Kalutara Tamil prisoners will stay - G.L Pieris

[TamilNet, Monday, 15 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
It was decided at a high level meeting convened by Prof. G.L Pieris this morning that Tamil political prisoners will not be transferred from the Kalutara jail where three of them were massacred and more than seven wounded on December 12.
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Eastern schools seen shielding SLA camps

[TamilNet, Sunday, 14 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
On his way to school Ram 12, was stopped by a group of Sri Lankan soldiers in front of his school. They asked him to open his bag and show them its contents. The books were thrown down. The bag was empty. There was nothing inside. He was then allowed to go.
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Six SLA troops killed - radio

[TamilNet, Saturday, 13 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VOT) said in its night news bulletin today that Liberation Tigers ambushed a group of SLA soldiers travelling in a tractor between Olumadu and Keerisudan by blasting a claymore mine around 1.30 p.m yesterday.
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Search operation follows Jaffna attack

[TamilNet, Friday, 12 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army cordoned off and searched Navalady, Malusandi, Alwai and Vathiri from the early of this morning until about 11 a.m.
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Jaffna officials refuse election duties

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Election officials at the Jaffna Kachcheri have informed Sri Lanka's commissioner of Elections that they will not be able to undertake any duty in the forthcoming local government elections in the peninsula.
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New doctors set terms for N-E duty

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Seventy five doctors who completed their internship and were posted to hospitals in the northern and eastern provinces have refused to take up duties.
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Tiger shell Olumadu SLA position

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sri Lankan army sources said this morning that one soldier was killed and four wounded when the Liberation Tigers shelled the Forward Defence Localities of Op. Jayasikurui at Olumadu which is three kilometers east of Mankulam on the road to Mullaithivu through Ottisuddan.
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Shot youth tried to grab weapon: SLA

[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army handed over to the Jaffna hospital the body of a youth this afternoon claiming that it belonged to a member of the Liberation Tigers. The identity of the youth has not been established.
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Elderly woman held over scenic prints

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sellaiah Thavamanithevi, a sixty year old Tamil woman, was arrested on Dec. 6 at Muthiraichanthi near Jaffna town
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Seven Tigers killed in Vanni clashes

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers said this morning that there were confrontations between the Liberation Tigers and the SLA at Kankarayan Kulam and Karuppatta Murippu yesterday.
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A luxury they cannot afford

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
"The soldiers set upon the pregnant woman. As one of them stripped her naked, she screamed. The second sliced her belly with a sword. She fell down, blood spurting out. They cut her breasts and finally her throat. She rolled into the pit. Then came the turn of the second woman, also pregnant".
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Round up in Batticaloa town

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Batticaloa market was rounded up last evening around 4.30 p.m. by the Sri Lankan Police and its much feared Counter Subversive Unit (CSU).
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Colombo defences reorgainsed

[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The city of Colombo will soon have an unprecedented special security system which will be managed by the army, Navy and Police in a unified command under an Overall Operations Commander, Sri Lankan Defence Ministry sources said today.
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ICRC to assist Jaffna exam process

[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Dept. of Education in Jaffna has made arrangements for GCE. O.L students who had sent in their application from the Vanni, Colombo and some other parts of the island where they had been displaced at that time, to sit for the exam this month in Jaffna.
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Tiger fighter killed in Thirukovil

[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A confrontation between the Liberation Tigers and the Sri Lankan army was reported near Thirukovil on Friday. The Liberation Tigers announced that one of their members called Sathyaseelan (Kandaswamy Uthayakumar) was killed in the confrontation.
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Pandimadu refugees arrested

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army in the Valaichenai fishing harbour detachment 20 miles north of the Batticaloa town rounded up all the inmates of the Pandimadu refugee camp which is about two kilometers east of Valaichenai town and herded them, including women and children, to the harbour premises for interrogation.
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Mannakulam survivors returned

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sources close to the SLA said today that the Mannakulam counterattack by the LTTE was one of the greatest setbacks for the Sri Lankan army in the island's separatist war for this was the first time so many of its elite commandos have been killed.
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LTTE - SLA clash

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers attacked the SLA in Madduvil in Jaffna around 8.30 a.m. this morning. The army claims that it killed one LTTE fighter identified as Seelan in this shootout on the Madduvil Sivan Kovil road.
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School teacher shot dead

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A school teacher identified as S. Raveenthiran was shot dead by the SLA in Kaithady in Jaffna last night around 9.30 p.m. The Chavakachcheri Police brought his body to the Jaffna hospital mortuary today claiming that it was that of an LTTE activist.
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New SLA thrust repulsed - radio

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers said this morning that the Liberation Tigers had beaten back a fresh massive two pronged thrust by the Jayasikurui troops yesterday, killing more than one hundred Sri Lankan army soldiers.
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