Warning leaflets prompt search operation

[TamilNet, Thursday, 15 October 1998, 20:12 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) cordoned off and searched Gurunagar, a large coastal suburb of Jaffna town this morning. The operation was carried out on the receipt of information that the Liberation Tigers had left a large number of leaflets at the local community centre last night urging the people of Gurunagar to move away from SLA camps located in the area.
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Jeyasikurui continues, 93 killed -SLA

[TamilNet, Thursday, 15 October 1998, 20:07 GMT]
The army spokesman said at the cabinet press briefing today that: Operation Jayasikurui continues. The SLA lost 46 killed in Battle during the last two weeks. He said that 47 Tigers were also killed.
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Strain shows at press conference

[TamilNet, Thursday, 15 October 1998, 12:59 GMT]
The SLA spokesman Brigadier Sunil Tennekoon told journalists at today's cabinet press briefing that a joint "project" by the army and Police to arrest 15000 deserters which was launched on October 7, has so far netted 2889 soldiers who have been absconding. He said 25000 soldiers had deserted the Sri Lankan security forces. He said that 14 thousand of these were arrested or returned to their units voluntarily.
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President visits Anuradhapura

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 13 October 1998, 16:19 GMT]
The Sri Lankan President told Sri Lankan Army (SLA) officers yesterday that she was very desirous of going to the war front in person to inspect and encourage troops in their fight against the Liberation Tigers, when she paid a surprise visit to the SLA operations centre at the 21 brigade Head Quarters in Anuradhapura said sources.
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SLA operation in Vadamaradchi

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 13 October 1998, 12:01 GMT]
The SLA rounded up the interior parts of Eluthumadduvaal and Kodikamam yesterday. A boy and a girl pointed out to the army by a hooded informant were arrested and taken away sources said.
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Loose APC kills forty

[TamilNet, Monday, 12 October 1998, 19:42 GMT]
At least forty Sri Lankan soldiers and sailors were killed when a Saracen armoured vehicle broke off its moorings on the cargo vessel 'Lanka Muditha' on Saturday said sources in Jaffna today. The report could not be confirmed independently from SLA sources.
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Eleven Tigers killed

[TamilNet, Monday, 12 October 1998, 15:18 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) said its troops had killed eleven Liberation Tigers, including three female fighters, in two incidents south of the Trincomalee district last evening and this morning.
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Total power cut in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Monday, 12 October 1998, 07:09 GMT]
The electricity supply to the Batticaloa district has been completely cut off since 7 p.m. last night. The main power pylons that supply electricity to the whole district located in Vellaveli, about 40 kilometres south west of Batticaloa, were blasted by the Liberation Tigers said Sri Lankan Police sources in Batticaloa.
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TELO cadre attacked at SLA checkpoint

[TamilNet, Monday, 12 October 1998, 03:36 GMT]
A member of the TELO group was admitted to the Manthikai hospital with serious injuries after he was attacked by the SLA at a checkpoint near Manthikai, Jaffna yesterday.
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News in Brief

[TamilNet, Monday, 12 October 1998, 03:13 GMT]
Two persons are shot dead in Uyilankulam, while a student who was knifed during a fight in a private school in Colombo succumbs to injuries.
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Businessman shot dead

[TamilNet, Sunday, 11 October 1998, 15:15 GMT]
The SLA shot dead a businessman, Anthonypillai Irasamaansingh Suresh ,23, and wounded his mother in Palai in Jaffna last night around 7 p.m. Shops in Palai town were closed in protest against the killing despite a severe warning from the army that they should be opened forthwith or remain shut for a week.
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Four TELO members killed

[TamilNet, Sunday, 11 October 1998, 05:09 GMT]
Four armed cadres of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO)-a paramilitary group working with the SLA- were killed and two were wounded in an ambush by the Liberation Tigers early this morning around 5 a.m. in Aaraiampathy (Aaraipattai), 7 kilometers south of Batticaloa town.
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Five fishermen reported missing

[TamilNet, Saturday, 10 October 1998, 18:52 GMT]
Five fishermen from Karanavai in Karaveddi in Jaffna have been reported missing since Wednesday October 7. The five men, according to sources, had gone from Karanavai on Tuesday October 6 to a relative's house in Maaniavalai in the Sempianpattu area; and on Wednesday Oct. 7 they had set out around 4 a.m. in the early hours of the morning to fish in the lagoon nearby. They have been missing since then.
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A historic defeat?

[TamilNet, Saturday, 10 October 1998, 12:14 GMT]
(News Feature) Sri Lanka's opposition MP Mr. Ronnie De Mel, speaking on the extension of the island wide emergency in the parliament yesterday, said that the debacle of the Sri Lankan army in Kilinochchi is the greatest defeat suffered by the Sinhalese in history after the conquest of Anuradhapura by the Cholas.
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UNP releases SLA casualty figures

[TamilNet, Saturday, 10 October 1998, 00:15 GMT]
(News Feature) The leader of the main Sri Lankan opposition party, Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe said in parliament today that over 1900 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops had been killed and 2000 wounded when the Liberation Tigers overran the Kilinochchi SLA base complex last week. Mr. Wickremasinghe's sources were said to be from SLA HQ and Military Intelligence.
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'Jayasikurui' affects 15000 school children - union

[TamilNet, Friday, 09 October 1998, 10:39 GMT]
At least 70 schools in the Vanni region have been either destroyed or closed down due to the Sri Lanka Army (SLA)'s ongoing 'Operation Jayasikurui', said the teachers union in Karathuraippattu, Kilinochchi district.
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New STF camps

[TamilNet, Friday, 09 October 1998, 10:35 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) has recently put up three new camps on the Maha Oya road in the Ampara district, according to residents. The new camps were put up at Pullukkunavi, Keliriyamaddu, 18th mile post at Aranthalavai.
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Youth arrested in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 1998, 20:36 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) rounded up the villages of Kudaththani, Manalkaadu and Vilankaadu in the south-eastern coast of Jaffna yesterday. The villagers were taken by the army to the Manalkaadu church and the Kudaththanai school where they were screened.
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MoD issues casualty figures

[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 1998, 13:20 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army said today that 975 officers and soldiers were killed or are missing in action when the Liberation Tigers overran the Kilinochchi base complex on September 28. The Operational Headquarters of the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a communiqué this afternoon giving a break down of the casualties.
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Jaffna fire-fight kills one

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 October 1998, 22:46 GMT]
A person suspected to be a member of the Liberation Tigers was shot dead in Erlalai in Jaffna yesterday when SLA troops opened fire on a group of persons who had lobbed a grenade into an army sentry in the area.
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