Seven youths arrested in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 June 1999, 11:28 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army has arrested 7 youths from Valvettithurai, north of Jaffna, over the past two days, in connection with the killing of a police officer there on June 5.
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More arrests in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 June 1999, 20:46 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and the Liberation Tigers clashed in Kokkuvil, north of Jaffna town last night said sources in the northern town.
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Twelve arrests in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 May 1999, 07:06 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Security Forces arrested 12 people in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Saturday and Sunday (May 15 and 16), on suspicion that they have been rendering help the Liberation Tigers, said human rights sources.
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Investigate eastern graves - TULF MP

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 20 April 1999, 18:21 GMT]
Mr.Joseph Pararajasingham, MP for Batticaloa, called on the government today to investigate and excavate mass grave sites in the east where the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has allgedly massacred and buried hundreds of civilians, including children.
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Sea Tigers attack SLN patrol - VoT

[TamilNet, Friday, 19 February 1999, 16:46 GMT]
(CORRECTION) The Voice of Tigers (VoT) said in its 8.00 a.m. news broadcast today that the Leopard commandos of the Sea Tigers attacked a Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) Special Forces Unit patrolling the Jaffna lagoon off Kilaly on Friday morning at 12.30 a.m..
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Youth abducted in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Sunday, 14 February 1999, 22:23 GMT]
A 19 year old youth, Subramaniam Sureshkumar, was abducted by unidentified armed men, while he was at the canteen run by the Tellipallai Multi-purpose co-operative society (MPCS) in the Jaffna peninsula.
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SLA death squad spreads terror

[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 January 1999, 16:58 GMT]
Aarumugam Kaaththalingam, 51, a poor plumber from Kokkuvil, an impoverished village on the northern outskirts of the Batticaloa town was gruesomely shot dead last night by unknown gunmen, suspected to be members of an SLA terror squad operating from a detachment nearby.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 January 1999, 23:48 GMT]
Ponnambalam to be interrogated tomorrow; Two arrested in Jaffna; Ex-EPDP cadre commits suicide and Varatharaajapperumal meets EPRLF leaders.
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Tiger boats sunk - SLN

[TamilNet, Monday, 30 November 1998, 08:29 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) claimed today that its gunboats operating in the seas off Mullaithivu between Alampil and Semmalai intercepted and destroyed five Sea Tiger vessels early this morning around 5.30 a.m.
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Airforce bombing kills four civilians

[TamilNet, Sunday, 22 November 1998, 13:49 GMT]
Four civilians were killed and 2 wounded when the Sri Lankan Air Force Kfir jets bombed Murippu, a village in the Mullaitivu district, around 10 a.m yesterday, according to the Voice of Tigers (VoT) in its night transmission yesterday.
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Troops search Jaffna school

[TamilNet, Thursday, 22 October 1998, 18:59 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) rounded up and searched a school in Jaffna today for the first time since it consolidated its hold on the peninsula in early 1996. Troops entered the premises of the Kokkuvil Hindu college this afternoon around 2 p.m. when the school was about to be closed.
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Paramilitary encroachments threaten water supply

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 September 1998, 11:49 GMT]
SLA sponsored Tamil paramilitaries in Batticaloa are principally distinguished by their remarkable resourcefulness to make life unbearable for the much harassed local civilian population. And now they are standing in the way of supplying adequate running water to the people of this war battered eastern town.
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Search operation in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 August 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) conducted a cordon and search operation in the Manipay, Kokkuvil and Thavady areas, suburbs of Jaffna town, between 6:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon on Thursday, said sources in Jaffna.
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Six missing in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 21 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Four teenagers from Nallur Sathaana Mahaviththiyalayam in Jaffna town have been missing from yesterday, said sources in Jaffna. It is believed that the boys have been arrested by the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP).
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Twenty-eight released on bail

[TamilNet, Friday, 27 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Twenty eight persons detained at the Kalutara prison were released by the Anuradhapura Magistrate T. Costa, said sources in Anuradhapura. Of these, 16 were released on cash bail and 12 on surety bail. Those who could not raise the money to secure bail, were helped by a charity organisation.
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Four Tigers killed in Jaffna - SLA

[TamilNet, Friday, 30 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Four persons were killed when the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) threw a grenade into an underground bunker in an abandoned house near the Nandavil Amman Kovil in Kokkuvil in Jaffna, around 8.35 a.m. this morning.
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Grenade thrown at SLA patrol

[TamilNet, Friday, 30 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers threw grenade at a Sri Lankan Army petrol today 11.30 a.m. in Lotus road, in Aarukal Madathadi in Anaikoddai. Reports from Jaffna said that some SLA soldiers were injured in the grenade attack. Later, the army demolished a house from which the attackers had thrown grenade.
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Low turn out at clustered booths

[TamilNet, Thursday, 29 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Reports from Jaffna said that polling was very low in Kokkuvil,Maruthanaamadam, Inuvil, Sankaanai, Sandilippai, Uduvil, Vaddukkoddai and generally in Waligamam west.
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Search operation in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Saturday, 24 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army launched a cordon and search operation in Thavady, Kokkuvil and Pirambady in Jaffna from the early hours of the morning today. The operation went on till noon said sources in Jaffna. No details of those arrested and detained were known.
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Search operation in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 15 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
A large area in the Waligamam division of Jaffna including Paashaiyoor, Koyyathottam, Aanaikotai, Thattartheru, Kokkuvil and Kalatti were cordoned and searched by the army form early morning until this afternoon, said sources in Jaffna.
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