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108 matching reports found. Showing 81 - 100 [TamilNet, Sunday, 06 January 2008, 17:08 GMT] Hundreds of Tamils paid homage Sunday at Puthukkudyrippu in Vanni to the remains of Col. Charles, Head of Liberation Tigers Military Intelligence, killed Saturday evening in a random Claymore attack by Sri Lanka Army Deep Penetration Unit in Pa'l'lamadu in Mannaar, sources in Vanni said. Col. Soosai, Liberation Tigers special commander of the Sea Tigers paid tribute to Col Charles at the event held Sunday around 4:00 p.m in the Heroes Cemetary Hall in Puthukkudiyiruppu, presided by C. Ilamparithi, Puthukkudyiruppu region Political Head of LTTE. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 03 January 2008, 05:07 GMT]At least two Sri Lanka Army were killed in a pressure mine ambush that targeted an SLA truck on Yakawewa Padaviyaa Road, at Sinhayaulpatha in Ma'nalaa'ru (Weli Oya) region, bordering Kebithigollewa of Vavuniyaa district, Thursday morning around 9:30 a.m., Sri Lankan military officials told media. Four wounded soldiers were rushed to hospitals. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 January 2008, 16:54 GMT] "The International Community has been vacillating in taking decisive actions on Sri Lanka because they are unable to relate their own interests to the chaotically unfolding political and military situation in Sri Lanka. Only the demonstration of military strength by the Tigers can bring clarity to the situation, for the international community to correctly relate their interests, and assertively engage," said Balakumaran, a Senior Member of Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam, during a Political Analysis program, Nilavaram, in National Television of Tamileelam (NTT), this week.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 December 2007, 18:48 GMT]Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) thwarted an advance attempt by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Wednesday around 7:20 a.m through Paalaikuzhi in Mannaar, killing five troops and injuring eleven, LTTE Mannaar Operations Command officials told media in Ki'linochchi. Meanwhile, similar SLA attempts at Mukamaalai Wednesday around 11:00 a.m, at Ma'nalaa'ru Ma'nki'ndimalai area Wednesday around 10:40 a.m. and at Ma'nalaa'ru Ceylon Theatres area around 12.10 a.m, have been successfully repulsed by LTTE combatants, LTTE sources added. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 22 December 2007, 09:38 GMT]Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) thwarted an attempt made by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops to enter LTTE Forward Defence Lines(FDLs) at Kokkuthoduvaai in Ma’nalaa’ru in Vanni Friday around 5:30 p.m, killing four troops and injuring more than nine, according Ma'nalaa'ru Operations Command of the LTTE. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 20 December 2007, 16:54 GMT]Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) waylaid and attacked an infiltration unit of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Thursday around 1:45 p.m in Ceylon Theatre area in Ma’nalaa’ru in Vanni, inflicting heavy injuries to the SLA troops. The SLA group retreated carrying the injured, sources in Ki’linochchi said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 08 December 2007, 08:35 GMT]Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters on Friday thwarted an attempt made by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) to advance into LTTE territory in Ma'nalaa'ru, Kokkuththoduvaay around 9:30 a.m, sources at Liberation Tigers Ma'nalaa'ru Operations Command said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 09 November 2007, 07:47 GMT]Unidentified persons triggered a Claymore device killing two members of civil defence force (home guards) returning after road patrol Friday morning around 7:00 a.m. at Kambiliweva in Padaviya (Sree pathikkiraamam) in Ma'nalaa'ru region, police sources said. Padaviya settlement is located in Anuradhapura district. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 September 2007, 19:46 GMT] The Government of Sri Lanka is giving in for the demands of the extreme nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), with its plans afoot to carve out a Sinhala district between Trincomalee district in the Eastern Province and Mullaiththeevu in the Northern Province, aiming to split the geographical contiguity of the Tamil homeland, charged R. Sampanthan, the senior Tamil parliamentarian and the parliamentary group leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), addressing the Sri Lankan parliament Wednesday. The attempt to create a Sinhala district would spoil the chances for a negotiated settlement, Mr. Sampanthan further warned. