Grenade misses EPDP buidling, damages civilian house

[TamilNet, Monday, 05 September 2005, 10:44 GMT]
Grenade lobbed by unidentified men targeting the Mannar district office of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) Monday early morning hit the house of a civilian located adjacent to the EPDP office. The front portion of the house badly damaged. No one was hurt in this incident, Mannar Police said.


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Mannar court releases three-wheeler suspect on bail

[TamilNet, Thursday, 01 September 2005, 14:16 GMT]
Mannar Magistrate Mr.N.M.M.Abdullah ordered the release of Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Sahabdeen on surety bail in a sum of fifty thousand rupees when was produced in court Thursday morning on a report by the Police that he was arrested who was arrested by the Sri Lanka Army at the Uyilankulam checkpoint when he was about to enter the LTTE held Nachchikudah village with false documents regarding the ownership of the vehicle, legal sources said.
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Mannar boy arrested for photographing army camp released on bail

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 15:14 GMT]
Mannar Magistrate Mr.N.M.M.Abdullah Wednesday ordered the release of a fourteen-year-old boy Thanabalaisngham Anand on surety bail in a sum of one hundred thousand rupees from remand for allegedly photographing the army camp in Mannar, legal sources said.
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Three-wheeler driver arrested at Uyilankulam army checkpoint

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 14:19 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army Tuesday morning arrested a Muslim person Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Sahabdeen at the Uyilankulam checkpoint with the three-wheeler he was taking it to LTTE controlled Nachchikudah in the Mannar district. Mannar Magistrate Mr.N.M.M.Abdullah ordered remand for the suspect till Thursday (September 1) when the Mannar police produced him in court Wednesday evening, legal sources said.
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Mannar Police seize fuel to be supplied to fishermen

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 05:14 GMT]
Sri Lanka Police Monday arrested two employees of Talaimannar Village Fisheries Co-operative Society with 2100 liters of fuel, which was taken in a society lorry to be supplied to member-fishermen. The police arrested these employees on a report that they had not obtained permission from the relevant authorities to transport fuel.
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Tamil refugees rescued from Mannar Sea sandbank

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 August 2005, 04:59 GMT]
Mannar Magistrate Mr.N.M.M.Abdullah Tuesday ordered the release of thirteen Tamil refugees returned from Tamilnadu in India and rescued by the Sri Lanka Navy from sandbank in the midsea.
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WUSC assists youths in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 18:07 GMT]
World University Service of Canada (WUSC) donated twenty sewing machines to the first batch of girls and boys who have completed six months' sewing training course in the Government Technical College in Trincomalee. The course was conducted under the Project for Rehabilitation through Education and Training (PRET) of the WUSC.
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LTTE releases 21 underage youths to parents

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 02:16 GMT]
NorthEast Secretariat On Human Rights (NESOHR) released twenty-one youths of ages between 15-17 years to their parents 3 months after joining the Liberation Tigers, Tuesday at their offices located at Karadippoku junction 2km north of Kilinochchi town along A9 highway, officials of NESOHR said. Mr Thiagarajah, LTTE liason officer for NGOs, Rev Fr Kanagaratnam, president, and Ms Malathy Naguleswaran of NESOHR were present during the handover of youths which took place throughout the day.
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Mannar CSU rape case to be heard in Anuradhapura HC

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 15:38 GMT]
Three Sri Lankan police officers and nine soldiers of the Sri Lanka Navy are indicted in the High Court of Anuradhapura Tuesday with the rape and torture of two Tamil women Sivamani Weerakone and Wijakala Nanthan of Uppukulam, a suburb of Mannar town. According to the charge sheet the offences had been committed on 19th March 2001. The inquiry into this case has been fixed for September 21, 22 and 28, legal sources said.
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Fifteen Tamil girls arrested in Mannar released

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 12:10 GMT]
Fifteen Tamil girls arrested Monday early morning in a combined search operation conducted by the Sri Lanka Navy, Sri Lanka Army and Sri Lanka Police in a house which is located in the village of Thullukuddiruppu in Mannar district were released when they found innocent during interrogation. The girls were arrested on wrong information received by the Sri Lanka Navy, said the Mannar Police in its report furnished in the Mannar Magistrate Court Tuesday afternoon, legal sources said.
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SLA bans transporting school building materials to LTTE held areas in Mannar

