SLA trooper killed, 3 injured in Northern FDL

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 08:19 GMT]
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) forces killed an Sri Lanka Army (SLA) trooper and injured three in an attack Tuesday around 2:00 a.m on a group of soldiers attempting to penetrate the Front Defence Line (FDL) in Mukamaalai with the intention of attacking LTTE sentry posts, LTTE Operation Command in northern front said.
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Tigers deploy snipers to confront SLA troops in Mannaar

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 13:55 GMT]
At least 12 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were sniped and killed and 27 wounded Tuesday morning when Liberation Tigers Operations Command in Mannaar deployed Tiger snipers to confront advancing SLA troops in Paalaikkuzhi. The SLA movement was repulsed without LTTE casualties, the LTTE command in Mannaar told media.
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Two SLA troopers wounded in Moneragala

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 12:26 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Army troopers were wounded when a group of attackers opened fire on a SLA unit engaged in a search operation in a jungle area near Kithulkotte in Thanamalwila Police division Tuesday noon, Police said. Meanwhile, informed sources in Colombo said around 8,000 security personnel comprising SLA troops, Special Task Force, Police and homeguards, have been deployed in the jungle areas in a search operation. Around 2000 Sinhalese men were to be recruited to Civil Defence Force as homeguards in the district, informed sources further said.
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LTTE beats back SLA troops in 2 separate fronts in Mannaar

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 January 2008, 21:28 GMT]
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) launched an attack and beat back the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops Monday around 10:30 a.m at Vilaaththiku'lam area in Mannaaar district, and in a similar clash at Pa'ndivirichchaan in Mannaar district Monday around 7:30 a.m fought back an SLA unit which attempted to advance into LTTE territory supported with artillery, mortar, and multi-barrel rocket fire, Mannaar Tiger operations command said.
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16 SLA troops killed, 38 injured in Mannaar- LTTE

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 January 2008, 21:22 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) officer and 12 troopers of an SLA commando unit were killed, and 29 soldiers injured in a clash with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Sunday in Paalaikuzhi area in Mannaar. Two LTTE fighters were killed in the clash, Mannaar LTTE operation command said. Meanwhile, in a separate confrontation Sunday morning at Mu'l'liku'lam in Manaar, 3 SLA troops were killed and 9 soldiers were injured, according to the LTTE.
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SLA blocks Jaffna - Pt.Pedro Road to transport supplies, casualties

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 January 2008, 20:30 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army in Jaffna blocked Jaffna - Point Pedro Road for more than 3 hours Monday morning to transport dead and wounded soldiers in two vehicles from Naakarkoayil frontline where an artillery duel and direct clash was reported in the early hours of Monday. Meanwhile, truck loads of military hardware were transported from Palaali military base to SLA positions in Naakarkoayil through this supply route. The stepped-up clashes and the renewed preparations come following a top-level meeting by Sri Lankan military officials at Va'rani 52-4 Brigade HQ on Sunday, sources in Jaffna said. In the meantime, LTTE Northern Forces Command put the SLA casualty figure at 3 dead, 13 wounded.
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SLA shoots dead 2 youths in Kaithadi

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 January 2008, 12:13 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops shot and killed two youths during a cordon and search operation Sunday early morning in Kaithadi area in Thenmaraadchi, sources in Jaffna said. Chaavakachcheari police handed over the corpses of the youths to Jaffna Teaching Hospital claiming them to be members of Liberation Tigers (LTTE), sources added.
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Extortion of money from Tamils in Colombo on the increase

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 January 2008, 11:54 GMT]
Extortion of money from affluent Tamils residing in Wellawatte, Bambalapitya and Dehiwala in Colombo has been on the increase in recent days, according to media reports. Gangs posing as police officers and CID personnel have been waylaying Tamils walking along roads in evening in these areas threatening them with death if not yielded to their demands.
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Youth shot and killed inside Jaffna University

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 January 2008, 11:44 GMT]
Unidentified armed men in civil clothes chased a young man trying to escape them into Jaffna University and shot him dead inside the campus Monday around 10:30 a.m. The killers had chased the youth passing the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) sentry troops who remained passive at their sentry post behind the University campus, residents in the area said.
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Transformer explodes, causing island-wide power failure

