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845 matching reports found. Showing 501 - 520 [TamilNet, Monday, 02 February 2004, 00:05 GMT]Parents and students of Kappalthurai, a village with Tamil resettlers, honored Jenitta Vipulanandan, a student of Saraswathie Vidyalayam, for passing the island wide Year- 5 Scholarship examinations. This was the first in the school's twenty-five year history, school teachers said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 31 January 2004, 00:32 GMT] Vakarai is a large backwater on Sri Lanka’s east
coast. It is an area with large fertile fields,
lagoons and virgin forests in the northern part of the
Batticaloa district. Vakarai was subjected to more
than fifteen years of a brutal counter insurgency
campaign by the Sri Lanka army. It has seen hardly any
development even after the war stopped two years ago.
Electricity is still a luxury here. “I have never seen
electricity used in Vakarai since I was born,”
N.Loganathan, a resident of Panichchankerni, told
TamilNet. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 25 January 2004, 17:56 GMT] The Trincomalee district military commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Colonel Pathuman, Saturday declared open two new buildings in two schools in the Eachchilampathu division, in the LTTE held Muttur east,
constructed by the Asian Development Bank funded North East Community Restoration Development (NECORD) project at a cost of about 3.8 million rupees at the invitation of NECORD Project Director Mr.T.Lankaneson.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 22 January 2004, 15:14 GMT]New buildings constructed at a cost of about 3.8 million rupees in two Tamil schools in the villages, Ilankathurai Muhathuwaram and Poomarathadichchenai in the Eachilampathu division in Trincomalee district
by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded North East Community Restoration and Development (NECORD) project will be declared open on Friday, NECORD Trincomalee Deputy Project Director Mr. R.Umakanthan said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 13 January 2004, 04:51 GMT]Vadamarachchi North fisheries societies in Jaffna district appealed to the Sri Lanka Army to replace the existing army pass system by recognizing the fisheries identity cards issued by the Department of Fisheries. The appeal was made at a conference held last week at the 52-4 brigade
headquarters of the SLA in Point Pedro, security sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 12 January 2004, 00:05 GMT] Celebrations commemorating the Fourteenth death anniversary of Major Sothia and the eighth anniversary of inauguration of Liberation Tigers fighting unit, Sothia Brigade, were held in Vanni Sunday, 11 January, LTTE sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 January 2004, 12:44 GMT]Wednesday at 1.30pm, about 10 Muslim youths in Nainakadu, Sammanthurai in Amparai district attacked Tamil workers and Muslim owners in a brick factory and forced them to flee the workplace, security
sources in Amparai said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 02 January 2004, 15:55 GMT]Seventy eight year old father of five children, Mr Vethavanam Varathalingam of 3rd Mile Post, Mulliayadi has appealed to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) to help him to get his five acre paddy land from Sri Lanka Army occupation, civil rights sources said. Mulliayadi is located along Thampalakamam-Kinniya road in Trincomalee. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 01 January 2004, 13:39 GMT]The public market in the traditional Tamil village Thampalakamam, which is located 27 km southwest of Trincomalee town, was re-opened Thursday after about thirteen years. Thampalakamam divisional head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Mr.Thirumalai declared open the public market. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 December 2003, 12:14 GMT]"The Indian government should recognize the self determination right of
Tamils and come forward to assist them to reach a fair and just political
solution to meet their legitimate aspirations," said the President of the
Jaffna District National Resurgence Forum Mr. P.Kanagalingam Tuesday
addressing the sixteenth death anniversary commemoration event of Major Murali and nine other LTTE
cadres who died in a battle with the Indian Peace
Keeping Force on December 23, 1987 at Urumpirai in Jaffna district.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 December 2003, 08:10 GMT] Maj. Gen. Susil Chandrapala, the new Sri Lankan security forces commander for Jaffna, told TamilNet Wednesday that the question of Sri Lanka army high security zones in Jaffna is not a matter for the district’s Government Agent but it is one that’s under his purview. He was speaking to the local press after a meeting between civilian officials and the military at the Jaffna District Secretariat Wednesday morning. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 13 December 2003, 13:25 GMT] Under the Village Rehabilitation Programme (VRP), Asian Development Bank supported North East Community Restoration Development (NECORD) project is funding
reconstruction of abandoned roads and public wells and other infrastructure facilities destroyed in Kanniya, a village located about eight km off the east port town along Trincomalee-Anuradhapura main road, TRO Trincomalee district co-ordinator Mr. K.Mathavarajah said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 08 December 2003, 22:35 GMT] Nordic Tamil Medical Professionals came together for a conference to discuss the health issues facing the Tamil community in the North and East of Sri Lanka. The conference was held on 6th of December. Speakers were Doctors and Dentists from Norway and the United Kingdom who had returned to the North and East of Sri Lanka during 2003 to undertake a variety of health projects. The conference was organised by the Norwegian Tamils Health Organisation (NTHO). Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 08 December 2003, 15:12 GMT] Hundreds of displaced Tamil families from Kadaloor and Upparu in Kinniya
division in Trincomalee district, who have been staying as refugees at the Eechantivu Vipulananda Tamil Vidiyalayam, Sunday complained to the Trincomalee district parliamentarians, Messrs R.Sampanthan and
K.Thurairetnasingham, that they should find a permanent solution to their problems as they had been displaced due to threat and violence thrice since 1990.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 2003, 07:22 GMT]The EPDP cadre who sought asylum from the Liberation Tigers in Kilinochchi, Mr. Iyampillai Yogarajah, 33, told mediapersons in Kilinochchi Saturday that the paramilitary group recruited him from a refugee camp in India eight months ago. He said the EPDP is recruiting many Tamil youth like him from refugee camps in India promising good pay and perks. The paramilitary group works closely with the Sri Lankan armed forces in psychological operations, intelligence and counter insurgency. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 05 December 2003, 00:01 GMT]The Asian Development Bank funded North East Community Organization for Restoration and Development (NECORD) Project Thursday launched the Village Rehabilitation Programme (VRP) under the Community Development Project (CDP) in eight districts of the North-East, with the signing of two agreements with non-governmental organizations to implement two projects in the Trincomalee district. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 2003, 16:31 GMT] In a recently released book in Tamil, Viduthalai ("Liberation"),
Mr. Anton Balasingham, theoretician for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), explores in depth, theories from ancient philosophers to seek meanings for Human Life, History and Liberation. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 13 November 2003, 17:48 GMT]Sri Lanka’s President, Ms. Chandrika Kumaratunga, has issued an extra gazette notification announcing the postponement of the referendum, which was to decide whether the temporarily merged Northern and Eastern provinces should be delinked or not, for another year. According to the gazette notification, the referendum for the east will be held on November 17th and for the north on December 01st next year, the Presidential secretariat said in a press release Thursday. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 11:30 GMT]Only less than thirty percent of the internally displaced families from the islets of Jaffna district who fled the islets following 1990 military operations by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) have returned back to their former homes since the signing of the ceasefire agreement by the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according statistics collected by civil authorities. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 10 November 2003, 17:46 GMT]The resettled farm families in the Kanniya village, about six km north
of Trincomalee town on the Trinco-Anuradhapura road, are to get a new paddy
store and co-operative retail shop. Earlier the paddy store and retail shop
were completely destroyed without any remains at the site in the 1990 violence
by Sri Lanka’s armed forces after entire villagers fled and sought refuge in
the Vanni and other areas including in India, civil sources said.
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