS EXHIBIT SOME [...] (C) Summary: While the large IDP camp complex at Manik Farm in Vavuniya is the focus of most international attention and press reports, there are nonetheless a number of IDPs held in smaller camps in other areas across Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka. These camps often include a mixture of v [...]	2009-08-05 10:03:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID CE
09COLOMBO775	Addendum on Food: Report Number One on Interagency Policy [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is an addendum to the July Interagency Policy Committee Benchmarks Report for Sri Lanka, adding information about humanitarian food supplies to the IDP camps. 2. (SBU) Benchmark: Acute humanitarian needs are met with dignity. Key areas are food, water/sanitation, healt [...]	2009-08-05 11:11:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PREF PGOV PHUM MOPS ASEC CE
09COLOMBO779	SRI LANKA: CAPTURE OF SELVARAJAH PATHMANATHAN, AKA [...] (C) Summary: Reports indicate that top LTTE official Selvarajah Pathmanathan, also known as KP, has been apprehended and is now in the custody of Sri Lankan security officials. Embassy sources were tight-lipped today, with no military intelligence officials willing to comment on the details [...]	2009-08-07 11:43:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER MOPS CE
09COLOMBO780	SCENESETTER FOR JAFFNA MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Jaffna Municipal Council elections will be held on Saturday, August 8, the first elections in the Jaffna area since 2004. The government is paying close attention to this election, sending a number of ministers to campaign there alongside Douglas Devananda, leader of the Eelam [...]	2009-08-07 12:23:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID CE
09COLOMBO781	UVA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Pol Staff visited Badulla and Monaragela Districts in Uva Province to get a sense of the issues and progress of the campaign for the upcoming August 8 provincial elections. The elections are the first since the end of war and are being perceived by many as a testing ground fo [...]	2009-08-07 13:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID CE
09COLOMBO79	SRI LANKAN MILITARY CREATES SAFE ZONE FOR CIVILIANS TRAPPED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Sri Lankan military unilaterally declared a "safe zone" northwest of Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK) on January 21. ICRC, informed of this decision by the Sri Lankan Government, relayed the message to the LTTE. However, according to the ICRC, nothing has been prepared for people in t [...]	2009-01-22 11:40:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF MARR EAID CE
09COLOMBO807	SRI LANKA'S FOREIGN MINISTER SEES "DEVOLUTION" [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-14 07:11:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO808	SRI LANKA NONCOMMITTAL ON UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (C) Charge discussed reftel points on the upcoming election of the UNESCO Director General with Sri Lanka MFA Additional Secretary Prasad Kariyawasam. Kariyawasam thanked the U.S. for sharing its views and said the GSL was still considering its position on the candidates. MOORE [...]	2009-08-14 07:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER UNGA CE
09COLOMBO81	SRI LANKA: JOURNALISTS FLEE COUNTRY AMID [...] (C) SUMMARY: At least nine media personnel have left the country since the January 6 attack on the independent MTV network's broadcasting center (ref E) that marked the beginning of a recent surge in attacks and threats on journalists in the country (ref A, B, D). At least five additional jou [...]	2009-01-23 12:10:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER PREL CE
09COLOMBO818	IMPACT OF RAINFALL ON SRI LANKA'S MANIK FARM IDP CAMPS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent rainfall in Sri Lanka's northern district of Vavuniya, the location of the Manik Farm IDP camps, was a wake-up call for the Government of Sri Lanka and international organizations conducting humanitarian operations. Major improvements appear necessary to avert disaster pr [...]	2009-08-19 11:28:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PREF PGOV PHUM MOPS ASEC CE
09COLOMBO82	SRI LANKA: FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER RECEIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Foreign Minister Mangala Samawaweera told Ambassador on January 23 that he felt his life was in danger and was planning to seek temporary safe haven abroad. He strongly implied that Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa was behind the threats to his life, but admitted he d [...]	2009-01-23 12:14:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
09COLOMBO823	JAPANESE QUESTION CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an August 19 bilateral meeting, Japanese Ambassador Takahashi told Charge that Japan questioned the effectiveness of the Europeans as participants in the Co-Chairs mechanism, effectively proposing that the U.S., India, and Japan would serve as the most influential interlocutors [...]	2009-08-21 08:39:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO827	BASIL RAJAPAKSA DISCLOSES PLAN TO DECONGEST MANIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor to the President Basil Rajapaksa told Charge and A/DCM that the GSL planned to move forward with significant IDP resettlement before the monsoon season begins in October. When pressed, Rajapaksa said as many as 100,000 would be released, including students, relig [...]	2009-08-24 12:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO830	DOCTORS FROM NO-FIRE ZONE RELEASED ON BAIL [...] (S) Four government doctors, held by the police Criminal Investigation Division (CID) since the end of the war in May for allegedly filing false reports on civilian casualties in the No-Fire Zone during the last several months of the war, were released on bail today. XXXXXXXXXXXX 2. (S) The doctor [...]	2009-08-24 13:34:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO848	CLERGY IDPS RELEASED, DOCTORS OUT ON BAIL - IS [...] (SBU) On August 27, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) announced it was releasing 579 clergy members from the IDP camps in Vavuniya. Media reports said 571 of these were Hindu priests, with six Catholic priests and two nuns joining them. These same reports said approximately 220 clergy membe [...]	2009-08-27 11:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID CE
09COLOMBO854	REPORT NUMBER TWO ON INTERAGENCY POLICY COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is the second of three monthly reports on the Government of Sri Lanka's progress in meeting benchmarks as outlined in Ref B. The start of pre-monsoonal rains this month has created a heightened urgency among all humanitarian actors, in terms of accelerating the release of p [...]	2009-08-31 10:54:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PREF PGOV PHUM MOPS ASEC CE
09COLOMBO855	JOURNALIST TISSAINAYAGAM CONVICTED, GIVEN 20 YEAR [...] (SBU) On August 31, the Colombo High Court announced a guilty verdict in the closely watched case of Sri Lankan journalist Jayaprakash Sittampalam Tissainayagam. After brief summation of arguments by the prosecutor and lead defense counsel, the bailiff read the decision of Judge Deepali Wijes [...]	2009-08-31 10:57:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO86	SRI LANKA: ARMY CAPTURES MULLAITIVU; BOTH SIDES [...] (SBU) Army Commander Sarath Fonseka announced in a live television broadcast on January 25 that the military had captured Mullaitivu - the last major town held by the LTTE. In a campaign appearance for the February 14 Central Province council elections, President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that [...]	2009-01-26 12:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PREF CE
