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845 matching reports found. Showing 581 - 600 [TamilNet, Sunday, 08 June 2003, 14:28 GMT]Two new school buildings constructed at a cost of about three million rupees by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded North East Community Restoration Development (NECORD) programme in the resettled Tamil villages Kumburupiddy and Kuchchaveli in the north of Trincomalee district were declared open Saturday, education officials in Trincomalee said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 06 June 2003, 19:17 GMT]Sri Lankan Army (SLA) personnel at the SLA camp in Kommathurai, located 17 km to the North of Batticaloa town continue to occupy several private residences and the Vinayagar Vidyalayam depriving the students at the school a conducive environment for obtaining proper education, school sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 21 May 2003, 12:44 GMT]“We settled here in 1954 to safeguard our homeland. Today there is nobody to save us”, says Mr. Kanapathipillai Poopalapillai, 79, former President of the Rural Development Society of Sinnawaththai, a destroyed border Tamil village in the east coast’s interior. The Special Task Force and Sri Lanka Police built their camps in the Sinhala sector of this border zone with bricks and wood from the Tamil homes they dismantled or demolished in Sinnawaththai. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 12 May 2003, 10:44 GMT]Officials complain of school books replete with Spelling, Grammar, factual errors, more than 8,000 Sri Lanka Army soldiers desert their posts and Jaffna TRO contemplates filing rights case against Sri Lanka Government and security forces. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 12 May 2003, 01:58 GMT]Anthony Thevarajah (40) and his wife Francis Catherina of Sorikalmunai village near Kalmunai in Ampara district were injured when unknown assailants fired at them around 9pm Sunday, security sources said. The couple have been admitted to the Batticaloa teaching hospital and are undergoing surgery according to medical sources. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 11 May 2003, 15:32 GMT]M.K.Sivajilingam, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian who was on his way to meet residents of Mandativu, an islet close to Jaffna peninsula, was stopped at the Mandativu junction by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) personnel who attempted to prevent the Parliamentarian from proceeding further inland, sources said. After a long argument the SLN allowed the MP on condition that he returns to the Jaffna Peninsula within three hours. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 09 May 2003, 00:02 GMT]Speaking at the South Asia Discussion Group of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London Wednesday, Mr. Priyath Liyanage, head of Sandesiya, the BBC’s Sinhala service, said the “effort to avoid the involvement of the Tamil Tigers” in rehabilitation and development in the north raises the question of the other ulterior agendas by Colombo.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 08 May 2003, 19:04 GMT]The Amnesty International Thursday criticised the US state department for putting out a biased human rights report on Sri Lanka for 2002. Mr. Jim McDonald, Sri Lanka Country Specialist, Amnesty International, U.S.A said Thursday that the US state department’s human rights report on Sri Lanka for 2002 made serious omissions relating to human rights violations committed by Sri Lankan armed forces.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 06 May 2003, 03:19 GMT]The war memorial constructed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at Gopalapuram junction in the village of Nilaveli, about sixteen km north of Trincomalee town in memory of LTTE cadres who died in a mid-sea
mishap in 1990 was declared open Monday evening, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 04 May 2003, 18:58 GMT]The Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) on Friday donated clothes to the resettled people in the village of Aligambay, in the Thirukovil secretariat division in the Ampara district, TRO officials said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 28 April 2003, 22:26 GMT]The Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) sponsored White Pigeon Technical Institute, headquartered in the Vanni region, opened its third branch Monday at Ananadapuri, three km to the north of Trincomalee town, TRO sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 19 April 2003, 20:33 GMT]The village courts in Eravur, 10 km northwest of Batticaloa town, which stopped functioning during the communal riots in 1990 has been inactive for the last thirteen years initially due to continued military activities and later due to its war-damaged building in a state of disrepair, residents of Tamil dominated division-5 of Eravur district said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 14 April 2003, 11:16 GMT]Displaced people from Illupaikulum, a village located six kilometers north of the east port town along the Trincomalee Kuchchaveli main road, are returning to resettle in their lands with the signing of the ceasefire agreement. After fifteen years of neglect with the village overgrown with jungles and its basic infrastructure facilities destroyed in war, the returning residents face an uphill task in rebuilding their village, sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 12 April 2003, 00:10 GMT]Before the Eelam Wars began, the salterns in the northeast produced enough salt to meet the all the needs of Sri Lanka and a surplus for export. Elephant Pass and Kurinchathivu were the largest of these. The other salt production facilities were in Chemmani, near Jaffna town, in Mannar town, in Nilaveli and Kumburupiddy in Trincomalee. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 April 2003, 15:49 GMT]More than 300 hundred Muslim families are unable to resettle in Talaimannar because their homes are in minefields laid by the Sri Lanka Navy which are yet to be cleared despite 13 months of ceasefire, rehabilitation officials in Mannar said. Many Muslim and Tamil homes in the once bustling bazaar of Talaimannar Pier are still occupied by the Navy or lie within its security boundary. The area surrounding the local Mosque is infested with land mines and booby traps. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 05 April 2003, 16:29 GMT]“We should be mindful that we are living in the
information age. Information technology has grown
tremendously. Our information skills should be on par
with this growth. The information revolution can be
put to wrong uses too. It can be used to wage
psychological warfare against us subtly through TV and
other popular media,” said Col. Karuna, senior
commander of the Liberation Tigers, addressing the
opening of the offices and press of the ‘Thamil Alai’
(Tamil Wave) newspaper in Kokkaddicholai, 12
kilometres southwest of Batticaloa, Saturday.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 04 April 2003, 03:59 GMT]International voluntary organization, Terre des homme (Tdh) which has its head quarters in Switzerland, Thursday, opened a Medical and Health Clinic in Ayathiyamalai, a village located 52km southwest of Batticaloa town, health officials in Batticaloa said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 April 2003, 13:43 GMT]Minister of Power and Energy of the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL), Karu Jeyasuriya, Sunday declared open electricity supply scheme to Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled areas of Karadiyanaru, Illupadichchenai and Pankudaveli in Batticaloa district, ministry officials said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 30 March 2003, 18:39 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) began preparations for building a
garrison on the southern sector of the Jaffna town
this weekend amid growing concerns in the Tamil press
and political circles about its implications for the
northern peninsula.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 28 March 2003, 01:55 GMT]Trincomalee district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Mr.R.Sampanthan, at twelve noon Thursday, laid the first foundation stone for the first house for resettled families at Kaddukulam in Thiriyai village, forty-two km north of Trincomalee town. Trincomalee district office of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) is building five hundred houses as part of this housing project, sources said. Full story >>
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