Fever spreads in Jaffna - typhoid feared

[TamilNet, Saturday, 03 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
An unidentified fever is spreading fast in the Jaffna district. Patients who are afflicted complain of fever which shoots up at night and lasts up to four days. This has brought about a two fold increase in the patients being treated at the OPD in the Jaffna hospital, said sources in Jaffna.
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Outlook for Jaffna fishermen remains bleak

[TamilNet, Friday, 02 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Jaffna fisheries department sources said today that proposals announced by the Sri Lankan government on December 28, 1997 to develop the Jaffna fishing industry would founder due to the current restrictions placed by the Sri Lankan army and navy on lagoon and deep sea fishing in and around the peninsula.
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Civilian knifed in public brawl

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
An argument between some locals and PLOTE cadres ended up in a fracas at the Bangalawadi junction in Velanai. Reports said that one civilian was knifed and some others injured.
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Stabbed man was EPDP candidate

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The EPDP charged today that the PLOTE had grievously wounded one of its candidates in Velanai called Tharmalingam Paramanathan by stabbing him with the jagged edge of a broken bottle.
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9 people arrested

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A special Sri Lankan Police investigation team took nine persons into custody today from Kaluwanchikudy and Kattankudy in Batticaloa in connection with the vehicle bomb blast in Galle on Sunday. Five of the arrested persons were women said Police sources in Batticaloa. The nine persons have been taken to Colombo they said.
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Unroadworthy buses sent to Jaffna

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The general manager of the northern regional transport board (NRTB), Mr. S. Sockalingam met members of the press this afternoon. He told them that the secretary of defence had called him on December 19, along with other senior officials to discuss arrangements for the forthcoming Jaffna local government elections on January 29, 1998.
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No way out

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The plight of thousands of Tamil civilians incarcerated in the transit camps of Vavuniya still hangs in the balance, weeks after the Deputy Minister for Defence approved a procedure to expedite their release.
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Vehicle explodes near Naval detachment

[TamilNet, Sunday, 28 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
An explosion in a canter vehicle killed its driver and two others who were traveling in it today in the early hours in the morning at about 2.30 am, near the Sri Lankan Naval detachment in by the port of Galle. A house nearby was damaged in the explosion.
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Ten thousand people to return before elections - official

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sri Lanka's Commissioner of Elections Mr. Dayananda Dissanyaka told a delegation of the EPRLF which met him yesterday that he will take steps to send home more than ten thousand people who are waiting in Vavuniya, Mannar and Colombo to travel to Jaffna.
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Ruling party to raise 'trusted' guard?

[TamilNet, Thursday, 25 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan President has asked Parliamentarians of her party to provide at least twenty five well trusted persons each for raising a special force of 1500 to protect the city of Colombo. She made this request a few days ago when she met PA MPs for a discussion.
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EPRLF to appeal

[TamilNet, Thursday, 25 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
EPRLF sources said that they will appeal in the court against the rejection of five of their nomination papers by the Elections commission.
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TULF relieved by nomination rejection

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The TULF held a press conference this morning around 9.30 a.m. in Jaffna town at Mrs. Sarojini Yogeswaran's residence at Kailasapillaiyar Koilady.
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Jaffna drivers in a quandry

[TamilNet, Monday, 22 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Drivers in Jaffna complain that the Sri Lankan traffic Police is making unfair demands of them.
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Recruitment problems for Elections Commission

[TamilNet, Saturday, 20 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sri Lankan election officials say that at least two thousand government servants are required to undertake election work in Jaffna. But they are yet to find any one in the peninsula ready to take up election duty for the forthcoming local government polls in Jaffna.
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SLFP candidate list ready

[TamilNet, Saturday, 20 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The SLFP branch in Jaffna said today that they had prepared the list of candidates for the Jaffna Local Government elections. The secretary of the SLFP branch in Jaffna is currently in Colombo, to get final approval from the party leadership.
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Transformers blasted

[TamilNet, Thursday, 18 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Two high power transformers were blasted in the hill country town of Bandarawela 206 km from Colombo in the early hours of the morning today. This is the third set of transformers to be destroyed in the tea growing central province of the island.
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Political maneuvering begins for Jaffna elections

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
At least seven parties are expected to begin filing nominations for the planned Jaffna Local council elections today. The EPDP, PLOTE, TELO, TULF, EPRLF, EROS and the Sri Lanka Progressive Party said that they will file nominations for the Jaffna Municipal Council elections.
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TULF announces election plans

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) sources in Jaffna said yesterday that they were planning to contest only Jaffna Municipal Council, Valigamam West, Valigamam East, Valigamam North, Nallur Pradeshiya Sabhas and the Chavachcheri Urban council.
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Senior Jaffna election official removed

[TamilNet, Monday, 15 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Assistant commissioner of Elections of the Jaffna district Mr. N.C Arunthvachelvan was removed from his post by the government with immediate effect this morning. He has been recalled to Colombo.
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Jail attack was planned - survivors

[TamilNet, Saturday, 13 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
"The attack on Tamil political prisoners had a political motive and was quite clearly premeditated" said Mr. Dharmalingam Sidarthan MP for Vavuniya and leader of the PLOTE speaking to the Tamil Net this afternoon after returning from a visit to the Kalutara prison and the Nagoda hospital earlier today.
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