09COLOMBO860	CPA DIRECTOR SARAVANAMUTTU BRIEFLY DETAINED AT [...] (C) On the morning of September 2, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Executive Director of the Center Policy for Alternatives and a high-profile critic of the Sri Lankan government, was detained at the airport for one hour when he returned to Colombo from Washington on a Sri Lankan Airlines flight fr [...]	2009-09-02 11:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO861	TNA TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA [...] (C) On September 2, Media reports indicated that the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) would meet with President Rajapaksa on September 7. TNA leader R. Sampanthan, a Member of Parliament (MP),told PolStaff there were several issues they wished to discuss with the President. First was the need f [...]	2009-09-02 12:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO864	TISSAINAYAGAM'S LAWYER, CONCERNED DIPLOMATS [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a meeting with diplomatic representatives, recently convicted journalist Tissainayagam's lead lawyer said the appeals process could be lengthy but held out hope for a presidential pardon at some point. Tissainayagam was of two minds on the question of whether the international [...]	2009-09-03 13:46:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO87	SRI LANKA: TMVP RELEASES 15 CHILD SOLDIERS; [...] (U) On January 23 the TMVP released 15 child soldiers to UNICEF and pledged to release an additional 25 within the coming weeks. The TMVP's action represents the first significant large-scale release since April 2008 and the first positive step towards resolving the child soldier problem sinc [...]	2009-01-26 12:29:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KOCI PHUM MARR CE
09COLOMBO872	PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA HOLDS LINE ON RECONCILIATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a lengthy September 8 meeting with Charge, President Rajapaksa said his recent meeting with TNA party leaders had gone well but that implementation of the 13th Amendment to the constitution dealing with the devolution of central power would have to wait until at least April afte [...]	2009-09-09 13:54:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO876	SRI LANKAN OFFICIALS REJECT FREEDOM OF IDP [...] (C) On September 9, Charge delivered ref. A freedom of movement points to Foreign Minister Bogollagama and was met with a predictable response. The FM said these points were nothing new and the GSL appreciated our continued interest. He repeated the request for us to help purchase heavy demi [...]	2009-09-10 13:55:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO877	TNA SAYS MEETING WITH SRI LANKA PRESIDENT [...] (C) On September 7, seven members of parliament from the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) party met with President Rajapaksa and his brother, Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa. While it was reported in the press as a cordial and satisfactory meeting, TNA MP Suresh Premachandran, one of [...]	2009-09-11 06:53:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID CE
09COLOMBO886	SRI LANKA AGREES WITH P5+1 ON IRAN BUT SHIES FROM [...] Political Chief discussed reftel points on expanding the chorus on Iran with Sri Lankan MFA U.N. and Multilateral Affairs Director General (DG) Aruni Wijewardene. The DG agreed that Iran needed to be encouraged to cooperate, but that the GoSL took a "balanced position". She pointed out that I [...]	2009-09-16 12:23:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO887	GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA'S PRONOUNCEMENTS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: ADCM attended meeting September 16 called by UN Resident Coordinator to brief Heads of Mission and aid agencies on recent IPD returns. Starting on September 11, approximately 2,7000 IDPs were moved from Manik Farm in Vavuniya and are currently being held in closed transit sites [...]	2009-09-16 12:40:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO89	AKASHI STRESSES NEED FOR POLITICAL SOLUTION AND [...] (C) Summary: In his January 22-25 visit to Sri Lanka, Japanese Special Envoy Yasushi Akashi stressed the need for a political solution, protection of the civilians from ongoing military operations in the North, urged an improvement in law and order and an end to the climate of impunity. Akas [...]	2009-01-26 13:57:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM CE
09COLOMBO890	MOJ SECRETARY ON GOVERNMENT REFURB OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 16 meeting with PolChief, Secretary of the Sri Lankan Ministry of Justice Suhada Gamalath said the recently named four-minister team to deal with the EU on the GSP-plus issue would have both a PR function (arguing in Europe that denial of GSP-plus would hurt the nee [...]	2009-09-17 12:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO893	PRESIDENT BEWILDERED, FRUSTRATED WITH U.S. SRI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a private meeting following ambassador's credentialing ceremony, President Rajapaksa expressed bewilderment and frustration at U.S. policy for encouraging him to fight terrorism and then criticizing him when he did. Rajapaksa claimed that 70 percent of the IDPs locked in camps [...]	2009-09-18 11:14:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO894	PRESIDENT QUESTIONS VERACITY OF CPA DIRECTOR DEATH [...] (U) On September 16, President Rajapaksa called for an investigation to verify a death threat against Paikiasothi Saravanamuttu, or &Sara8, Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives. As mentioned in ref. A, Sara received a letter on August 20, 2009, threatening him with death for his all [...]	2009-09-18 11:30:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO895	UN PASCOE TAKES GSL AT ITS WORD ON IDP RETURNS [...] (C) On September 18 UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe gave a briefing for the Colombo-based diplomatic community, reviewing his visit here over the past two days. He and locally-based UN senior staff visited a demining site in Mannar, an IDP camp and a rehabilitat [...]	2009-09-18 11:59:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO897	FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS NEW RELATIONSHIP BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 18 initial courtesy call by ambassador, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama expressed his government's strong desire to improve and broaden relations with the U.S. in the new, post-war environment. Ambassador expressed our desire as well to broaden the relationship [...]	2009-09-21 09:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO898	MALDIVES STRENGTHENS TIES WITH ISRAEL [...] (C) In a September 18 meeting with PolOff, Maldivian Defense Minister Ameen Faisal spoke of his upcoming October trip to Israel and mentioned that he, Foreign Minister, Ahmed Shaheed and President Nasheed all agreed that stronger relations with Israel were in the Maldives' interest. The Defe [...]	2009-09-22 06:42:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS MV
09COLOMBO900	SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND PACIFIC (SOCPAC) [...] (U) PURPOSE: This is a request for the implementation of Military Information Support Team (MIST) and Civil Military Support Elements (CMSE) capabilities supporting the U.S. Embassy, Colombo. 2. (U) SITUATION: Chief of Mission requests deployment of MIST and CMSE elements no later that Oct [...]	2009-09-22 11:26:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS MASS OIIP
