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845 matching reports found. Showing 541 - 560 [TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 11:50 GMT]Uncleared landmines surrounding the Mullaitivu district hospital are preventing rehabilitation work on the destroyed buildings from proceeding, said health officials in Mullaitivu. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 12 September 2003, 04:34 GMT]The displaced people of Kanchirankudah in the Amparai district are resettling in the village, but neither the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) nor any Non Governmental Organization has come forward to provide support for their basic needs, Human Rights activists say. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 15:33 GMT] Fifty-three Tamil fishermen of Trincomalee arrived at the Codbay fisheries jetty in Trincomalee harbour Wednesday morning with 49 boats, which were towed by 12 Indian trawlers with 74 Indian crew, including 12 skippers and escorted by the Sri Lanka Navy gunboats. Two Indian
government officials also accompanied the returnees, provincial rehabilitation ministry sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 September 2003, 14:43 GMT]The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, has said in a public statement that the Government of Sri Lanka is under an obligation to make a thorough and effective investigation into the disappearance and fate of J.Thevaraja Sarma, who disappeared after being arrested in Trincomalee by the Sri Lanka Army in 1990.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 September 2003, 01:48 GMT]Sixty one mechanized fishing boats of Tamil fishermen of Trincomalee left Monday morning around eight from Nagapatinam port in South India to Trincomalee towed by twelve Indian trawlers after thirteen years in the custody of Indian officials, northeast provincial council (NEPC) sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 08 September 2003, 13:52 GMT] The People of Sathurukondan village in the Batticaloa district will hold the thirteenth year Remembrance Day of 184 Tamil civilians massacred by soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army at the village, on 9th September 1990, civil sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 07 September 2003, 13:14 GMT] Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has refused permission to 352 displaced Tamil families to resettle in their former homes and land in Meeravodai in Valaichenai Pradeshya Sabai in Batticaloa district, said Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO). Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 05 September 2003, 20:52 GMT]Sixty one fishing crafts of Tamil fishermen of Trincomalee, being kept
in the custody of Indian customs since 1990, will leave Nagapatinam port in
Tamilnadu in South India Sunday to Trincomalee and the boats are expected
to arrive in Trincomalee Monday or Tuesday, said the North East
Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Social Welfare Ministry Secretary,
Mr.S.Sivathasan, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 05 September 2003, 11:13 GMT] The people of Batticaloa district Friday observed the Black September Day, remembering the Tamil civilians, men, women, and children killed by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and Muslim guards thirteen years ago on September 9 when 158 Tamil civilians who sought refuge in the East University Refugee camp and 184 Tamil villagers from Sathurukondan village disappeared after their arrest by the SLA soldiers, sources in Batticaloa said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 05 September 2003, 01:19 GMT] Before 1990, Elephant Pass and Kurunchativu located 10km
apart had the largest salterns in the northeast with a combined area of 100 acres, and produced more than 85,000 metric tons of salt a year. This output met all the salt needs of SriLanka and left enough surplus for export. These salterns, destroyed during the war, are being reconstructed and rehabilitated, and are currently producing close to 15% of the total capacity. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 September 2003, 19:41 GMT]Sixty one fishing crafts of Tamil fishermen in Trincomalee that have been lying at Nagapatinam in Tamilnadu, India, under the custody of Indian custom authorities since 1990, will be brought back to Trincomalee next week with
the assistance of Indian and Sri Lankan Navies, North East
Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Resettlement Ministry Secretary, Mr.S.Sivathasan, said Tuesday.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 01 September 2003, 18:56 GMT]The District Governor of International Lions in Trincomalee, Ms. Soma Edirisinghe, Sunday
evening declared open a children's park constructed by the
Trincomalee New Century Lions Club at the Paththinipuram Siththivinayagar Tamil
Vidiyalayam, and later handed over school materials to students of resettled
families at an event held the same day at the school, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 31 August 2003, 19:45 GMT]Batticaloa District Peoples Forum, a civil and social organization based in Batticaloa has requested the Tamils in Batticaloa district to observe Friday (05.09.2003) as a day of mourning to remember and a mark of respect to the hundreds of Tamil civilians- men, women and children - killed by Sri Lankan government troops and Muslim home guards since 1990, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 31 August 2003, 19:33 GMT]Palaly Fisheries Society Sunday asked the Jaffna District Government Agent (GA)
to take immediate steps to relocate the displaced fisher families from the
Palaly high security zone in the coastal areas between Thondamanaru and
Valalai who now live in private lands of others in several other villages. The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has barred them from resettling in their own lands and houses, fisheries officials said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 23 August 2003, 12:36 GMT]Special Task Force (STF) soldiers in Urani in Pottuvil, Amparai district, have refused to vacate the STF camp that encompasses several private residences and demanded that the owners should sell their property to the STF, security sources in the east said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 21 August 2003, 16:31 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army Thursday said farmers who are allowed to do cultivation
in the released paddy fields in the high security zone in Thenamaradchi
division of the Jaffna district should obtain fresh military identity cards to
enter their lands, and that the military identity cards already issued and national identity cards will not be accepted, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 20 August 2003, 19:43 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army has declared that the internally displaced families will not
be allowed to resettle within a 600 meter radius of the Palaly high security zone in Jaffna district, and SLA authorities have asked those already resettled within 600 meters of the HSZ in Kuppilan north to vacate immediately from the area, civil groups in Jaffna said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 14 August 2003, 14:09 GMT]Representatives of the Batticaloa District Non-Governmental Organizations' Consortium Thursday told the Norwegian special peace envoy, Mr. Erik Solheim, that Tamils were losing confidence in the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission
as it had failed to take into account the mounting problems of the displaced Tamil people in the eastern province, NGO sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 14:47 GMT]A general shutdown (hartal) was observed by Tamil communities in Ampara on Tuesday to mark the 13th anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of Tamils by the Sri Lankan Special Task Forces, Muslim youths and homeguards in Veeramunai, 38 km southwest of Batticaloa town, in 1990, sources in Ampara said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 12 August 2003, 13:45 GMT]Muslim communities in Kattankudy, Eravur, Oddamavadi and some parts of Valaichchenai in the Batticaloa district Tuesday observed a general shut down (hartal) in remembrance of Muslims killed thirteen years ago on August 12, 1990 at Meerakerni in Eravur, about 15 km north of Batticaloa town, at the request of the Mosques’ Federation, police sources said.
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