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845 matching reports found. Showing 641 - 660 [TamilNet, Friday, 08 November 2002, 17:30 GMT]The sole Tamil member of the committee appointed by Sri Lanka’s Interior Minister to inquire into the shooting incident at Kanchirankuda on the island’s southeastern coast on October 9, 2002 said Friday that he strongly disagreed with the conclusion of that his colleagues had arrived at. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 08 November 2002, 09:42 GMT]"We have been languishing in refugee camps for too long. Although we like to
use the current climate of peace to resettle in our own villages, without
basic amenities such as housing, roads, drinking water and health facilities
it will not be possible for us to move," said the internally displaced
living in the Kalmadu refugee camp in Valaichenai.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 07 November 2002, 13:09 GMT]The District Co-operative Council of Mannar has requested Sri Lanka’s
Ministry of Defence to return a two-story building at the entrance to the
northwestern town, occupied by the Sri Lankan armed forces from 1990,
officials said. The building for long functioned as the SLA’s office for
issuing permits to civilians for entering and staying in the Mannar Island.
The building’s upper floor was used by the SLA for interrogating and
detaining civilians arrested on suspicion and during cordon and search
operations.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 14 October 2002, 13:02 GMT]“The Special Task Force will pose a dire threat to our lives as long it remains in this region. There is no security now for farmers who have to pass the Kanjirankudah STF camp to cultivate their fields. The sole access to more than twelve thousand acres of our people’s fields is controlled by the STF which has no qualms about killing us like animals,” said Mr. Ariyanayagam Chandra Nehru, the sole Tamil MP for the Amparai District, Monday. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 06 October 2002, 12:01 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has dismantled the Rural Development Society (RDS)
building at Kayankerni village in the Vakarai divisional secretary division
and strengthened its new camp in the area with material removed from roof and
other structures, residents complained Saturday. Kayankerni is about 37 km north
of Batticaloa town.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 October 2002, 14:52 GMT]A new Tamil daily newspaper, Namathu Eelanadu, hit the
stands in Jaffna Tuesday. With the arrival of
Eelanadu, readers in the northern peninsula will have
four daily papers to provide them news and views. The
paper’s editor Mr. Sivasubramaniam Raguram, said that
Eelanadu will be published on the web too. Jaffna has
one of the oldest and richest regional newspaper
publishing traditions in South Asia.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 24 September 2002, 03:52 GMT]The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) has barred refugee families that
recently resettled in their village in the island of
Karainagar, west of Jaffna, from staying in the area
after 6 p.m. Residents of the 45 Housing Scheme in
Thoppukkaadu, Karainagar, said that the SLN ordered
them to leave their homes at dusk everyday and return
in the morning. The villagers complained about their
plight to the United Nations High Commission for
Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 22 September 2002, 16:35 GMT]“The National Institute of Education (NIE) discriminates against Tamil medium education, distorts the island’s history taught in schools and is dominated by Singhalese. We can develop and improve our education system when the interim administration for the Northeast is established,” said Mr. Ilankumaran, head of the Education Division of the Liberation Tigers, addressing the inaugural meeting of the Jaffna Education Development Society (EDS) Sunday.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 18:19 GMT]Six masons working on a World Bank funded resettlement
project in Saakamam, an interior Tamil village on Sri
Lanka’s southeastern coast, were assaulted by
commandos of the elite Special Task Force, a village
official said Wednesday. Work on the site has been
halted because the masons are scared to go back to
Saakamam, said C. V. P Manikkam, the President of the
Rural Development Society of the area.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 09 September 2002, 16:59 GMT]The twelfth annual remembrance of the
Saththurukkondaan massacre was observed Monday at Panichchaiyadi junction near Batticaloa town
Monday. Sri Lanka army soldiers and Muslim home guards
murdered 186 Tamils, mostly women and children, in the
villages of Saththurukkondaan, Panichchaiyadi,
Kokkuvil and Pillaiyaradi on the northern outskirts of
Batticaloa town on 9 September 1990. A memorial for
the victims was unveiled near the scene of the