09COLOMBO913	REQUEST FOR USG DEMINING EQUIPMENT FOR SRI LANKAN [...] (U) This is an Action Request for Department. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) Officials of the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) have often said that the release of the more than 250,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) currently held in closed camps cannot take place until demining operations are [...]	2009-09-25 10:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO919	SRI LANKA SUPPORTS HOLDING IRAN TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) On September 28, PolOff discussed reftel points on existence of a covert uranium enrichment facility in Iran with Sri Lankan MFA U.N. and Multilateral Affairs Director General (DG) Aruni Wijewardene. Wijewardene had prior knowledge of the issue and expressed GSL support for holding Iran [...]	2009-09-29 11:10:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO924	JHU PROTESTS OUTSIDE OF U.S. EMBASSY [...] (SBU) On the morning of October 1, 2009, approximately 250-300 members of the Jathrika Hela Urumaya (JHU),a Sinhalese nationalist party, protested peacefully outside the U.S. Embassy for about 45 minutes. The demonstrators reportedly included several JHU members of parliament and a nationa [...]	2009-10-01 12:27:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO929	ARCHBISHOP SUGGESTS PUSHING ACCOUNTABILITY COULD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Roman Catholic Archbishop Ranjith told ambassador that pushing the GSL too hard on the war crimes accountability issue now could destabilize Sri Lankan democracy and would set back the cause of human rights. He reasoned that weakening the Rajapaksas -- who despite their public im [...]	2009-10-02 11:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO931	REPORT NUMBER THREE ON INTERAGENCY POLICY COMMITTEE (IPC) [...] (SBU) This is the third of three monthly reports on the Government of Sri Lanka's progress in meeting benchmarks, as outlined in Ref B. With a policy dialogue more focused on freedom of movement and issues associated with closed IDP camps, this report is shorter than its predecessors and focu [...]	2009-10-05 09:32:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PREF PGOV PHUM MOPS ASEC CE

09COLOMBO932	SECRETARY'S COMMENTS ON RAPE ELICIT STRONG [...] (C) On October 2 the Ambassador was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Foreign Minister Bogollogama to discuss Secretary Clinton's October 1 UN speech, in which she mentioned Sri Lanka as a place where rape had been used as a "tactic of war." Bogollagama expressed his deep concern [...]	2009-10-05 12:14:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO936	THE MALDIVES PRESIDENT WELCOMES NEW U.S. [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. DEPARTMENT SEE PARA 12. TREASURY SEE PARA 13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In his first meeting with Ambassador Butenis, the Maldives President Nasheed outlined an ambitious program of environmental and economic reform, business development, social-service improvements, [...]	2009-10-07 06:38:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS ECON EFIN
09COLOMBO938	JUSTICE MINISTER, DEFENSE SECRETARY DISCUSS [...] (C) In an October 7 meeting with Ambassador, Justice Minister Malinda Moragoda said the 1987 Youth Commission, which looked at the roots of the JVP uprising, might be a mechanism that Sri Lanka could use to get at the questions of accountability and reconciliation. In response to Ambassador's [...]	2009-10-07 12:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO940	SRI LANKA MAKES GOOD PROGRESS ON CHILD SOLDIER [...] (C) The latest update from UNICEF personnel in Colombo indicates the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) continues to make good progress toward eliminating the problem of child soldiers. UNICEF told Post in early October that only 15 child soldiers remained in the ranks of the TMVP, and it continu [...]	2009-10-09 02:39:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO942	RULING PARTY AIMING FOR DECISIVE VICTORY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. The government is aiming for a strong showing in this Saturday's final provincial election in the heart of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Sinhala Buddhist constituency to set the stage for victories in the upcoming Presidential (January) and parliamentary (April [...]	2009-10-09 08:46:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO945	RULING PARTY FEELING VULNERABLE AFTER SOUTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY. The United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA),which includes President Mahinda Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP),won the southern provincial election with a 67 percent majority, considerably lower than their goal of 75 to 80 percent. This setback may shift their strategy [...]	2009-10-13 12:59:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO95	SRI LANKA: DECLARED SAFE ZONE INOPERATIVE; ICRC [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate briefings, UN and ICRC representatives reported that repeated violations of the "safe zone" had compelled their staffs to return to Puthukkudiyiruppu (PTK). Recent intense fighting reportedly has killed 300 civilians. The ICRC reports "tens" injured on a daily basis [...]	2009-01-27 12:39:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PHUM CE
09COLOMBO953	REQUEST FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 JIATF-WEST (JW) [...] (U) THIS IS AN INITIAL REQUEST FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 (FY 10) JW SUPPORT IN MALDIVES, AS DEFINED AND AUTHORIZED BY THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1991 (AS AMENDED). 2. (U) MALDIVES FACES A BROAD RANGE OF TRANSNATIONAL THREATS, FROM DRUG TRAFFICKING TO POTENTIAL EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY. [...]	2009-10-16 06:26:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS MV
09COLOMBO955	SRI LANKA SEEKS RECIPROCAL SUPPORT AT THE UN [...] In a follow-up request for support for U.S. candidate Lucretia Myers' nomination to the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC),PolOff discussed reftel points with Sri Lanka MFA UN Multilateral Affairs Director Damika Semasinghe. In response, Semasinghe proposed in exchange for Sri Lank [...]	2009-10-19 10:31:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO957	UNP LEADER DOWNBEAT BUT UNBOWED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 13 courtesy call by the Ambassador, main opposition United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe discussed a wide range of issues, including IDPs, the soon-to-be released report to Congress on incidents during the recent conflict, and the results from the [...]	2009-10-19 13:02:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO962	MFA SECRETARY "SANGUINE" ON IDP ISSUE [...] (C) In an October 20 meeting with Ambassador, new MFA Secretary Romesh Jayasinghe claimed that the government's attitude toward the IDP situation was changing for the better. Jayasinghe, who recently returned to Colombo after what was seen as a very successful stint as Sri Lankan high commiss [...]	2009-10-20 11:21:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO968	SRI LANKA DENIES NEGOTIATIONS TO PROCURE LETHAL [...] (S) In a much-delayed response to our Ref A demarche on possible Sri Lankan procurement of lethal military equipment from North Korea and Iran, Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General (DG) Americas Division Kshenuka Senewiratne on October 16 said they appreciated U.S. concerns [...]	