Mosquito coils and nets banned

[TamilNet, Sunday, 08 November 1998, 22:16 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) has banned the transport of mosquito nets and mosquito coils through its sentry points at; Nakar Kovil in Vadamaradchi, Varani in Thenmaradchi and Thampalakamam in Palai.
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Partial resettlement in Kilinochchi

[TamilNet, Sunday, 08 November 1998, 16:22 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers have told civilians displaced from Kilinochchi during the Sri Lankan Army's (SLA) 'Operation Sath Jaya' in 1996 that they would allow them to re-settle in areas between Murigandy and bus depot junction, an area of about 9 km. Kilinochchi was captured by the SLA in August 1996. The Tigers captured the town from the SLA last month.
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TULF condemns Sri Lankan President

[TamilNet, Saturday, 07 November 1998, 20:32 GMT]
The Tamil United Liberation Front issued a statement today condemning the Sri Lankan President's statement in an interview with South African Television in which she had stated that Tamil minority people in Sri Lanka are not indigenous people of the island.
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Disappearances recur in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Saturday, 07 November 1998, 20:30 GMT]
Human rights sources in Jaffna said today that there has been a recent increase in the incidence of arrest and detention of youths.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Saturday, 07 November 1998, 20:23 GMT]
Sri Lanka is to observe a two minute silence in respect of dead troops, Government allocates 700,000 RS for filming documentary about S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike and TELO holds annual national convention today and tomorrow.
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Six policemen wounded

[TamilNet, Saturday, 07 November 1998, 13:08 GMT]
Six Sri Lankan Police personnel were wounded when a combined convoy of the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and Police was attacked by the Liberation Tigers at Morakkodanchnai in the Batticaloa district this afternoon around 12.15.
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Tamil politicians meet President

[TamilNet, Saturday, 07 November 1998, 12:54 GMT]
Douglas Devananda, leader of the EPDP, T.Sidharthan, leader of the PLOTE and S.Premachandran of EPRLF met the Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunge yesterday, at Temple Trees, the official residence of the president.
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Time bomb blast injures a soldier

[TamilNet, Friday, 06 November 1998, 23:30 GMT]
A Sri Lankan Army soldier was wounded when a time bomb went off at Chenkalady, 10 km north of Batticaloa, around 12.00 this noon. The wounded soldier, Waithyaratne, 23, has been admitted to the Batticaloa hospital.
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Shelling kills one

[TamilNet, Friday, 06 November 1998, 23:27 GMT]
A 62 year old woman, V.Theivanaipillai, was killed and her husband, Velupillai, 70, was seriously wounded when the Sri Lankan Army fired artillery from the Elephant Pass base this morning around 6.00 a.m., towards Kandaavalai in the Kilinochchi district.
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News in Brief

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 November 1998, 10:54 GMT]
An EPDP cadre escapes from the group's custody; several arrests conducted in Jaffna as the poster campaign continues; police arrests a friend of alleged LTTE member in Colombo and police station destroyed by electrical fault.
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Search operation in Valaichenai

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 November 1998, 10:01 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) cordoned off and searched three villages in the Valaichenai area, 32 kilometers north of Batticaloa, from 5 a.m. early this morning to 12 o'clock. Ten civilians were arrested by the army and were taken away to the SLA camp at the Valaichenai paper mills.
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Jaffna travellers arrive in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 November 1998, 16:02 GMT]
The Lanka Muditha, a cargo vessel chartered by the Sri Lankan Government to transport civilians to and from Jaffna, arrived at the eastern port of Trincomalee this morning around 9.30. A civilian passenger said that about 1000 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and 626 civilian passengers had travelled on the ship from Jaffna.
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Jaffna lagoon 'no go' area

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 November 1998, 15:57 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) announced today that the Jaffna Lagoon would become a 'no-go' zone said sources in Jaffna. The ban will come into effect from 5 a.m. tomorrow, November 5, they said. Jaffna fishermen would be severely affected they said.
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Bureaucracy restricts movement

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 03 November 1998, 22:47 GMT]
Save the Children fund, a UK based Non Governmental Organisation hosted a one-day seminar at the St.Josephs College, Trincomalee, to discuss problems faced by children in obtaining birth certificates, and hence national identity (NI) cards. The seminar was chaired by the Government Agent of Trincomalee, S.D.Chandradasa.
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SLA patrol attacked

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 03 November 1998, 08:23 GMT]
Seven Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers were killed and two wounded when the Liberation Tigers attacked a patrol in Bakkiella on the Ampara-Batticaloa district border this morning around 7.30 a.m. said Police sources in Kalmunai.
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Prayers for soldiers planned

[TamilNet, Monday, 02 November 1998, 23:32 GMT]
The Presidential secretariat in Colombo said today that special prayers will be offered in Buddhist and Hindu temples and churches tomorrow at 7 p.m. simultaneously in the evening to invoke blessings upon soldiers of the Sri Lankan army who are fighting the Liberation Tigers in the north and east of the island.
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Detainee's death declared as suicide

[TamilNet, Monday, 02 November 1998, 17:02 GMT]
The coroner of Colombo, Edward Ahangama, who conducted the inquest into the death of Mr.Rasanayagam Uthayakumar,44, declared that he committed suicide by hanging himself. Uthayakumar was arrested by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) at Nayanmarkaddu in Jaffna on October 23. The SLA handed over his body to the Jaffna Hospital on October 28.
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Indian official visits east

[TamilNet, Sunday, 01 November 1998, 11:47 GMT]
"The ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka cannot be resolved without talking to the Liberation Tigers; they are the key players and main actors in the Tamil issue" said Mr. Joseph Pararajasingham MP of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) during discussions with Mr. C.V Thripathi, the first senior Indian official to visit the war torn Batticaloa district in ten years, this morning. Mr.Thripathi is India's new Deputy High Commissioner in Sri Lanka.
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SLA stipulates travel restriction

[TamilNet, Sunday, 01 November 1998, 09:09 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) has stipulated that civilians living in the villages of Thambagamam and Kaluthaavalali in the Palai region of Jaffna can enter the areas under the army's control, including the Palai town, only three times a week from yesterday, October 31. Outsiders have been completely prohibited from entering the general area in which the two villages lie.
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SLA fire wounds three

[TamilNet, Sunday, 01 November 1998, 00:00 GMT]
Three civilians, all women, were wounded in the SLA's retaliatory fire in the heart of the densely populated village of Kommathurai, 19 kilometers north of Batticaloa, last evening around 6 p.m.
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