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845 matching reports found. Showing 801 - 820 [TamilNet, Thursday, 26 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Liberation Tigers attacked a group of Sri Lankan Army and home guards this morning around 6.30 a.m. in Manikkampitti near Welikanda, 70 kilometers northwest of Batticaloa near the Polannaruwa Batticaloa district border killing one homeguard and wounding three soldiers and two homeguards. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]A meeting was held at the Galewella Madhya Maha Vidyalaya recently to discuss plans to persuade Sri Lankan Army (SLA) deserters from the Galewella Divisional Secretary's area to rejoin the security forces. Galewela town is on the high way from Colombo to Polannaruwa through Dambulla. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 20 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]Seven homeguards were killed in an attack by the Liberation Tigers this morning around 10.30 a.m. in the Central camp area about thirty kilometers south west of Batticaloa near the district's border with Ampara. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 18 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]Rasasingham Seevaraththinam, 27, alias Sinnavan, one of the most feared Tamil ex-militants working for the Sri Lankan security forces in the Batticaloa district, was shot dead this morning around 8.30 a.m. near the Manmunai Special Task Force (STF) camp. The STF blamed the Liberation Tigers for the killing. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 18 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]People of Waligamam North are facing difficulties in receiving rehabilitation funds in the areas where they are resettled, said sources in Jaffna. Each family is entitled to 5000 rupees (US$ 80.65) as rehabilitation funds. Refugees are told by grama sevekas (GS) in the areas where they are resettled to obtain a letter from the GS of the village from where they came, endorsing the fact they were displaced from that village. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 13 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Sri Lankan army has commissioned the railway department to lay tracks from Vavuniya to Omanthai. The army has also asked the department to build a railway station in Omanthai. The work has already begun said sources in Vavuniya. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 12 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]Farmers in the Batticaloa District - especially those from areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) - are facing financial ruin with middlemen purchasing their harvest at very low prices, reports the TamilNet correspondent in Batticaloa. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 09 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]A youth from the refugee camp in nearby Vinayakapuram who was arrested by the Sri Lankan army from the Kiran bridge camp on Jan.31,while on his way to collect firewood has gone missing say his parents. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]On the night of 3rd January, continuous firing by Muslim home guards could heard by the residents of Veeramunai village in the Ampara District.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 02 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]More than 3500 people demonstrated this morning in the premises of the Puthukkudiyiruppu church against the massacre of fifteen youth yesterday in the village of Pokkuruni near Thambalagamam in the Trincomalee district. The death toll of the massacre was seven according to reports reaching Trincomalee town last morning. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 01 February 1998, 23:59 GMT]A woman whose son was shot dead by the army last month was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Batticaloa after attempting to commit suicide. The woman, identified as T. Puvaneswarie, 48, is a widow. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 24 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The propaganda for the Jaffna local polls took an acrimonious turn with the main contenders attacking each other of human rights abuses and corruption. The PLOTE put out a pamphlet today accusing the EPDP of massacring 72 Tamil youths who were taken away by the group when it moved into Allaipiddy, in the island of Kayts with the Sri Lankan army in late 1990. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 23 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The EPDP admitted to the Jaffna general hospital this morning, six of its cadres who were wounded in the predawn attack by the Liberation Tigers on it positions in the island of Punguduthivu. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 23 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The young district judge in Mannar took on the police and military authorities of the area today by insisting that they inform him of all arrests made by them once a fortnight and enable him to visit the detainees once a month, said legal sources in Mannar. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 19 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The EPRLF went on a propaganda procession this morning around 9 a.m. with about three hundred people on bicycles in the Jaffna municipality limits. The procession was led by the EPRLF's mayoral candidate Robert who was accompanied by the group's leader Suresh Premachandran. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 17 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]Canadian Federal Court rejected today the appeal filed by the Lawyers acting for Suresh Manickavasagam, a tamil activist, against his planned deportation to Sri Lanka from Canada on January 19. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 15 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]Mr. Manickavasagam Suresh, a Tamil activist facing deportation from Canada, has been removed from the Don Jail in Toronto where he has been held for over two years, to an undisclosed location, said sources close to his lawyers. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 13 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Dutch Bar in Kallady village on the outskirts of the Batticaloa town, was cordoned off and searched by the 'motorbike group' of the Sri Lankan army, with the assistance of the Razeek group today. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 12 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]A vigil against the planned deportation of Mr. Suresh Manickavasagam to Sri Lanka continued today. A large number of Tamils, including some on hunger strike, protested for the third consecutive day in front of the Don jail where Mr. Suresh is being held, despite the freezing conditions that Canada is experiencing now. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 09 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The NGO Consortium of Jaffna has released a statement urging the Sri Lanka Government to reopen Brown Road, where the Open University and the Technical College of Jaffna are situated, said Consortium sources. Full story >>
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