2009-10-21 07:58:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO977	OFFICIALS DEFEND INCREASE IN DEFENSE BUDGET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and PolOff separately delivered ref A demarche points on increases in the Sri Lankan defense budget to senior officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),the Ministry of Finance, and the Army General Staff. The consistent response was that the increase was due p [...]	2009-10-22 06:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO979	TEXT OF TNA LEADER SAMPANTHAN'S LETTERS TO [...] (SBU) During an October 19 courtesy call on Ambassador (septel),Tamil National Alliance leader R. Sampanthan passed copies of letters he and other Tamil members of parliament sent to President Obama and Secretary Clinton in January 2009. The following are the texts of those letters for the [...]	2009-10-22 10:23:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO982	TAMIL LEADER URGES U.S., INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an initial courtesy call, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan discussed a range of issues with the Ambassador, including upcoming elections, human rights, and the role of Tamils in the post-war environment. Sampanthan opined that the presidential election would b [...]	2009-10-22 12:20:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO983	DISAPPEARANCES APPEAR TO DECLINE, DEFSEC SAYS THEY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Post appears to be seeing a continuing decline in disappearances across most of Sri Lanka, according to statistics obtained from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). (STRICTLY PROTECT: Provision of these statistics by ICRC to Post goes against their regular [...]	2009-10-22 12:31:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO988	GSL RESPONSE TO REPORT MEASURED -- THUS FAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The response of the Sri Lankan government (GSL) to release of the S/WCI report to Congress on incidents during the recent conflict thus far has been measured. Human Rights Minister Samarasinghe told Ambassador an "independent" committee of eminent persons would be announced next w [...]	2009-10-26 11:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO992	TWO IF BY SEA: SRI LANKAN REFUGEE HOPEFULS TEST [...] (C) SUMMARY. The recent arrival of a freighter of Sri Lankan Tamil refugee claimants in Canada, along with a surge in Sri Lankans attempting to reach Australia by boat, highlight the increasing desperation and sophistication of would-be asylees and refugees of Tamil ethnicity hoping to reach W [...]	2009-10-28 11:32:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF CVIS SMIG PTER PHUM CE CA AS
09COLOMBO993	SRI LANKA PRESS FREEDOM ISSUES: SOME STEPS [...] (S) SUMMARY: On October 26, the two people arrested as accomplices in publishing imprisoned journalist Tissainayagam's "terrorist" articles were released and apparently acquitted of all charges. In releasing V. Jasiharan and Valarmathy Vadivel, the high court judge noted that the only evidenc [...]	2009-10-28 12:38:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO994	FOREIGN MINISTER RESPONDS TO WAR INCIDENTS REPORT [...] (C) On October 28, Ambassador was called in by Foreign Minister Bogollagama to discuss the response of the Sri Lankan government (GSL) to the U.S. Report on Incidents in the Recent Conflict. The FM said the GSL was not satisfied with the report and they understood it reached no legal conclusi [...]	2009-10-28 12:47:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09COLOMBO995	EID AL-ADHA MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY CLINTON [...] (U) Post has delivered reftel Eid al-Adha message from Secretary Clinton to Foreign Minister of the Republic of Maldives Dr. Ahmed Shaheed. BUTENIS [...]	2009-10-29 12:08:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM MV
09COLOMBO996	SRI LANKA: MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA TO [...] (U) On October 28, Political Chief delivered reftel message from President Obama to President Rajapaksa. BUTENIS [...]	2009-10-29 12:08:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CE
09COLOMBO997	SRI LANKA: LETTER FROM SENATOR LUGAR TO PRESIDENT [...] (U) On October 28, Political Chief met with Presidential Chief of Staff Lalith Weeratunga and delivered ref A message from Senator Lugar to President Rajapaksa. BUTENIS [...]	2009-10-29 12:11:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM CE
09COLOMBO999	Sri Lanka Scenesetter [...] (SBU) Sri Lanka stands at a pivotal point in its modern history. The end of the long secessionist war with the LTTE opens up opportunities for national reconciliation, political reform, economic renewal, and international re-engagement. The question is whether the Sri Lankan leadership has the [...]	2009-10-30 08:02:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTER EAID MOPS CE
09CONAKRY100	MEETING WITH DADIS DISAPPOINTS CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a nationally broadcast meeting with civil and political leaders, CNDD President Dadis was aggressive, vague, and noncommittal. Despite the CNDD's February 7 announcement that elections will take place in late 2009, Dadis danced around the subject and refused to be pinn [...]	2009-02-12 15:24:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI ASEC GV
09CONAKRY101	YOUTH LEADER CLAIMS CIVIL SOCIETY NOT CREDIBLE [...] (S) SUMMARY. During a February 11 meeting with Poloff, prominent youth leader Thierno Balde shared his perspective on recent political events in Guinea. He found the CNDD's increased intimidation of the media and the close relationship between the Minister of Justice and Claude Pivi troublin [...]	2009-02-12 16:15:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SOCI ASEC GV
09CONAKRY108	RTG MAINTAINS CORDIAL RELATIONS WITH EMBASSY [...] Summary: Guinea's national television and radio service, RTG, has continued to provide fair, even handed coverage of Embassy events, including DVCs, since the coup by the CNDD. The Embassy has held numerous events, including a DVC press conference by the Acting Assistant Secretary, and RTG t [...]	2009-02-17 09:27:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM XY GV
09CONAKRY110	ARRESTS, APPOINTMENTS, AND MACHINATIONS: A [...] (U) SUMMARY. Politics in Guinea continue to be fluid since the coup d'etat on 23 December 2008. Given these circumstances, post will transmit as needed roundups of presidential appointments, military arrests, and any other political machinations. This roundup covers the period between 27 Jan [...]	2009-02-19 12:12:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL GV
09CONAKRY114	CNDD OUTLINES VAGUE ELECTION TIMELINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Recent meetings between the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) and the Forces Vives, a group of civil and political actors, have focused on identifying an election date and defining a transition timeline. The Forces Vives recently sent a letter to the Presid [...]	2009-02-19 16:41:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI ASEC GV
09CONAKRY131	GUINEA - NARCO-TRAFFICKING CRACKDOWN BONANZA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Agents of the Ministry of High Crimes and Anti-Drugs recently moved to arrest several suspected narcotics traffickers, including kingpin Mamady Kallo, Ousmane Conte, the eldest son of former Guinean President Lansana Conte and four high-ranking police officers. The Red Beret [...]	2009-02-27 14:47:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PGOV PREL SNAR PHUM GV
