Tigers intended ship as bait - paper

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Thinamurasu, the Tamil weekly with the largest circulation in Sri Lanka, said in this week's issue which hit the news stands in Colombo this morning, that the LTTE ship that was bombed and sunk by the Sri Lankan airforce on Sunday appears to be the vessel that went missing with the cargo of 81mm mortar shells meant for the Sri Lankan army from the Zimbabwe Defence Industries.
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Tigers name troops killed in ship attack

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers, the official radio of the LTTE announced today in the Vanni that fourteen Liberation Tigers were killed in the SLAF attack on a cargo ship off the Mullaithivu coast on Sunday.
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Budget meant to woo Sinhala electorate

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Tamil MPs said this evening that the PA's budget presented in the Sri Lankan Parliament today by Deputy minister for finance Prof. G.L Pieris appeared to have been prepared with the next general election or at the non-binding referendum in mind.
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Tamil man dies in police custody

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 04 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Seevarathnam Sivarasa who was arrested in Vavuniya and detained at the Mt. Lavinia Police station in Colombo in connection with the discovery of weapons allegedly belonging to the LTTE in Ratmalana died last night in the Colombo general hospital.
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SLAF Bombed Abandoned Ship - Paper

[TamilNet, Monday, 03 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers, the official radio of the LTTE, quoting Eelanatham, the Tamil daily published in the Vanni, announced this morning that the vessel which the Sri Lankan airforce hit and sunk yesterday was a cargo ship that lay abandoned off the Mullaithivu coast for some time.
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SLAF claims it hit Tiger arms vessel

[TamilNet, Sunday, 02 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Airforce claimed today that they detected and desroyed a large ship which it suspected of belonging to the Liberation Tigers off the coast of Mullaithivu in the early hours of the morning today.
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SL navy disrupts temple opening

[TamilNet, Sunday, 02 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Kumbaphishekam of the reconstructed Shiva temple in Karainagar has been postponed due to the restrictions imposed on the transport of goods and because of the severe checking to which the Sri Lanka Navy subjects outsiders entering the island.
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TULF leader defends Chandrika

[TamilNet, Sunday, 02 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
TULF leader Mr. M. Sivasithamparam came under fire for attempting to justify the actions of President Chandrika Kumaranatunge in a television program in which he appeared this afternoon.
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More News in Brief

[TamilNet, Saturday, 01 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
UN team to remove Jaffna land mines? and last doctor told to quit.
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Girl attempts suicide after rape

[TamilNet, Friday, 31 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A girl who was abducted and found the next day near her house tied up and unconscious in Nayanmarkaddu in Jaffna recently was admitted to hospital on Wednesday Oct.29 after attempting to commit suicide by consuming a large quantity of kerosene.
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Thousands at Jaffna peace rally

[TamilNet, Friday, 31 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The peace rally in the Jaffna town organised by the Jaffna Diocese Committee for Peace and Justice which began around 4.30 p.m. today drew more than seven thousand people. Sources said this was unprecedented since the SLA moved in two years ago.
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Sri Lanka plans 'non binding' referendum

[TamilNet, Thursday, 30 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Government sources revealed today that plans are afoot to hold the 'non-binding referendum' in March or April next year. The elections to the provincial councils are also due around this time.
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Sterilisation being used to reduce Tamil population

[TamilNet, Thursday, 30 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A major program to systematically and radically reduce the Tamil population in Sri Lanka's plantation sector is secretly but effectively being carried out with state assistance and misdirected foreign aid. The Tamils in the hills of Sri Lanka where most of its tea and rubber grow are being subjected to large scale sterilisation which contravenes customary rules and law elsewhere in the island.
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Jaffna church plans protest rally

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 29 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Jaffna Diocese Committee for Peace and Justice will hold a large rally and prayer meeting in Jaffna town on Friday Oct.31, said Catholic church sources in the Jaffna peninsula today.
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Jaffna coastal villages no-go areas: SLA

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 29 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The citizens committee of Ariyalai in Jaffna made an appeal to the Sri Lankan military to lift the ban on the movement of people in several parts of the area - mainly along the coast.
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Paris assassinations remain unsolved

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 28 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Last Sunday was the first anniversary of the killings of two Eelam activists in Paris. Mr. Kandiah Perinpanathan, head of the LTTE's financial section and Mr. Kandiah Gajendran, the editor of the Tamil weekly "Eelamurasu" were gunned down in cold blood by an unknown assailant on a busy Paris sidewalk. To date, the investigations have not yielded any publicly known results.
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Canadian Immigration Law 'undemocratic'

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 28 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
On 18 October 1995, Mr. Suresh Manickavasagam was detained by the Canadian Immigration authorities, following the issuance of a security certificate against him. Mr. Manickavasagam, a Tamil refugee, was deemed a person inadmissible into Canada, under the Immigration Law. This controversial law has been criticized as 'undemocratic' and 'draconian' by international human rights and refugee organizations, including Amnesty International and the Canadian council for Refugees.
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SLA denies local Tamils access to water

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 28 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The people of Suppar Madam in Pt. Pedro are faced severe hardships in finding fresh water for drinking after the SLA recently prohibited them from drawing water from the well in the Hartley College compound.
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Tamils demonstrate at CHOGM

[TamilNet, Monday, 27 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Over a thousand Tamil people demonstrated in Edinburgh on Saturday during the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM), which was attended by the Sri Lankan President. Tamil cultural shows were given at a custom built marquee and a vigil was held outside the conference centre.
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Tamil student dies after ragging

[TamilNet, Monday, 27 October 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The first year Tamil engineering student of Peradeniya University who had a kidney failure recently following severe ragging by senior students died last night in a hospital in Colombo.
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