Karuna group member shot, injured in Vaazhaichcheanai

[TamilNet, Thursday, 01 November 2007, 18:07 GMT]
Unidentified gunmen shot and injured Wednesday around 6:20 p.m a paramilitary member of Karuna group in Vaazhaichcheanai in Batticaloa district. The injured member was rushed to Batticaloa Teaching Hospital, Vaazhaichcheanai police said.
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Armed robberies by Karuna cadres escalate in Ea’raavoor

[TamilNet, Thursday, 01 November 2007, 01:44 GMT]
A Muslim youth lodged a complaint at Ea'raavoor police station that his motor bicycle was robbed in Savukkadi area by a Karuna group member, Ea'raavoor police said. Meanwhile, in a separate incident in Kommaathu'rai, also within Ea'raavoor police division, some members of Karuna group robbed school furniture worth 4 lakhs of Rupees from Vinayagar Vidyalayam.
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Paramilitary members abducts youth in Ea'raavoor

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 19:08 GMT]
More than ten paramilitary members of Karuna group, arriving in a white van at the house of a Tamil youth, Tuesday around 9:30 p.m at Aiyangkearni in Ea'raavoor police division in Batticaloa district, forcibly abducted him, according to a complaint made with Ea'raavoor police.
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2 brothers seek protection with HRC Jaffna

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 05:51 GMT]
Two brothers, aged 21 and 24, from Nalloor area in Jaffna sought protection with Human Rights Commission (HRC) Jaffna Tuesday due to death threats by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and SLA-baked paramilitary men.
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Paramilitary member shot dead in Naavatkudaa

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 14:18 GMT]
Two unidentified armed men riding a motorbike shot dead a paramilitary member of Karuna group with a pistol Monday night around 7: 35 p.m. at Navatkudah in Kaaththaankudi police division in Batticaloa district, civil sources said.
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Rights group launches campaign against attacks on Journalists in Sri Lanka

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 08:03 GMT]
Expressing concern on the level of prevailing impunity of the killings of media personnel in Sri Lanka, the Asian Human Rights Commission, citing 11 cases where 12 Tamil media personnel were killed since 31 May 2004 till 29 April 2007, on Tuesday urged the public to write letters to the concerned Sri Lankan authorities demanding impartial investigation in order to identify and bring the perpetrators to justice. "Not a single person has been brought before the court," in the 11 cases, the AHRC noted and urged the public to forward a copy of their appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
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Paramilitary person shot dead in Maavadiveambu

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 October 2007, 04:27 GMT]
An unidentified gun man shot dead a paramilitary person of Karuna (TMVP) group Friday evening around 6:00 p.m. on Maavadiveambu Road, at Maavadiveampu in Ea'raavoor police division in Batticaloa district, according to Ea'raavoor police.
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Paramilitary member shot dead in Ea'raavoor

[TamilNet, Thursday, 25 October 2007, 16:36 GMT]
Unidentified armed men shot dead a paramilitary person of Karuna group with a pistol Thursday around 8:00 a.m at Maavadiveampu in Ea'raavoor police division in Batticaloa district, according to Ea'raavoor police.
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8 civilians seek HRC protection in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 October 2007, 04:18 GMT]
Eight civilians, including a family of five from Thenmaraadchi and three youths sought protection with Human Rights Commission (HRC) Jaffna Monday due to death threats from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and SLA-backed paramilitary.
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Jaffna Co-operative Official hacked to death in Kaithadi

[TamilNet, Monday, 22 October 2007, 11:06 GMT]
Unidentified armed men abducted Mr. Subramaniam, the president of Jaffna district Co-operative Societies Federation (CSF), from his house at Kaithadi Sunday midnight and hacked him to death at Kaithadi junction. Mr. Subramaniam was in charge of the distribution of essential food items, in stock and shipped into the peninsula, through the co-operative retail shops in Jaffna district.
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2 Tamil youths abducted, killed in Ampaa'rai

[TamilNet, Sunday, 21 October 2007, 11:42 GMT]
Sammaanthu'rai police in Ampaa'rai district recovered the bodies of two Tamil youths with gun shot wounds Sunday morning in front of Addaippaalam Maariyamman Koayil in Sammaanthu'rai police division. Alleged to be from Karuna group paramilitary armed men had abducted the two youths and shot them dead elsewhere before dumping their bodies in front of the temple, residents in Sammaanthu'rai said.
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Family man shot dead in Ea'raavoor

