Police arrest Jaffna couple

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 September 1998, 10:52 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Police at Kankesanthurai (KKS) produced a young couple accused of being members of the LTTE in the Jaffna district courts yesterday.
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Krishanthi accused fears for life

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 September 1998, 03:41 GMT]
SLA Corporal Somaratna Rajapaksa, the first accused in the Krishanthy Kumaraswamy rape and murder case, appealed to prison authorities that he be tranferred to the Bogambara prison in Kandy as he fears for his life at the Welikada jail in Colombo.
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Eleven arrested during round up

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 September 1998, 23:14 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) arrested a youth who attempted to take cyanide during an extensive round up in the heart of Pt. Pedro town in Jaffna yesterday. Ten persons were arrested from the civilians who had been herded into the town centre after the youth was taken away.
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Razeek group leads Batticaloa's organised crime

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 September 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The Razeek group, the much-dreaded Tamil unit of the Sri Lankan army (SLA) in Batticaloa, is fast expanding into a business organization - at considerable cost to the local community, say sources.
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Jaffna facing severe rice shortage

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 September 1998, 23:02 GMT]
More than seventy percent of Jaffna's rice fields may have to lie fallow due to the unavailability of seed paddy from the southern parts of the island, said sources in the peninsula this afternoon.
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SL Police fire on hindu festival

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 September 1998, 23:00 GMT]
A young girl was killed and an eight year old boy seriously wounded when military trained Sri Lankan Police opened fire indiscriminately on devotees at a Hindu temple festival in Kondayankerni, near Valaichenai,32 kilometers north of Batticaloa last night around 9.30 p.m.
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Harsh measures imposed on Vanni displaced

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 September 1998, 17:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan government (SLG) announced today that dry rations for refugees in the Vanni would be provided only if there is proof that the slashed quota of supplies it sent for June and July have been fully distributed.
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Army fires artillery at sea

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 September 1998, 14:10 GMT]
The SLA at Vettilaikerni launched an artillery barrage in the direction of the sea last night said residents in nearby fishing villages. The artillery guns had opened up about 10.30 p.m. and had fired until 11.15 they said.
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Civilian movement restricted

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 September 1998, 06:39 GMT]
The Sri Lankan security forces banned the movement of civilians from the Akkaraippattu, Thirukkovil and Pottuvil areas in the south eastern part of the Ampara district to the Kanjikudichcha Aaron jungles yesterday.
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Meeting over evictions inconclusive

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 September 1998, 20:28 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) said today that it might consider a request to permit the beleaguered residents of Linga Nagar in Trincomalee town to thatch their roofs torn off by soldiers on August 9, 1998.
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Differing claims over dead man

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 September 1998, 20:17 GMT]
Sri Lankan Police in Chunnakam handed over to the Jaffna hospital this afternoon the body of an old man identified as Kandaiah Thambaiah who it claimed was killed in the crossfire of a clash between the SLA and the Tigers this morning in Punnalaikkattuwan.
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Kilinochchi SLA thrust repulsed - VoT

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 September 1998, 17:32 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio announced in its night broadcast today that the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) had attempted to thrust out from its positions in Kilinochchi and Paranthan this morning around 9 a.m. The radio said that the Tigers had beaten back the SLA's twin offensive and destroyed a main battle tank (MBT).
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President Chandrika to address NAM summit

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 September 1998, 13:07 GMT]
Sri Lanka's President, Chandrika Kumarathunghe, left the island on Monday to take part in the 12th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in South Africa.
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Batticaloa rickshaw owners protest

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 September 1998, 23:04 GMT]
All autorickshaw owners in Batticaloa town went on strike today to protest against a move by the local branch of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to promote a new association against theirs.
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Uthayan journalist assaulted over report

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 August 1998, 18:02 GMT]
A Tamil journalist in Jaffna was severely assaulted by unidentified persons, suspected to be members of the local council (Pradeshiya Sabha) on Saturday night at his residence in Sembianpattu in Vadamaradchi east said his colleagues in Jaffna.
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Torture victim pursued into church

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 August 1998, 17:54 GMT]
A severely tortured Tamil youth who sought asylum in the Rambaikulam St. Anthony's church in Vavuniya while a mass was in progress was taken away by the Sri Lankan Police who were threatened by his captors - a Tamil paramilitary group operating with the SLA. Rambaikulam is a suburb of Vavuniya town.
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No increase in flights to Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 August 1998, 17:43 GMT]
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence (MoD) told the Anti-Harassment Committee today that it cannot increase the number of civilian flights to the northern Jaffna peninsula to help ease the hardships faced by travellers in securing seats.
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SLA operation in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 August 1998, 17:39 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) launched an operation code named Ran Handa (Golden Voice) in Mutur, in the southern part of Trincomalee, this morning. Troops from the SLA's base in the large interior Tamil village of Kattaiparichchan south east of Mutur moved into Samboor three kilometers further east in the same region.
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Tamil family from Canada arrested

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 August 1998, 13:03 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Police arrested a Tamil family from Canada this morning in the island's northwestern town of Puttalam, allegedly for video photographing the telecommunications tower in the area.
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UNP's legal challenge over polls

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 August 1998, 12:44 GMT]
Sri Lanka's main opposition party, the UNP, will begin legal proceedings against the PA government this week to challenge the constitutional validity of postponing elections to the provincial councils said party sources today.
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