Centre for Policy Alternatives on 11 October, 2009

Southern Provincial Council Election 2009: Election Day Media Communique? No. 1

As at 12.00 noon 10th October, 2009 Colombo Sri Lanka:
Voting for the Southern Provincial Council elections commenced at 7.00
a.m. today with relatively low incidents of election related violence.
According the CMEV monitors, a total of 20 election-related incidents
have been recorded since polls opened from all three districts. 07 of
these incidents have been categorized as major and 13 as minor. 10
incidents have been reported from Galle, 05 incidents have been
reported from Matara and 05 incidents from Hambantota district.

Download full CMEV report here.

Southern Provincial Council Election 2009: Election Day Media Communique? No. 1

Centre for Policy Alternatives on 10 October, 2009

Monitoring election violence in Sri Lanka Southern Provincial Council Election 2009: Interim Report

8th October 2009:
CMEV has recorded a cumulative total of 95 incidents since its
commenced monitoring. Of the total of 95 incidents, the number of Major
incidents have gone up to 26 while 69 incidents have been categorized
as Minor. The highest number of Major incidents have been reported from
the Galle district – 14 out of 26. The total number of incidents
reported to CMEV from the Galle district is 45.

For full report and details of these incidents, download the CMEV Interim Report.

Monitoring election violence in Sri Lanka Southern Provincial Council Election 2009: Interim Report