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845 matching reports found. Showing 821 - 840 [TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]A war of statements and counter-statements erupted in the Uthayan, the only newspaper published in Jaffna, when the Democratic Peoples Liberation Front (DPLF) and the Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) came out strongly against the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) for blocking other Tamil groups from campaigning for the forthcoming local government elections in the islands off the Jaffna peninsula. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 06 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]Parents and well wishers have collected 191,000 rupees through the Peoples' Welfare Society of Mullaitivu to repair the Kallappaadu and Vattuvakal schools, which were damaged by shelling and bombing between 1990 and 1996, said sources in Vavuniya. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 05 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Jaffna town commander Brigadier Susantha Mendis called all the Tamil groups for a discussion on security and related matters for the forthcoming local polls in the peninsula at his office this morning around 10 a.m. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 04 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Liberation Tigers blasted protective structures built around transformers by the Special Task Force (an elite commando unit of the Sri Lankan security forces) in the early hours of the morning today in the villages of Kolavil, Aalaiyadivembu and division - 7 of Akkraippattu in the south eastern part of the Ampara district. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 02 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Sri Lankan military has ordered fishmongers at the Sithandy market to move their stalls opposite the Morakkottanchenai SLA camp. The order was issued by a Tamil informant for the SLA who wields some influence in the area. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 29 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]Two Jaffna MPs K. Rameswaran and his brother K. Ramamoorthy who split from the EPDP earlier met yesterday the Sri Lankan army's Jaffna Town commander Brig. Susantha Mendis and discussed problems regarding their security in Jaffna Town and in the islands. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 25 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]The Registrar of Motor vehicles (RMV) who is causing great problems to vehicle owners in Jaffna by not introducing facilities to obtain driving licenses and other documents, has, however, reported to the Sri Lankan government a massive leap in its revenues this year. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]The EPRLF filed nominations to all the local government bodies in the Jaffna peninsula this morning including the Valvettithurai urban council. Former central committee member of the EROS Kandasamy Balanadarajah (Sinna Bala) is the group's chief candidate for the Waligamam east Pradeshiya Sabha. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 22 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]Drivers in Jaffna complain that the Sri Lankan traffic Police is making unfair demands of them. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 11 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]According to Jaffna Kachcheri officials, over eight thousand Jaffna civilians have been killed in the conflict since 1990. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]"The soldiers set upon the pregnant woman. As one of them stripped her naked, she screamed. The second sliced her belly with a sword. She fell down, blood spurting out. They cut her breasts and finally her throat. She rolled into the pit. Then came the turn of the second woman, also pregnant".
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]The Sri Lankan army in the Valaichenai fishing harbour detachment 20 miles north of the Batticaloa town rounded up all the inmates of the Pandimadu refugee camp which is about two kilometers east of Valaichenai town and herded them, including women and children, to the harbour premises for interrogation. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]The seventh anniversary celebration of the Voice of Tiger (VOT) broadcast began last evening in the Mulliawalai Viththiyananda school in Mullaithivu at 4 p.m. and concluded in the early hours of the morning today around 4 a.m. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]The Voice of Tigers (VOT) announced today in it's morning news bulletin that it will be celebrating the seventh anniversary of it establishment tomorrow Thursday Nov. 20 in the Vanni. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 16 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]Twenty nine lorry loads of food, mostly flour and sugar, sent to the Vanni have been ruined due to delays in cross loading at Parayanalankulam on the Vavuniya Mannar road. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 16 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]A portrait of the Jaffna SLFP organiser C. Tharmalingam was officially unveiled at the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Office (SLFP) in Jaffna town today. The SLFP office is located at the Hospital road- Vembady road junction. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 08 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]Irakkamam, an old Muslim settlement in the Ampara district is threatened with Sinhala colonisation backed by the Sri Lankan army which has been encroaching into its environs since 1990. Several community leaders and educated youth of the village have spoken against this and written to the Tamil press about the imminent danger they face from Singha Gama - the Sinhala settlement that has sprung up nearby in recent years. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 27 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]The SLA has banned paddy cultivation in the Palai administrative division of the Jaffna peninsula. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 17 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]More than five hundred people who attempted to commit suicide were admitted to the Batticaloa hospital between January and September this year. Of these forty four died upon admission. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 04 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]An MSF delegation visits a hospital in trouble. The Sri Lankan government continues to avoid negotiations with the LTTE and a Muslim delegation returning to Jaffna gets a pleasant surprise. Full story >>
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