massacre.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 09 September 2002, 16:34 GMT]Officials from Sri Lanka's Judicial Service Commission (JSC) headed by its secretary paid a two day visit to Jaffna peninsula inspecting court houses destroyed in the heavy fighting which raged in the northern peninsula in the past. JSC Secretary Mr. S. W. Jayatilake Monday inspected the Point Pedro magistrate court building, which is presently occupied by the Sri Lanka Army. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 06 September 2002, 19:02 GMT]Hundreds of families that were driven out of the
environs of the historic Thiruketheeswaram temple in
Mannar twelve years ago by Sri Lanka army operations
are unable to go back to their villages because their
paddy fields are mined and homes have been razed to
the ground, rehabilitation officials in the district
said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 05 September 2002, 21:53 GMT]Batticaloa marked the beginning of Black September Thursday with a largely attended function at the
Eastern University in Vantharumoolai on the 12th anniversary of the massacre of 174 refugees who had
sought asylum on the campus during Sri Lanka army operations in the area in 1990.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 17 August 2002, 16:01 GMT]"We cannot fix a time table for peace talks. We cannot put forward a concrete proposal to start peace talks. First, we must take steps to understand the basic problems of the other side. Thereafter only both sides could continue the peace process. However, the goal is to find a permanent solution to the problem without dividing the country and upholding the democratic ideals," said Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe when addressing the final day deliberations of the United National Party national executive committee meeting held Saturday in Trincomalee Mc Heyzer stadium. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 12 August 2002, 14:59 GMT]The Sri Lanka army opened the main road through Morakkoddanchenai, 26 kilometres north of Batticaloa, after twelve years following a sit in protest by villagers Monday. The protesting crowds surged ahead through soldiers when the SLA commander for Batticaloa, Lt. Col. V. R. L Anthoniz agreed to open an inner road as well. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 10 August 2002, 09:20 GMT]Five hundred and thirteen displaced Tamil families are to be resettled in Thiriyai village in the Trincomalee district in the first stage during September after demining is completed. "The Prime Minister has allocated five million rupees for the resettlement in addition to 3.5 million rupees already allocated," said Mr.R.Sampanthan, Trincomalee district parliamentarian addressing a top level conference held Friday evening at the Trincomalee district secretariat. The Government Agent Mr.N.H.K.Nelumdeniya presided. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 03 August 2002, 17:31 GMT]
Sri Lanka's Ports Development and Eastern Regional Development Minister Rauff Hakeem Saturday handed over a cheque for a sum of three and a half million rupees to the Government Agent, Trincomalee as a token gesture for the resettlement of five hundred displaced families in the village Thiriyai in the northern sector of the Trincomalee district. Presiding over a conference regarding the development of the Trincomalee district Saturday, Mr.Rauff Hakeem said his ministry would take steps to resettle another two thousand displaced families in the eastern district.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 29 July 2002, 13:34 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army Monday vacated the Morakkoddanchenai Ramakrishna Mission School in the Batticaloa district after twelve years of occupation and handed two buildings of the Point Pedro Hartley College in Jaffna. Students and parents who object that the SLA's continues to occupy several private homes and public buildings, including the local library and village council surrounding the school in the heart of Morakkoddanchenai, boycotted the event.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 28 July 2002, 10:11 GMT]Displaced Tamil families from the predominantly Tamil village Kanniya, 7 km north of Trincomalee town are returning to their own land. More than one thousand families had been displaced since 1990 from Kanniya due to violence by the State armed forces. "Under the first stage, about one hundred displaced families are to be resettled ,"said Mr.Iynkaran, the Head of the LTTE’s Political Division for the Trincomalee district Sunday.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 July 2002, 21:23 GMT]
The Eastern High Court Wednesday discharged the accused in two cases filed under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and the Emergency Regulations (ER) when the prosecution brought to the notice that the key police witness who had recorded the confession of the accused was not present in the court for the seventh time.
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