Madhu refugee clearance underway

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 May 1999, 10:53 GMT]
Two hundred of the ten thousand displaced persons who had sought refuge at the Madhu Church Open Relief Centre (ORC) have been sent back for resettlement in Jaffna.
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Every sacrifice will be made - TELO

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 May 1999, 09:57 GMT]
The conflict between PLOTE and TELO is not about tax, it is about power, said Mr Sri Kanthaa, ex MP for Jaffna district and TELO's Political Adviser yesterday, while addressing the gathering at the funeral of Kugan, a TELO senior member and the district military leader for Vavuniya, yesterday.
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TELO funeral in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 May 1999, 08:49 GMT]
The funeral of Kugan, the TELO central committee member and district military leader, took place in Vavuniya today.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 May 1999, 17:40 GMT]
Vavuniya traders in unenviable position and A towel was found in the diesel tank of locomotive engine connected to the Yarl Devi express train bound for Vavuniya.
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Red Cross official's detention extended

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 May 1999, 13:15 GMT]
The Colombo Magistrate yesterday granted a request by the police to detain Mr. Sivananthan Kishore, a Red Cross official, for a further 3 months.
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Youth commits suicide

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 May 1999, 13:12 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Police said that a suspected member of the Liberation Tigers committed suicide by swallowing cyanide at Brown's Building check point on the Vavuniya-Jaffna Road at around noon today.
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Bomb blast destroys PLOTE office

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 May 1999, 03:52 GMT]
A powerful bomb exploded at the PLOTE's office at Poonthoddam, 2 km north-east of Vavuniya town around 5 a.m. this morning. The building was destroyed in the explosion. No one was injured.
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Weapons recovered from paramilitary groups

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 May 1999, 20:06 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army has today recovered weapons from the paramilitary groups The People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) in Vavuniya, sources said.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 May 1999, 17:04 GMT]
Two LTTE casualties - VoT; Youths shot at while fishing & Two sisters arrested in Akkaraipattu.
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PLOTE denies involvement in Colombo killings

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 May 1999, 18:45 GMT]
The central committee of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) has denied the allegations that the group was behind the killing of the senior TELO cadres in Colombo yesterday.
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Four shot dead in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 May 1999, 10:21 GMT]
Four young men have been killed in various places in Vavuniya last night, Polices in the northern town said. Ex-militant sources said the killings are deemed to be connected to the ongoing clashes between the paramilitary groups, the TELO and PLOTE, over the past six months.
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Senior TELO members shot dead in Colombo

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 May 1999, 16:13 GMT]
Three members of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), including two senior members, were shot dead in Bambalapitiya, a suburb of the capital Colombo around 6.45 p.m. today.
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Body washes ashore in Batticaloa lagoon

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 May 1999, 14:53 GMT]
The body of an unidentified youth washed ashore in the Vavunathivu lagoon in the eastern district of Batticaloa this morning. Local fishermen found the body that was in a highly decomposed state.
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Resettlement plans for Madhu refugees

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 May 1999, 10:21 GMT]
The Army Chief of Staff and the Commander for the Vanni region, Major GeneralLionel Balagalle, told local reporters yesterday that the army is making arrangements to establish civil administration in areas of the Vanni recently captured by the SLA. He said several military officials have been appointed for the purpose.
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Heavy fighting reported in the Vanni

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 May 1999, 23:04 GMT]
Heavy fighting has been reported between the Liberation Tigers and the Sri Lanka Army in the Paalampiddy and Periyamadhu areas since last night, said sources in the northern town of Vavuniya.
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NGO official suspects government intentions

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 May 1999, 21:59 GMT]
Ervin Bulathsinhala, the Secretary General of the Sri Lanka Red Cross, saidat a press conference today that the Red Cross needed the assistance of the government, the public and the mass media in order to carry out its humanitarian work.
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Navy opens fire on fishermen

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 May 1999, 21:55 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) shot at two fishermen off the Pesalai coast this morning, said sources. Thirunaavukarasu Mariyadas (46) and Pethuru Yesu Pavaliyappar (35) are from Thevanpiddy, a fishing village near Vellaankulam in the LTTE held areas of the areas of the Vanni.
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Grenade lobbed at TELO camp

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 May 1999, 10:21 GMT]
Two men on a motorcycle lobbed a grenade at the TELO camp on Kurumankaadu Temple Road in Vavuniya, at around 12.40 p.m. today, said sources.
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Exchange of bodies through ICRC

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 May 1999, 17:24 GMT]
(CORRECTION) The Liberation Tigers and the Sri Lanka Army exchanged the bodies of soldiers killed in action through the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Man shot dead in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 May 1999, 16:05 GMT]
An unidentified man of about 25 years was shot dead by the Police at the outer circular road near the Chinthaamani Pillayar Kovil in Vavuniya town at around 11.40 am today.
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