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845 matching reports found. Showing 741 - 760 [TamilNet, Thursday, 03 June 1999, 07:40 GMT]Burial in the cemetery adjoining the Catholic church in Vakarai, Batticaloa district has been banned by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) which has its camp in the central section of the village, said sources. This has forced the Catholic population to use the cemetery traditionally used by the Hindus. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 June 1999, 09:22 GMT]Mr. Sivaguru Navaratnam alias Gandhi, 33, was appointed the new leader of the Razeek group yesterday. He was sworn into his new post in front of the Sri Lankan Army Commander for Batticaloa. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 June 1999, 07:26 GMT]The consensus amongst the 1067 Tamil families who have been crammed into four refugee camps in the village of Thirukovil, Ampara, for the past nine years is that they are unwilling to stay in their damaged cadgan huts any longer and want to move back to their homes immediately. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 31 May 1999, 16:10 GMT]One thousand and sixty seven Tamil families who for the past nine years have been living in four refugee camps in the Thirukovil division of the Amparai district have asked the authorities to take immediate steps to resettle them in their own villages. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 20 May 1999, 21:49 GMT]The mother of a school boy, M.Thusikaran, attending year six at the Meeravodai Tamil School in Valaichenai, 32 km north of Batticaloa, has informed the school's principle that her son has been missing since Tuesday, May 18. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 May 1999, 22:50 GMT](News Feature) A Tamil youth was shot dead by security forces personnel manning the cemetery sentry point at Valaichenai town in the Eastern province at around 2.00 p.m. today, said sources. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 16 May 1999, 10:14 GMT](NEWS FEATURE) One hundred and fifty Tamil families at Thiraikerni, a village in the Amparai district, are being terrorised once again by groups of armed masked men who come to the village at night, said sources from the area. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 28 April 1999, 20:11 GMT](News Feature) Representatives of the Akkaraipattu south Citizen's Committee and several leaders of Tamil village committees from the hinterlands of Sri Lanka's south-eastern coast met Minister for Ports, Shipping, Rehabilitation, Mr. M.H.M Ashraff today in Kalmunai to urge him that more than 1200 Tamil families evacuated forcibly by the Special Task Force Commandos (STF) in 1990 be allowed to resettle in their traditional places of habitation. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 20 April 1999, 18:21 GMT]Mr.Joseph Pararajasingham, MP for Batticaloa, called on the government today to investigate and excavate mass grave sites in the east where the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) has allgedly massacred and buried hundreds of civilians, including children. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 10 April 1999, 12:48 GMT]The Police commission has requested District Secretary M. Faleel to grant permission to expand the security fence around the Kalmunai Police Station into land belonging to Kalmunai District Council which lies adjacent to the Police station, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 April 1999, 19:26 GMT]The Batticaloa district additional judge, K.Thadchanamoorthy, yesterday impounded a van belonging to Mangalaramaya, the Buddhist temple in Batticaloa as it had no documents showing its ownership, license, insurance, etc., Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 06 April 1999, 23:12 GMT]The Bishop of Mannar, Rt.Rev.Dr.Rayappu Joseph, has said that the Sri Lankan Army is using refugees around the Madhu church area as a human shield. The Bishop has asked the President to remove the Army from the 400 square areas of church land surrounding Our Lady of Madhu. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 March 1999, 15:50 GMT]A portion of the Sri Lankan Army camp at Thallady, in the Northwest of the island, was set on fire when the Liberation Tigers attacked it with artillery and mortar this evening around 5.30 said sources. The attack lasted for nearly 30 minutes. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 05 March 1999, 22:50 GMT]The Governor of the North-eastern Province said today that he will reactivate and chair the Provincial Planning Council (PPC) that was defunct following the dissolution of the elected North-eastern Provincial council NEPC) in 1990. The PPC was chaired by the chief minister in 1988-90. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 28 February 1999, 12:54 GMT]Former Northeastern province chief minister Varatharajapperumal is currently in Batticaloa to discuss the political and military situation with the Sri Lankan Army (SLA), trusted friends and senior cadres of the EPRLF said sources in the eastern town today. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 25 February 1999, 18:56 GMT]Unidentified gunmen shot dead a 29 year old woman in the village of Thannamunai, 9 kilometers north of Batticaloa, last night said Police sources in the eastern town today. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 February 1999, 23:59 GMT]Tension between the Sinhala and Muslim communities in the northcentral province of Sri Lanka continued to mount today as moves were afoot to stop the pogrom from spreading further. Forty shops and businesses belonging to Muslims were completely burnt in Nochchiyagama since Monday night.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 13 February 1999, 16:00 GMT]The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) has allowed only one hundred devotees to attend the midnight Pooja of the Maha Sivaraathiri festival at the Thiruketheeswaram temple in the Mannar district tomorrow. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 February 1999, 23:22 GMT]Amnesty International, the London-based human rights watchdog welcomed today’s convictions of six members of the Sri Lankan security forces and a school principal involved in a notorious ‘disappearance’ case as "another step against impunity". Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 February 1999, 20:09 GMT]The Ratnapura High Court Judge Chandradasa Nanayakkara today delivered his order convicting seven of the accused and acquitting two in the sensational Embilipitiya Students Murder Case. Full story >>
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