Tamils denied employment generation projects

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The massive unemployment problem among the Tamil youth in the war ravaged North-eastern province of Sri Lanka was brought into focus again today as applications piled up for seventy five vacancies for minor staff in the schools of the Batticaloa district.
Full story >>

SLN plundering Tamil catches

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The culinary and business inclinations of the Sri Lankan navy have hit the poor fishermen of Eluvaithivu below the belt as it were. Each of the hundred and fifty fishermen in this small island which lies south west of the Jaffna peninsula have to regularly supply the Sri Lankan navy 10 kilograms of lobster.
Full story >>

Tiger attacks in Jaffna continue

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A fire fight broke out between the Liberation Tigers and a Sri Lankan army patrol around 5.30 a.m. in the morning today at Sangaththanai in Chavakachcheri in the Jaffna peninsula.
Full story >>

Victory less assured

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan military's largest military operation is 6 months old today. The much vaunted Operation 'Jaya Sikirui' ('Victory Assured' in Sinhalese) was launched on 13 May 1997, with the stated aim of opening a supply route to the SLA's Jaffna garrison, isolated by a broad swath of LTTE held territory. However things are not going as planned.
Full story >>

Sinister data gathering program underway

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
All Tamil employees of Sri Lanka's ports authority from the Batticaloa and Ampara districts have come under Police scrutiny through a curious system of investigation which has alarmed many in these parts.
Full story >>

Tamil civilians assaulted

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
All civilians who went past the Muththirai junction in Jaffna after 7 p.m. last night were severely assaulted by the SL army.
Full story >>

Police sabotage rape trial, threaten MP

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Koneswary rape and murder case was postponed again today at the Kalmunai courts this afternoon as an Assistant superintendent of Police failed to turn up due to "unavoidable circumstances".
Full story >>

SLA commander predicts easy victory - again

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Recently the Sri Lankan army commander, Major General Rohan Daluwatte said that victory was imminent in Eelam War III. However, General Daluwatte's assessment of the war has not always been entirely accurate.
Full story >>

SLAF say missile brought gunship down

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The SLAF confirmed that a missile fired by the Liberation Tigers brought down the Mi 24 helicopter gunship over the Kokkilai lagoon.
Full story >>

STF using Tamil children as human shields

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Vigneswara Vithiyalayam is a small school in the 13th colony near the Batticaloa- Ampara border. Children from poor farming families who study here have been forced by the Special Task Force which occupies part of the school to be its human shield.
Full story >>

Tamil youth reported missing

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Eelanatham, the only Tamil daily published in the LTTE controlled Vanni region said today that a youth who went to see the house and garden of his family in Konthakkaran Kulam two kilometers west of Omanthai on Thursday Nov. 6 has been reported missing since then.
Full story >>

Love affair ends in suicides and arrests

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A love affair ended in the suicide of a Tamil girl and a Sri Lankan soldier this morning in Velanai in Jaffna.
Full story >>

Parents fear for missing Tamil youth

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Pathmanathan Sri Kumaran, 22, of Thinnevely in Jaffna has been reported missing since last evening.
Full story >>

Tamils seeking help gets political lecture

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The EPDP held a public meeting in Paashaiyur to explain their stand on the government's devolution package to the people.
Full story >>

High Tamil infant mortality rate being induced?

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Colombo based Tamil groups have protested against the preference shown by the government to Sinhalese candidates in the appointment of midwives to the northeast.
Full story >>

SLA opening alternative supply route?

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sources in Vavuniya said today that the Operation Jayasikurui is now aimed at securing the old Kandy road to Kilinochchi. They said that the army is currently building a highway which begins from the Sinhala village east of Vavuniya called Maamaduwa.
Full story >>

Batticaloa Council demands use of Tamil

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Batticaloa Municipal Council passed a resolution that all entries made at the Sri Lankan Police stations in the Batticaloa district should be recorded in Tamil.
Full story >>

Sinhala colonisation threatens Muslims

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Irakkamam, an old Muslim settlement in the Ampara district is threatened with Sinhala colonisation backed by the Sri Lankan army which has been encroaching into its environs since 1990. Several community leaders and educated youth of the village have spoken against this and written to the Tamil press about the imminent danger they face from Singha Gama - the Sinhala settlement that has sprung up nearby in recent years.
Full story >>

Search operation in eastern province

[TamilNet, Friday, 07 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army and police conducted a joint cordon and search operation in the Tamil villages in Vallaichenai in the eastern province from 1.30 this afternoon. The operation continued for several hours.
Full story >>

LTTE challenges US designation

[TamilNet, Friday, 07 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The LTTE has challenged the US State department's designation as a 'terrorist' organization, according to one of its lawyers. The LTTE has formally filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington,D.C. said Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran.
Full story >>