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845 matching reports found. Showing 461 - 480 [TamilNet, Thursday, 14 October 2004, 12:40 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has prohibited resettled Tamil farming families in
Paththinipuram village from cultivating their paddy fields for the
forthcoming season, said the villagers in complaints lodged with the Tampalakamam
Divisional Secretary (DS) and Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO). Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 14 October 2004, 07:10 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has prohibited resettled Tamil farm families in Paththinipuram village from cultivating their paddy fields for the forthcoming season, said in complaints lodged with the Tampalakamam Divisional Secretary (DS) and Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO). Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 27 September 2004, 09:45 GMT]A member of a paramilitary group working with the Sri Lanka army was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Jaffna Monday afternoon, Police said. The man, identified as Valli Sundaram, was riding a motorbike on KKS Road between Maruthanamadam and Inuvil when two gunmen on a motorbike fired on him with a handgun, according to Police.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 26 September 2004, 13:55 GMT]Barathipuram, a Tamil settlement founded in 1964, about 3 km. off Trincomalee town, with currently about 125 families, is slowly rising with new amenities obtained with financial assistance from Lions Club of Trincomalee.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 15:59 GMT]Association for Preservation of Natural Resources in Vadamaradchchi East
Wednesday made an appeal to the Jaffna District Government Agent to take
immediate steps to provide electricity supply to villages in the division. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 20 September 2004, 15:39 GMT]Special prayers were offered Monday in the Tamil temple and church in the villages of Savukkadi and Thalavaai, 14 kilometres north of Batticaloa, in remembrance of forty two men, women and children who were hacked and shot to death by Sri Lanka army troops on 20 September 1990. The villagers were massacred during an SLA operation along the coast toward Batticaloa.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 15 September 2004, 17:13 GMT]The chief water works engineer for Batticaloa said Wednesday that squatters on land reserved for tapping underground springs were threatening to poison wells from which water is pumped the eastern town to stop authorities from evicting them. The squatters who are threatening to poison supply wells are backed by paramilitaries that illegally sold them the reserved state land during the war between 1990 and 94, officials said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 06 September 2004, 16:52 GMT] Subramaniam Park located in Jaffna town close to
Jaffna Fort, is to be renovated and opened shortly for public after about
fourteen years. UNICEF provided 2 million rupees as initial expenses
for the renovation of the park, Jaffna Municipal Council sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 06 September 2004, 01:01 GMT] Mechanized iodization and the new building housing machinery constructed at a cost of more than Rs.6m from funds provided by UNICEF have improved production of table salt from Elephant Pass and Kurunchativu salterns. More than 16 metric tons of salt, or about 20% of the output of 1990s were produced in the last twelve months from the 12 acres of salt pans brought back to production after the war, officials at facility said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 05 September 2004, 09:48 GMT]A general shut down (Hartal) was observed in Batticaloa Sunday to mark the massacre of hundreds of civilians, including pregnant women, infants and children, by Sri Lanka army and paramilitaries working with it on 5 September, 1990. Roads were mostly deserted and shops closed in response to a call by leading civil society groups and MPs of the Tamil National Alliance to observe 5 September as a Black Day. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 01 September 2004, 14:27 GMT]Amnesty International welcomed the recent ruling by the UN Human Rights Committee in the first case from Sri Lanka submitted under the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) concerning the “disappearance” of Thevarajah Sarma in favour of the relatives of the victim. The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that the Government of Sri Lanka is responsible for the “disappearance” and is under an obligation to provide Thevarajah Sarma’s family with an effective remedy. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 27 August 2004, 14:26 GMT]The Government of Sri Lanka will re-commission the disputed Pulmoddai Ilmenite factory next Wednesday 1 September, officials said. The factory was closed sixteen years ago after the Liberation Tigers blasted its fresh water supply lines from the Yan Oya River. The factory processed sand excavated from the beaches of Pulmoddai, 52 kilometres north of Trincomalee, to separate Ilmenite and Rutile ores for export. Sea Tigers sank two foreign ships that were loading Ilmenite sand off the Pulmoddai coast in 1996 and 1997. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 19 August 2004, 07:40 GMT]The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) conferred the title "Tamil national patriot" on Mr. Selliah Ratnam, retired Assistant Government Agent and the Jaffna district co-ordinator of SIHRN who passed away Sunday in Colombo Apollo Hospital after a brief illness. The remains draped by the Tiger flag were kept first at SIHRN office in Killinochchi district secretariat and later at Thooyavan Political Science College of the LTTE Tuesday for the public to pay homage. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 16 August 2004, 05:03 GMT]Mr. Bala Nadarajah Iyer (Sinna Bala), a senior member of the EPDP, a close ally of Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga, was shot dead in Colombo by unidentified gunmen Monday around 8.15 a.m. Mr. Iyer was the spokesman for the EPDP and was on the editorial board of its paper Thinamurasu. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 07 August 2004, 21:16 GMT]The leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mr. V.
Pirapaharan, Saturday honored 77 year old Mr. Ira. Nagalingam from Germany for his contribution to Tamil language and cultural education among children in the Tamil diaspora in Germany. Mr. Nagalingam
received an award embossed with the Tiger emblem from the LTTE leader.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 01 August 2004, 02:31 GMT] Mr. Kandaiah Yoharasa alias PLOTE Mohan was the most dreaded Tamil paramilitary operative that ever worked with the Sri Lankan armed forces in their war against the Liberation Tigers. His name once evoked terror among the people of Batticaloa. He was an invaluable if not indispensable part of Sri Lanka's intelligence and counter insurgency operations against the LTTE. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 10 July 2004, 08:52 GMT] Voter turn out for elections to six provincial councils in Sri Lanka on Saturday was the lowest in the island's polls history, officials said. ''Only 45 percent of the voters cast their votes today'', a senior election official in Colombo said. "Disgust with the current political confusion appears to be the cause behind this voter apathy", said a columnist for a Sinhala daily in Colombo. TamilNet confirmed with the election officials the final voter turn out for the elections was 45 percent. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 04 July 2004, 00:57 GMT] Popularity of the BBC's Tamil service, "Thamil Osai," broadcasting to
listeners in Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, North America, Western Europe and Australia, has prompted the BBC to start an online news service www.bbctamil.com. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 02 July 2004, 10:32 GMT]Three hundred families living in Mandaitheevu are still suffering without basic ameneties and ready access to drinking water despite two years of peace and promises by Sri Lankan military authorities to ease their burden, an MP who visited the area told TamilNet Friday. Mandaitheevu is an island south of Jaffna town heavily garrisoned by the Sri Lanka Navy since 1990.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 26 June 2004, 18:17 GMT] Major General Shantha Kottegoda will be appointed as the Sri Lanka army’s 17th commander from 1 July 2004. President Chandrika Kumaratunga, the commander in chief of the Sri Lankan armed forces, has approved his appointment despite speculation that she might extend the present SLA commander’s term for six months. Maj. Gen. Kottegoda, like his predecessor, is a senior intelligence officer. He was appointed to a special post as Overall Operations Commander (OOC) for the east after the LTTE crushed a renegade’s short-lived rebellion in the region. Full story >>
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