LTTE leader pays homage to Lt. Seelan, artillery units complete training

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2006, 18:06 GMT]
Mr. V. Pirapaharan, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) participated in the twenty third memorial anniversary of Charles Anthony, from Trincomalee, one of the first commanders of the LTTE who died in 1983. Mr. Pirapaharan addressed more than a hundred senior level field leaders of two artillery units that completed training. The LTTE leader payed homage to Lt. Seelan, Ananth and other five cadres and awarded merit certificates to the officers who had completed training at an undisclosed location in Vanni Sunday, LTTE sources said.
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Rajapakse's new agenda, a tactic to derail progress towards Geneva II- Kaviyalahan

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2006, 15:26 GMT]
The Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, upon failing to meet the committments given by Sri Lanka delegation at Geneva I, has adopted a "choking tactic" to stifle current trajectory towards peace by launching a one-sided expert panel, to waylay the International Community, and to avoid Geneva II, said K. Kaviyalahan, the Head of Tamileelam Political Research Centre (TEPRC), the emerging Think Tank of the Liberation Tigers, in the weekly political analysis programme, Nilavaram, aired by the National Television of Tamileelam (NTT) Sunday night. Rajapaskse's new agenda circumvents the existing paradigm of the four and a half years old peace process, he argued.
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Lt.Seelan remembered in Muttur east

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2006, 14:53 GMT]
Twenty third death anniversary of Charles Anthony (nom de guerre Lt Seelan), the LTTE first martyr from Trincomalee district and the first attack commander of the LTTE, was observed Saturday evening at Lt.Seelan Memorial Hall in Muttur east. Mr.S.Elilan, LTTE Trincomalee district political head delivered the keynote address, sources said.
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Fishing ban to be relaxed in Pesalai, Pallimunai Sea

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2006, 14:22 GMT]
Officers of the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) announced Sunday that the ban imposed on fishing in sea along Pallimunai and Pesalai coastal area is to be relaxed from Monday, July 17. The decision was taken at a conference held Sunday morning Mannar Bishop, Rev Rayappu Joseph's House. The SLN officials also imposed additional conditions the fishermen, civill sources said.
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Gothabaya visits Jaffna, confers with Jaffna SLA commanders

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2006, 08:56 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Defence Secretary and the brother of the SL President, Gothabaya Rajapakse, on Sunday, paid a visit to the 51-2 Brigade Head Quarters in Jaffna town amid high security. Civilian traffic was blocked on the road when Mr. Rajapakse landed in the old Dutch Fort area of the town in a Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) helicopter and transported in an armoured vehicle towards the 51-2 HQ. Top officials of the SL Navy, Air Force and Army from Colombo were in Jaffna to confer future course of military actions, SLA sources said. The officials visited Forward Defence Lines in several locations in Jaffna Peninsula to give morale boost to the troopers.
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Daya Master discharged from hospital in Colombo

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 July 2006, 06:34 GMT]
Daya Master, the Kilinochchi based media coordinator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who was admitted to the private Appollo Hospital in Narahenpitiya near Colombo with heart ailment, left for Kilinochchi on Saturday at 8:30 a.m., after doctors cleared him fit enough following satisfactory coronary angiography tests, hospital sources said. Several members of the Sinhala ultra-nationalist JVP led National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT) Friday held a protest demonstration in front of Appollo hospital, calling for the arrest of the ailing Daya Master under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).
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Funeral of LTTE member died in artillery fire held

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 July 2006, 20:55 GMT]
The funeral of LTTE member, Lt. Murali (Ambalavanan Jeyaruben of Thangapuram, Muttur) who was killed in the artillery fire on the Muttur east villages by the Sri Lanka Army on 14 July was held Saturday evening with full military honours, LTTE sources said.
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Tigers warn against SLA incursions into LTTE territory

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 July 2006, 11:41 GMT]
"Hostile forays by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) into Liberation Tigers controlled territory in Batticaloa district are serious acts of military aggression and have the potential to trigger a major destructive war," said LTTE's Batticaloa Political Head, Daya Mohan, in a letter sent to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Saturday, LTTE sources in Batticaloa said.
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Diaspora invited to UN envoy’s report launch

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 July 2006, 10:53 GMT]
Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have invited expatriate Tamils to participate a public meeting on human rights which they are co-hosting on August 5 in London. The chief speaker is Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, whose report on violence in Sri Lanka was issued earlier this year.