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 19 June 2006, 06:14 GMT]The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed and their bodies captured by the Tigers when a group of SLA troopers launched an attack on the Forward Defence Line (FDL) of the Tigers in the remote jungles of Manalaru, south of Mullaithivu, on Sunday. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 16:21 GMT] Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksha Tuesday visited the military frontlines of Weli Oya. He inspected defences on the Forward Defence Lines that separate areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers and the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) in this disputed region in the southern corner of the Mullaithivu district. Prime Minister Rajapaksha spoke to Sri Lanka army officers and the Sinhala settlers in Weli Oya during his visit. SLA drove out Tamils from fourteen villages in this region overnight in 1984. GOSL then armed and settled Sinhala convicts here amidst SLA camps.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 29 July 2004, 17:25 GMT]''Sri Lanka's peace process is like a rudderless boat. We can achieve our political aspirations only if we have exceptional military power. We had only 17 female fighters in Batticaloa ten years ago. Anbarasi was one of them. Today we have a regiment in her name that fought tough battles to defeat Op. Jeya Sikurui'', said Mr. E. Kousalyan, head of LTTE's political division for Batticaloa, Thursday, addressing a ceremony to mark the 9th death anniversary of Lt. Col. Anbarasi. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 22 February 2003, 00:03 GMT]"On August 4, 1987 our leader asked the large gathering on the Suthumalai grounds in Jaffna whether the Liberation Tigers should hand over their weapons to the Indian army. He was deeply distressed when many cheered him to do so. But it was a letter from this soil that convinced him not to surrender the arms," said Manalaaru Vijayan, the author of a book on massacres of Tamils in the Batticaloa-Amparai Districts by the Sri Lankan armed forces, released Friday. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 13 February 2003, 18:01 GMT]The large Vadamunai-Tharavai region, northwest of Batticaloa, is struggling to rise out of the havoc wreaked by one of the most sustained text book counter insurgency campaigns waged by the Sri Lanka army. A few hundred of the thousands of families which were driven out of their villages by the SLA more than 12 years ago have begun venturing back to their homesteads and lands here. But there are no schools for their children, no medical facilities for the sick, no transport, no sanitation and no basic amenities in any of the villages in the region.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 February 2003, 12:41 GMT]Commanders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) officially met with more than five thousand parents of LTTE fighters and martyrs in Palugamam, Batticaloa district, first time after the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (Mou), sources in Batticaloa said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 22:04 GMT]A woodcutter, Sinnathambi Sinnathurai, 50, was seriously injured Tuesday while chopping fire wood with a relative in Mayilankoodal, Erlalai South, Jaffna, when his axe struck a landmine. He was admitted to the Jaffna hospital. Landmines continue to claim lives and limbs of civilians in Jaffna despite much publicised de-mining programs by international NGOs in the war torn northern peninsula.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 27 October 2000, 06:20 GMT]Sri Lankan police has released names of 13 Tamil detainees massacred at the Bindunuwewa detention center in Bandarawela on Wednesday. The police said many bodies are charred beyond recognition by the fire at the Centre. Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 26 March 2000, 19:36 GMT]Four fighters of the Liberation Tigers were killed on March 25 and 26 in two separate clashes with the SLA, the Voice of Tigers (VoT) said today in its night news broadcast. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 November 1999, 18:43 GMT]Sinhalese villagers in the Manal Aru (Weli Oye) region are being asked to support the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) resist advances by the Liberation Tigers into the eastern region, said sources in Trincomalee today. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 04 June 1999, 09:58 GMT]A man accused of illicit alcohol brewing told the Mannar court that the Sri Lankan Army had framed the charges against him as revenge for revealing the details of a civilian who died while in SLA custody, said sources. Full story >>
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