12 upcountry Tamils arrested in Matale

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 September 2008, 15:31 GMT]
Twelve Tamil youths who are residents of upcountry were arrested in a cordon and search operation conducted at Naula in Matale police division from Sunday evening till Monday. They are being detained in Naula police station for further inquiry, according to the Police.
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UN pulls staff from Vanni, aid workers fear 'bloodbath'

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 September 2008, 13:33 GMT]
United Nations staff have begun leaving Vanni this week after Sri Lanka’s government ordered aid workers out of the Tamil Tiger controlled region and told them to remove their equipment with them. The government move comes after the UN agencies said they were unable to advise civilians to vacate LTTE-controlled areas in compliance with a government directive to this effect. Over 160,000 people have been displaced in the past two months by Sri Lankan offensives and a humanitarian crisis is fast developing, aid workers said. And amid indiscriminate bombing and shelling, some aid workers are warning of an impending bloodbath.
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Tiger attack devastates Vanni SF HQ

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 September 2008, 07:25 GMT]
The joint attack carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) Air Tigers, artillery batteries and Black Tiger commandos, has devastated the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) and Sri Lanka Army (SLA) installations inside the Vanni Sri Lankan forces Headquarters, according to an informed military source in Vavuniyaa. According to officials figures, 11 Sri Lankan military and police personnel were killed and 33 wounded, including two Indian radar operators. Six civilians were also admitted at Vavuniyaa hospital with injuries.
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SLAF bombs school in Puthukkudiyiruppu town

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 September 2008, 06:29 GMT]
Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers that flew over Vanni as Black Tigers were engaged in causing destruction to Sri Lankan joint operations headquarters for Vanni in the early hours of Tuesday, bombed Puthukkudiyiruppu town, three times, with bombs that caused deep craters, according to TamilNet correspondent who visited the site. The bombers hit the premises of Sree Subramaniya Viththiyaalam school with bunker-busting bomb, where the Zonal Education Office for Mullaiththeevu zone, is also located. One house, four shops, a bookshop and a mill in the town also sustained damage in the attack. One civilian was wounded.
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Vanni SF HQ attacked

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 September 2008, 00:53 GMT]
The joint headquarters of the Sri Lankan forces in Vanni, situated in Vavuniyaa town, came under attack for more than 2 hours by the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) in the early hours of Tuesday. According to the casualty figures released by the Sri Lankan military sources, 9 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers, 2 Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) personnel and 1 policemen were killed and 26 wounded. At least 10 LTTE Black Tiger commandos had infiltrated into the Vanni headquarters of the SL forces, causing destruction to the military facilities. LTTE's aircrafts bombed the SF HQ of Vanni around 2:30 a.m., before the Black Tigers launched the attack. Vavuniyaa town is at standstill.
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SLA shelling kills farmer, injures another in Mullaiththeevu

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 September 2008, 15:49 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from its Ma’nalaa’ru base in Mullaiththeevu district launched heavy artillery and mortar fire targeting civilian settlements in Kumuzhamunai and Aa’rumukaththaan Ku’lam Monday around 4:15 a.m, killing a farmer and seriously injuring another while they were threshing paddy, sources in Mullaiththeevu said.
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Civilian wounded in SLA shelling in Karaichchi

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 September 2008, 11:10 GMT]
A 56-year old civilian was rushed to Ki'linochchi hospital with severe injuries Monday afternoon when Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops fired artillery shells towards Koa'naavil village in Karaichchi division of Ki'linochchi district. The SLA has also been continuing artillery barrage towards civilian settlements in Skanthapuram, Union-ku'lam, Gandhi Kiraamam, Oottuppulam and Puthumu'rippu in Karaichchi division of the district during nights after the SLA debacle in Vannearikku'lam.
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Paramilitary kills 60-year-old man in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 September 2008, 10:19 GMT]
A paramilitary unit operated by Iniyaparathy, a close associate of Karuna, shot and killed a 60-year-old relative of an LTTE commander Saturday night around 7:45, at Eruvil in Ka'luvaagnchikkudi, located between Batticaloa and Ampaa'rai, residents said.
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Paramilitary abducts civilian, sets fire to house in Akkaraippattu

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 September 2008, 12:42 GMT]
Armed men of paramilitary operative, Iniyapararathi, associated with Karuna, entered the residence of a civilian, identified as Mr. Vadivel at Akkaraippattu 7 in Ampaa'rai district on Friday and set fire to his house around 8:00 p.m. on Friday, residents said. In the meantime, another civilian, whom the residents identified as Mr. Moorthy, has been abducted in the early hours of Friday allegedly by the paramilitary.
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Police, homeguards detain 9 Tamils in Colombo

