LTTE hands over fishermen drifted to Muttur east to SLMM

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 July 2006, 15:59 GMT]
Two fishermen Mr.Thusitha Satturange, a Sinhalese and Mr.Augustine Chandran, a Tamil, who drifted to the shore of the LTTE held Muttur east coast four days ago while fishing in Trincomalee sea, were handed over to the monitors of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Monday by Mr.Sivakumar, head of the Trincomalee District Civil Volunteer Force, LTTE sources said.
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Paramilitaries abduct 3 Youths in Valaichenai

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 July 2006, 15:49 GMT]
Paramilitary cadres abducted 3 youths from the villages of Paddiyadychenai in Valaichenai Kalkudah Police area in Batticaloa district Sunday midnight, Police said. Parents of the abducted children, gripped by fear and insecurity, are yet to make complaints to the Police.
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Police silent on whereabouts of arrested Gurunagar youth

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 July 2006, 11:16 GMT]
Parents of Mariyaseelan Jeevakumar, 17, who was arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers at his home on Friday morning are searching for the details of the whereabouts of their son, civil society sources said. Although the youth is said to have been handed over to Jaffna Police by the SLA, parents have not been informed of his arrest, even after more than two days, relatives of the youth said.
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Solution still possible, says departing French Ambassador

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 July 2006, 10:39 GMT]
Pointing that France's motto of "Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood," is adopted as founding principles of many countries, H. E. Jean Bernard de Vaivre, Ambassdor of France in Colombo, said that all parties should "seek a common solution, a solution which respects the different cultures, languages, religions and ways of life which exist in this country," in a press release issued on the national day of France.
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SLA soldier killed in Bicycle-Claymore, 2 wounded in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 July 2006, 07:55 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army soldier riding in bicycle Monday noon was killed when a Claymore mine attached to a parked bicycle exploaded on Vaitheewara Road in Jaffna town around 1:00 p.m. Monday. Two SLA troopers were seriously wounded, Police said. Four civilians sustained injuries, one seriously, by explosion and when the soldiers fired indiscriminately after the attack. The soldiers were on their way to supply meals to the SLA checkposts when they came under attack.
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Slain Vavuniya PLOTE leader said Tamil nationalist

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 July 2006, 05:17 GMT]
A group of PLOTE members claiming to be pro-Tamil nationalists, in a media release issued in Tamil, have alleged that the PLOTE leader Bavan was assasinated by the Sri Lanka Army intelligence in collaboration with the PLOTE hierarchy. Bavan, the leader of PLOTE's military wing in Vavuniya, abducted and killed Thursday, was a leader who turned nationalist and opposed the paramilitary agenda against the PLOTE hierarchy, the cadres have claimed criticising the top hierarchy of the paramilitary organisation for collaborating with the Sri Lanka Army intelligence for getting rid of pro Tamil nationalist elements in the organisation.
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Rajapakse's new agenda, a tactic to derail progress towards Geneva II- Kaviyalahan

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2006, 15:26 GMT]
The Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, upon failing to meet the committments given by Sri Lanka delegation at Geneva I, has adopted a "choking tactic" to stifle current trajectory towards peace by launching a one-sided expert panel, to waylay the International Community, and to avoid Geneva II, said K. Kaviyalahan, the Head of Tamileelam Political Research Centre (TEPRC), the emerging Think Tank of the Liberation Tigers, in the weekly political analysis programme, Nilavaram, aired by the National Television of Tamileelam (NTT) Sunday night. Rajapaskse's new agenda circumvents the existing paradigm of the four and a half years old peace process, he argued.
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Gothabaya visits Jaffna, confers with Jaffna SLA commanders

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2006, 08:56 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Defence Secretary and the brother of the SL President, Gothabaya Rajapakse, on Sunday, paid a visit to the 51-2 Brigade Head Quarters in Jaffna town amid high security. Civilian traffic was blocked on the road when Mr. Rajapakse landed in the old Dutch Fort area of the town in a Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) helicopter and transported in an armoured vehicle towards the 51-2 HQ. Top officials of the SL Navy, Air Force and Army from Colombo were in Jaffna to confer future course of military actions, SLA sources said. The officials visited Forward Defence Lines in several locations in Jaffna Peninsula to give morale boost to the troopers.
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Tigers warn against SLA incursions into LTTE territory

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 July 2006, 11:41 GMT]
"Hostile forays by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) into Liberation Tigers controlled territory in Batticaloa district are serious acts of military aggression and have the potential to trigger a major destructive war," said LTTE's Batticaloa Political Head, Daya Mohan, in a letter sent to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Saturday, LTTE sources in Batticaloa said.
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Diaspora invited to UN envoy’s report launch

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 July 2006, 10:53 GMT]
Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have invited expatriate Tamils to participate a public meeting on human rights which they are co-hosting on August 5 in London. The chief speaker is Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, whose report on violence in Sri Lanka was issued earlier this year.


