SLA trooper wounded in Vavuniya grenade attack

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 July 2006, 14:50 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) trooper was seriously injured in a grenade attack by unknown assailants at the sentry in front of Vavuniya Madhya Maha Vidiyalayam at 7:55 p.m. Sunday, Police sources in Vavuniya said. The injured soldier was first admitted to Vavuniya Teaching Hospital and later transported to the Sri Lanka Military Hospital for emergency surgery.
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Four SLA troops injured in grenade attacks in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 July 2006, 07:03 GMT]
Four Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were injured in two separate attacks in Jaffna peninsula, Saturday evening. Three Soldiers were injured in a grenade attack in Kodikamam town, around 7:30 p.m.. Another soldier was injured by sniper fire near SLA's Forward Defence Line (FDL) near Muhamalai, military sources said.
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Sri Lanka masses troops, bombardment continues

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 16:50 GMT]
As thousands of Sri Lankan troops were moved to Kallaru junction ahead of a threatened offensive, Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets Saturday flew three bombing sorties over the Mavilaru area in Eachchilampathu division south of Trincomalee district. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) continued shelling of the area as Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army, Major General Nanda Mallawarachchi, visited Kallaru area.
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SLAF, SLA attacks tantamount to declaration of war by Colombo, Elilan tells SLMM

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 16:49 GMT]
Liberation Tigers Trincomalee District Political Head S. Elilan, in an urgent letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major General Ulf Henricsson Saturday evening said that artillery attacks by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and air strikes by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in the Liberation Tigers controlled territories in the Northeast, tantamounted to Declaration of War by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) against the LTTE. "It is now appropriate for the SLMM to declare publicly that the ceasefire agreement is not holding anymore on the ground," Mr. Elilan told media.
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SLMM concerned of security, declines to visit attack site

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 14:15 GMT]
Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in Batticaloa, Sari Rask, from Finland, has told Batticaloa LTTE's Political Head that the SLMM was unable to visit and inspect the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed Thenaham building in Karadiyanaru in LTTE controlled Batticaloa District.
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Three SLA troopers injured in Point-Pedro grenade attack

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 13:28 GMT]
Three SriLanka Army (SLA) soldiers were seriously injured when unknown gunmen riding in a motorbike hurled hand grenades in a SLA sentry near Velayutham Maha Vidiyalayam located 400 meters south of Point Pedro town along the Point Pedro-Jaffna Road at 2:20 p.m. Saturday, sources in Vadamaradchy said.
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8 LTTE members killed, 4 wounded in SLAF bombing

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 07:25 GMT]
Eight Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members, 2 offiicals and 6 cadres, were killed and four wounded when Sri Lanka Air Force bombed Liberation Tigers' Thenaham Conference Centre in Karadiyanaru, 24 kilometers northwest of Batticaloa. SLAF bombers attacked the LTTE run Thenaham between 11:30 and 12:00 Saturday. Batticaloa Head of Tamileelam War Hero's Affairs, Thamilchelvan mama and Batticaloa Coordinator of Village Development Scheme Ariharan were among the dead, according to LTTE Batticaloa Political Head Daya Mohan. Kfir jets dropped 12 bombs in three rounds, destroying the Conference Centre.
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SLMM Head, villagers discussion abruptly ends following aerial strike

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 06:53 GMT]
A crucial discussion over the Mavilaru water crisis held Friday afternoon between Maj. Gen. Ulf Henricsson, Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) and villagers of LTTE held Eachchilampathu Vaharai division at Kallady LTTE political office ended abruptly following aerial strike on civilian targets in the area by Sri Lanka Air Force. Buildings of the Verugal Muhathuwaram Government Tamil School were damaged and two Tamil civilians were injured when Kifir jets dropped bombs on the area located about 750 meters away from the Kallady LTTE political office where the SLMM head had discussion with representatives of the villagers.
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Tamil civilian killed in army firing

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 06:41 GMT]
A 50-year old man was killed in Muttur east when Sri Lanka Army soldiers fired from Kaddaiparichchan camp, around 9 a.m., civil sources in the area said.
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Funeral of LTTE members killed in SLAF air strike held

