Three wounded in Jaffna blast

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 March 1999, 08:30 GMT]
Three Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers were wounded when a bomb exploded at a sentry post at Milavu Junction, about 300 metres from the main bus terminal in the heart of the Jaffna town, around 9.30 a.m. today.
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Six killed in mine attack

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 17 March 1999, 04:53 GMT]
Five Home guards and a policeman were killed and two wounded in a claymore mine attack at Dickwela 8 km. east of Vavuniya in the SLA controlled area, around 6.45 a.m. today, the Police said.
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Eight Tigers killed

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 March 1999, 20:08 GMT]
Eight Liberation Tigers have been killed since March 13, in three confrontations with the Sri Lankan Army and two accidental explosions, said the Voice of Tigers (VoT) in its night broadcast today.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 March 1999, 00:04 GMT]
Thousands are displaced in Mannar military operation; Jaffna woman complains of harassment to Human Rights Commission; and a civil servant charged under PTA is released on bail.
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SLA operation in Mannar

[TamilNet, Monday, 15 March 1999, 00:00 GMT]
Two Sri Lankan Army soldiers were killed and 11 others were wounded when the troops conducted a limited operation in the Mannar district last night, said SLA sources.
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New telephone exchange for Mannar

[TamilNet, Sunday, 14 March 1999, 19:41 GMT]
Mannar Telecom has received a new exchange today and this is a new development that will cater to the telecommunication needs of the people of Mannar and the Vanni, said S.Kanagasooriyar Sri Lanka Telecom Regional Head of the Region 3 (Northeast Province) today.
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Journalist abducted

[TamilNet, Sunday, 14 March 1999, 07:40 GMT]
Srilal Priyantha, a well known journalist working for the Lakbima, an independent popular Sinhala weekend paper, was forcibly abducted from his home in Nugegoda, a large suburb of Colombo in the early hours of the morning today and has gone missing since then said his colleagues.
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SLA holds Tamils as hostages -TULF MP

[TamilNet, Saturday, 13 March 1999, 18:12 GMT]
"Tamils remain under a majority run army as hostages under a state of siege" said Joseph Pararajasingham MP addressing a meeting for Norwegian Parliamentarians in Batticaloa this morning.
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Norwegian delegation meets Batticaloa politicians

[TamilNet, Saturday, 13 March 1999, 15:26 GMT]
The Norwegian Parliamentary delegation that is currently on an official visit to Sri Lanka held discussions with government officials and politicians in Batticaloa today about the ethnic conflict and conditions in the district. The delegation was led by Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl, the President of the Norwegian Parliament.
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Suspected LTTE member commits suicide

[TamilNet, Saturday, 13 March 1999, 14:37 GMT]
A youth suspected to be a member of the Liberation Tigers committed suicide by blowing up a grenade on himself in Ananthapuram in Irupaalai this afternoon around 1.30 p.m. when the SLA cordoned off the area and searched for him.
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Arrested youth escapes army custody

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 March 1999, 22:10 GMT]
Shanmuganathan Kumaran, 18, who is in hiding after escaping from Sri Lankan Army custody is now at the ICRC in Jaffna. An ICRC official in Jaffna said they were waiting for advice from their head office in Geneva before they could take any decision.
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Military registers civilian movement

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 March 1999, 22:07 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) has told civilians who are coming from Iranai Iluppaikulam that they should register their names with the military officials on duty in the area through the Grama Sevaka Officer, residents of the area said.
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Civilians assaulted in retaliation

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 March 1999, 12:10 GMT]
Twenty five civilians, all youth, including two girls, were admitted to the Valaichenai hospital today for treatment from injuries caused by a group of Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers who roamed the villages of Kannankiramam, Kannakipuram, Puthukkudiyiruppu, Vinayakapuram this morning from about 8 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., intimidating and assaulting young people in the area.
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Operation Rana Gosa displaces 15000

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 March 1999, 10:53 GMT]
Nearly 15,000 people have been displaced during 'Operation Rana Gosa', launched by the Sri Lankan Army last week said sources in the Vanni. The displaced have sought refuge in school buildings and under trees along the roads in the Mulankaavil and Thunukkai areas, the sources added.
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SLA soldier killed in blast

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 March 1999, 00:01 GMT]
A Sri Lankan Army soldier was killed and another injured when an explosive device suspected to have been set off by the Liberation Tigers blew up near the Divisional Secretary's (D.S) office in Palai town in Jaffna around 2 p.m. this afternoon.
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Plans to settle Sinhalese in Jaffna -Devananda

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 March 1999, 16:46 GMT]
The EPDP leader Douglas Devananda MP charged in Parliament today that the Sri Lankan Security forces are attempting to establish a Sinhala colony on 12 thousand acres of land belonging to Tamil civilians adjacent to the Palaly-Kankesanthurai base complex.
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Paramilitary groups seek role in captured areas

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 March 1999, 12:37 GMT]
Two Tamil paramilitary groups, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) and the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) have sought permission from the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) to operate in Irani Iluppankulam, an area which was captured recently by the SLA.
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SLA soldier shot dead

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 March 1999, 10:26 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers shot dead a Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldier in the high security zone near the Pradheshiya Sabha office in Valaichenai, about 30 km. north of Batticaloa, this afternoon around 1.15 p.m. The army and Police in the area fired mortars and automatic weapons at random from their positions indiscriminately in retaliation soon after the attack.
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SLA screens for Tiger activists

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 March 1999, 08:38 GMT]
There are 15 -25 Liberation Tiger operatives among the population in the Tamil villages captured by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) during 'Operation Rana Gosa' said army spokesman Brig.Sunil Tennekoon today, while addressing the cabinet press briefing at the Parliament this morning. He said that population control measures are under way to detect these Tigers.
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Fishermen forced to pay into development fund

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 March 1999, 13:03 GMT]
Fishermen in the coastal settlements of Supparmadam, Kottady, Thumbalai and Munai in Pt.Pedro in Jaffna refused today to comply with an order by the Sri Lankan Army's Pt.Pedro town commander, Col.Chandrawansa, and the Pt.Pedro Urban Council chairman, S.Wijeyaratnam, to pay part of their incomes to the Urban Council's development fund.
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