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845 matching reports found. Showing 781 - 800 [TamilNet, Saturday, 10 October 1998, 18:46 GMT]An ex-militiaman of Civilian Volunteer Force (CVF) identified as Meerasahib was found shot dead this morning near the Paandirippu cemetery. The CVF was established by the Indian army in 1989 with Tamil and Muslim youth recruited and conscripted through the EPRLF. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 21 September 1998, 21:25 GMT]The military trained Police in Batticaloa removed a key check cum camp at the northern entrance of the eastern town today. The SLA and specially trained and equipped Police have maintained a strong position at Pillaiyaradi since Sri Lankan government forces moved into the Batticaloa town in late 1990 after fighting broke out between the army and the Liberation Tigers. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 19 September 1998, 11:49 GMT]SLA sponsored Tamil paramilitaries in Batticaloa are principally distinguished by their remarkable resourcefulness to make life unbearable for the much harassed local civilian population. And now they are standing in the way of supplying adequate running water to the people of this war battered eastern town. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 05 September 1998, 10:59 GMT]A Muslim militant organisation calling itself the PLO is attempting to foment violence against Tamils in Akkaraipattu, on the south eastern coast of the Amparai district said sources there. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 03 September 1998, 23:00 GMT]A young girl was killed and an eight year old boy seriously wounded when military trained Sri Lankan Police opened fire indiscriminately on devotees at a Hindu temple festival in Kondayankerni, near Valaichenai,32 kilometers north of Batticaloa last night around 9.30 p.m. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 September 1998, 20:28 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) said today that it might consider a request to permit the beleaguered residents of Linga Nagar in Trincomalee town to thatch their roofs torn off by soldiers on August 9, 1998. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 22 August 1998, 10:00 GMT]The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) is issuing special identity cards to the residents of the Vadamaradchi region in the Jaffna peninsula from this week, on which not only is the photograph of holder affixed, but physical details noted too, said sources in Jaffna Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 24 July 1998, 23:59 GMT]Two thousand seven hundred and four refugees living in Thirukkovil, 60 km south of Batticaloa, faxed the Sri Lanka President Chandrika Kumaratunga on July 21, complaining that they had not been issued dry rations for May and June this year, said sources in Batticaloa. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 12 July 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Sri Lanka Government (SLG) has appointed a committee of Ministers and senior Parliamentarians to investigate allegations of mistreatment of detainees, said Radio Sri Lanka in its broadcast yesterday. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 June 1998, 23:59 GMT]A large displaced population, the shortage of drugs, medical personnel, hospital facilities and the ongoing Jeyasikiru military operation are all factors contributing to an atmosphere of uncertainty and tension in the Mullaitheevu District, said the Government Agent (GA), Mr. R. Tharmakulasingam in his latest report on situation there. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 23 April 1998, 23:59 GMT]Between 500 and 1000 persons, forcibly evicted by the Sri Lankan army from Upparu, 15 km south of Trincomalee, staged a token fast at the nearby village of Aalenkerni today, between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. with the support of the Eelam Peoples' Democratic Party (EPDP), according to sources. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 01 April 1998, 23:59 GMT]"Thirteen thousand people have disappeared in the Eastern Province since 1990. There are 8,500 widows in the East of whom 70% are between 18 and 21 years [old]. There are 6000 orphans," said Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) MP Joseph Pararajasingham at a meeting held this week at the Ramakrishna Mission in Colombo organised by the Past Pupils of Northeast District Schools Organisation. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 28 March 1998, 23:59 GMT]The board of directors of the Lanka Cement Company - the semi government firm which owns the Kankesanthurai (KKS) cement factory- has decided to close up this large facility in the peninsula said company sources in Colombo. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 22 March 1998, 23:59 GMT]Eight hundred and nine refugee families, displaced from the interior villages of Thangavelayuthapuram, Kanjikudichcha Aaru, Alikkambai, Thandiady, Udumbankulam etc., in the south eastern sector of the Amparai district, have been living as refugees in Thirukkovil, a large ancient Tamil village, on the eastern coast of the Amparai District, since 1990.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 21 March 1998, 23:59 GMT]Sinnathurai from Kiran, 28 km north of Batticaloa town, who became an informant of the Sri Lanka Army's (SLA) after a dispute with his neighbours is taking revenge on his antagonists by identifying them as supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), said sources in Batticaloa. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 20 March 1998, 23:59 GMT]Mr. Suresh Manikavasagam a Tamil activist who was facing deportation to Sri Lanka from Canada will be released from custody, according to an order enforced by Judge Teitelbaum on Thursday, said legal sources in Canada. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 17 March 1998, 23:59 GMT]If anyone had the slightest doubt that the suggestions for constitutional reform put forward by the United National Party (UNP) were more in the interest of preserving the unity of Sri Lanka than in giving Tamils and Muslims a voice in the management of their own affairs, it was amply confirmed by the very first paragraph of the party's draft proposals, which were released recently.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 09 March 1998, 23:59 GMT]On May 17, 1990, Special Task Force personnel from the Periyaneelavenai camp in the Batticaloa District, went from house to house in the villages of Periyakallar and Thuraineelavanai, rounding up youngsters. The villages are in the Batticaloa District. At Periyakallar the STF posed off as members of the LTTE. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 March 1998, 23:59 GMT]Jaffna Municipal Commissioner V. P. Balasingham, requested financial assistance from a visiting German delegation for undertaking research on ground water pollution in the Jaffna town area, said sources in Jaffna. The situation is such that well water in the area might soon be polluted, he said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 March 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Liberation Tigers released three members of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) who had been in their custody this morning around 9 a.m. in the Vanni. The EPDP cadres had been released on humanitarian grounds on orders from the LTTE leader Veluppillai Prabhahran. Full story >>
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