Irākkai, Irākkā-vaḷavu, Ṟakkā Road, Mā-raka, Rẹkava, Maha-rẹkma, Rakṣāva, Arak-yāla, Arakā-goḍa

[TamilNet, Friday, 23 June 2017, 18:30 GMT]
The guard-post or sentinel

The premises of the guard; or the guard-post premises

The guard-post road

The big guard-post

The guard-post

The big guard-post

The guard-post

The protected cultivation field; or the guard-post neighbourhood

The guarding/ guard-post hill or bank
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Ālaṭi, Aracaṭi, Vēmpaṭi, Taṇakkaṭi, Tillaiyaṭi, Taṭaṅkan-puḷiyaṭi, Pīnāṟi-marattaṭi, C$

[TamilNet, Sunday, 18 June 2017, 18:30 GMT]
The locality of the Āl tree

The locality of the Aracu tree

The locality of the Taṇakku tree

The locality of Tillai trees

The locality of the tamarind tree where the cattle impound is located

The locality of the Pīnāṟi tree

The locality of the kiln

The spot or locality where fish catch is weighed for taxation
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Māttaṉai, Kuṭattaṉai, Nārantaṉai, Mayilantaṉai, Caṅkattāṉai

[TamilNet, Friday, 16 June 2017, 18:30 GMT]
The big place

The small place or the lagoon place

The place of cranes/ bitter orange shrubs/ a kind of grass/ a kind of creeper

The place of Mayilam/ Mayilai shrubs or trees

The place of the Saṅgha
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Kolluk-kuṭi, Putuk-kuṭiyiruppu, Kuḍirippuva, Kuṭiyēṟṟam

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 14 June 2017, 18:30 GMT]
The settlement of the clan of ironsmiths

The new settlement

The settlement

The colony or newly populated settlement
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Ūri, Ūriyaṉ, Ūrik-kāṭu, Ūra-tīvu, Ūṟal, Uppūṟal

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 18:30 GMT]
The saline land

The place of the saline land

The saline scrubland

The saline islet

The marsh or muddy land

The salt marsh
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Kāṅkēyaṉ-tuṟai/ Kāṅkēcaṉ-tuṟai, Kantak-kāṭṭut-tuṟai, Vaṇṇāṉ-tuṟaik

[TamilNet, Monday, 05 June 2017, 18:30 GMT]
The seaport of Kāṅkēyaṉ

The ferry point (to cross the river) at (the place) Kantak-kāṭu

The washerman-ghat pond

The coastal-place
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Karampaṉ, Cītaiyār-karampai, Karaṁbē, Karampaik-kuḷam, Karaṁba-vẹva

[TamilNet, Saturday, 13 May 2017, 18:30 GMT]
The wasteland

The wasteland belonging to a person called Cītai

The wasteland

The tank in the locality of Karampai shrubs or the tank in the wasteland

The tank in the locality of Karaṁba shrubs or the tank in the wasteland
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Nuraic-cōlai, Kokkaṭṭic-cōlai, Puṉṉaic-cōlai, Camiḷañ-cōlai, Tumpalañ-cōlai, Mutirañ-cōlai

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 May 2017, 18:30 GMT]
The grove or forest of Nurai trees

The grove or forest of Kokkaṭṭi trees

The grove or forest of Puṉṉai trees

The grove or forest of Camiḷai trees

The grove or forest of Thumpalai trees

The grove or forest of Mutirai trees
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Tōlai-kaṭṭi, Kottuk-kaṭṭi, Nāval-kaṭṭai, Kaṭṭai-paṟiccāṉ-āṟu, Kaṭṭai-āla&am

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 May 2017, 17:30 GMT]
The grove part

The settlement part or enclave of a group of bonded labourers

The part or assemblage of Nāval trees

The river that quickly discharges surplus water from the dam

The locality of the short banyan tree; or the locality of the banyan tree having a resting platform

The eighth milepost
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Kal-vayal, Ciṟutēṉ-kal, Veṭi-vaitta-kallu, Kallan-tāḻvu, Kaṟ-kuḻi

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 April 2017, 19:45 GMT]
The stony paddy field

The rock-mounds to get honey gathered by a small kind of honeybees

The rocks that were blasted by explosives

The stony low-lying ground

The rock pit or the rock pond
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Colombo enacts farcical show in Mirusuvil massacre case

