Six arrested in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 March 1999, 11:04 GMT]
Six civilians have been arrested by the Sri Lankan Army during the past four days from Vadamaradchi east and Thenmaradchi in the Jaffna peninsula said human rights sources there.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Sunday, 21 February 1999, 20:47 GMT]
Sri Lankan Army (SLA) sources said that six Liberation Tigers were killed during the last two days; Vadamaradchi East civilians face further travel restrictions; The Minister for Industries Development, Mr.C.V.Gooneretna, announces rehabilitation of the Atchchuveli Industrial Estate in Jaffna.
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Vehicle hijacked on 'cleared' road

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 February 1999, 11:31 GMT]
The official vehicle of the President of College of Education in Batticaloa, Mr. K.Nadarajah, was taken away by gunmen suspected to be members of the Liberation Tigers around 10.30 a.m. this morning. The vehicle was stopped at Vanthaarumoolai, 20 km. north of Batticaloa, by the gunmen who drove away with the driver who was released at the next village.
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Devotees barred from attending Hindu festival

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 February 1999, 07:39 GMT]
Army Head Quarters in Palaly had informed the chief priest of the Keerimalai Naguleswarar temple yesterday that no devotees will be allowed to go to Keerimalai from other parts of the peninsula to observe religious rights on Sunday the Mahasivarathri day.
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Thirteen Tigers killed in sea battle -VoT

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 February 1999, 04:44 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers announced in the Vanni this morning that 13 Sea Tigers were killed yesterday around 5.30 a.m. in a mid sea battle with the Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) near the island of Kachchathivu, north west of Jaffna, close to the Indian maritime zone.
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Refugee 'disappeared' in Mannar

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 February 1999, 13:13 GMT]
Subramaniam Ekambaram (44), a displaced person from Jaffna who had sought refuge Eluthoor in Mannar has been reported missing after he was arrested by the Mannar police on December 26 last year, said human rights sources.
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Youth shot dead Jaffna

[TamilNet, Sunday, 24 January 1999, 13:11 GMT]
A youth was killed and another wounded at Nunavil last night around 8 p.m. in an ambush by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA). The injured youth, Sinnarasa Jehan, 18, of Nunavil west, 190 Chavakachcheri, was admitted to the Jaffna hospital. He is under Sri Lankan Police guard.
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Three SLA casualties in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Sunday, 17 January 1999, 13:19 GMT]
Three Sri Lankan Army (SLA) troops were killed and several others were wounded on January 15, Friday night around 11.30 p.m. during a skirmish with the Liberation Tigers at Vembaday in Uduththurai on the southeastern coast of Jaffna said sources in the peninsula. There were no casualties among the Tigers they claimed.
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Floods isolate Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 January 1999, 19:23 GMT]
Traffic between Colombo and Batticaloa came to a halt today as heavy rains completely inundated the Mannampiddi causeway, about eighty kilometers north of the eastern town.
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Police fire kills one

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 January 1999, 15:15 GMT]
A civilian was killed and another seriously wounded in the early hours of the morning today around 12.30 a.m. when the Sri Lankan Police at Eravur, 16 km. north of Batticaloa opened fire on a cart carrying a sick woman.
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SLA commando soldier killed

[TamilNet, Saturday, 02 January 1999, 17:22 GMT]
A Special Forces (SF) commando of the SLA's motorcycle unit that was riding ahead of an army convoy was killed this afternoon around 1.15 p.m. at Saththurukkondaan, six kilometers north of Batticaloa town, on the main road when he was hit by an improvised explosive device (IED).
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Girl's body handed over

[TamilNet, Friday, 01 January 1999, 13:06 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Police handed over a woman's body with gun shot wounds to the Jaffna Hospital this afternoon around 12.30. The Police said they found the body in Palai, a village 40 km. south of Jaffna town.
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Bride sought after wedding

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 16:46 GMT]
A group of Sri Lankan Army (SLA) personnel went into the village of Siththaandy inquiring about girls who have been married recently. They had been on the look out for girls wearing a new 'Thasli', the traditional pendent of married Tamil women wear on a gold chain or yellow cord.
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Ten loggers arrested

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 16:36 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) took into custody seven bullock carts and ten loggers coming from the western hinterland of Batticaloa behind the village of Siththaandy in the early hours of the morning today.
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Eastern refugees languish in Mannar

[TamilNet, Monday, 28 December 1998, 15:13 GMT]
Ninety one civilians from the district of Trincomalee who had fled their villages to the Vanni as a consequence of the war since 1990 have been stranded in Mannar for more than a month due to bureaucratic apathy and bungling while attempting to return to the east.
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Civilians clear protected vegetation

[TamilNet, Thursday, 24 December 1998, 22:31 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) forced civilians in the Aarumukaththaankudiyiruppu area, north of Batticaloa, this morning to clear the thick rattan undergrowth on the roadside before the weekly convoy passed the area. The cutting of Rattan plant (cane, genera Calamus and Daemonothops) is strictly prohibited under environmental laws in Sri Lanka.
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SLA convoy attacked

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 December 1998, 11:16 GMT]
Eight soldiers were wounded and one was killed when the Liberation Tigers attacked a Sri Lankan Army (SLA) convoy this afternoon around 2.30 p.m. at Aarumukathaankudiyiruppu, 13 kilometers north of Batticaloa on the main road.
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Three Tigers killed

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 December 1998, 19:08 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio said in its morning transmission today that one Sri Lankan policeman was killed in an attack by the Liberation Tigers at Meeravodai in the east during the early hours of Monday December 14.
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Batticaloa women protest

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 December 1998, 18:12 GMT]
Several women's groups in Batticaloa staged a token sit-in today in Batticaloa town to mark human rights day. About 150 women took part in the sit in demonstration in the town centre. The sit in was organised by eighteen women's groups that are active in the region.
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Oddusuddan people arrive in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 December 1998, 14:24 GMT]
One hundred and sixty four persons, from 33 families who were in Oddusuddan when the Sri Lankan Army moved into the village last weak, have been brought to Vavuniya by military officials, said sources in Vavuniya said.
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