Civilians killed in cross-fire

[TamilNet, Thursday, 24 September 1998, 17:04 GMT]
Two civilians were killed and three were wounded when the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) in Vakarai opened fire with mortars and machine guns in the direction of Kandalady this morning around 7.30 a.m. Kandalady is a settlement that forms the northern part of the Vakarai village, 59 kilometers north of Batticaloa.
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More PLOTE members 'missing'

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 September 1998, 19:22 GMT]
The PLOTE issued a statement this evening saying that the chairman and five members of the Chavakachcheri Pradheshiya Sabha (PS) have gone missing after the SLA attacked its camp last evening.
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Another poster campaign in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 September 1998, 11:32 GMT]
Posters offering a reward for capturing the leader of the Liberation Tigers, Veluppillai Prabhaharan, dead or alive appeared in many parts of the Batticaloa town yesterday morning. They were issued in the name of an unknown organisation styling itself 'Peaceful Democratic Revolutionary Front'.
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News in brief

[TamilNet, Saturday, 19 September 1998, 18:32 GMT]
Police sources say that the SLA killed a LTTE member in Chavakachcheri today, special investigation team investigating the Jaffna Municipal Council bomb blast arrests 4 employees of JMC, and SLA builds a shed for Nagarkovil school.
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Two tamil policemen arrested

[TamilNet, Friday, 18 September 1998, 17:59 GMT]
Two Tamil Policemen, accused of spying for the Liberation Tigers were arrested yesterday in Batticaloa by the office of the Deputy Inspector General Police of the district. Both men were handed over to the local Counter Subversive Unit (CSU) by the arresting authorities.
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Ethnic cleansing in the estates

[TamilNet, Monday, 14 September 1998, 21:41 GMT]
Tamil areas in the estate sector of the Ratnapura district were tense again today following the murder of a Tamil labourer from the Horamulla estate in the Rakkuwana division. The labourer, identified as Nehru, 38 was burnt to death this afternoon.
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Concern for activists - Amnesty

[TamilNet, Monday, 14 September 1998, 07:41 GMT]
Amnesty International, the human rights organisation, said Friday that it is concerned about five activists of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), formerly the Revolutionary Communist League, following their arrest by the intelligence unit of the Liberation Tigers in the embattled Kilinochchi district.
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Tamil labour settlement attacked

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 September 1998, 18:16 GMT]
The situation in the Ratnapura district continued to be volatile as Sinhala mobs attacked another Tamil labour settlement in the Benegoda estate.
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Eighteen killed in Jaffna blast

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 September 1998, 06:49 GMT]
Sources in Jaffna said that a massive explosion this morning at the Jaffna Municipal council office had killed 18 people including senior members of the Sri Lankan security forces. The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) confirmed that Jaffna town commander, Brigadier Susantha Mendis and his Principal Staff Officer (PSO), Captain Ramanayaka, were killed in the blast.
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Line rooms torched

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 September 1998, 21:51 GMT]
Tamils from a tea estate in the Arulpola Division at Wewalwatte in the Ratnapura District, took refuge in a tea factory after a 300 strong Sinhala mob set fire to their 'line rooms' on Wednesday night, said sources.
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Legislation to shape sexual morality

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 September 1998, 22:10 GMT]
The Sri Lankan government sought the views of the public today to formulate legislation to safeguard the country's morals.
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News in Brief

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 September 1998, 23:34 GMT]
Navy personnel present evidence in the death of two sailors at Velanai jetty while estate workers at Nawalapitiya strike and march to protest the rape of a girl. School girls in Nelliady get caught watching pornographic movies.
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Use video to identify Chemmani mass grave - MSI

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 September 1998, 19:43 GMT]
The Makkal Sakthi Iyakkam (MSI-people's power movement) of Jaffna sent the Sri Lankan President a letter today suggesting that Corporal R.D Somaratna Rajapaksha of the SL Army who was sentenced to death in the Krishanthy Kumarasamy rape and murder case, should be made to identify on video tape the location of the mass grave in Chemmani.
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Krishanthi accused fears for life

[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 September 1998, 03:41 GMT]
SLA Corporal Somaratna Rajapaksa, the first accused in the Krishanthy Kumaraswamy rape and murder case, appealed to prison authorities that he be tranferred to the Bogambara prison in Kandy as he fears for his life at the Welikada jail in Colombo.
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Priests meet fasting protestors

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 September 1998, 15:06 GMT]
The second day of the token fast undertaken by displaced persons in front of the Mullaitivu secretariat was well attended, said sources. Over 300 men, women and children participated in the fast, which started at 5.00 in the morning and went on till 5.00 in the evening.
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Meeting over evictions inconclusive

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 September 1998, 20:28 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) said today that it might consider a request to permit the beleaguered residents of Linga Nagar in Trincomalee town to thatch their roofs torn off by soldiers on August 9, 1998.
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Other mass graves in Jaffna -TCHR

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 August 1998, 18:19 GMT]
The Tamil Centre for Human Rights said that it believes that there are mass graves of Tamil people murdered by Sri Lankan troops in areas of the Jaffna peninsula other than Chemmani. The TCHR also said it was concerned the evidence at Chemmani was being destroyed.
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No increase in flights to Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 August 1998, 17:43 GMT]
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence (MoD) told the Anti-Harassment Committee today that it cannot increase the number of civilian flights to the northern Jaffna peninsula to help ease the hardships faced by travellers in securing seats.
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Body found in school Toilet

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 August 1998, 13:38 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Police while clearing the compound of Vasavilan Mahavidyalayam School, 8 km north-east of Jaffna Town, found a skeleton in the toilet on August 11 said sources.
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Nominations filed

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 15 July 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Eleven political parties and two independent groups have filed nominations for the provincial council elections scheduled for the August 28. Nominations were closed this afternoon for the Western, North-central and Sabragamuwa provinces, while nominations for the Central and Uwa provinces were closed on July 3.
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