[TamilNet, Monday, 22 August 2005, 16:32 GMT]
Construction work of new buildings in two schools in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled areas in the Mannar district has come to a halt due to the ban imposed by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on the transportation of building materials through Uyilankulam and Madu road army checkpoints, sources said.
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Unidentified men attack one civilian in Mannar

[TamilNet, Monday, 22 August 2005, 15:50 GMT]
Unidentified men attacked 42 year old T.Ramesh Rajah, owner of a cinema hall in Moor Street, Mannar Sunday night around 10 p.m.in his house with pointed weapons causing grievous cut injuries. He was first admitted to Mannar hospital then transferred to Anuradhapura hospital. As his condition became critical he was transferred to Colombo National Hospital for emergency treatment, sources in Mannar said.
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Protest campaign to be held in Colombo against India's SSCP

[TamilNet, Monday, 22 August 2005, 09:32 GMT]
Two protest campaigns against the implementation Sedusamudram Ship Canal Project (SSCP) by the Government of Indian are to be conducted in Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital Tuesday and Wednesday this week. One protest campaign will be held in front of the Indian High Commission in Colombo on August 23 and the other in front of the Fort Railway Station on August 24. People's Movement Against SSCP and the Green Movement of Sri Lanka are organizing the campaigns.
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NEIAP donates harvesters to Mannar agrarian centres

[TamilNet, Friday, 19 August 2005, 13:13 GMT]
World Bank funded North East Integrated Agricultural Project (NEIAP) Friday donated twenty-four harvesters to twelve Agrarian Service Centres (ASC) in the Mannar district. Each centre is supplied with two harvesters. Each harvester costs about three hundred thousand rupees, NEIAP sources said.
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Thondamannaru Sannithi Temple Chariot festival held

[TamilNet, Thursday, 18 August 2005, 16:38 GMT]
The annual Chariot festival of the historic Thondamannaru Sellasannithi Murugan Temple was held Thursday morning. The temple is located in the east of Thondamannaru lagoon in Vadamaradchchi division in Jaffna district. Large number of devotees from all parts of the district participated in the festival.
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SLN rescues refugees from sandbank in Mannar Sea

[TamilNet, Thursday, 18 August 2005, 16:34 GMT]
Mannar Magistrate Mr.N.M.M.Abdullah Thursday remanded one person and released six other Tamil refugees when they were produced in court by Mannar Police on a report that they had been picked up by the Sri Lanka Navy Wednesday afternoon 12:30 p.m. from a sandbank in Mannar Sea, legal sources said.
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SLN arrests youth with explosives in Mannar

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 07:41 GMT]
Soldiers of the Sri Lanka Navy conducted a cordon and search operation in the Pallimunai coastal area in the Mannar district Wednesday for about two hours from about 7:00 a.m., civil sources said. During the operation SLN soldiers recovered about three kg of gelatin sticks, 31 detonators and four feet of wire.
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SLA conducts cordon and search operation in Mannar

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 16:36 GMT]
Hundreds of soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Tuesday morning conducted a cordon and search operation in Mannar town and suburbs covering Uppukulam, Sinnakadai and hospital area. This was the first major search operation conducted by the SLA in Mannar since the signing of the ceasefire agreement, civilian sources said.


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Civil group draws attention to Mannar patients' woes

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 11:54 GMT]
The Mannar Citizens' Committee Tuesday wrote to the NorthEast Provincial Health Ministry Secretary to take immediate steps to transfer seriously ill patients and those needed surgical attention from Mannar government hospital to Vavuniya or Jaffna instead of transferring them to Anuradhapura hospital which is located in Sinhala speaking area, sources said.
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Wife appeals for husband's release in Mannar explosives case

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 11:34 GMT]
Ms Sahayanathan Sutharjany, a mother of three children from Mannar suburb Keeri, Tuesday made a written appeal to the Mannar Citizens' Committee to help obtain release of her husband Mr.Thangiah Sahayanathan, the three-wheeler driver who with six others are in remand for allegedly transporting a consignment of claymore mines and other explosives into the government controlled territory, sources said.
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