[TamilNet, Saturday, 04 July 2015, 17:21 GMT]
As part of a concerted showdown in its campaign to transform the Geneva-based OISL investigation discourse into a domestic investigation, the Sri Lankan legal system was recently deployed to ‘demonstrate’ its ‘capacity‘ to 'investigate' what would be described by the human rights defenders as a ‘mass atrocity’ crime. The case, in which one non-commissioned officer of the Sri Lankan Army, Staff Sergeant Sunil Rathnayake, was sentenced to capital punishment, was in fact a genocidal crime in which several Sinhala soldiers, including a captain rank officer having command responsibility, took part. The main surviving witness in the case, who narrowly escaped the brutal massacre, had identified in 2001 the culprits, who belonged to the notorious ‘Deep Penetration Unit’, which was trained by Colombo to commit genocidal acts.
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Kodduk-ki'na'ru, Kodduk-kal, Uppuk-koddu

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 2014, 15:02 GMT]
The well walled by hollow wood

The block rocks or the barn/ hut-like rock

The salt storing barn or hut
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Karaiyoor, Karaawe-goda

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 June 2014, 20:28 GMT]
The seaside village

The seaside bank or village
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Catholic peace group in Jaffna details structural genocide to Apostolic Nuncio

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 October 2013, 15:28 GMT]
The Chairman of Justice and Peace Commission of the Catholic Diocese of Jaffna, Fr. S.V.B Mangalarajah, has written a detailed letter on Friday to the permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See in Colombo, Most Rev. Dr. Joseph Spiteri, elucidating the structural genocide being carried out by occupying Sri Lanka on the country of Eezham Tamils. The letter comes following the move by the Colombo's colonial regime handing over a report to the Apostolic Nuncio, detailing the so-called development activities carried out in North and East. The JPC Chairman was categoric in his letter that external ‘development’ cannot substitute the settling of the political solution and urged the Vatican to exert political pressure on Sri Lanka to put forward a political solution framework. The detailed letter summarises the genocidal programme of the Sri Lankan State under 10 topics.
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Jaffna youth gone missing in Monaraagala

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 September 2008, 19:31 GMT]
A Tamil youth from Alvaay area in Vadamaradchi had gone missing in Ve’l’lavaaya area in Monaraagala district 21 August, according to a complaint lodged by his parents to Human Rights Commission (HRC) Jaffna Friday. He was last seen after sending money to his parents from the bank in Ve’l’lavaaya, where he had been employed in the shop of his relative, the parents said in their complaint to HRC.
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3rd beheaded male corpse recovered in Kappoothu, Vadamaraadchi

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 September 2008, 19:08 GMT]
Nelliyadi police in Vadamaraadchi recovered a male corpse with its head severed and signs of severe torture Friday, near a bridge 400m from Kappothu Sri Lanka Army (SLA) main camp along Kuyilangka’ndi Veethi in Kappoothu, a place located between Thenmaraadchi and Vadamaraadchi, sources in Point Pedro said. Meanwhile, a beheaded corpse of a male in woman’s clothing from Thenmaraadchi was recovered recently from this area and the body of a youth from Rajkiraamam in Karaveddi in Vadamaraadchi with its head severed was found dumped in the same area following it.
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SLN arrests 10 fishermen in Vadamaraadchi

[TamilNet, Thursday, 19 June 2008, 16:32 GMT]
Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) arrested Wednesday ten fishermen for having strayed beyond the 3 km distance limit enforced by the security forces in the seas of Vadamaradchi North and Munnai areas, confiscating their five catamarans, sources in Point Pedro said. The arrested fishermen were warned by the Point Pedro magistrate and allowed on 2,000 rupees cash bail each Thursday when they were produced at Point Pedro Court. The magistrate also directed SLN to return the confiscated catamarans to the fishermen.
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Kārai-tīvu/ Kārainakar, Marukkāraṅ-kuḷam, Ceṅ-kārai, Kara-gaha-vala

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 January 2008, 00:06 GMT]
The island of Kārai shrubs

The tank or pond of Marukkārai shrubs/ trees

The (place of) Ceṅkārai shrubs

The jungle or thicket of Kara shrubs
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2007: The year in review

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 January 2008, 07:34 GMT]
For the people of the NorthEast, 2007 was a grim year. Sri Lanka’s security forces and allied paramilitaries intensified their campaign of abductions (‘white van’ abductions), torture, and murder of Tamil civilians. Tamil civil society leaders bore the brunt of the counter-insurgency campaign. Jaffna remained an open prison with shortage of essential items, east falling under the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) control with thousands displaced as Colombo concocts colonization schemes to make east a Sinhala majority province.
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3 youths reported missing in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Saturday, 28 April 2007, 07:08 GMT]
Two youths have gone missing at Sathira Junction along Hospital Road, Jaffna Friday at different times in broad daylight, according to complaints registered by their relatives with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Jaffna office Friday. Meanwhile, a student of Jaffna Technical College (JTC) was reported missing from Monday, HRC sources in Jaffna said.
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