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845 matching reports found. Showing 561 - 580 [TamilNet, Sunday, 10 August 2003, 14:24 GMT]Mavittapuram temple, Naguleswaram temple and Keerimalai temples all lie within 3km radius within the High Security Zone (HSZ) near KKS harbor. These temples almost completely destroyed during the war in early 90s are being resurrected amid heavy odds by temples’ custodian priests. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 07 August 2003, 03:22 GMT]The Thellipalai hospital for mental patients, completely destroyed by the Sri Lanka Army operations in 1990, has been operating since then in a private building that falls under the SLA’s High Security Zone without any facilities, and there are only 4 doctors and 16 nurses, though for proper patient care the hospital would need at least 12 doctors and 42 nurses, hospital sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 July 2003, 03:33 GMT]The district commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Trincomalee, Colonel Pathuman, Monday declared open a new building at the Ilakanthai Tamil mixed
school in the LTTE held Muttur east which was constructed under the Asian Development Bank funded North East Community Restoration Development
(NECORD) project.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 18 July 2003, 18:45 GMT]No assistance has been provided for the development of the fisheries sector in
the Jaffna district by the Sri Lankan state since 2000, and international non-governmental
organizations have come forward to develop the fisheries industry in the
peninsula, said the Assistant Director of Fisheries, Mr.A.Joseph, addressing a meeting following the opening of a second ice factory at Point Pedro at a cost of three million rupees with the aid of the UNDP Friday afternoon.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 July 2003, 17:43 GMT] Kannapuram was one of the most prosperous and rich agricultural villages on Sri Lanka’s east coast before it was ransacked and destroyed by the Sri Lanka army (SLA) thirteen years ago. Hundreds of refugees who are returning today to reclaim their homes and paddy fields from the stubborn clutches of the island’s tropical forests face an uncertain future - a military camp is firmly entrenched in the midst of the village and no funds have been granted so far by Colombo to help them resettle. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 15 July 2003, 18:07 GMT] The twentieth death anniversary of Lieutanant.Seelan (Charles Antony), the
first attack commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was
observed in Trincomalee, his birthplace, at an event held at the LTTE
political office in Eastern port town Tuesday, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 13 July 2003, 12:07 GMT] The Batticaloa branch of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) has begun to resettle internally displaced Tamils from the village of Meeravodai inValaichenai district, Batticaloa under
the North East Community Restoration and Development Project (NECORD), sources in Batticaloa said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 06 July 2003, 12:10 GMT] After twenty-seven years the consecration (Maha Kumbabishekam) ceremony of the historic Thiruketheeswaram Temple in Mannar district was held Sunday morning amid hundreds of thousands of devotees from all over the country especially from the northeast chanting prayers," temple authorities said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 05 July 2003, 09:40 GMT]Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Head of Vavuniya Political Wing, S, Elilan, garlanded and placed flowers to the memorial stone of Lt.Colonel Bork who died in the 1990 attack on Mankulam Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camp, during the Black Tigers day celebrations in Vavuniya, Saturday, Vavuniya residents attending the celebrations said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 04 July 2003, 11:54 GMT]Sri Lanka Army (SLA) are taking steps to expand and fortify its camp in Navalady junction near Valaichenai, security sources in Batticaloa said.
Efforts by the SLA to make the Kallady camp permanent and the imposition of other arbitrary security measures such as stopping Batticaloa bound night trains at Welikande for more than two hours are causing fear and anxiety among Batticaloa residents, according civil society sources. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 July 2003, 11:25 GMT]“The effort to establish the Sri Lanka army’s Kallady camp on a permanent basis goes against the grain of the Cease Fire Agreement”, Mr. Joseph Pararajasingham, Tamil National Alliance MP, told TamilNet, Wednesday, referring to recent moves by the military to acquire property and land in a suburb on the southern outskirts of the Batticaloa town. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 30 June 2003, 15:53 GMT]The Eastern High Court Judge, Mr.S.Paramarajah, Monday fixed the inquiry into the bail application of two Tamil men who have been in remand for the last twelve years since their arrest under the Emergency Regulations (ER), on Friday, July 4, legal sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 21 June 2003, 00:52 GMT]“Tamils have only had very compelling political and moral reasons for not acceding their sovereignty to the Sri Lankan state since Britain gave independence to this island. Therefore no road map to peace in Sri Lanka should be allowed to compromise the Tamil people’s sovereign and inalienable right to decide their political status in the land of their forebears," said Mr. Selvam Adaikalanathan, Tamil National Alliance MP for Vanni, reacting Friday to suggestions that the Liberation Tigers should agree to a peace road map in return for workable interim administration for the northeast. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 17 June 2003, 11:27 GMT]The body of Jaffna leader of Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF- Varathar faction) Thambirajah Subathiran (alias Robert) who was shot dead in Jaffna by a sniper Saturday was taken to Colombo from Palaly airport Monday morning amid tight security, local reports said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 14 June 2003, 17:45 GMT]Additional government troops and police personnel were deployed Saturday in
Jaffna town and its suburbs following the killing of a senior member of the
Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) Varathar wing Mr.
Kandiah Subathiran alias Robert, sources said Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 14 June 2003, 11:37 GMT] Trustees of Munai Murugan temple in Kalkudah, 35km North of Batticaloa town, said Saturday that devotees have no access to the temple and that the popular annual temple festivals cannot be held due to the closure of the main road leading to the temple by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA). Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 14 June 2003, 03:10 GMT]An unidentified sniper is reported to have shot dead Mr. Kandiah Subathiran
alias Robert, the most senior member of the Eelam Peoples Revolutionary
Liberation Front (Varathar wing) Saturday morning around 6.30 when he was
doing physical exercise in the upper floor of the EPRLF (Varathar wing)
office which is located along the Jaffna hospital road, police said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 12 June 2003, 00:04 GMT]The North East District Synod of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka is to be held in Jaffna for the first time after fifteen years on June 13 and June 14. Ministers and leaders of the thirteen circuits of the Methodist Churches in the northeast will participate in the synod, church sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 03:19 GMT]On the appeal made at the fifth round of talks between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin on 7, 8 February 2003, International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) came forward to provide assistance in investigation of the people who disappeared in Northeast after 1990, said Filipa Nato Marques, the resident representative of the ICRC in Batticaloa district during a press briefing held Tuesday evening at the ICRC office in Batticaloa. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 June 2003, 02:27 GMT]Thousands of devotees from different parts of Northeast joined in the pongal celebrations held at Vattapallai Amman Temple, a popular hindu temple in Vanni, Monday. The prevailing climate of peace after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of SriLanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was the reason for such large gathering of devotees at the temple festival, sources said. Full story >>
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