Three SLA wounded in grenade attack

[TamilNet, Sunday, 18 November 2001, 09:23 GMT]
Three Sri Lanka army soldiers were wounded when a grenade was lobbed at a military truck in Batticaloa town around 1 p.m. Sunday, Police sources in the east said. The Thaandanvanveli sector of the town was cordoned and searched by the Police and the Special Task Force (STF) following the attack.
Full story >>

Remembrance day for University Refugee Camp disappeared

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 September 2001, 06:39 GMT]
Memorial functions were held Wednesday in Vantharumoolai and Valaichenai to mark the 11th anniversary of disappearance of 158 Tamils who were arrested by the Sri Lanka security forces from the Eastern University refugee camp on September 5, 1990. Posters condemning the security forces for the murdering the refugees were seen in several parts of these towns, sources said.
Full story >>

Detainees transferred to Kalutara

[TamilNet, Saturday, 11 August 2001, 18:55 GMT]
More than thirty Tamil youths detained at the Batticaloa prison were transferred this month to the Kalutara prison, south of Colombo, according to the Up-country People's Front (UPF), which has brought this matter to the notice of the Human Rights Commission (HRC).
Full story >>

Army warns of assault on LTTE in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Thursday, 09 August 2001, 20:02 GMT]
Sri Lankan security forces in Batticaloa Thursday issued a press note warning about a major offensive assault in the eastern district, and urged civilians to move 4 km. away from the camps of the Liberation Tigers.
Full story >>

Soldiers in murder case remanded

[TamilNet, Thursday, 02 August 2001, 19:16 GMT]
Six Sri Lanka Army soldiers allegedly involved in the murder of a young farmer, Arunasalam Chandramohan at Sithaandy, 24 kilometers north of Batticaloa were remanded till 7 August, when they were produced in court by the Eravur Police.
Full story >>

Army kills man crossing sentry post

[TamilNet, Friday, 20 July 2001, 20:05 GMT]
A 35 year old man was shot and killed by Sri Lanka Army soldiers manning a sentry post at Siththaandy, 22 km. north of Batticaloa, around 5 p.m. Friday, local residents said.
Full story >>

Staff protest at Eastern University

[TamilNet, Friday, 13 July 2001, 21:36 GMT]
Academic and non-academic staff of the Eastern University picketed the campus at Vanthaarumoolai in Batticaloa on Friday morning. The picketing, held for an hour, was in protest of the closure of the University of Jaffna and the arrest by government soldiers of student leader, Mr.Thivyan.
Full story >>

Two SLA soldiers killed

[TamilNet, Friday, 13 July 2001, 08:55 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed and three wounded in an ambush by the Liberation Tigers at Siththaandy, about 20 km. north of Batticaloa, around 9.30 a.m. Friday, local army sources said.
Full story >>

One killed in SLN attack on Mannar fishermen

[TamilNet, Thursday, 12 July 2001, 19:42 GMT]
A fisherman was killed when Sri Lanka Navy Fast Attack Craft opened fire on local fishing boats in the seas off Silavathurai on the southern coast of the Mannar district around 7.30 a.m. Thursday morning. Josephthaasan Cruz, 36, father of four, was shot dead in his boat. His colleague, Soosaithasan Mary Alphonse, 25, escaped the attack.
Full story >>

Undergrads exhort MPs to oppose Emergency

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 July 2001, 09:14 GMT]
Students of the Eastern University in Batticaloa held a protest demonstration Wednesday calling on all Tamil Parliamentarians to vote against the extension of the Emergency on 6 July. The protesting students held placards and shouted slogans condemning the rape of Tamil women by Sri Lankan security forces under powers granted them by the Emergency and urging the Tamil people in the northeast to support the protest Hartal called by the Alliance of Ten Tamil Parties on 6 July.
Full story >>

Batticaloa gets 'Writing on the wall'