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LTTE hands over bodies of SLA soldiers to ICRC

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 July 2006, 07:03 GMT]
Leaders of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Batticaloa district handed over the bodies of 12 Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers who were killed in the confrontation at Vakaneri to representatives of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) at Black Bridge ('Karuththapalam') located in Chenkalady, around 8.30 a.m., Saturday, army sources said.
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NMAT demands Daya Master's arrest

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 July 2006, 04:38 GMT]
Members of the National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT), an extremist Sinhala nationalist organization, protested in front of Appollo Hospital in Narahenpitiya, Colombo Friday 11:15 a.m. demanding the arrest of LTTE's Media Co-ordinator, Daya Master, who is recovering from chronic heart condition in the hospital, sources in Colombo said.
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Fishing ban in Vadamaradchy to allow SLN convoy movement

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 16:24 GMT]
Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) banned fishing in the seaboard of Vadamaradchy from Wednesday to Thursday to facilitate shipping of arms and supplies by sea from Trincomalee to Kankesanthurai, Vadamaradchy fisheries Union officials said. The ban over the two full days enforced by SLN naval guards patrolling the seashores has severely affected the livelihood of fishermen in the area, fishermen said.
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One youth shot dead, two injured in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 15:56 GMT]
Unidentified men shot dead a youth and injured another Friday morning around 7.15 a.m. along Sivan Kovil Road at Sinna Urnai Gandhi Village in Batticaloa police division, sources in Batticaloa said. The suspects came in a three-wheeler and chased these two youths and shot at them. The injured had fled from the area, sources added.


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LTTE cadres' funeral takes place in Muttur east

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 15:14 GMT]
Two of the four LTTE cadres killed by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) within the LTTE controlled Kadawanaikulam situated along Trincomalee-Kandy road on July 12 night were buried in Alankulam LTTE Heros' cemetary located in the Muttur east with full military honours Friday evening, LTTE sources said.
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SLA shelling injures 5 civilians, kills LTTE member

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 15:02 GMT]
A member of the Liberation Tigers was killed and five civilians were injured when shells fired by Sri Lanka Army soldiers hit Muttur east, Friday morning. Five houses were destroyed and several others were damaged in the attack, LTTE sources said.
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LTTE to hand over SLA soldiers' bodies to SLMM

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 13:29 GMT]
Liberation Tigers are to hand over the twelve bodies of SLA soldiers killed in the Friday morning attack in Vakaneri to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in the LTTE held Illupadaichchenai in Batticaloa district Saturday morning, Mr.Dayamohan, Batticaloa district LTTE political head said.
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12 Sri Lankan troops, 4 Tigers killed in Vakaneri, SLA trooper captured

[TamilNet, Friday, 14 July 2006, 06:27 GMT]
At least 12 Sri Lankan troopers were killed when Liberation Tigers confronted a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unit, comprising at least 100 soldiers, that had moved 5 km inside LTTE controlled territory in Batticaloa district. Four LTTE cadres were killed and six wounded in the fighting in Vakaneri, 37 km northwest of Batticaloa town. The bodies of twelve SLA soldiers were recovered by the Tigers, P. Dayamohan, the Batticaloa district LTTE political head told TamilNet. One Lance Corporal of the SLA has been captured alive by the LTTE. SLA sources in Colombo claimed that a group of SLA soldiers who were on a search and clear operation have gone missing in Vakaneri.
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Rajapakse initiative, an elaborate theatre to appease international community - paper

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 July 2006, 14:16 GMT]
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse’s initiative this week to come up with power-sharing proposal is “elaborate theatre to appease international demands, particularly India’s,” the Tamil Guardian said in its editorial this week. Arguing the ‘outbidding’ which undermined previous initiatives was “guaranteed” to happen again, given the lack of support from the UNP and the vehement opposition of the JVP and JHU, the paper said: “Rajapakse’s immediate priority is not to come up with a serious proposal to offer the Tamils, but to destroy his ruling party's main rival and consolidate his grip on parliament.”
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Four LTTE cadres killed in SLA attack in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 July 2006, 11:55 GMT]
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Thursday said four of their cadres were killed in its area at Kadawanaikulam in Thampalakamam division in Trincomalee district by a group of soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in ambush Wednesday night around 9 p.m. A group of SLA soldiers had penetrated into the LTTE held area Kadawanaikulam along Trincomalee-Kandy highway located about 20 km off southwest of east port town, LTTE sources in Sampoor said.
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STF fires artillery shells on homes in Amparai

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 17:07 GMT]
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Amparai political heads, registered complaints with the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), that the Special Task Forces (STF) troopers based at Kanchirankuda STF camp, have Tuesday fired barrages of 81 mm artillery shells on residential areas of Kanchikudichaaru in LTTE controlled Amparai District, sources said.


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