Lanka Muditha Jaffna trip delayed

[TamilNet, Saturday, 09 January 1999, 01:17 GMT]
The Lanka Muditha, a cargo vessel that is used for shuttling passengers between the eastern port of Trincomalee and Kankesanthurai in Jaffna will not sail to the northern peninsula in the next 15 days according to the Divisional Secretary in Trincomalee, Mr. V.Velummaiylum.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Saturday, 09 January 1999, 01:14 GMT]
Political violence continue as elections for the North-Western Provincial Council approaches, Mulankavil hospital releases statistics, vegetable prices go up following heavy rains.
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Two Tigers killed in Jaffna - SLA

[TamilNet, Saturday, 09 January 1999, 01:12 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army in Jaffna said that two Liberation Tigers were killed in a clash in Chavakachcheri Jaffna, yesterday morning. They said that troops cordoned off a house in which the Tigers were staying.
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MoD spells out JOB mandate

[TamilNet, Thursday, 07 January 1999, 17:19 GMT]
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a press communiqué this afternoon outlining the functions and duties of the Joint Operations Bureau (JOB) which was established under the chairmanship of Gen. Rohan de S Daluwatte by the Sri Lankan President with a view to prosecuting the war against the Liberation Tigers on a greater professional footing.
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Rain displaces war refugees

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 January 1999, 19:53 GMT]
More than 200 families are affected by torrential rains experienced in the Vanni region, said sources in the Vanni. One hundred and twenty-eight families in the Mulankaavil area were displaced as their makeshift huts were flooded and damaged by the continuing rains.
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News in Brief

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 January 1999, 19:50 GMT]
One SLA soldier killed in Ampakamam in the Vanni; over ten thousand detained for smuggling heroin; civilian wounded in Jaffna shooting.
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Madhu church gets telephone

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 January 1999, 23:45 GMT]
A telephone link was given to Madhu church in Mannar on January 2, said sources. This is the first time telephone facilities has been given to an area that is not controlled by the Sri Lankan Government.
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"Seek high land" - villagers told

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 January 1999, 18:12 GMT]
The Irrigation Engineer in charge of Muththayankaddu, in the Vanni region, has requested families living along Paeraaru banks to move to areas in higher land to safeguard their lives.
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Injured in a booby trap

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 January 1999, 17:20 GMT]
S.Anton (41), a displaced refugee from Jaffna, who had sought refuge at Kalmadu, in the Kilinochchi district, was seriously injured when a booby trap exploded near the Pannankandy bridge in Kilinochchi, on Saturday.
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Direct dialing from Vanni?

[TamilNet, Saturday, 02 January 1999, 14:40 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers are making arrangements for people living in the parts of the Vanni contolled by them, to make international telephone calls claimed sources there.
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News In Brief

[TamilNet, Friday, 01 January 1999, 13:03 GMT]
The Iranimadu reservoir water level rises too high and Jaffna officials report a decline in the number of displaced people returning there.
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Missing children found in orphanage

[TamilNet, Thursday, 31 December 1998, 22:09 GMT]
Two children who were reported missing after the arrest of their mother have been now located in an orphanage near Nugegoda, a suburb of Colombo city, sources said.
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Flooding in the Vanni

[TamilNet, Thursday, 31 December 1998, 22:02 GMT]
Sources in the Vanni said that there has been a heavy down pour of rain during the past few days in the Vanni. More than 100 families are now homeless and many irrigation reservoirs have now started to spill over.
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Citizen's committee condemns attacks on civilians

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 18:35 GMT]
The Citizens Committee in the Vanni has urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take steps to prevent Sri Lankan Army (SLA) attacks on innocent civilians.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 29 December 1998, 18:32 GMT]
A house was damaged in shelling from the Elephant Pass SLA base. VoT announces LTTE losses. Sri Lanka meteorological sources say there has been heavy rainfall through out the island, and 300 houses built under the resettlement programme were handed over to residents.
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Eastern refugees languish in Mannar

[TamilNet, Monday, 28 December 1998, 15:13 GMT]
Ninety one civilians from the district of Trincomalee who had fled their villages to the Vanni as a consequence of the war since 1990 have been stranded in Mannar for more than a month due to bureaucratic apathy and bungling while attempting to return to the east.
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Civilians move from Mulliyavalai

[TamilNet, Sunday, 27 December 1998, 05:02 GMT]
A large number of civilians from Mulliyavalai in the Mullaithivu district began moving towards Puthukkudiyiruppu since last night fearing another advance by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA).
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Sporadic violence kills 5

[TamilNet, Thursday, 24 December 1998, 22:32 GMT]
One soldier was killed when the Liberation Tigers attacked a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unit on its way to Panichchankerni bridge from local SLA camp yesterday (December 23) around 7.10 am, the Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio said in its night news bulletin.
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28 civilians killed recently

[TamilNet, Monday, 21 December 1998, 22:43 GMT]
Twenty eight civilians were killed in the Vanni during the past 80 days in separate attacks carried out by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Air Force (SLAF), human rights sources said. Over 30 other civilians were wounded.
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NGOs write to South African MPs

[TamilNet, Sunday, 20 December 1998, 18:16 GMT]
The NGO Consortium of Kilinochchi and the Organization for the Displaced in the Vanni has sent memorandums to the South African Parliamentarians who visited the country recently, urging them to put pressure on the Sri Lankan Government with the assistance of the international community to find a permanent solution to the ethnic issue.
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