Five PLOTE members arrested in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 February 1999, 12:13 GMT]
Vavuniya Magistrate, S.Thiyagenthiran, remanded in custody five PLOTE members till February 23 today.
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Man killed in para military feud

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 February 1999, 11:04 GMT]
A man connected with the para - military group, PLOTE, was shot dead when his van was attacked by the TELO this morning.
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Wounded civilian dies at hospital

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 February 1999, 04:46 GMT]
A civilian by stander, Krishnapillai Rajkumar, 29 of Nelliady in Jaffna, who was wounded when the PLOTE attacked and killed three members of the TELO at Kurumankaadu junction in Vavuniya yesterday died at the Anuradhapura hospital last night said Police sources.
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Thirteen Tigers killed in sea battle -VoT

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 February 1999, 04:44 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers announced in the Vanni this morning that 13 Sea Tigers were killed yesterday around 5.30 a.m. in a mid sea battle with the Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) near the island of Kachchathivu, north west of Jaffna, close to the Indian maritime zone.
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PLOTE blamed for TELO killings

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 February 1999, 17:52 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Police detained the vehicle of a Sri Lankan Muslim Congrss (SLMC) member of the Vavuniya Urban Council (UC) tonight in connection with the killing of three TELO members at Kurumankaadu junction, by the PLOTE earlier this evening.
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Stranded displaced to fast in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 February 1999, 17:49 GMT]
Displaced people from Jaffna who are stranded in Vavuniya launched a one day fasting campaign opposite the Government Agent's Office today urging officials to make arrangements for a passenger ship to take them back to their homes in the peninsula.
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Three TELO cadres killed

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 February 1999, 14:43 GMT]
Three members of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) were killed and another wounded when a van they were travelling in was attacked by unidentified gunmen around 7 p.m. today at Kururmankaadu, a suburb junction 2 km. west of Vavuniya town.
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CVF member wounded

[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 February 1999, 19:41 GMT]
A member of Civilian Volunteer Force (CVF), D.Sivakumary (26), was shot by unidentified gunmen at Thekkankaadu, 2 km south of Vavuniya along the Kandy trunk road this evening. She had been transferred to Anuradhapura, after being admitted to Vavuniya hospital.
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Wounded student dies at hospital

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 February 1999, 11:35 GMT]
Christopher Chrishanthan, member of the PLOTE's student organisation, who was shot at by unidentified gunmen at Vairavapuliyankulam in Vavuniya yesterday died at the Anuradhapura hospital around midnight last night.
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PLOTE's student wing cadre wounded

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 February 1999, 19:38 GMT]
A member of the PLOTE's student organisation was shot and critically wounded by unidentified assailants in a suburb of Vavuniya tonight around 9 p.m. PLOTE sources in Vavuniya said that the youth, Christopher Chrishanthan, 17, was walking along the railway tracks towards the Vavuniya Urban Council quarters when he had been waylaid and shot.
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SLA hands over three bodies

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 February 1999, 18:42 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) sent the bodies of three Tigers through the ICRC to the LTTE's main office in the vanni today. One of the three died when he took cyanide during a round up by the SLA at Koomankulam, a suburb of Vavuniya yesterday.
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New public sector appointments

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 February 1999, 18:38 GMT]
The North-East province Governor has appointed a retired Director of Education as the Commissioner of the newly created Examination Unit in the Provincial Public Service Commission.
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Police holding MSR request transfer

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 February 1999, 15:07 GMT]
More than ten thousand Sri Lankan Policemen deployed in 12 sectors on the A9 highway between Vavuniya and Kanakaraayan Kulam have petitioned the Inspector General of Police and Police department's appeals board seeking their immediate transfer.
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Father commits suicide

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 February 1999, 00:34 GMT]
A father of seven children, who had been displaced frm Nainamadu inNedunkerni area and sought refuge at Paalinagar A in Vavunikulam, committed suicide today, said aid workers in the Vanni. Suppiah Amirthalingam had been extremely worried about his family, which had been suffering without adequate food for a long time.
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Para military groups clash in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 February 1999, 10:48 GMT]
Three persons were wounded when armed members of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) and the People's Liberation Organisation Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), para military groups operating with the Sri Lankan security forces, clashed in the northern town of Vavuniya, over a dispute on determining 'tax' on goods.
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European diplomats visit Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 February 1999, 23:43 GMT]
Mr.Thomas Wenk, the second secretary of the German Embassy in Sri Lanka and Ms.Jola Vollebregt the second secretary of the Netherlands along with Anandasangaari, the Acting President of the TULF and N.Raviraj the acting Mayor of Jaffna, came to Vavuniya on a two day visit on February 1.
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Equipment shortage in Kilinochchi schools

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 February 1999, 23:41 GMT]
Officials at the Department of Education in the Kilinochchi district said today that due to the severe restrictions in transporting materials and equipment for science labs in district’s schools in the district, the quality of education is slipping.
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New SLA regulations for ambulances

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 February 1999, 13:21 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army (SLA) has stipulated new transport regulations for the movement of ambulances from LTTE controlled areas of the Vanni to SLA controlled areas.
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LTTE arms dump destroyed - SLAF

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 February 1999, 13:05 GMT]
Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) sources in Colombo said today said that Kfir jets launched an attack on an LTTE arms dump in South - western Mullativu destroying it completely. The arms dump was located in the Mulliyawalai area, the sources said.
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News In Brief

[TamilNet, Monday, 01 February 1999, 22:22 GMT]
A new regional coordinating office for the Northeast Provincial has begun functioning, poor roads further damaged by floods are driving up the cost of transport and the bodies of two Liberation Tigers are returned by the Red Cross.
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