Two civilians killed in SLA ambush

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 July 2000, 16:50 GMT]
Two civilians who were returning from a temple festival south west of Batticaloa Wednesday were shot dead by the Sri Lanka army. Velmurugu Charles Satkunam of Kaluwanchikudi and Ilyathamby Arumugam the 40th Colony were returning from the annual festival of the Thaanthamalai Murugan temple in the interior in the early hours of the morning today around 3.30 a.m. when they were shot dead by an SLA ambush party at Vaalakkaalai near the 39th Colony on the Ampara-Batticaloa district border sources said.
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Search operation in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 May 2000, 17:24 GMT]
At least 25 persons were arrested during a search operation by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in the Thaandavanveli area in the Batticaloa town around 6 p.m. this evening, residents said. Security sources said the arrested are being interrogated at the Batticaloa police station.
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Tigers train guns beyond harbour

[TamilNet, Sunday, 21 May 2000, 18:06 GMT]
Artillery shells fired by the Liberation Tigers hit coastal areas to the west of Kankesanthurai (KKS), Sri Lanka army's only harbour in Jaffna, yesterday sources contacted by phone in the northern peninsula said Sunday. The shelling indicates that the LTTE has moved its field guns closer to the sprawling military base complex in Palaly and Kankesanthurai the sources said.
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SLA builds bulwark as Tigers advance

[TamilNet, Monday, 01 May 2000, 12:24 GMT]
The Operational headquarters of Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence (MoD) acknowledged that the Sri Lanka army was pushed out of Pallai, Pulopalai and Iththaavil by the Liberation Tigers yesterday in a press release issued Monday afternoon. The SLA, according to the release, was forced to withdraw with heavy casualties. Sources in Jaffna, meanwhile, said that the SLA is constructing a massive bulwark to stall the advancing Tigers.
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Battles rage for MSR

[TamilNet, Sunday, 02 April 2000, 08:58 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers said in its morning news broadcast today that Tiger troops on the A9 highway north of the Elephant Pass garrison repulsed an operation by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) yesterday to retake the sector of the road held by them now. The radio said that more than twenty SLA troops were killed in the fighting and that the Tigers had recovered weapons and equipment from the scene of the battle.
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MSR remains breached

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 29 March 2000, 09:48 GMT]
The Main Supply Route (MSR) on the A9 highway (Kandy Road) to the Sri Lanka army (SLA) base complexes in Elephant Pass and Iyakkachchi remains cut off between Eluthumaddvaal and Pallai sources in Jaffna said. The Uthayan, the Tamil daily published in Jaffna, quoting Sri Lankan military sources, said that the army is continuing its attempt to bridge the gap in the MSR, breached and held by the Liberation Tigers from early Monday.
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Panicked soldiers shoot couple

[TamilNet, Monday, 27 March 2000, 18:05 GMT]
A couple who were returning home from the Jaffna hospital with their new born child in an auto rickshaw were killed when the vehicle was hit by SLA fire at Iththaavil, 3 k.m north of Pallai around 2.30 p.m. today. The driver of the auto rickshaw was also killed on the spot.
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Search operation in Mannar

[TamilNet, Sunday, 26 March 2000, 10:06 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army soldiers conducted a cordon and search operation in Thaarapuram in Mannar from early hours of the morning today. About 50 families, displaced from Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu are living in this Muslim village.
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Tigers shell base, Jaffna coast

[TamilNet, Friday, 24 March 2000, 19:32 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers fired artillery and mortar on the Elephant Pass base and on Sri Lanka army (SLA) positions on Jaffna's southeastern coast from this morning said sources in Jaffna today.
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Memorial for Vanthaarumoolai disappeared

[TamilNet, Thursday, 23 March 2000, 06:41 GMT]
Relatives and people of Batticaloa are planning to erect a memorial as a rememberance to the 158 civilians who disappeared from the refugee camp at the Eastern University at Vanthaarumoolai, Batticloa, after being arrested and taken to the army camp by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) in 1990.
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First Tamil E-Zine from Colombo

[TamilNet, Thursday, 02 March 2000, 04:27 GMT]
The inauguration ceremony for the first internet-based Tamil magazine "Sooriyan.com," to be published weekly under the editorship of Poopalapillai Seevakan, took place at Sugathadasa Sports Hotel, Colombo, yesterday afternoon.
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Sea-Tigers shell Thaalaiyadi camp

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 February 2000, 16:03 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers fired mortar shells on Thaalaiyadi Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camp, in Vadamaradchi East, Jaffna peninsula around 5.30 a.m today. Tigers are reported to have shelled the camp from one their boats, sources said.
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FDLs breached at Elephant pass

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 February 2000, 17:55 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers said today that a 700 meter length of the forward defence lines (FDLs)of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) was destroyed in an attack launched yesterday at 4 a.m. at Umayalpuram area south of Elephant pass.
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Creeping advantage in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 February 2000, 23:59 GMT]
The conventional fighting formations of the Liberation Tigers operate in two strategic parts of the Jaffna peninsula. Although the LTTE has been moving its conventional fighting units into Jaffna since December, the Sri Lankan army has been unable to dislodge them neither from the southeast coast of the peninsula and its hinterland nor from the lagoon coast in Ariyalai east and Thanangilappu.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 February 2000, 16:25 GMT]
Arrested students released, Sailor dies in accident, Two missing; two arrested, Cargo ship to ferry until further notice.
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Three Home-Guards arrested

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 January 2000, 12:35 GMT]
Three members of the home-guards, attached to the Akkaraipattu police force, have been arrested for attempting to molest a young woman in the nearby village of Oluvil in the Ampara District, police sources said.
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Air-raid in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 January 2000, 13:47 GMT]
Sri Lanka Air Force Kfir jets conducted air-raid in Pooneryn-Kerathivu area in the north of the island from 9 a.m. this morning. The air-raid continued for about 30 minutes sources in Jaffna said.
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SLA tractor smashes shop

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 January 2000, 11:33 GMT]
Four women selling vegetables were injured when a Sri Lanka Army tractor speeding through the market area in Valaichenai went off the road around 12.15 p.m. Thursday, said eyewitnesses. The SLA soldiers who were riding on the tractor fired into the air to disperse crowd that had surrounded the vehcicle, they said.
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Tigers urge Elephant Pass surrender

[TamilNet, Saturday, 25 December 1999, 09:33 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers have asked Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers stationed in the bases at Elephant Pass area to surrender, according to the Sinhala language service of the Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio, residents in the Jaffna peninsula said today.
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Tiger advance near Iyakkachchi - radio

[TamilNet, Friday, 24 December 1999, 14:48 GMT]
The Thamileela Vaanoli radio, the commercial service of the Voice of Tigers (VoT) said today in its evening news broadcast that heavy fighting is continuing between the advancing fighting formations of the Liberation Tigers and the SLA at Sangathaar Vayal in the general area of Iyakkachchi.
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