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LTTE hands over bodies of SLA soldiers to ICRC

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 July 2006, 07:03 GMT]
Leaders of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Batticaloa district handed over the bodies of 12 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers who were killed in the confrontation at Vakaneri to representatives of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) at Black Bridge ('Karuththapalam') located in Chenkalady, around 8.30 a.m., Saturday, army sources said.
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LTTE cadres' funeral takes place in Muttur east

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 15:14 GMT]
Two of the four LTTE cadres killed by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) within the LTTE controlled Kadawanaikulam situated along Trincomalee-Kandy road on July 12 night were buried in Alankulam LTTE Heros' cemetary located in the Muttur east with full military honours Friday evening, LTTE sources said.
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SLA arrests 3 Jaffna undergraduates

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 15:12 GMT]
Three undergraduates who were travelling in a bus from Jaffna town to Pt.Pedro were arrested by Sri Lanka Army soldiers manning a check post near Vallai bridge, around 6.30 p.m., Friday. The students have been taken to an undisclosed camp, according to passengers who arrived at Pt.Pedro, later this evening.
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SLA shelling injures 5 civilians, kills LTTE member

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 15:02 GMT]
A member of the Liberation Tigers was killed and five civilians were injured when shells fired by Sri Lanka Army soldiers hit Muttur east, Friday morning. Five houses were destroyed and several others were damaged in the attack, LTTE sources said.
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LTTE to hand over SLA soldiers' bodies to SLMM

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 13:29 GMT]
Liberation Tigers are to hand over the twelve bodies of SLA soldiers killed in the Friday morning attack in Vakaneri to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in the LTTE held Illupadaichchenai in Batticaloa district Saturday morning, Mr.Dayamohan, Batticaloa district LTTE political head said.
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12 Sri Lankan troops, 4 Tigers killed in Vakaneri, SLA trooper captured

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 06:27 GMT]
At least 12 Sri Lankan troopers were killed when Liberation Tigers confronted a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unit, comprising at least 100 soldiers, that had moved 5 km inside LTTE controlled territory in Batticaloa district. Four LTTE cadres were killed and six wounded in the fighting in Vakaneri, 37 km northwest of Batticaloa town. The bodies of twelve SLA soldiers were recovered by the Tigers, P. Dayamohan, the Batticaloa district LTTE political head told TamilNet. One Lance Corporal of the SLA has been captured alive by the LTTE. SLA sources in Colombo claimed that a group of SLA soldiers who were on a search and clear operation have gone missing in Vakaneri.
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3 SLA soldiers killed, Claymore attack, clash at FDL in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 July 2006, 13:22 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed in a Claymore attack at Kalmadu, 12 km northwest of Vavuniya town around 5:00 p.m. Thursday. One soldier was wounded and rushed to Vavuniya hospital, Police said. Meanwhile, a clash erupted at Omanthai Forward Defence Line (FDL) where one SLA soldier was killed and another trooper was wounded.
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Four LTTE cadres killed in SLA attack in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 July 2006, 11:55 GMT]
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Thursday said four of their cadres were killed in its area at Kadawanaikulam in Thampalakamam division in Trincomalee district by a group of soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in ambush Wednesday night around 9 p.m. A group of SLA soldiers had penetrated into the LTTE held area Kadawanaikulam along Trincomalee-Kandy highway located about 20 km off southwest of east port town, LTTE sources in Sampoor said.
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Lawyers protest over SLA harassment of Jaffna Judge

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 July 2006, 11:05 GMT]
Members of Jaffna districts Lawyers Union staged a one-hour protest Thursday in front of the Jaffna District Court Thursday morning over the death threats and attempted attack on Additional Jaffna District Judge, Ms Srinithi Nanthisekaran, by the soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), legal sources in Jaffna said. The functioning of courts across Jaffna district was curtailed during the protest, sources said.
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Swedish Red Cross provides $10m to tsunami housing effort

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 July 2006, 10:44 GMT]
"The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Sri Lanka Red Cross have contributed $US 10 million to Phase 2 of the Government of Sri Lanka’s Home Owner Driven Housing Programme (ODHP) which will help at least 10,000 tsunami affected families to rebuild or repair their homes," said a press release issued by the Red Cross offices in Colombo Thursday. The funds are being allocated from a $25m contribution Swedish Red Cross society has given to the IFRC for the housing program.
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