Bus bomb wounds 20

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 February 2000, 15:05 GMT]
At least 20 people were wounded when a bomb exploded in a bus in the Kurunegale District, about 70 km. north-east of Colombo, around 5.45 p.m. this evening police said.
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Three wounded in bomb blast

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 February 2000, 06:50 GMT]
Three persons were wounded when a bomb exploded in a Batticaloa bound bus at Urugodawatte depot at Baseline Road in Colombo city around 8.30 a.m. this morning, Police said.
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Damages for tortured youth

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 February 2000, 21:27 GMT]
The High Court in Colombo ordered today the state to pay fifty thousand rupees in compensation to a youth who has been tortured in police custody. The youth, Thambirasa Arudchelvam, 22, who was arrested on May 19, 1999 is currently held as a detainee at the Kalutara Prison.
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150 Tamils arrested in Colombo

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 February 2000, 15:31 GMT]
At least 150 Tamils were arrested during a search operation in the Welikade and Nawale areas of Colombo today, police sources said.
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Detained students released

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 February 2000, 12:42 GMT]
Two students, Priya and Vinoth, and their mother Sriskandarajah Valarmathi were released by the Jaffna Police around 2.30 p.m. this afternoon, security sources said.
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Appeal for peace in South Asia

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 February 2000, 17:14 GMT]
In a joint statement issued by the participants for the South Asian countries who attended the Neelan Tiruchelvam Commemoration Program in Colombo have made an urgent appeal to the leaders of India and Pakistan to take decisive measures to defuse the tensions before it is too late and to revive the Lahore process so that both Indian and Pakistan along with other South Asian neighbours march together building a vibrant and prosperous south Asian community.
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Perumal in Court contesting expulsion

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 February 2000, 16:12 GMT]
The expulsion of former Chief Minister of North East Provincial Councils, Varatharaja Perumal from the EPRLF was restrained yesterday by an enjoining order by Colombo District Court.
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Indictment served on SLRC co-ordinator

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 January 2000, 19:57 GMT]
Colombo High Court Judge Chandradasa Nanayakara served an indictment on Sivanathan Kishore, North-East Co-ordinator of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society.
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Parcel bomb at Gal Oya

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 January 2000, 14:37 GMT]
A passenger was killed when a parcel bomb exploded at Gal Oya railway station, 65 km. south-east of Anuradhapura, around 8 p.m. last night security sources said.
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Welikade Tamil detainees assaulted

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 January 2000, 16:44 GMT]
Three Tamil political detainees at the Welikade prison were beaten up by the Sinhala prisoners and prison guards on Friday evening. They have been warded at the prison hospital, sources said.
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Security for EPDP MP withdrawn

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 January 2000, 16:38 GMT]
The Police in Batticaloa have withdrawn the security provided to Mr. A.Rasamanikkam, Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) Member of Parliament from noon today, said the District Organizer of the EPDP, Viji Thangarajah.
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Bomb explodes in bus

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 January 2000, 13:08 GMT]
Twenty persons were wounded, 10 of them seriously, when a bomb exploded in a bus near Polgahawela, in the Kurunegale District, about 70 km. north-east of Colombo, around 2 p.m. this afternoon police sources said.
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Vasavillan school boycott to continue

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 January 2000, 22:17 GMT]
Student representatives of the Vasavillan Madhya Maha Vidyalayam in Jaffna have notified that the boycott protesting the arrest of one of their fellow student, Priya Sriskandarajah, by the Criminal Investigating Division (CID) will continue from Monday.
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Reconstruction aid should not be used for war

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 January 2000, 12:53 GMT]
An appeal has been made to the visiting World Bank representatives to Trincomalee that the foreign donor agencies should ensure that the money given by them for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of affected villages in the Tamil areas be utilised for that specific purpose and not for purchasing weapons to continue the war.
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TULF meets Canada foreign ministry officials

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 January 2000, 20:33 GMT]
Joseph Pararajasingham, Parliamentary Group Leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front, told the visiting Canadian official from the South East Asia Department of the Canadian Foreign Ministry, Robert Burley, that any resolution to the Tamil problem should fulfil the fundamental demand of the permanent merger of the northern and eastern provinces.
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SLN craft collides with fishing boat

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 January 2000, 15:47 GMT]
A fisherman has been reported missing since 24 January after a Sri Lankan Navy patrol vessel collided with a fishing boat in the seas off Puttalam about 120 km north of Colombo.
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CID arrests Ponnambalam suspect

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 January 2000, 15:46 GMT]
Criminal Investigation Department officials have arrested a youth in connection with the assassination of Kumar Ponnambalam, police sources said.
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Transformer blasted

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 January 2000, 12:11 GMT]
A transformer was blasted in the Badulla District about 130 km. east of Colombo, in the early hours of the morning today, Police sources said.
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Norwegian official meets TULF

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 25 January 2000, 14:16 GMT]
Norway's secretary of state for foreign affairs, Leiv Lunde, held talks with the Secretary General of the Tamil United Liberation Front, Mr R. Sampanthan, at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Colombo on Monday and Tuesday, political sources in the capital said.
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Senior Norwegian official arrives in Colombo

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 January 2000, 19:11 GMT]
(Correction) Norway's state secretary for foreign affairs, Leiv Lunde arrived in Colombo on Sunday evening on a three-day visit, political sources said.
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