[TamilNet, Sunday, 17 June 2001, 16:19 GMT]
Sri Lanka army soldiers nonchalantly pass by the large writings on the wall in Vathaarumoolai, 19 kilometres north of Batticaloa. The attitude surprises visitors and locals alike because these are larger than life graffiti of the Liberation Tigers which began appearing since early last month in many parts of the Batticaloa district's coastal region which is controlled by the Sri Lankan security forces. Some have been sprayed very close to army camps on Batticaloa coastal highway.
Full story >>

Twelve SLA wounded in attack and own fire

[TamilNet, Saturday, 16 June 2001, 16:53 GMT]
Six Sri Lanka army soldiers who were lying in ambush were wounded in Sector Eight on the Vavuniya-Mannar highway when the Liberation Tigers attacked them late Friday night around 11.40 a.m. military sources said. Six troopers of an SLA ambush party were injured when an SLA road clearing patrol opened fire them, mistaking them for Liberation Tigers, in the general area of Kalmadu, west of the A9 junction at Thaandikkulam near Vavuniya town Friday morning around 6 a.m.
Full story >>

SLA troops search Eastern University

[TamilNet, Thursday, 14 June 2001, 03:12 GMT]
The Sri Lanka army cordoned off and searched the eastern University campus in Vanthaarumoolai, 18 kilometres north of Batticaloa, from early morning Thursday. Soldiers barred university staff who reported to work in the morning from entering the campus. Sources said that the army began searching the Eastern University premises following a clash between an SLA ambush party and a group of Tigers in the early hours of the morning around 1.30 p.m. at a crossing point close to the campus, sources said.
Full story >>

MP slams Sri Lanka's judicial system

[TamilNet, Thursday, 07 June 2001, 21:31 GMT]
"In Sri Lanka the Tamil people are denied the exercise of their sovereignty through the judicial system because fundamentally it is made to work against them. The security forces and the laws of the land are meant to protect the people. But in Sri Lanka the law is harnessed only to protect the security forces. .
Full story >>

Batticaloa villages shelled

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 May 2001, 13:28 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers stationed at the 23-3 Brigade Head Quarters fired several rounds of shells towards the villages of Kannankudha, Karaveddi and Thaandiyadi in the western hinterland of the Batticaloa district Wednesday noon, damaging some houses in the area, according to reports from the area.
Full story >>

Security patrol shot in Batticaloa town

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 May 2001, 11:47 GMT]
A military trained Sri Lanka Policeman was killed another wounded when gunmen suspected to be members of the Liberation Tigers opened fire on a patrol in the heart of Batticaloa town around 3.45 p.m. Saturday. Police sources in Batticaloa town said that two gunmen had come on a bicycle towards the Boundary Road-Trinco Road junction and shot the two Policemen who were on patrol duty there. The junction is in the high security zone of the town.
Full story >>

Five STF commandos killed

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 May 2001, 07:06 GMT]
Five Special Task Force elite troops were killed and another wounded in an attack by the Liberation Tigers near Thirukkovil about 25 km. south-east of Ampara around 8 a.m. Saturday. An armoured vehicle was damaged when the Tigers attacked reinforcements that were rushed to the area from Thirukkovil camp, sources said.
Full story >>

Revenge fire, bombing force 5000 to flee

[TamilNet, Monday, 30 April 2001, 20:38 GMT]
More than five thousand civilians fled their homes in Pooneryn north following heavy shelling and bombing, aid agency sources in the north said Monday. They said that Sri Lanka Air Force jets bombed the area since Friday. The Sri Lanka army had fired mortars and artillery on civilian settlements in the northern parts of Pooneryn. The attacks are in retaliation to the heavy losses sustained by the SLA in the Agni Khiela I Operation last week, sources in Jaffna said.
Full story >>

SLA shells Batticaloa villages - residents

[TamilNet, Friday, 20 April 2001, 22:45 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army soldiers stationed at the 23-3 Brigade HQ in Batticaloa fired several rounds of shells towards the villages of Kannankudah, Thaandiyadi, Arasadithivy and Kokkaddicholai in the western hinterlands of the district Friday night residents said.
Full story >>