09CONAKRY133	CNDD LIFTS BAN ON POLITICAL AND UNION ACTIVITIES [...] (U) On February 28 over national television, the CNDD publicly lifted the ban on political and union activities in Guinea. The military junta had instituted the ban within hours of seizing power on December 23. Local press reports indicate that the announcement was positively received by a [...]	2009-03-02 15:43:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI ELAB PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY138	MINISTER OF JUSTICE TALKS ABOUT PROSECUTIONS AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-04 16:02:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SNAR PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY145	CNDD HIRES PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM TO IMPROVE [...] (SBU) A member of the Associated Press based in Dakar, Rukmini Callimachi, called Pol/Econ Chief on March 6 wanting to schedule a background interview for a piece on Guinea. Shortly into the conversation, she revealed that the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) and its pres [...]	2009-03-06 13:24:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY146	GUINEA POST-COUP: A POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR 18 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Politics in Guinea continue to be fluid since the coup d'etat on 23 December 2008. Given these circumstances, Post will periodically transmit roundups of significant political and economic events not covered in other reporting. This roundup covers the period between 18 Febru [...]	2009-03-06 13:26:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM SNAR ELAB GV
09CONAKRY155	CNDD'S PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGY - A LESSON ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After receiving an invitation from the CNDD's new public relations firm to come to Conakry for an exclusive interview with CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara, a Dakar-based member of the Associated Press spent nearly four days waiting for the interview to materialize. It eventu [...]	2009-03-11 16:40:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY156	MILITARY JUNTA OPERATES UNDER CHAOS AND DYSFUNCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The chaotic and dysfunctional nature of President Moussa Dadis' government appears to be deepening. Military Camp Alpha Yaya is apparently the President's preferred base of operations where he feels secure surrounded by trusted officers and friends. Most presidential business is [...]	2009-03-12 10:53:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY157	LES FORCES VIVES NOW REPORTEDLY PUSHING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a March 5 meeting with Charge, opposition political leader Jean-Marie Dore said that he had been selected by his peers as the spokesperson for Les Forces Vives. Critical of recent CENI activities, including the proposal of an election timeline to the CNDD, Dore said Les [...]	2009-03-12 13:32:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY172	ACUTE MALNUTRITION EVIDENT IN CONAKRY'S CENTRAL [...] (U) SUMMARY. During a recent Embassy visit to Conakry's central prison, a prison doctor confirmed that over a two month period, ten individuals had died of acute malnutrion in the jail. Severe crowding, inadequate medical care, and appalling hygienic conditions continue to imperil the fundame [...]	2009-03-19 16:58:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI GV
09CONAKRY185	GUINEA POST-COUP: A POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR 6 MARCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Politics in Guinea continue to be fluid since the coup d'etat on 23 December 2008. Given these circumstances, Post will periodically transmit roundups of significant political and economic events not covered in other reporting. This roundup covers the period between 6 March [...]	2009-03-26 12:09:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EMIN PREL KDEM ASEC PHUM GV
09CONAKRY186	A CASE OF RITUAL CHILD MURDER IN GUINEA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 16 a young child related to an Embassy LES was abducted and brutally killed in what is believed to be a ritual murder. The child's throat was cut, his eyes removed and his abdomen slit open in a manner consistent with ritualistic ceremonies involving human sacrifice. [...]	2009-03-26 13:28:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ASEC GV
09CONAKRY193	CNDD ANNOUNCES ACCEPTANCE OF 2009 ELECTION TIMELINE [...] (U) A GoG press office official read a statement over national television on March 28, announcing that the CNDD had accepted the election timeline developed by Les Forces Vives during the International Contact Group visit earlier this month (reftel). This timeline calls for legislative elect [...]	2009-03-30 15:31:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY2	MILITARY SEARCHES OPPOSITION LEADER'S RESIDENCE [...] (U) According to press reports, two groups of armed military personnel (approximately 15 to 20) invaded the private residence of opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, a former prime minister and head of the Union of Guinean Democratic Forces (UFDG) political party, on January 1. One group [...]	2009-01-02 13:20:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM PREL GV
09CONAKRY20	POLITICAL ROUNDUP - ARRESTS AND APPOINTMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the past several days, the CNDD reportedly arrested a number of prominent military figures, including some civilians. The CNDD also announced a number of promotions within the officer corps and at the ministerial level--including the promotion of the controversial 2LT Clau [...]	2009-01-07 17:26:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL GV
09CONAKRY202	A SLAP ON THE HAND AND A PAYMENT PLAN FOR ARRESTED [...] (U) Three of the four former Ministers of Mines, Ousman Sylla, Louceny Nabe, and former Prime Minister Ahmed Tidaine Souare, who had been arrested for alleged mismanagement of government money from the Mining Fund, were released April 1st. Former Minister of Mines Ahmed Kante, who steadfastly [...]	2009-04-02 16:40:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY203	Embassy Promotes Women's Engagement in the Electoral [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-02 17:33:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KDEM PREL KPAO GV
09CONAKRY204	CNDD PRESIDENT SACKS AND ARRESTS LEAD AUDITOR [...] (SBU) Just a few days after meeting with Pol/Econ Chief to discuss the inner workings of the CNDD's Audit Commission (reftel),Amadou Mouctar Balde finds himself without a job and behind bars. CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara signed an official decree over the weekend, claiming that Balde w [...]	2009-04-06 16:12:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY207	COMINGS AND GOINGS AT CONAKRY'S CENTRAL PRISON [...] (C) SUMMARY. PolOff met with prison NGO contact who provided an official list of prisoners -- all members of the Guinean armed forces -- who were reportedly freed from Conakry's central jail by CNDD members immediately following the coup. Contact confirmed that ex-Minister of Mines, Ahmed Ka [...]	2009-04-08 13:49:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY208	EXPLORING FGM- SORCERY, SECRECY, AND LIVELIHOODS [...] (U) SUMMARY. During a recent visit to the Forest Region, Assistant Poloff explored the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM),which affects an estimated 96% of the female population in Guinea. An interview with two women who perform FGM revealed that the exclusion of men and the belief [...]	2009-04-08 16:12:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM GV
