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845 matching reports found. Showing 401 - 420 [TamilNet, Tuesday, 24 January 2006, 12:40 GMT]Director of Military Intelligence (DMI) Brigadier Rizvy Zacky, a hardliner, has been recently posted as Brigadier General Staff Officer (GSO, Intelligence) at the Sri Lanka Army Head Quarters (SF HQ) Jaffna in a major reshuffle of the SLA and Intelligence apparatus. Execution-style killings of five students in Trincomalee and three women members of a family in Jaffna mark a stark change of pattern in the escalation of intensified serial killings of non-combatant civilians in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) controlled areas in the NorthEast. The pattern of violence also marks the return of hardliners who seems to prefer terror to subdue a population. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 21 January 2006, 12:18 GMT]Retired Rear Admiral Mohan Wijeyawickrema Friday assumed duties as the sixth Governor of the NorthEast Province at the sub-office of the Governor's Secretariat in Colombo. Mr Wijewickrema retired as the Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) prematurely as his seniority was overlooked when Ms Kumaratunge appointed Rear Admiral Vasantha Karanagoda as the Commander of the SLN in 2005. The new Governor is scheduled to pay his first official visit to the Secretariat located in Trincomalee facing the Trincomalee harbor next week, officials of the Secretariat said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 16 January 2006, 11:09 GMT]Mr Martin McGuinness, Chief Negotiator of Sinn Fein, the Political Wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) from Northern Ireland will be visiting Sri Lanka from 17th to 19th January, a press release from Initiative for Political Transformation (INPAC) an NGO based in Colombo issued Monday said. Mr McGuinness is expected to meet leaders of political parties to share his experiences and "communicate his understanding of the issues affecting political, conflict, peace processes within the country [Sri Lanka]," the release added. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 13 January 2006, 12:39 GMT]A group of twenty four Tamils including nine children from Selvapuram and Olathoduvai in Mannar district reached Rameswaram coast in Ramanathapuram Thursday, a daily in Tamil Nadu said. The influx has begun after a lapse of three years and refugees said threat of war, and harassment by the Sri Lanka armed forces after the recent attack on Sri Lanka Navy as the reasons for deciding to leave Sri Lanka shores, the paper said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 January 2006, 02:05 GMT]The Red Cross Movement has pledged to construct 15,000 houses to the tsunami
affected families and the reconstruction is ongoing in districts destroyed
by the natural disaster in the island, said Mr.S.H.Nimal Kumar,
National Secretary of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society, who was elected to
chair the Disaster Management and Relief Committee of the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescents Societies at its general assembly
held in Seoul, South Korea, recently.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 02 January 2006, 00:08 GMT] In the 12 June 1991 issue of Sri Lanka's English daily, Island International, late Dharmeratnam Sivaram, popular journalist and Senior editor at TamilNet, writes on issues that dominated the early Premadasa period after the departure of IPKF as prevailing climate appeared ripe for peace talks. However, on the day the article appeared, two soldiers were killed in a Batticaloa landmine attack. Enraged soldiers massacred 150 Tamil civilians (13 June) in Kokkadichcholai. LTTE retaliated by killing 19 soldiers (20 June) in an ambush, leading to continued blood letting as Eelam War II (June 1990 to 1994) was fought without any hopes of peace talks. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 30 December 2005, 18:33 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has imposed restriction and close surveillance on
the movement of about forty families residing in the surrounding of the
historic Thiruketheeswaram Sivan Temple following several explosions and
violent incidents in other parts of the Mannar district. These families are
among several hundred families displaced in the year 1990 due to violence.
