SL Government must be held accountable for violence - Canadian Parliamentarian

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 11:05 GMT]
“We [Canada] should be using our influence as an aid donor, as a fellow Commonwealth nation to hold the SL government to a standard of conduct where extra judicial killings, bombing of civilian villages and human rights abuses do not continue with impunity.” said Albina Guarnieri, an opposition parliamentarian addressing a ten thousand strong crowd gathered in Dundas Square, Toronto on Monday July 24th to commemorate the anniversary of Black July. Raymond Cho, a Toronto city councilor, spoke about the need to redefine terrorism while Tim Dobson, from the Conservative Party, underscored the importance of educating people about the Tamil people’s struggle.
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UN High Commissioner visits Kilinochchi

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 09:06 GMT]
António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Wednesday visited Kilinochchi, the de facto administration centre of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) administered Tamil territories and met with LTTE's Political Head, S. P. Thamilchelvan and M. Pavarasan, the Director of UN and NGO affairs of the Tamil administration, LTTE officials in Kilnochchi said.
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Surge in Mannar residents fleeing to South India

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 01:55 GMT]
Increasing number of residents of Mannar district have started fleeing to South India by boats following the escalation in number of abductions, and killings of several Tamil civilians by State armed forces and Deep Penetration Units of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), civil sources said.
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SLA troopers kill two civilians following grenade attack

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 00:40 GMT]
Contrary to claims by Sri Lanka Military sources that Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers shot dead two LTTE cadres in Urumpirai after a grenade attack on the SLA sentry at 3.00 p.m Tuesday, investigations conducted at the scene, the same night by Additional Magistrate Mr. Srinithi Nandasekeran revealed that the two men killed were innocent civilians, legal sources said.
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Thousands gather in Hyde Park remembrance

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 13:11 GMT]
Thousands of British Tamils are gathering in London’s Hyde Park to remember the thousands of fellow Tamils massacred in the July 1983 pogrom. The event, organised by the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) on behalf of the expatriate Tamil community, is taking place in the centre of the Royal park Tuesday afternoon.
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Home Guard, Tamil civilian killed in Serunuwara

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 01:43 GMT]
Unidentified persons shot dead Nagarajah Suntharalingam, 34, Poonagar in Eachchilampathu on Monday morning in the Seruvila police division. Meanwhile Serunuwara Police Monday recovered the body of a home guard identified as Nissanka Ranjith Bandara at Sri Mangalapura, a Sinhala settlement located close to Serunuwara police station, police sources said.


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"Death Won't Deter Us," - Diaspora Tamils mark 83 Black July Genocide

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 July 2006, 09:28 GMT]
The 1983 Black July anti-Tamil pogroms in which more than 3000 Tamils were killed and billions of rupees worth of property were destroyed by Sinhala thugs, sections of Sri Lankan armed forces, and ruling UNP party cadres, fuelled the Tamil armed struggle towards a defensible Tamil homeland. Thousands of Tamils fled the island to Tamil Nadu state in India, Europe and elsewhere. The recent extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) controlled areas in the NorthEast, during the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA), have added significance to the widespread observance by the Tamil diaspora of the 23rd year remembrance of the anti-Tamil pogroms.
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Muslim civilian shot dead in Thoppur

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 July 2006, 17:41 GMT]
Two masked men riding a motorbike shot dead Cassim Bawa Abdul Rahim,44, in Thoppur in Muttur division in Trincomalee district, around 6 a.m. Saturday, while he was returning home after morning prayers in a mosque in his village, Thoppur police said.
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Tamil youth shot dead in Kachchakodithivu

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 July 2006, 17:40 GMT]
Sri Lankan Army (SLA) shot dead a Tamil civilian N.Suthakar (30) of Palamppadru in Thampalakamam division Saturday afternoon around 3 p.m. This incident had taken place at Kachchakodithivu village in Kinniya division, police sources said.
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TNA accuses SL Armed Forces for attack on MP's residence

