Claymore blast hits Buffel APC, 2 SLA soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 13:29 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed and 6 wounded when a Buffel Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) was hit by a claymore blast at Kalmadu in Vavuniya around 5.30. p.m., Saturday, SLA sources said.
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Two auto-rickshaw drivers shot dead in Nelliady

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 13:01 GMT]
Unidentified gunmen riding in a motorbike shot dead two owners of auto-rikshaws, at the central bus stand in Nelliady, Vadamaradchy at 5 p.m. Saturday, sources in Jaffna said. Subramaniam Vaseekaran, alias Kannan, one of the two killed, is the current President of the Vadamaradchy branch Auto-rickshaw Owners Union, civil sources said. Relatives and witnesses accuse the Sri Lanka Army and collaborating paramilitaries for carrying out the killing.
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Kanniya shocked over youth's killing

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 12:31 GMT]
Resettled families in Kanniya, a traditional Tamil village in Trincomalee are shocked over the killing of 17 year-old Tamil youth Pakkiaraja Baskaran alias Batchcha allegedly by soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Friday nigh, civil sources said. His body was recovered near Barathipuram located close to Mihindupra Saturday morning,
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Two civilians killed in Mannar claymore attack

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 12:26 GMT]
Two Tamil civilians were killed in the LTTE controlled area in Mannar district Saturday afternoon around 2.30 p.m., when their motorbike hit a claymore mine fixed in a tree by Deep Penetration Unit of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and collaborating paramilitaries. They were traveling from Pandivirichchan to Aandankulam to their worksite where they were employed as masons, sources said.


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SLA Major killed, Claymore ambush in Welikanda

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 08:30 GMT]
A Major rank Sri Lanka Army official and an SLA soldier were killed and five SLA soldiers wounded when their pickup vehicle was ambushed with a Claymore mine at Welikanda in Batticaloa-Polonnaruwa border Saturday around 1:00 p.m. SLA officials in Colombo said.
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SLA soldier killed, one wounded in Vavuniya Claymore attack

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 06:20 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) solder was killed and another soldier sustained minor wounds when three claymore mines targeted at an SLA road patrol at Thevapuram, 7 km north of Vavuniya Saturday around 10:00 a.m. exploded, Sri Lanka Army sources in Vavuniya said.
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Sri Lankan trooper succumbs to injuries

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 April 2006, 18:20 GMT]
A Sri Lankan soldier attached to Batticaloa military base succumbed to serious injuries Friday around 2.45 p.m. at Colombo National Hospital where he was admitted after being injured in the claymore blast Monday at Korakallimadu, Kiran in Batticaloa, Eravur police said.
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Pre-planned element behind Trinco violence - fact finding report

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 April 2006, 12:52 GMT]
The 15-minutes speed, with which the violence in Trincomalee town was triggered on 12th April, after a bomb explosion that killed five persons, indicate that there was an "element of pre-planning," said a report issued by Colombo based civil society representatives Friday. The report said over 20 civilians were killed, over 30 shops and 100 homes destroyed and more than 3000 persons are displaced seeking refuge in schools and places of worship in Trincomalee.
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Onus on Colombo to create cordial atmosphere - Thamilchelvan

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 April 2006, 12:26 GMT]
Accusing Sri Lanka Government of reneging on providing established modes of travel, and proposing impractical travel procedure that showed scant respect for the security of the Senior commanders of the Liberation Tigers, the Head of LTTE Political Wing, S.P. Thamilchelvan in an interview to TamilNet Thursday said that violence is likely to spiral out of control if Sri Lankan forces do not urgently stop killing Tamil civilians in NorthEast.
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Youth shot dead by SLA in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 April 2006, 19:40 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers shot and killed a Tamil youth, Thursday morning near Kanniay village during a road patrol, sources said. The body is lying in Trincomalee hospital and has not been identified yet, hospital sources said. Meanwhile, a civilian has gone missing and another youth shot and injured by unknown gunmen in a separate incident in Trincomalee between Wednesday evening and Thursday, sources said.
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Attacks on Sri Lankan forces escalate in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 April 2006, 09:22 GMT]
Three claymore attacks targetting Sri Lankan forces were reported Thursday morning in Batticaloa. Two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were wounded in one attack in Urani where a claymore mine was fixed to a boat, Police said.
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Aussie TV exposes paramilitary presence in SLA controlled areas in East

