News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 June 1999, 03:18 GMT]
Eight reported missing from Jaffna in May; Body washes ashore at Kaytes; Preparations underway for Madhu feast and LTTE attack repulsed say police.
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Details of civilian death revealed

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 June 1999, 09:58 GMT]
A man accused of illicit alcohol brewing told the Mannar court that the Sri Lankan Army had framed the charges against him as revenge for revealing the details of a civilian who died while in SLA custody, said sources.
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Gandhi appointed as new Razeek group leader

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 June 1999, 09:22 GMT]
Mr. Sivaguru Navaratnam alias Gandhi, 33, was appointed the new leader of the Razeek group yesterday. He was sworn into his new post in front of the Sri Lankan Army Commander for Batticaloa.
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Two arrested from Jaffna refugee camp

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 June 1999, 12:53 GMT]
Two youths were arrested by the Sri Lanka Army from the Gurunakar transit refugee camp on Thursday. The arrested were displaced from Jaffna and had recently returned from the Vanni.
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Razeek buried with military honours

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 May 1999, 19:31 GMT]
Former chief minister of the defunct North East provincial council, Annamalai Varatharajaperumal, paid his last respects today to the body of Razeek group leader, Mr.Ganeshmoorthy, who was killed in a bomb attack yesterday.
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Seven Tigers killed in naval battle -VoT

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 May 1999, 06:40 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio said this morning that 7 Liberation Tigers were killed in a sea battle with the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN), off the coast between Mullaithivu and Pulmoddai, on Wednesday night.
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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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VoT details Pallamadhu clashes

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 May 1999, 16:56 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers radio said that more than 15 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed and several others wounded in the fighting between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. yesterday when the Army attempted to advance towards the LTTE forward defence lines in the Pallamadhu area.
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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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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 May 1999, 16:23 GMT]
The JVP, a left wing party, organised a demonstration in front of the US embassy in Colombo and Five students reported missing in Jaffna.
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Arrested schoolboy released

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 May 1999, 17:30 GMT]
The Magistrate of Mallakam, Mr. S.Sabanathan, today ordered the release of Thatparanathan Sivarooban, 19, a school boy who was arrested by the Sri Lanka Army on April 29. He was produced in the courts today by the police.
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Further clashes in the Vanni

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 May 1999, 16:04 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio said in its morning transmission today that two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and a LTTE member were killed in confrontations at Oddusuddan in the Vanni region yesterday.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 May 1999, 18:18 GMT]
Additional Magistrate for Jaffna and Kayts issued an arrest warrant in connection with a killing of a youth by EPDP on Saturday, Students boycott classes.
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Tamil language journalists form association

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 May 1999, 20:26 GMT]
Sri Lankan Tamil language journalists formed their own media organisation today. More than sixty five Tamil language journalists, broadcasters, TV presenters etc., gathered this evening at the Ramakrishna mission hall to form the Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance.
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Arson as revenge for murder?

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 May 1999, 04:45 GMT]
A private communication facility was set on fire by unknown persons on Friday night at Kurumankaadu, a suburb of Vavuniya town, Police said. The facility is close to the Hindu temple in Thandikulam.
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TELO sympathiser shot dead

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 May 1999, 03:58 GMT]
The body of a TELO sympathiser, Subramaniam Thavasi,25, was found early this morning in front of the TULF office on Railway Station Road in Kurumankaadu, a suburb of Vavuniya town. Thavasi, according to Police sources, appears to have been shot dead late last night or in the early hours of the morning today.
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PLOTE councillor killed

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 May 1999, 15:12 GMT]
Unidentifed gunmen shot dead Veerahaththy Gunaratnam, 42, a PLOTE member of the Pachchilaipalli Pradheshiya Sabha (PS) in Jaffna, at Kurumankaadu, a suburb of Vavuniya town, this evening around 7.15 p.m. The shooting was on the Railway Station Road, near the office of the TULF sources said. Gunaratnam's nephew Kirupaharan, 19, who was with him was wounded by in the shooting.
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Eleven Tigers killed in sea battle

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 04 May 1999, 18:00 GMT]
Eleven Tigers, including a Lt.Col, were killed in a sea battle between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Navy which took place in the seas off the Mullaithivu coast on Saturday, May 1, said the Voice of Tigers in its night news bulletin today.
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Six reported missing in Mannar

[TamilNet, Saturday, 01 May 1999, 17:17 GMT]
Six youth arrested by a group of unidentified armed men in the heart of Mannar town on April 25 are still reported missing said sources in Mannar today. The Sri Lankan security forces in Mannar had told relatives of the missing youth that they did not arrest or detain them.
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Three reported missing in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Saturday, 01 May 1999, 04:57 GMT]
The Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Jaffna has reported that three persons have gone missing in the peninsula in March and April this year. According to Gowri Suntharalingam, the official in charge of the commission's office in Jaffna, the Sri Lanka Army and Police have said that they did not arrest or detain any of these persons.
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