PLOTE cadre killed in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Monday, 01 February 1999, 11:54 GMT]
A PLOTE cadre, Subramaniam Thanabalasingham,32, was shot last night by unidentified gunmen, suspected to be members of the Liberation Tigers, while he was returning home last night around 8.30 p.m. at Thirupperunthurai, a high security zone on the northern outskirts of the Batticaloa town.
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Ten Tigers killed

[TamilNet, Sunday, 31 January 1999, 19:50 GMT]
(CORRECTED) Ten Liberation Tigers were killed in a confrontation with the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) at Mankerni, 48 km. north of Batticaloa, the LTTE said today in Vanni.
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42 Tiger casualties - SLA

[TamilNet, Sunday, 31 January 1999, 12:15 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Batticaloa said today that more than 25 Liberation Tigers were killed or wounded in a confrontation at Marnkerni yesterday morning. The SLA says it recovered nine bodies, along with weapons.
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SLA repulsed at Mankulam - LTTE

[TamilNet, Sunday, 31 January 1999, 12:13 GMT]
Two bodies of the Liberation Tigers killed in confrontations with the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Mankulam yesterday have been handed over to Vavuniya hospital by the SLA yesterday around 6.45pm, sources said.
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Census planned for Vanni region

[TamilNet, Saturday, 30 January 1999, 20:19 GMT]
A plan to establish the exact number of people living in the Vanni region was formulated at a meeting of Government Agents of the northern districts with the Department of Census and Statistics held in the Vavuniya Kachcheri today.
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Three Sea Tigers killed - radio

[TamilNet, Saturday, 30 January 1999, 20:17 GMT]
Three Sea Tigers were killed in a sea battle between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Navy which took place in the seas off the Mullaithivu coast last night, said the Voice of Tigers in its night news bulletin today.
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Clashes kill 4

[TamilNet, Saturday, 30 January 1999, 20:13 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) head-quarters in Palali, Jaffna said in a press note issued today that troops operating ahead of their Forward Defence Lines northwest of Mankulam, sniped and killed 3 LTTE members on 28 January.
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SLA ambush kills 7

[TamilNet, Saturday, 30 January 1999, 11:04 GMT]
Sri Lankan military sources said today that seven Liberation Tigers were killed and several were wounded when troops from the Maankerni Sri Lankan Army (SLA) camp, 48 kilometers north of Batticaloa, ambushed them in the jungles by Uppaaru lagoon west of the detachment in the early hours of the morning around 5.30 a.m.
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Two Tigers killed - VoT

[TamilNet, Saturday, 30 January 1999, 03:03 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VoT) said that two members of the Liberation Tigers were killed on the 28th (Thursday), in two separate incidents in the Vanni.
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Boats attacked in Jaffna Lagoon

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 January 1999, 14:16 GMT]
The Operational Head Quarters of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a communiqué issued this afternoon that eleven Tigers had been killed in two separate confrontations in the Jaffna lagoon off Gurunagar.
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NEPC to open regional offices

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 January 1999, 14:14 GMT]
The North East Provincial Council (NEPC) will open three regional offices to improve its services to the people of the province, said Maj.Gen. (ret) Asoka Jayawardana, the Governor of the province, addressing a special conference this morning at his office in Colombo.
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Serum ban increases deaths -MO

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 January 1999, 12:11 GMT]
Deaths due to snake bite has increased in Batticaloa's hinterland in recent months due to Sri Lankan Army (SLA) restrictions said medical sources in the eastern town. They said that exact figures were not available for the whole region as yet because few cases are recorded.
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Women accuse Islamic fundamentalists of attack

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 January 1999, 12:05 GMT]
Three Muslim women were found tied to lamp posts with their heads completely shaved and stripped to their waists in the early hours of the morning today in the village of Iyankerni, sixteen kilometers north of Batticaloa.
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First SLAF passenger flight

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 January 1999, 12:00 GMT]
The first commercial SLAF flight carrying civilian to Jaffna left the Ratmalana base on the southern outskirts of Colombo at 1 p.m. this afternoon and arrived at the Palaly military complex an hour later said sources in Jaffna.
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Chavakachcheri library to stay closed

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 January 1999, 11:38 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence (MoD) informed the Chavakachcheri Urban Council (UC) in a letter sent yesterday, that the Army camp at the Chavakachcheri library could not be shifted to another location due to security reasons.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 January 1999, 18:08 GMT]
Sixteen Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers were injured this morning, when a tractor carrying troops ran off the road in Omanthai, Chavakachcheri Brigade Commander meets Divisional Secretaries and wounded civilian succumbs to injuries.
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SLA death squad spreads terror

[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 January 1999, 16:58 GMT]
Aarumugam Kaaththalingam, 51, a poor plumber from Kokkuvil, an impoverished village on the northern outskirts of the Batticaloa town was gruesomely shot dead last night by unknown gunmen, suspected to be members of an SLA terror squad operating from a detachment nearby.
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Friendly fire kills one

[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 January 1999, 12:56 GMT]
A Sri Lankan Army soldier, H.M.Laksman Ananda, of the 15 Gajaba division on sentry duty at the forward defence line in the Uyrtharasankulam area South of Mannar island was shot dead by a fellow soldier, Jayalath Aarachchige Vasanthakumara, at the sentry post around 1 am yesterday (January 27), sources in Mannar said.
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Amnesty says 4 'disappeared' located

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 January 1999, 23:33 GMT]
Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog said it has recently learned that Mylvaganam Jayaseelan, one of those listed as missing after being arrested by the PLOTE was released on 3 January 1999 from the Kovilkulam PLOTE camp. Amnesty says it believes he may have been tortured in custody.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 January 1999, 23:21 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army in Jaffna will issue tickets for the flight to Colombo tomorrow and PLOTE's military leader Maanikkadaasan vows revenge for the killing of his group's Jaffna commander.
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