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 April 2006, 02:31 GMT]
Australia's Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Television’s Dateline program aired for the first time video footage from a training camp of paramilitaries from Karuna Group operating from Government controlled territory in Batticaloa. In the same program, Mr Gothabaya Rajapakse, the Sri Lankan Secretary of Defence and the brother of SL President Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse, denies any knowledge of existence of paramilitaries. Previously, Mr Gothabaya Rajapakse had claimed that Sri Lanka forces could win a war against Tigers with Karuna Group's support.
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Canada ban on LTTE brings war nearer - paper

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 13:09 GMT]
By emboldening the hardliners in the Sri Lankan regime and the Sinhala nationalists who support it and, by destabilizing the balance of forces underpinning the peace process, proscriptions of the LTTE , such as Canada’s, are making war more, not less, likely, the Tamil Guardian newspaper warned Wednesday. “These forces will undoubtedly feel vindicated by the Canadian decision and take it, not unreasonably, as support for their uncompromising positions on the ethnic questions,” the expatriate fortnightly said.
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Five civilians shot and killed by SLA soldiers in Puthur East, Jaffna

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 03:11 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers shot and killed five Tamil civilians Tuesday night close to an SLA 51-1 Division camp located at Vatharavathai, 13 km north-east of Jaffna. The soldiers took the five civilians, a Municipal Council official, an electrical mechanic, a farmer and two auto-rikshaw drivers, into their camp and later brought them out to an open terrain and gunned them down, villagers said. A terror-campaign, let loose on the civilians in Puthur in October 2005, when the villagers spoiled a rape attempt by the soldiers, triggered a series of Claymore attacks in Jaffna. Tuesday's killings come a few hours after Australia commending Colombo for "not retaliating in kind."
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Youth shot dead in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 11:06 GMT]
Unknown gunmen shot dead a 27-year old youth in Koyathottam area near Jaffna town at 4 p.m. Tuesday, sources in Jaffna said. Balachandran Reginald Rosan from 1st Cross street was visiting his grandmother's house located in Puthu Veethi, Koyathottam, when the gunmen entered the residence and shot him in close range, sources added.
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Mutilated bodies of three civilians found in Puliyankulam

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 07:50 GMT]
Three civilians who went hunting into Periyamadu jungle last Thursday from Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled Puliyankulam were found dead Monday, Tamileelam Police officials said. Villagers in the area have seen five men wearing dark clothes, leaving the Periyamadu jungle towards no-man zone last Friday, according to the police officials. The victims died of blood loss caused by cut wounds, according to coroner's report. Periyamadu jungle is located 7 km north of the SLA checkpost in Omanthai.
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Body found in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 05:10 GMT]
The body of a young man, with his hands tied behind and blindfolded, was found at Mathavuvaithakulam, in Vavuniya, Tuesday. Vavuniya Police said the man was knifed to death.
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Grenade attack, SLA soldiers open fire at Poonthottam, Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 April 2006, 18:05 GMT]
A Sri Lanka policeman was killed and two wounded when unidentified attackers lobbed a grenade into a Sri Lanka Army and Police checkpost in Poonthottam, Vavuniya at 9:30 p.m. Monday. SLA soldiers and policemen opened fire and blocked all traffic. Telephone lines remained cut in the area. Tension prevailed in the area following the incident.
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2000 Tamils seek refuge in Kappalthurai School

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 April 2006, 14:34 GMT]
About two thousand members from four hundred Tamil families of resettled Tamil village Kappalthurai have sought refuge in Kappalthurai government Tamil school. They fled from their houses when soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army assaulted some of them following the claymore mine blast that killed three troopers of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Saturday night, sources said.
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Claymore attack targets SLAF vehicle in Batticaloa, 4 wounded

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 April 2006, 08:31 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) personnel, a SLAF officer's wife and her daughter, were wounded when a SLAF vehicle in a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) convoy was hit by a Claymore mine Monday at 12:30 p.m. at Korakallimadu in Kiran, police said.
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