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 January 2008, 10:58 GMT]
The entire island of Sri Lanka plunged into darkness Monday morning around 5.55 a.m. for about two hours when a transformer of the Ceylon Electricity Board had exploded at Katunayake, a high security zone in the western province.
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2 SLA troops killed in Pa'divirichchaan

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 January 2008, 05:21 GMT]
Sniper Unit of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) shot and killed 2 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops and injured more in a clash at Pa'ndivirichchaan, around 3:00 p.m, Sunday, LTTE Operations Command in Mannaar said.
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4 Tamils arrested in Moneragala

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 January 2008, 23:54 GMT]
Five Up-Country Tamils were arrested by Sri Lanka Army on Saturday at Thanamalwila area in Moneragala division were being detained at Sooriyawewa police station and subjected to interrogation. They were arrested in a cordon and search operation.
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LTTE foils SLA offensive in Ma'nalaaru, recovers SLA body

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 January 2008, 15:56 GMT]
An attempt by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) to attack the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) bases in Ma'nalaa'ru (Weli Oya) Ceylon Theatre area Sunday afternoon 1:40 p.m. was foiled due to counter attack by LTTE fighters, LTTE sources said. The Tigers have recovered the body of an SLA soldier after the skirmish.
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Accidental gun fire kills Policeman in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 January 2008, 14:44 GMT]
A police constable on duty in Ma'ndapaththadi, Vavu'natheevu in Batticaloa district died Saturday arond 6:00 p.m. when the gun belonging to a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) colleague on duty accidentally went off, police said.
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Kanakapuram bombings

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 January 2008, 10:20 GMT]
Statistics compiled by social service groups in Kilinochchi reveals 67 civilians belonging to 17 families have been affected by the aerial bombardment when four Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) fighter jets dropped bombs 100 meters away from Kanakapuram Maha Viththiyaalayam school in the Ki'linochchi suburb Thursday morning. The group includes 26 infants and young children, a polio victim, and 16 civilians previously displaced from Va'ra'ni in Jaffna District and living in the vicinity of the school.
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APRC: key to peace or an albatross?

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 January 2008, 01:02 GMT]
J.R. Jayawardena's Government claimed that the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution passed in August 1987 fulfilled the promises made in the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord, to 'devolve power' to the Tamil people. The Liberation Tigers dismissed the legislation outright, and said it allowed "perpetuation of the domination, oppression and exploitation of the Tamil masses by the racist Sinhala state," and N. Satyendra, a constitutional scholar and attorney who represented ex-militants in Sri Lanka trials, ridiculed the legislation as a "comic opera."
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SLA trooper killed in Mukamaalai clash

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 January 2008, 19:18 GMT]
The forward movement by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers Saturday afternoon intending to attack the sentry towers of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (LTTE) in Mukamaalai area was beaten due to stiff resistance by LTTE fighters, LTTE sources from the Northern Front Line said.
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Tigers locate SLA dead body, seize weapons in Ma'nalaa'ru

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 January 2008, 16:54 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers Operations Command in Ma'nalaa'ru said that the Tigers repulsed a two pronged Sri Lanka Army movement at Ma'nki'ndimalai in Ma'nalaa'ru (Weli Oya) Saturday afternoon following stiff resistance that lasted for more than one hour. Four SLA soldiers were killed, the Tigers said. A dead body of an SLA soldier was recovered and a T-56-2 assault rifle and a Claymore mine were seized by the LTTE in the clearing mission.
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Foreign, local monitors to supervise local elections in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 January 2008, 12:32 GMT]
PAFFREL, a Sri Lanka based organization monitoring parliamentary and local elections in the island, said Friday that it would deploy twenty monitors from United States of America, New Zealand, and Germany, and 200 local monitors to monitor the elections to nine local authorities.
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Body of missing police constable recovered in Tellippalai

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 January 2008, 01:19 GMT]
The body of a police constable attached to Jaffna police station and went missing two weeks ago was recovered Friday in a desolate area, 500 metres from his residence in Tellippalai, with severe head injuries, sources in Jaffna said.
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