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 September 2008, 11:34 GMT]
Nine Tamil civilians, including two women, were taken into custody Friday morning in a cordon and search operation conducted in Wellawatte area in Colombo district. The operation commenced Thursday evening and concluded Friday morning, sources said.
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SLA Claymore attack kills civilian in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 September 2008, 16:08 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Deep Penetration Unit troops triggered three Claymore mines Friday around 3:45 p.m killing a civilian and injuring another as they were riding on a motorcycle in Kurichuddaku’lam in Vavuniya district, sources in Vavuniyaa said.
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Tissainayagam, PTA, and Humanitarian Crisis in Vanni

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 September 2008, 11:45 GMT]
The action taken by the Sri Lankan Government to indict Tissainayagam, for stating the truth and exercising the right of fair comment he enjoys as a journalist, make it impossible for any dissent from the governments point of view to be published by the press in Sri Lanka. Tissainayagam is the first journalist to be caught up under the Draconian twins, the Prevention of Terrorism Act No:48 of 1979 (PTA) as amended, and the Emergency Regulations (EMR).
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Tamil civilian shot dead in Puththa'lam

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 September 2008, 09:54 GMT]
Unidentified armed men on motorcycle forcibly entering the house of a Tamil civilian Friday early morning, shot and killed him, at Aa’ndimunai, Udappu in Munthal police division in Puththa’lam district, according to the complaint lodged with Munthal police by the victim’s relatives.
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Tamil civilian shot dead in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 September 2008, 09:50 GMT]
Unidentified armed men shot dead a forty-five-year old Tamil civilian in his house at Pampaimadu in Vavuniyaa Thursday night, Vavuniyaa police said.
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SLA Claymore attack injures civilian in Nedungkea’ni

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 September 2008, 05:44 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Deep Penetration Unit troops triggered four Claymore mines Thursday around 1:30 p.m targeting a tractor on its way to transport coconuts from Nedungkea’ni, injuring a civilian in the tractor, sources in Vavuniyaa said. All four Claymore mines had exploded.
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Silence of IC indelible for Tamil memory - Fr. Emmanuel

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 September 2008, 13:15 GMT]
"The roles played by the major powers in overlooking the state terrorism and human rights violations of the Sri Lankan state, will stay permanent in the Tamil memory for ever," said Rev. Prof. Dr. S.J. Emmanuel, the former Vicar General of Vanni region, in an open letter from Germany, reacting to the silence of the International Community to the unfolding catastrophe of civilian sufferings in the districts of Mullaiththeevu and Ki'linochchi, overcrowded with IDPs seeking protection from the atrocities of the Sri Lankan forces. His statement comes as Sri Lanka Army's artillery shells reached Ki'iinochchi in the early hours of Thursday.
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SLA advance repulsed, army body recovered in Ma'nalaa'ru - LTTE

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 September 2008, 09:18 GMT]
Heavy fighting ensued Wednesday in Ma'nalaa'ru (Weii Oya) when the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) advanced in the Ceylon Theater front. Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) officials said Thursday that their forces repulsed the move, seized arms and ammunitions from the SLA and recovered a dead body of a Sri Lankan soldier in the clearing operation that followed.
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Claymore attack in Jaffna kills SLA soldier

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 03 September 2008, 16:45 GMT]
Unknown persons triggered a Claymore device killing a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldier and injuring several others Wednesday around 1:00 p.m at Kappooothu area in Charasaalai, Thenmaraadchi. The attack targeted a SLA vehicle transporting soldiers from Kanakam Pu’liyadi Chanththi SLA camp to Kappoothu SLA camp along Chaavakachcheari-Point Pedro main road, sources in Chaavakachcheri said. Meanwhile, a beheaded body of a civilian was found in the very same area Wednesday morning, the sources added.
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SLA artillery fire injures fisherman in Vadamaraadchi

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 03 September 2008, 09:33 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) launched heavy artillery fire Wednesday around 5:20 a.m targeting civilian settlements in Vadamaraadchi East injuring a fisherman in Vaththaraayan area besides causing damage to huts, fishing boats, nets and other equipments, sources in Vadamaraadchi said.
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1200 Tamils languishing under custody in Western Province - SL Minister

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 September 2008, 14:35 GMT]
Upcountry Peoples Front (UPF) parliamentarian and a deputy minister in Mahinda Rajapaksa's government, P. Rathakrishnan, has compiled a report with details of around 1,200 Tamil youths of both sexes, languishing in the detention centres and prisons in South after being arrested in Colombo and its suburbs recently. Mr. Rathakrishnan has told media that he would demand the advisory committee of the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry to expedite the inquiries against the detainees and the police to ensure that innocent Tamil civilians are not harmed when enforcing 'law and order.'
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