Police arrests council chairman

[TamilNet, Thursday, 24 September 1998, 11:30 GMT]
Ponnaiah Anton, chairman of the Chavakachcheri Pradheshiya Sabha (PS) who went missing with five of his colleagues following the shoot out between them and the SRi Lankan Army (SLA) on Tuesday September 22, surrendered to the Sri Lankan Police at Kodikaamam this morning around 9.30 p.m. said sources in Jaffna.
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Three killed in army fire

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 1998, 23:12 GMT]
Mannar magistrate, Mr. M. Ilancheliyan, ordered yesterday the cremation of the bodies of three people who were shot dead by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) at the 10th mile post in Uylankulam on September 19.
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More PLOTE members 'missing'

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 1998, 19:22 GMT]
The PLOTE issued a statement this evening saying that the chairman and five members of the Chavakachcheri Pradheshiya Sabha (PS) have gone missing after the SLA attacked its camp last evening.
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SLA operation in Vakarai

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 1998, 17:47 GMT]
The SLA conducted a limited operation from Vakarai today in the direction of Kathiraveli. A soldier was injured by an anti personnel mine blast during the advance which began around 9 a.m. this morning sources said.
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Three die of cholera

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 1998, 15:15 GMT]
Three civilians died of Cholera yesterday in the Liberation Tigers controlled hinterlands west of Valaichenai said medical sources in Batticaloa. All three were from the interior hamlet of Poolaakaadu; and according to preliminary reports, about hundred persons in the region may already be down with the epidemic.
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Council chairman reported missing

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 1998, 13:12 GMT]
PLOTE sources in Jaffna said today that the situation in the Chavakachcheri town continued to be tense today in the aftermath of the shoot out between their cadres and the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) last evening.
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Council member beaten, shot

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 September 1998, 19:03 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) severely assaulted and shot dead an Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) cadre this evening around 6 p.m. in Chavakachcheri in Jaffna following the clash with the PLOTE said a spokesman of the group in the north.
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Scrap SLAF base - council

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 September 1998, 18:54 GMT]
The Batticaloa Municipal council passed a unanimous resolution today demanding that the government should remove the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) base in the eastern town. The Council also unanimously condemned the move by the SLAF to close down the Alaiadichcholai cemetery, Sri Vigneswara school and the Hindu temple which are close to its base in the Batticaloa town.
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'Bouncing' mine kill soldier

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 September 1998, 18:52 GMT]
An SLA soldier in foot patrol was killed in Sangaththaanai in Jaffna around 8 a.m. this morning when an anti-personnel mine (APLM) blew up on him. SLA sources said that this APLM is new type that has been rarely used in Jaffna.
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SLA-PLOTE clash in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 22 September 1998, 15:32 GMT]
A PLOTE cadre was killed in a clash with the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) this afternoon in Chavakachcheri said sources in Jaffna. They said that two soldiers were wounded when the army and the PLOTE exchanged fire. The PLOTE office in Chavakachcheri was abandoned following the clash.
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EPDP leader identifies assailants

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 September 1998, 21:29 GMT]
Mr. Douglas Devananda, leader of the Eelam People Democratic Party (EPDP) pointed out six persons as his assailants at an identification parade today at the Kalutara magistrate court. The parade was held today in connection with the attack on him in the Kalutara maximum security prison on June 30.
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Postmistress arrested

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 September 1998, 21:27 GMT]
The assistant postmistress of the Sithaandy Post Office who was arrested by the Valaichenai Police on Saturday September 19 was taken to Kandy this morning for further investigations. Sithaandy is a large Tamil village about 22 kilometers north of Batticaloa patrolled by the SLA frequently to intercept the LTTE groups that ford the lagoon here.
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Key check post dismantled

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 September 1998, 21:25 GMT]
The military trained Police in Batticaloa removed a key check cum camp at the northern entrance of the eastern town today. The SLA and specially trained and equipped Police have maintained a strong position at Pillaiyaradi since Sri Lankan government forces moved into the Batticaloa town in late 1990 after fighting broke out between the army and the Liberation Tigers.
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Friendly fire kills two

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 September 1998, 21:23 GMT]
An SLA patrol near the Sithaandy temple shot dead two soldiers from its camp on Friday September 18 afternoon around 1.50 p.m. said informed sources. The patrol and the soldiers it mistook for Tigers were from the nearby SLA base at Morokkottaanchenai.
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Father identifies shot son's body

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 September 1998, 16:02 GMT]
A teenager who the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence claimed was a member of the Liberation Tigers in its press communiqué yesterday turned out to be a poverty stricken fisherman from the islet of Naasivanthivu on the outskirts of Valaichenai, 32 miles north of Batticaloa.
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Jaffna bus terminal searched on tip off

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 September 1998, 10:28 GMT]
The SLA rounded up the Jaffna main bus station and its environs this morning from 9 a.m to 9.30 a.m.
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Case over Chemmani arrest planned

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 September 1998, 18:50 GMT]
The President of the Missing Persons' Guardian Association (MPGA) of Jaffna will file a habeas Corpus for his son who went missing in 1996 in the Jaffna courts on Tuesday, September 22.
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Shot men were Tigers - state radio

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 September 1998, 18:39 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), the state run radio, said in its night news bulletin today at 9 p.m.said that the Sri Lankan Navy's gunboats had intercepted two Sea Tiger boats off the Trincomalee harbour.
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News in Brief

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 September 1998, 17:49 GMT]
The inaugural meeting of the New Jaffna Mothers' Front was held in Jaffna town today, search operation in Vadamaradchi east and three killed in Jaffna shootings.
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Another poster campaign in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 September 1998, 11:32 GMT]
Posters offering a reward for capturing the leader of the Liberation Tigers, Veluppillai Prabhaharan, dead or alive appeared in many parts of the Batticaloa town yesterday morning. They were issued in the name of an unknown organisation styling itself 'Peaceful Democratic Revolutionary Front'.
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