09CONAKRY213	CNDD PRESIDENT SAYS HE MAY RUN FOR OFFICE [...] (U) During another public rally on April 15 organized by Conakry Governor Mohmamed Diop (see reftel for details on first rally),CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara indicated that he is considering presenting himself as a candidate in Guinea's upcoming presidential elections. He warned that if [...]	2009-04-16 10:51:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY214	USG-FUNDED FISTULA REPAIR CENTER PROMOTES [...] (U) SUMMARY. During a recent trip to the Forest Region, Assistant Poloff explored health issues that affect women, including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and obstetric fistula. A visit to Engender Health's Fistula Repair Center and Waiting House illustrated the organization's emphasis on [...]	2009-04-17 12:53:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM EAID PREL PGOV
09CONAKRY218	NEWS ROUND-UP: FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS, [...] (U) SUMMARY. Over the course of the weekend, the CNDD banned all foreign currency transactions, promoted the controversial Claude Pivi to the rank of Captain, and began cleaning the Presidential Palace in preparation for the arrival of its anticipated occupant, CNDD President Moussa Dadis Ca [...]	2009-04-21 16:49:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY219	THE CALL FROM KALOUM: A NEW RALLYING CRY FOR DADIS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-21 16:49:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY221	SHOPPING FOR A VERDICT - THE CNDD'S EXTRAJUDICIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Guineans who don't like a judge's decision now have another option in the CNDD's extrajudicial "Bureau of Conflicts." Set up shortly after the coup, the Bureau has reportedly handled more than 3000 cases, which are heard by military and police personnel. Lawyers have no part in [...]	2009-04-21 16:49:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY224	NEW HEAD OF CNC DISCUSSES RELATIONS WITH CNDD [...] Summary: On April 15, PAO met with the head of the National Communications Commission, Jean Raymond Soumah. The two discussed the relationship between the commission and the ruling CNDD and the attitude of the junta towards the press. The PAO described some of the programs the Embassy will [...]	2009-04-22 13:20:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM XY GV
09CONAKRY248	GOG CUTS OFF FOOD DELIVERIES TO PRISONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to multiple sources, the Government of Guinea has stopped delivering food to the country's prisons. Prison directors now rely upon charities, international organizations and others to provide food for 1,100 prisoners and described the situation as "catastrophic." A re [...]	2009-05-05 15:49:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI GV
09CONAKRY255	ELIMINATING FGM- NGO ACTIVITIES IN THE FOREST [...] (U) SUMMARY. During a recent visit to the Forest Region, Assistant Poloff explored the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM),which affects an estimated 96% of the female population in Guinea. Meetings with local authorities, citizens, and NGOs working to combat the practice of FGM rev [...]	2009-05-07 11:53:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV EAID GV
09CONAKRY263	MILITARY ROB MARKET BUSINESSES, PROTEST ENSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two stores in Conakry's Medina Market were reportedly robbed of safes and merchandise by men in uniform early Saturday morning. The following morning vendors refused to open the market. Protests ensued targeting the local gendarmerie and guard force who failed to protect the bu [...]	2009-05-13 11:04:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY280	POLITICAL LEADER RECEIVES DEATH THREAT, SAYS CNDD [...] (C) SUMMARY. A young political party leader, Mouctar Diallo, received a death threat on May 11 when an anonymous caller warned him to stop speaking out against the CNDD. Diallo was one of the first to criticize the military junta and has continued to do so publicly on a weekly basis. During [...]	2009-05-19 16:03:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY287	GUINEAN LAWYERS THREATENS LABOR STRIKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Guinea's equivalent of the National Bar Association is threatening to go on strike as early as May 21 to protest the CNDD's perpetuation of extra-judicial legal procedures and a parallel justice system. At a minimum, the Bar is demanding that the CNDD immediately eliminate two [...]	2009-05-21 13:59:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY296	HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER PROVIDES DIFFERENT VIEW ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Comments from one of the country's leading lawyers and human rights advocates, Maitre Mounir, indicate that he is increasingly demoralized by the political situation in Guinea. He described a heated and unproductive meeting between the Bar Association and Dadis, which he believ [...]	2009-05-26 16:27:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ELAB PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY309	OUTSPOKEN JOURNALIST DETAINED AT CAMP ALPHA YAYA [...] The Guinean website lejourguinee.com reported that Moise Sidibe, a journalist for l'Independant newspaper, along with one of his sons, was apprehended the night of May 27-28 by soldiers and detained at Camp Alpha Yaya, headquarters of the ruling junta. Sidibe's boss at l'Independant, Mamadou D [...]	2009-06-02 14:30:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KPAO XY GV
09CONAKRY316	MINISTER ENCOURAGES VIGILANTE JUSTICE, CALLS FOR [...] (U) The Minister of State at the Presidency in Charge of High Crimes and Banditry, Captain Tiegboro Camara, met with city governors and community leaders on June 4 to discuss the security situation in the capital. During the meeting, he claimed to be speaking on behalf of CNDD President Mouss [...]	2009-06-05 14:28:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY330	LAWYERS HOLD TO STRIKE DESPITE THREATS [...] (U) Members of the Guinean Bar Association, along with many individuals employed in the judicial sector, including judges, officially launched a labor strike on Monday, June 8. Unlike other strikes in Guinea, which generally involve economic demands, the legal sector is demanding that the CND [...]	2009-06-10 17:30:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY331	FAMILY PAYS TO FREE TORTURED JOURNALIST [...] Summary: On June 8 the PAO and press assistant met with Moise Sidibe, the Guinean journalist who was detained and tortured for more than a week by the CNDD (Reftel). Sidibe described the events of the night of May 27 when he, his son and brother were arrested by a unit of the Ministry of Spec [...]	2009-06-11 07:09:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KPAO XY GV
09CONAKRY336	FAMILY PAYS TO FREE TORTURED JOURNALIST [...] Summary: On June 8 the PAO and press assistant met with Moise Sidibe, the Guinean journalist who was detained and tortured for more than a week by the CNDD (Reftel). Sidibe described the events of the night of May 27 when he, his son and brother were arrested by a unit of the Ministry of Spec [...]	2009-06-15 09:52:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KPAO XY GV
09CONAKRY342	GUINEAN LAWYERS END LABOR STRIKE [...] (U) After just three days, Guinea's Bar Association called a halt to the labor strike launched on June 8 to protest the CNDD's continued support of the Bureau of Conflicts, which is in effect, a parallel justice system (reftels). CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara initially reacted to the st [...]	2009-06-15 16:29:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM PGOV ASEC GV
