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845 matching reports found. Showing 481 - 500 [TamilNet, Monday, 07 June 2004, 00:02 GMT] The Trincomalee District Development Association (TDDA) under its Integrated Rehabilitation Programme (IRP) with the funding of the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) has provided infrastructure facilities to the resettled Tamil village, Swamimalai, in Thampalakamam Divisional Secretariat
division. Swamimalai is located along Trincomalee-Kandy highway, about 24 km northwest off east port town. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 04 June 2004, 10:13 GMT] "Brussels aid conference has told the Sri Lankan government to commence peace talks immediately with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) if the 4.5 billion dollars aid pledged in Tokyo is to be disbursed for development. This clearly shows that the international community has understood and accepted our freedom struggle," said the LTTE Trincomalee district political head Mr.S.Elilan addressing the inaugural meeting of Anna Fisheries Development Organization in Paththamkurichchy (Division No: 10), a suburb in the heart of Trincomalee, Wednesday morning. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 May 2004, 00:01 GMT] Mr. Lei Brouns, South Asia Director of the Netherlands based Terre Des Hommes(TDH), Tuesday declared open the new building of the Trincomalee St. Jospeh Technical Institute, constructed at a cost of about nine million rupees and funded by TDH. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 19:25 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army Monday allowed five internally displaced Muslim families to resettle in their houses located in the high security zones in Thenmaradchchi in Jaffna district. SLA officials of the 53rd Brigade handed over the keys of the five houses to the legal Muslim owners in the presence of Thenmaradchchi Division Secretariat officials, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 20 May 2004, 18:00 GMT]Mr.Selvam Adaikalanathan, Vanni district parliamentarian, Thursday made an urgent appeal to Sri Lanka's President, Ms.Chandrika Kumaratunge, to take immediate steps to hand over the defunct Mannar saltern to the Mannar Fisheries Co-operative Society to reactivate it. The Mannar saltern has now been under the purview of the Ministry of Enterprises, and Investment Promotion, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 May 2004, 10:14 GMT] Students of resettled families of Kanniya, a traditional Tamil village which is located along Trincomalee-Anuradhapura highway, about eight km off
northwest of east port town Tuesday moved into a new school building
constructed at a cost of 1.3 million rupees by the North East Community
Restoration Development (NECORD) funded by the Asian Development Bank
(ADB), sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 27 April 2004, 15:17 GMT]A Tamil youth arrested in 1986 by the Special Task Force of the Sri Lanka Army at Kaluwanchikudy in the Batticaloa district, and assumed dead, has escaped last week from an STF camp where he was held incommunicado for 18 years, and has detailed the torture and killings by the STF that took place in the camp and elsewhere to Sri Lanka’s Human Rights Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), sources in Batticaloa told TamilNet. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 27 April 2004, 03:56 GMT]The people who were rendered refugees and were displaced during the war in 1985 from Kevuliyamadu in the Batticaloa district have demanded that they be allowed to resettle in their village, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 18:17 GMT] Five internally displaced Muslim families with about twenty-five members
who returned to Jaffna from Puttalam recently for resettlement have been
staying in the damaged Jumma Mosque in the Chavakachcheri town in
Thenmaradchchi division as the Sri Lanka Army has refused permission to
them to occupy their houses. Their houses are located in the high security
zones of the army, civil sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 09 April 2004, 14:39 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army has allowed resettlement of a few internally displaced families in the high security zones in Thenmaradchchi south division in Jaffna district on a staggered basis. The first batch of IDPs would be
allowed to resettle in areas close to Thoppu Pillaiyair Kovil in
Maravanpulo village on the Tamil-Sinhala New Year Day, civil sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 03 April 2004, 14:21 GMT] Mr. Senathirajah Jeyanandamoorthy, TamilNet’s correspondent for Batticaloa has been elected as a Tamil National Alliance Member of Parliament for the eastern district, election officials said Saturday. He received 44457 personal preference votes. The Tamil National Alliance won a landslide victory in Batticaloa and got four of the district’s five seats. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 28 March 2004, 03:01 GMT]Trincomalee Multi Purpose Co-operative Society (MPCS) Saturday opened its newly constructed eleventh retail and model shop at a cost of about 2 million rupees after about fourteen years in the resettled Tamil village Kanniya to cater to the urgent basic needs of the resettled families, civil society sources said. Kanniya is located about six km off north of east port town .
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 March 2004, 06:28 GMT]The Tamil National Alliance candidates in Batticaloa who might be elected in the April polls to Sri Lanka’s Parliament should be ready to work with the government that comes to power in Colombo, according to instructions issued Monday by the Karuna Group to Tamil politicians in the troubled eastern district, sources said. One of the TNA MPs elected from Batticaloa would be given a cabinet portfolio, according to Mr. Rajan Sathiyamoorthy, a TNA candidate who is a confidante of Mr. V. Muraleetharan, the leader of the Karuna Group. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 13 March 2004, 14:40 GMT] Twelve women from refugee camps India sought asylum at the political office of the Liberation Tigers in Vavuniya Saturday. The women said they had forcibly been kept in safe houses in Colombo by men who had promised to get them jobs abroad. People chased away a gang that tried to abduct the women when they arrived in Vavuniya by train on Saturday morning. The women alleged the gang had sexually harassed and intimidated them. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 06 March 2004, 16:00 GMT]The special Water Cutting festival which happens once every twelve years (Maha Maham Theertham), took place in Trincomalee Back Bay Sea Saturday morning in the presence of chief deities of about twenty Hindu temples in Trincomalee. Deities from Hindu temples in Salli, Sambaltivu, Chelvanayakapuram, Anpuvallipuram and several parts in east port town were
brought to the Back Bay Sea, festival officials said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 05 March 2004, 16:16 GMT] About fifty students of resettled families in Nochchikulam village in the
Morawewa division in the Trincomalee district Thursday moved into a new
building, which has been constructed with the funds provided by the UNICEF.
The children of the resettled families studied under tree shades till the
completion of the semi-permanent building. UNICEF Trincomalee zone head Ms
Gabriela Elroy declared open the building Thursday. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 05 March 2004, 14:25 GMT] A group of resettled villagers attended a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) election meeting held Wednesday evening after twenty-one years in Thiriyai, a traditional Tamil village in Trincomalee which was completely destroyed in
military operations launched by the Sri Lanka Army, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 17:06 GMT]Trincomalee district branch of the Sri Lanka Red Cross (SLRC) is renovating four welfare centres in the Trincomalee district with one million rupees allocated by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sri Lanka. The four welfare centres are located in Jinnah Nagar,
Nilaveli, Periya Vilankulam and Namalwatte in the Trincomalee district, SLRC sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 14 February 2004, 16:19 GMT]The North East Community Restoration Development (NECORD) project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has established a Revolving Loan Fund
(RLF) for the provision of fiberglass fishing crafts, nets and motors to fishermen through Jaffna district fisheries co-operative societies to reactivate deep-sea fishing in the northern sea, NECORD Project Director Mr.T.Lankaneson said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 02 February 2004, 17:52 GMT] Trincomalee district political head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Mr.S.Thilak Monday noon laid the foundation stone for the proposed government hospital complex in Eachilapamathu village in the LTTE
held Muttur east in the Trincomalee district. The hospital is to be built at a cost of 20 million rupees allocated by the World Bank funded North East Emergency Reconstruction Project (NEERP). Full story >>
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