SLA shells land near school

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army at the Vavunathivu camp northwest of the Batticaloa town fired mortar and artillery this afternoon in the direction of the Paduvankarai region which is controlled by the LTTE.
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Search operation in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Two suburbs of the Batticaloa town on the western edge of the Sri Lankan airforce base were cordoned off and searched by the Razeek group and the Police in the early hours of the morning around 5 p.m. today.
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SLAF says LTTE camp bombed

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan MoD claimed in the afternoon today that the SLAF had bombed out an LTTE camp in an area north of Mankulam in the Vanni around 11 a.m. this morning. The incident could not be verified independently.
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SLA orders Tamil homage to lion flag

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army commander of the Punnaalaikadduvan area in Jaffna has instructed all school principals there to hoist the lion flag before prayers in the morning. The commander had observed that no school in the area flew the lion flag even on special occasions. The practice stopped more than two decades ago in Jaffna.
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Search operation in Valigamam

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army cordoned off and searched Vaddukkodai, Tholpuram and Sittankerni in the Valigamam sector in the early hours of the morning today.
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SLA informer shot dead

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A youth identified as 'Jeya' was shot dead in a suburb of Batticaloa this evening around 5.30 p.m. Sources said he had been operating with the Sri Lankan army's military intelligence unit in the Batticaloa town.
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SLN fire on their allies

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Navy fired on a EPDP boat that was on its way to the Neduthivu island yesterday, wounding five members of the organisation.
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Tamil mother shot in revenge

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A fifty two year old woman was shot and seriously wounded by a Sri Lankan soldier last evening around 6.30 p.m. at Mirisuvil in the Thenmaradchi sector in Jaffna.
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Abandoned SLA shell wounds three

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Three boys who picked up an abandoned SLA shell while playing were wounded when it blew up on them this afternoon around 11.30 a.m. at Potpathy road in Kokkuvil Jaffna.
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Tigers move to halt porn theatres

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers in Jaffna have sent out letters to operators of mini-theatres in Jaffna not to screen obscene movies.
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Eastern SLA braces for Maveerer week

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Security measures in Batticaloa town and its outskirts are being further increased for the Maveerar week.
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Grenade attacks rock Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A spate of grenade attacks rocked Vavuniya town today. A grenade was lobbed at the Telecommunication building at around 3.30 this afternoon and 15 minutes later another exploded near Mannar road.
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SLAF jets kill 3 civilians

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
At least three civilians are said to have been killed and nine others wounded when Sri Lankan air force jets bombed Pooneryn in the north of the Vanni on Thursday at noon.
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SLA jeep destroyed

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Two Sri Lankan army soldiers were killed on the spot when the jeep they were traveling in ran over a powerful pressure mine this morning at Paranthan, in the north of the Vanni region.
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SLA restricts access to temple

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sri Lankan Army turned back large number of devotees who went to the daily noon pooja (service) at the Maviddapuram Kandaswamy temple today. The SLA officials said that only the priest and two of his assistants would be allowed to conduct the pooja today.
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SLA informant shot dead

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A suspected 'pistol group' of the Liberation Tigers operating in the Vavuniya town struck again yesterday, killing a youth identified as Thurai.
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Civilian movements restricted

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army continued to tighten up travel restrictions at the entry points to the Paduvankarai region (the vast western hinterland) in the Batticaloa district, which is under the LTTE's control for the Maveerar week.
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SLA detains 3 civilians

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Three civilians who went to see their house and property in Barathipuram near the forward defence localities of the SLA's Kilinochchi base on Tuesday 18. November have been detained by the Sri Lankan Army.
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Tiger attacks in Jaffna continue

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers attacked the defences of the Sri Lankan army's 52-4 Brigade in Chavakachcheri around 9.30 p.m. last night. Heavy fighting took place for more than an hour in the area.
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News In Brief

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A time bomb was discovered behind the Batticaloa main post office today, one STF commando was killed in the Ampara district and one civilian was killed and two were wounded in a mine explosion in Jaffna .
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