They were allowed to resettle to assist reconstruction work on the damaged
temple.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 29 December 2005, 13:38 GMT] The Bishop of Jaffna and the priests belonging to the diocese expressed profound sadness at the loss of Joseph Pararajasingham and said the act was unjustifiable and unacceptable to men of good-will. "Perpetrators of this inhuman act will, one day, stand trial in the presence of the creator," Bishop of Jaffna Thomas Soundaranaygam said in his message. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 27 December 2005, 16:05 GMT]Eleven temporary shelters with cadjan roof tops, out of more than one hundred such huts in the open refugee camp (ORC) located in the premises of the Ceylon Fisheries Corporation in
Pesalai in Mannar district, were gutted by fire Tuesday afternoon around
2.30 p.m. The families have lost all their belongings and have been given shelter in the Vettrimatha Church, which is now
housing several families driven out of the One Hundred Housing Scheme
following the claymore mine attack on Sri Lanka Navy personnel, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 25 December 2005, 14:59 GMT] Praising Joseph Pararajasingham as a human rights activist ready to take up human rights violations against his community in Batticoloa disregarding risks to his life, the Northeast Secretariat on Human Rights (NESOHR) in a press release issued Sunday said, " A land where human rights defenders’ life can be taken away so cheaply is a damned land. It is also a damning indictment on those who are charged with the responsibility of protecting
them." Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 24 December 2005, 19:56 GMT] Mr. Joseph Pararajasingham, a senior Tamil politician and the Batticaloa district Member of Parliament (MP) of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) was shot and killed by two unidentified gunmen at St. Mary's co-cathedral church in Batticaloa town while attending Christmas prayers early morning at 1.20 a.m Sunday. The MP's wife, Mrs. Sugunam Pararajasingham, seriously wounded in the gunfire, was rushed to Batticaloa Hospital in critical condition. Seven more persons were injured in the gunfire, civilian sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 15 December 2005, 03:52 GMT]The newly constructed government hospital at a cost of about twenty million rupees at Adampan in Mannar district was declared open for the use of civilians residing in the villages of Aandankulam, Palaiyady, Puthukulam, Parapukadanthan, Vaddakandal, and Karukkaikulam held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with religious observances. Adampan is located in the LTTE held area. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded North East Community Restoration Development (NECORD) project carried out the project, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 01 December 2005, 11:51 GMT]Hundreds of families displaced from the High Security Zone (HSZ) in Valigamam district and living in refugee camps for more than fifteen years picketed in front of Uduvil Pradeshya Sabha offices protesting against the reduction in the relief assistance announced by the Government of Sri Lanka, sources in Jaffna said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 26 November 2005, 21:45 GMT] The Tiger symbol of Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) created in 1977, was designated as the National Flag of Tamileelam in 1990 without the letters inscribing the movement's name. The civil administration of Tamil Eelam in Vanni Saturday released an updated version of the guide providing instructions and explaining the correct usage of the Tamileelam National Flag. The guide written in Tamil specifies the regulations for flying the flag alone or with national flags of other countries, and for general handling of the flag. The National Flag has four colors, yellow, red, black, and white. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 01:20 GMT]Road Development Authority (RDA) workers Tuesday afternoon around 1.45 p.m. recovered an unexploded Johnny mine when they were repairing a culvert at Thallady in Mannar district. The incident was immediately reported to the 212 Brigade of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) located in Thallady. Bomb dispersal unit from Thallady camp rushed to the site to diffuse the mine, security sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 12 November 2005, 16:38 GMT]Mr.A.S.Johnthasan, Mannar acting Magistrate Saturday ordered surety bail for one person and released ten others when Talaimannar Police produced eleven refugees who were taken into custody by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) when they were returning to Sri Lanka from South India Friday, legal sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 27 October 2005, 15:40 GMT]An invitation has been extended to "Tamil bards and minstrels with patriotic fervor" to compose a Thamileelam national anthem. The invitation to the poets in the Northeast and among the Tamil diaspora came in an announcement by the Media Unit of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), from its base in Kilinochchi, Thursday. Poets are given time till November 27th, the Tamil Eelam Martyrs Remembrance Day, to give final touches to their composition. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 30 September 2005, 05:34 GMT] About 10,000 square meter area in Kanniya and about 8,000 square meter area in Thiriyai in the Trincomalee district have been declared mine free by the Danish Demining Group (DDG), civil society sources in Trincomalee said. Mr.Magnus Johansson, Technical Advisor of the DDG Wednesday and Thursday handed over "Release of Land Certificates" to the civil authority in these villages. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 08 September 2005, 18:39 GMT]Thirteen persons rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy when Indian boatmen left
them on a sandbank in Mannar Sea were produced in Mannar Magistrates' Court
by Talaimannar Police Wednesday. Talaimannar Police submitted report to
court stating that of the thirteen persons, eleven are genuine refugees and
the rest two youths were not, legal sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 04:59 GMT]Mannar Magistrate Mr.N.M.M.Abdullah Tuesday ordered the release of thirteen Tamil refugees returned from Tamilnadu in India and rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy from sandbank in the midsea. Full story >>
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