Kilinochchi reversal, not setback - SLA

[TamilNet, Thursday, 01 October 1998, 11:35 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) spokesman Brigadier Sunil Tennakoon appeared flustered and discomfited by questions journalists fired today at the weekly cabinet press briefing, regarding the fall of the Kilinochchi base. He said that the army received 600 bodies yesterday through the ICRC and by this morning 400 had been identified.
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SLA faces tough choices

[TamilNet, Thursday, 01 October 1998, 09:36 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers' Operation Unceasing Waves II has completely destroyed the basic protective stratum of the gateway to Jaffna. The massive Elephant Pass base complex of the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) is now the sole barrier between the Liberation Tigers and the Jaffna peninsula.
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Lion Air flight said missing

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 29 September 1998, 10:29 GMT]
A flight operated by the private company 'Lion Air' with 48 passengers an 6 crew has been reported missing around 02.10 p.m. local time, said air line officials in Colombo. Earlier reports said that the missing flight was an Avro aircraft belonging to the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF).
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SLA suffers heavy losses in Kilinochchi - VoT

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 29 September 1998, 03:36 GMT]
In the operation code named 'Oyaatha Alaikal-2' (Unceasing Waves-2) the LTTE brought the Kilinochchi region under their full control last evening. The Voice of Tigers (VoT) said this morning that 240 Tigers were killed in this operation.
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Confusion surrounds Kilinochchi fighting

[TamilNet, Sunday, 27 September 1998, 18:15 GMT]
Speculation continued to mount in Colombo about the degree of damage the Liberation Tigers inflicted on the SLA in Paranthan today. The army raised its casualty figure to 19 killed in action this evening amidst unconfirmed reports that the Liberation Tigers have completely overrun at least one brigade defending the western sector of Paranthan.
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Indian fishermen face repatriation

[TamilNet, Sunday, 27 September 1998, 18:13 GMT]
The Tamil Nadu fishermen who were picked up by the Sri Lankan Police after their boat was sunk in the seas off Kankesanthurai in Jaffna yesterday will be sent to Colombo tomorrow for repatriation to India said sources. They said the fishermen are from the coastal village of Aarkkaadu on the southern coast of Tamil Nadu.
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Heavy fighting at Elephant Pass

[TamilNet, Sunday, 27 September 1998, 06:29 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers a launched an assault on the Sri Lankan Army's (SLA) largest base complex in Elephant Pass-Paranthan and Kilinochchi last night. Army sources unofficially confirmed heavy fighting.
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Tamils from Europe harassed

[TamilNet, Thursday, 24 September 1998, 20:53 GMT]
The friends and relatives of Kalirajah Thirugnanaseelan, 31, a Danish citizen appealed to Tamil Parliamentarians today that he was being unduly detained by the Sri Lankan Police since his arrival in Colombo on Sunday September 20.
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Norwegian delegation visits Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Thursday, 24 September 1998, 09:06 GMT]
A group of lawyers in Vavuniya told a visiting Norwegian delegation that ninety percent of confessions obtained from young detainees were not factual, said sources there.
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Council chairman reported missing

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 1998, 13:12 GMT]
PLOTE sources in Jaffna said today that the situation in the Chavakachcheri town continued to be tense today in the aftermath of the shoot out between their cadres and the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) last evening.
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SLA-PLOTE clash in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 September 1998, 15:32 GMT]
A PLOTE cadre was killed in a clash with the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) this afternoon in Chavakachcheri said sources in Jaffna. They said that two soldiers were wounded when the army and the PLOTE exchanged fire. The PLOTE office in Chavakachcheri was abandoned following the clash.
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News in brief

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 September 1998, 18:32 GMT]
Police sources say that the SLA killed a LTTE member in Chavakachcheri today, special investigation team investigating the Jaffna Municipal Council bomb blast arrests 4 employees of JMC, and SLA builds a shed for Nagarkovil school.
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Military solution not possible - paper

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 September 1998, 18:09 GMT]
A Sinhala language news paper, Yukthiya, says in its weekly issue of September 20th, that majority of the population in the country believes that a military solution to the conflict is not possible.
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Asylum seekers tortured

[TamilNet, Friday, 18 September 1998, 18:39 GMT]
Four Sri Lankan Tamil youth have alleged they were tortured and abused by the French immigration authorities.
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Two tamil policemen arrested

[TamilNet, Friday, 18 September 1998, 17:59 GMT]
Two Tamil Policemen, accused of spying for the Liberation Tigers were arrested yesterday in Batticaloa by the office of the Deputy Inspector General Police of the district. Both men were handed over to the local Counter Subversive Unit (CSU) by the arresting authorities.
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Central bank bombing case proceeds

[TamilNet, Friday, 18 September 1998, 17:57 GMT]
The Colombo high court judge Sarath Ambeypitiya allowed leave to the prosecution in the Sri Lankan Central Bank bombing case to proceed as the Police had so far failed to produce in courts the leader of the Liberation Tigers and his intelligence wing chief who are the first and second accused.
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Judge arrested on charge of conspiracy

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 September 1998, 23:15 GMT]
Most court activities have been brought to a halt for the fourth day running, as thousands of lawyers boycotted the courts in protest over the arrest and detention of supreme court judge, Mr. Mahanama Thilakaratne.
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LTTE to observe Polio truce

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 September 1998, 17:54 GMT]
The UNICEF in Jaffna said today that the Liberation Tigers have consented to two days of peace in the northeast, tomorrow and the day after, to enable the UN organisation to vaccinate children against Polio in the region.
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Minority parties reject UNP - G.L. Pieris

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 September 1998, 13:17 GMT]
The minority parties have rejected the United National Party (UNP) as a credible alternative and this why none of them went for its all party conference on free and fair elections on Monday Sept.14 in Colombo said Prof. G.L Pieris, Sri Lanka's minister for constitutional affairs today.
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Monara airline considering options

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 September 1998, 23:12 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army spokesman Brig. Sunil Tennekoon confirmed this morning that the Monara airline that runs a service between Jaffna and Colombo had received a note from the Liberation Tigers asking it to cease operations forthwith.
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