09CONAKRY348	CNDD HARASSMENT OF BANKING SECTOR IMPEDES [...] (C) Summary: A meeting with Jerome Dagnaud, the Director General of an international commercial bank operating in Guinea, revealed significant harassment of the banking sector by the CNDD during the last two months. Individuals working in the banking sector are frequently summoned by the CNDD [...]	2009-06-17 17:23:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY357	POVERTY DRIVES EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. Embassy officers visited a community artisanal mine close to the Guinea-Mali border where poverty forces hundreds of children to work in exploitative situations. The Upper Guinea region is highly dependent on the artisanal mine sector and children provide an unprotected source of [...]	2009-06-23 09:49:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC EINV EMIN ECON KCOR GV
09CONAKRY368	FORCES VIVES BOYCOTT LATEST DADIS SHOW [...] (U) SUMMARY. In an uncharacteristic display of resolve, the majority of Guinea's Forces Vives refused to meet with CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara following his convocation to a June 23 meeting. Reportedly outraged after being stood up, Dadis attended the meeting which was packed with his [...]	2009-06-25 16:14:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY392	HUMAN RIGHTS WORKING GROUP DISCUSSES CURRENT [...] SUMMARY. At the most recent Embassy-hosted Human Rights Working Group, discussion among representatives from human rights organizations and civil society groups examined human rights abuses in Guinea since the coup d'etat. Speakers included a Human Rights Watch representative and two well-kn [...]	2009-07-06 15:21:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY395	DADIS ORDERS POST-MORTEM AUDIT [...] (SBU) Summary: The CNDD released a communiqu on July 5 detailing plans to begin a comprehensive audit of the last 25 years of governance in Guinea. Habib Hann, Vice President of the Strategy Bureau in the Office of the President, helped launch the project in order to investigate past corrupt p [...]	2009-07-08 16:06:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ECON EINV GV
09CONAKRY399	MINISTERS ON THE ROAD FOR DADIS [...] (U) SUMMARY. In an effort to stem his plunging popularity and increase CNDD visibility, CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara has directed his ministers to get out of their offices and confront the problems facing common people, namely the lack of electricity and water. Two ministers worked the F [...]	2009-07-09 17:11:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY400	REPORTED INCREASE IN MILITARY TENSION NOT VISIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to information obtained by Embassy's DAO, some elements of the military appear to be solidifying alliances with either Captain Jean Claude Pivi or the Minister of Defense Sekouba Konate. Military sources agree that tensions within the army are very high, though there is [...]	2009-07-10 14:26:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY41	JUNTA ARRESTS TOP TWO CUSTOMS OFFICIALS [...] (U) Military officials recently arrested and detained controversial Customs Director Olga Syradin and her Deputy Director, Aboubacar Bruno Bangoura. According to reports, two trucks of armed soldiers arrived at Customs headquarters in downtown Conakry at approximately 1700 hours on 7 January. [...]	2009-01-14 12:48:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PREL PHUM GV
09CONAKRY426	GUINEAN GOVERNMENT MAKES REPATED ATTEMPTS TO RAISE [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-22 13:15:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	ASEC GV PGOV PHUM PREL
09CONAKRY447	INCHING TOWARDS A NATIONAL TRANSITION COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the weeks steadily march on, Guinea's Forces Vives continue to debate the need for and composition of a National Transition Council (CNT). The CNDD is responsible for some of the delay, but the Forces Vives deserve blame as well. Dadis signed a decree on July 27 authorizing [...]	2009-08-04 16:23:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY450	MIILTARY PRISONERS MOVED TO KASSA ISLAND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Over the August 1-2 weekend, a group of military officers who were reportedly being held without charges at Camp Alpha Yaya since early January, were transferred to the military prison on Kassa Island. Family members and local media confirmed the transfer. The move is most likely [...]	2009-08-05 16:42:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY475	DADIS ESTABLISHES NATIONAL TRANSITION COUNCIL [...] (U) On August 13, the long awaited presidential decree formally establishing the National Transition Council (CNT) was signed by CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara. The final membership of the committee has now ballooned to 240 with specific groups ranging from political parties, armed forces [...]	2009-08-14 12:16:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY494	KAMSAR YOUTH PROTEST SHORTAGES OF ELECTRICITY [...] (U) A violent protest reportedly led by youths over the lack of electricity occurred in Kamsar this morning, a mining town located approximately three hours from Conakry. According to sources, two people were killed, but the cause of the deaths are undetermined. Military forces reportedly fire [...]	2009-08-24 15:42:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EMIN PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY501	MACENTA - KONATE LOBBIES FOR DADIS, YOUTH PROTEST [...] (U) Youth rioted on August 25 in the city of Macenta, which is located in the Forest region approximately 14 hours from Conakry. The protest was sparked by the Mayor's failure to deliver to the Macenta youth a hundred million Guinean francs (GNF)(approximately $20,000 USD) that Minister of Def [...]	2009-08-26 14:13:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY503	JUNTA BLOCKS TEXT MESSAGES [...] Several text messages asking Guinea's youth to unite against CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara have been circulating in the capital since the Aug 20 USG press release, and subsequent GOG statement, on elections and Dadis as a potential candidate (reftel). One message received by A/DCM contain [...]	2009-08-26 14:38:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECPS PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY506	FORCES VIVES REPORTEDLY UNITED AGAINST DADIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to political leader Francois Fall, Guinea's Forces Vives are determined to prevent CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara from running in the upcoming presidential elections. Coalition members are reportedly discussing strategies for next steps while the country's youth a [...]	2009-08-26 16:46:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY508	DADIS MAY LOSE SUPPORT FORM BUSINESS COMMUNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: EconOff met with prominent businessman, Mohammed Abliou Bah, to discuss the economic and political situation in Guinea on August 25. Bah, a public supporter of Dadis, has seemingly abandoned his former allegiance to the CNDD. He thinks that the military is becoming far too comfort [...]	2009-08-27 15:38:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PHUM PREL SOCI PGOV GV