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 July 2006, 12:25 GMT]
Condemning in "strongest possible terms this cowardly act on a democratically elected Member of Parliament," the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in a press release issued Sunday said it has not the slightest doubt that this has been carried out by the "Government Paramilitary Groups and the Government Armed Forces in direct contravention of the Ceasefire Agreement and the agreements reached in Geneva in February 2006." The release added: "It is the refusal of the Sri Lankan Government to deal with its Paramilitary Groups and its Armed Forces as per the Ceasefire Agreement and the Geneva agreements that has been the single most destabilizing factor of the Peace Process."
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SLA arrests four in Vavuniya roundup

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 July 2006, 12:09 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers conducted an early morning cordon and search operation in Suthanthirapuram area in Vavuniya Sunday and arrested four civilians on suspicion of having links with Liberation Tigers, Vanni district parliamentarian Sivanathan Kishor said. The arrested four have been transferred to the Vavuniya Police Sunday afternoon after the relatives complained to the parliamentarian who intervened on their behalf.
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Two SLN soldiers injured in Velani grenade attack

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 July 2006, 10:11 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) soldiers were injured, one seriously, when unknown gunmen riding in a motorbike hurled hand grenades at the soldiers engaged in security duties in Vankalavady in Velanai Jaffna Islet at 11:50 a.m. Sunday, sources in Jaffna said. The seriously injured soldier has been transported to Palaly military hospital.
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SLA informer gunned down in Mallakam, Jaffna

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 July 2006, 08:23 GMT]
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a person, Thirunavukarasu, 67, in Mallakam around 1:00 p.m. Sunday, Police said.
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Man shot dead near Jaffna town

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 July 2006, 17:22 GMT]
A. Nagamani, 55, a civilian from Ottumadam located 3 km from Jaffna town was shot dead by unknown gunmen in front of his house at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, sources in Jaffna said. The gunmen called Mr Nagamani to come out of the house and shot him dead in point blank range, relatives said.
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68-year old man shot dead in Puttur East, Jaffna

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 July 2006, 04:54 GMT]
A 68-year old man was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at his house, located in Urani, Puttur East, Friday night.
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SLA vehicle accident injures 3 civilians in Kopay

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 July 2006, 00:22 GMT]
A mother and her two children were injured when a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) truck travelling at high speed collided with a privately owned passenger van, trapping and injuring the three riding a bicycle in Kopay, Valigamam East, along Jaffna Point-Pedro road at 5:30 p.m. Friday, sources in Jaffna said.
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4 civilians injured in SLA fire in Nallur

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 July 2006, 14:42 GMT]
Four civilians were injured when Sri Lanka Army soldiers fired at random following a grenade blast at Wyman road-Pt.Pedro road junction, in Nallur, a suburb of Jaffna town, around 5.30 p.m., Thursday, civilians sources said.
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Navy convoy hits civilian vehicle, seven injured

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 July 2006, 13:10 GMT]
Seven civilians including a foreign woman married to a Sri Lankan were injured when a bus carrying sailors in Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) convoy crashed into their multi-passenger vehicle which was parked along the Inner Harbour Road in Trincomalee town to give way to the convoy. The accident took place Thursday evening around 4:00 p.m., police sources said.
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4 NEIAP officials wounded in DPU Claymore attack

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 July 2006, 10:20 GMT]
Three officials of World Bank funded North-East Irrigated Agriculture Project (NEIAP) and the driver of their pickup vehicle, belonging to Mannar District Secretariat, were wounded in a Claymore carried out by the Sri Lanka Army Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) attackers in Kokupadaiyan, 28 km southeast of Mannar town, Thursday around 2:45 p.m. The incident took place on Slivathurai - Mullikulam Road between Kallaru and Kokkupadaiyan, civilian sources said. The officials escaped with minor wounds, medical sources said.
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Two men shot dead in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 July 2006, 06:10 GMT]
Men riding in motorbikes shot and killed two young men in two separate incidents in Jaffna, Thursday morning, police and hospital sources said. Civilian sources alleged that the killers were paramilitaries collaborating with Sri Lanka Army (SLA).
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