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 06:20 GMT]
The funeral of 7 LTTE members killed in the air strike by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) on Thursday in Kathiraveli was held at Aalankulam LTTE Hero's Cemetery in the Muttur East, Friday evening, LTTE sources said.
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Youth shot dead in Jaffna town

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 02:15 GMT]
Unknown gunmen riding in a motorbike shot dead a youth along Kasturiar Road in the center of Jaffna town at 8:30 p.m. Friday, sources in Jaffna said. Packiyarajah Visvakanthan, 32, was standing near the liquor store in front of Rajah Theater when he was shot.
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Three Sri Lankan homeguards killed in Claymore ambush

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 19:00 GMT]
Three homeguards, riding in a motorbike, were killed in a Claymore ambush on Vavuniya Kebitigollawe Road around 6:45 p.m. Friday, Police said.
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Eravur Muslims protest

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 12:32 GMT]
Large number of Muslims participated in a demonstration held Friday afternoon after Jumma prayers in Eravur Jamiul Akbar Mosque in Batticaloa district from 1.30 p.m. till 2.30 p.m. condemning the indiscriminate attack by the State of Israel on Lebanon and Palestine, sources said.
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SLA refuses permission for JHU parliamentarians to go to Mavilaru

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 12:12 GMT]
Venerable Athureliya Ratana Thera, parliamentary group leader of the all monks' party, Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) along with a fellow parliamentarian Venerable Akmeemana Dayaratna Thera began a hunger strike at Kallaru junction on Allai-Kantalai road Friday morning around 9.30 a.m. when the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) refused permission for them to go to the controversial Mavilaru area to reopen the closed sluice gate. About a hundred Sinhalese civilians with two more Buddhist months have also joined the fasting, civil sources said.
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Finland to withdraw truce monitors from Sri Lanka

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 09:27 GMT]
Finland has decided to withdraw it's members of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) from Sri Lanka. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), recently reiterated their stand that the formal process of ceasefire monitoring required a scrupulous commitment to neutrality in Sri Lanka's conflict, which was compromised by the EU ban and responded to Norway's initial request of 6 months to replace monitors within a shorter time frame, and later extended the time frame for two months, till September 01. The Norwegian Special Envoy Jon-Hanssen Bauer is sheduled to visit Sri Lanka to discuss the process forward.
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Grenade blast injures SLA soldier, civilian

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 08:35 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army soldier (SLA) and a civilian passer-by was injured in a grenade blast at Thaddatheru junction, on the KKS road in Jaffna, around 10 a.m., Friday.
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SLA move towards Mavilaru defeated - LTTE

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 08:05 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) operation launched from Welikande towards Mavilaru in Vaharai region Friday morning was defeated by the Tigers at Thonithandamadu, 15 km off the reservoir, said I. Ilanthirayan, the military spokesman of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Shells were fired by the withdrawing SLA forces, he further said.
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Three-wheeler explodes at LTTE FDL in Batticaloa, 2 killed

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 07:28 GMT]
Two persons who were travelling in a three-wheeler from the SLA controlled territory were killed when explosives in their vehicle exploded at the gateway of the LTTE held Monkeykattu area in Vavunathivu in Batticaloa district, Friday noon. The three- wheeler was destroyed in the explosion, LTTE officials in Batticaloa said. The victims were suspected be persons who were abducted by the Sri Lankan troopers and their paramilitaries as a person left the three-wheeler towards SLA FDL seconds before the three-wheeler exploded.
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6 killed, 5 LTTE cadres, 3 civilians wounded in SLAF bombing

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 July 2006, 13:13 GMT]
Six Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres were killed and five wounded when Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets bombed a camp of the Tigers in Kathiraveli, 40 km southeast of Trincomalee town, in LTTE controlled Vakarai region Thursday around 3:30 p.m., Trincomalee District Political Head of the Tigers, S. Elilan said. Three civilians were also wounded in the attack, according to Mr. Elilan.
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SLAF Kfir bombers attack Mullaithivu village

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 July 2006, 08:12 GMT]
Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers Thursday morning dropped bombs from high altitude near a civilian settlement, Keppapulavu, 7.3 km west of Mullaithivu, around 9:30 a.m. Thursday morning.
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