09CONAKRY510	TECHNICAL DISCUSSION ON ELECTIONS SUGGESTS FURTHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A recent discussion of technical issues indicates that Guinea's elections may end up getting delayed once again. A decision to add twelve new voter registration sites abroad, which appears to be a unilateral directive from the GoG, poses immediate technical and logistical prob [...]	2009-08-27 16:33:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY512	PRO-DADIS MOVEMENT PLANS PROTEST IN FRONT OF U.S. [...] (U) The MDDR, Movement for Dadis to Stay, issued a communique on August 26 announcing the group's intent to stage a protest in front of the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, August 30, beginning 10:00 AM. The protest is in response to the USG's August 20 press release, which commented on Guinea's elec [...]	2009-08-28 12:30:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM GV
09CONAKRY513	MILITARY PAYS VISIT TO YOUTH LEADERS [...] (U) Beginning August 25, local press reported that men in military uniform had attempted to arrest Mouctar Diallo, a prominent youth leader and head of the NFD political party (New Democratic Forces). Diallo is well known for his public criticisms of the CNDD, which he routinely airs through [...]	2009-08-28 12:31:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY518	TRANSITION MEETING TURNS INTO PRO-DADIS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara's meeting on Guinea's transition went forward today as planned at the People's Palace, although it started more than two hours late due to Dadis' habitual tardiness. Members of Les Forces Vives did not participate, in accordance with the group's state [...]	2009-08-31 15:33:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY519	PEACEFUL PROTESTS IN CONAKRY OVER THE WEEKEND, [...] (SBU) Tensions in Guinea remain high over the question of Dadis' presenting himself as a candidate in the country's upcoming presidential elections. Following spontaneous demonstrations on August 27, both pro and anti CNDD groups organized peaceful protests on Sunday, August 30 in front of t [...]	2009-08-31 15:33:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY528	NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL LIMITS MEDIA [...] (U) On August 31, 2009, the National Communications Council (CNC) issued a decree prohibiting discussion of political topics on all interactive programs in all languages until further notice. In response, on September 1, the Union of Free Radio and Television of Guinea (URTELGUI) issued a c [...]	2009-09-03 13:57:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY529	DEMORALIZED YOUTH LEADERS AFRAID THAT JUNTA IS [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to youth contacts, Dadis and the CNDD are successfully attracting scores of political supporters, and using "billions of francs" to do so. At the same time, the CNDD is using fear, among other tactics, to paralyze the opposition. Demoralized, the youth leaders see fe [...]	2009-09-03 14:54:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY532	NEW VOICE EMERGING WITHIN LES FORCES VIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The leader of one of Guinea's newest political parties, Aboubacar Syllah, may be playing an increasingly important role within Les Forces Vives. A journalist by trade, Syllah has been working closely with former Prime Minister Francois Fall, and has been behind some strongly wo [...]	2009-09-03 16:42:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY533	BUSINESS OWNERS TARGETED BY MILITARY [...] (C) Long-time Embassy contact Hadja Binta Balde, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) director in Guinea, told Econoff that she has recently become the target of extensive military harassment. According to Balde, several unnamed persons began threatening her immediately after Embassy [...]	2009-09-03 17:03:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC PGOV ECON SOCI PREL GV
09CONAKRY538	GUINEA'S JUNTA LEADER ANNOUNCES PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: The leader of Guinea's military junta, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, told the ICG-G September 3 that he would present himself as a candidate in Guinea's presidential elections expected in January 2010. The surprise announcement came after Dadis compelled the Contact Group to atten [...]	2009-09-04 17:07:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY545	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. A leading human rights activist is concerned about rising political tensions in Guinea, and fears that the country is on the verge of a potentially violent conflict. Commenting extensively on the CNDD's efforts to bolster support, Contact highlighted polarizing tactics focused [...]	2009-09-10 15:30:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY549	CNC LIFTS BAN ON RADIO POLITICAL DEBATES [...] (U) On August 31, Guinea's media regulatory body, the National Communications Council (CNC),suspended all political programs and call-in shows in all languages on privately-owned radio stations in the country (reftel A). The Minister of Communication to the Presidency and to the Ministry of N [...]	2009-09-11 13:27:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY550	REPORTERS CHALLENGE DADIS AT AUDIT PRESS CONFERENCE [...] (U) On September 9, CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara held a press conference at the national radio and television center (RTG) with national and international press to discuss restarting the audits that will examine the entire 24-year period of the Conte regime. First Vice President and Mini [...]	2009-09-11 13:32:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY551	FULANI YOUTHS DISCUSS ANTI-DADIS MOVEMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. A group of Fulani youth leaders who identified themselves as the organizers of recent anti-Dadis demonstrations in Conakry told A/DCM of their plans to organize more such demonstrations in the weeks ahead. They cited ongoing concerns about security and claimed that the CNDD is [...]	2009-09-11 13:46:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY556	CROWDS OF SUPPORTERS WELCOME HOME OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Much of Conakry came to a virtual standstill for several hours on September 13 as crowds of supporters marched in the streets to welcome political leader Cellou Dalein Diallo (UFDG) back to Conakry. Main traffic arteries were closed for hours as supporters marched from the airport, thr [...]	2009-09-14 16:16:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY570	DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT - RESPONSE FROM GUINEA [...] Per reftel request, below are Embassy Conakry's responses to the Department's inquiry about the Guinean Diaspora: A: The Guinean diaspora are identifiable communities primarily based in Senegal, France, Mali, the United States, Canada and the United Arab Emirates. The existing diaspora net [...]	2009-09-16 15:19:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP BTIO EAID OEXC OIIP PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL GPI GV
09CONAKRY572	RECYCLED BUREAUCRATS AND NEW OFFICES EXPAND CNDD [...] (C) SUMMARY. Recent additions to the Dadis government include two bureaucrats who served in the Conte regime, a new Ministry for Guineans Abroad, and a new Secretariat in Charge of Mines and Energy. The changes will likely create redundant layers of bureaucracy while helping Dadis consolidate h [...]	2009-09-16 15:36:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV

09CONAKRY582	WOMEN OF LES FORCES VIVES FORM COALITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Worried about what they see as an increasing potential for violence, the women of Les Forces Vives appear to be forming their own coalition in order to better focus their efforts to effect change. The women discussed a detailed plan of action, but clearly lacked financial res [...]	2009-09-23 16:19:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM ASEC GV

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