Artillery fire kills two

[TamilNet, Monday, 02 November 1998, 13:53 GMT]
Two civilians were killed and two others were wounded when the Sri Lankan Army fired artillery from the Elephant Pass base yesterday morning, towards the mainland of the Vanni.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Saturday, 31 October 1998, 04:42 GMT]
Four more civilians have been reported missing after they went to see their abandoned house in the Vanni, Vanni protest strike continues as the signature campaign comes to an end today and rainfall continues in the Vanni.
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Jaffna priest detained

[TamilNet, Thursday, 29 October 1998, 20:29 GMT]
Human Rights Commission (HRC) officials in Jaffna who went looking for the priest of the Selvachannithy temple, reported missing after he was arrested by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) on October 16, found him yesterday at the detention centre in the Kankesanthurai (KKS) SLA base complex.
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Cholera quarantine lifted

[TamilNet, Thursday, 29 October 1998, 20:27 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army check post at Uylankulam that has been closed to civilian traffic for nearly 3 weeks was opened again Saturday 24 October. The army road block at Uylankulam was closed as a result of the out break of Cholera in Vidaththalthivu, Pallamadu and in Skandapuram areas in the Vanni.
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Flooding risk in Vanni

[TamilNet, Thursday, 29 October 1998, 20:16 GMT]
The monsoon rains have started to pour down and the water level of the major reservoirs in the Vanni have started to rise. For a period of 24 hours ending Wednesday morning (October 28), a rainfall of 17.8 mm had been recorded in the Akkarayankulam area.
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Two civilians reported missing

[TamilNet, Thursday, 29 October 1998, 20:11 GMT]
Two displaced civilians who had sought refuge at Oddusuddan and Vasanthapuram in the Vanni have been reported missing after they went to inspect their houses at Nedunkerni on the 22nd October.
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U.S Bishop's concern over atrocities

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 28 October 1998, 03:58 GMT]
Bishop Felton Edwin May of the United Methodist Church of the Washington Episcopal Area has expressed his concern to the U.S State Department over the alleged mass graves of up to 400 civilians in Chemmani, Jaffna, and other human rights violations by Sri Lankan forces, said sources close to the Church today.
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Business leaders court UNP

[TamilNet, Monday, 26 October 1998, 20:06 GMT]
The ICRC declined an informal request by the leaders of the Sri Lankan business community to take relief supplies donated by them to the people living in areas of the Vanni region which are under the control of the Liberation Tigers. Meanwhile a delegation of Sri Lanka's top businessmen met the UNP leader Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo this evening.
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Vanni hunger strike continues

[TamilNet, Sunday, 25 October 1998, 20:32 GMT]
Displaced families in the Vanni are continuing their hungar strike for the 53rd day today to protest against the reduction in relief supplies of food by the Sri Lankan government. The hunger strikers have also launched a signature campaign on Friday, October 23, over the issue.
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Two civilians killed in ambush

[TamilNet, Sunday, 25 October 1998, 20:19 GMT]
Two civilians who went to inspect their houses at Paalaipaani in the Mankulam area, were shot dead by Sri Lanka Army ( SLA) troops said to be lying in ambush for Liberation Tigers moving through the area.
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Tigers release soldiers, ferry crew

[TamilNet, Sunday, 25 October 1998, 03:50 GMT]
Six Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and three Sinhalese crewmen from the ferries "Irish Mona" and "M.V. Misen" in the custody of the Liberation Tigers were released today by S.P.Thamilchelvan, the leader of the LTTE's political wing at Puthukkudiyiruppu in the Mullaithivu district, the Voice Of Tigers (VoT) radio said yesterday evening.
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SLA wary of Kurunakar residents

[TamilNet, Saturday, 24 October 1998, 14:06 GMT]
Posters which said "Jaffna will be the Sri Lankan army's burial ground " appeared in several places in Kurunakar, a suburb of the Jaffna town, in the early hours of the morning today.
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Job losses in banking sector

[TamilNet, Friday, 23 October 1998, 19:28 GMT]
The Sri Lankan government will close down 31 branches of the state owned Bank of Ceylon by the end of this year said Jeyaraj Fernando Pillai, the Minister for Planning and Implementation responding to a adjournment question by Opposition MP Karunasena Kodithuwakku in Parliament today.
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UNP boycotts peace meet

[TamilNet, Thursday, 22 October 1998, 22:20 GMT]
An ambitious all party, all NGO discussion forum called by the most powerful trade and industrial associations of Sri Lanka mainly with a view to iterate the need for peacefully resolving the war in the island's north-east drew mixed reactions despite general agreement among participants that seeking peace is of utmost importance today.
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News in Brief

[TamilNet, Friday, 16 October 1998, 10:43 GMT]
Mulankavil hospital releases figures, Tigers say they lost two of their members in a confrontation with the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) in Mankulam, SLA introduces new regulations for transport of goods and a school boy is reported missing in Jaffna.
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New dispensary in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Monday, 12 October 1998, 07:12 GMT]
The residential representative of the United Nations High Commissions of Refugees (UNHCR) in Sri Lanka, Janet Lim, ceremonially opened the new medical dispensary at Cithamparapuram in Vavuniya Saturday.
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'Jayasikurui' affects 15000 school children - union

[TamilNet, Friday, 09 October 1998, 10:39 GMT]
At least 70 schools in the Vanni region have been either destroyed or closed down due to the Sri Lanka Army (SLA)'s ongoing 'Operation Jayasikurui', said the teachers union in Karathuraippattu, Kilinochchi district.
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Birth certificates asked for

[TamilNet, Friday, 09 October 1998, 10:37 GMT]
Sri Lankan security forces personnel manning check posts in the Colombo have asked some Tamils to produce their birth certificates along with their National Identity (NI) cards during road checks, said human rights sources in Colombo.
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Further fighting in the Vanni

[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 1998, 22:12 GMT]
The Liberation Tiger said today that they had handed over the bodies of 5 Sri Lankan Army soldiers recovered by them during the fighting in Mankulam on Tuesday, to the International Red Cross Committee.
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Vanni protest fast continues

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 October 1998, 12:32 GMT]
A large number of people are continuing their protest fast in front of the Mullaitivu Government Agent's office and other government offices in the Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts said aid workers and officials today.
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