[TamilNet, Friday, 19 October 2007, 09:48 GMT]
Paramilitary men who knocked the doors of a 55-year-old farmer (Poadiyaar) in Vanthaa'rumoolai, shot him dead Friday early morning around 1:10. The victim, Kannaayiram Peethamparam, a father of three, was shot in his chest and hands with 7.62 mm rounds that are used in T-56 assault rifles, according to the Police. Vanthaa'rumoolai is located 17 km northwest of Batticaloa city.
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Paramilitary contact gunned down in Ampaa'rai

[TamilNet, Friday, 19 October 2007, 09:38 GMT]
Two armed men, riding in bicycles, gunned down a 24-year-old youth, Piradeepan Sivasara, on Veeramuani Pi'l'laiyaar temple road Friday around 10:25 a.m., Police in Chammaanthu'rai said. The victim, who had returned home from foreign employment 6 months ago, had established contacts with the TMVP (Karuna) paramilitary group in the area.
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Paramilitary post attacked in Ampaa'rai, 1 killed

[TamilNet, Friday, 19 October 2007, 08:52 GMT]
A 16-year-old recruit of the TMVP (Karuna) paramilitary was gunned down when a group of armed men stormed a checkpost located 50 meters from the TMVP camp at Annamalai in the Chava'lakkadai police division of the Ampaa'rai district. The attackers had seized a T-56 assault rifle from the recruit, Police said.
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Paramilitary person shot dead in Ea'raavoor

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 16:52 GMT]
Unidentified armed men shot dead a paramilitary person of Karuna (TMVP) group Monday around 10:00 p.m at Jeevapuram area in Ea'raavoor in Batticaloa district, Ea'raavoor police said.
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"Separation inevitable if power continues to polarize with ethnic hegemony" - Mano Ganesan

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 October 2007, 13:07 GMT]
Mano Ganesan MP, the leader of the Western Province People's Front (WPPF) and the convener of the Civil Monitoring Committee (CMC), engaged in monitoring abductions, addressing the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, at the UN office in Colombo, on Thursday, said that the Tamils would be forced to seek separation as the only alternative if the Sri Lankan government failed to satisfy the "Sri Lankan dream," which he described as a dreamland with political power sharing between all the ethnic communities, where there are no places for war, abductions, extra judicial killings and where there is no room for polarization of political power with ethnic hegemony.
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Point Pedro lawyers protest against death threats, extortion

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 11:07 GMT]
Lawyers in Point Pedro began a token protest Wednesday afternoon, boycotting court sessions at Point Pedro divisional court, demanding protection against the death threats, intimidation and extortion by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) backed armed Tamil paramilitary groups. The boycott launched by Jaffna peninsula lawyers for the same reason in September was withdrawn on SLA Jaffna Commander's assurance that the menace will be eradicated, but the assurance is yet to be fulfilled, Vadamaraadchi Lawyers Association members said.
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Two civilians seek protection with HRC, youth abducted in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 October 2007, 11:04 GMT]
Two more civilians in Jaffna peninsula, one of them a University student receiving death threats from paramilitary personnel, have surrendered to the officials at the Jaffna office of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Wednesday. One of the protections seekers is from Chavakachcheari, Mirusuvil in Thenmaraadchi and the other is from Thunnaalai in Vadamaraadchi. There is a sharp increase in the number of receiving death threats from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops and SLA-backed paramilitary armed men.
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Gotabhaya bans transport of livestock from abandoned Tamil homes in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 October 2007, 08:55 GMT]
Acting on a complaint made by Ameer Ali, Sri Lankan minister of disaster relief services, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan defense secretary, has instructed teh Batticaloa district commanding officer of Sri Lanka Army (SLA), Superintendents of Police and officers of Special Task Force (STF) to ban the transport of livestock belonging to Tamils from the areas in Batticaloa district, recently brought under the control of the SLA. Tamils in these areas have repeatedly lodged complaint with Mr. Ameer Ali that cattle from their homes were being systematically stolen out of the district by paramilitaries and Sri Lankan soldiers and sold in Sinhala areas of the Polonnaruwa district.
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Family man abducted, civilian seeks HRC protection, in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 03 October 2007, 04:03 GMT]
Unidentified armed men in a white van abducted a family man Tuesday around 3:30 a.m, from his house at Koandaavil in Valikaamam, after assaulting his family members who tried to prevent the abductors taking him away. Meanwhile, another civilian from Thenmaraadchi area sought protection with Human Rights Commission (HRC) Jaffna Tuesday.
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