Paramilitary members abducts youth in Ea'raavoor

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 19:08 GMT]
More than ten paramilitary members of Karuna group, arriving in a white van at the house of a Tamil youth, Tuesday around 9:30 p.m at Aiyangkearni in Ea'raavoor police division in Batticaloa district, forcibly abducted him, according to a complaint made with Ea'raavoor police.
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Paramilitary member shot dead in Naavatkudaa

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 14:18 GMT]
Two unidentified armed men riding a motorbike shot dead a paramilitary member of Karuna group with a pistol Monday night around 7: 35 p.m. at Navatkudah in Kaaththaankudi police division in Batticaloa district, civil sources said.
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Rights group launches campaign against attacks on Journalists in Sri Lanka

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 October 2007, 08:03 GMT]
Expressing concern on the level of prevailing impunity of the killings of media personnel in Sri Lanka, the Asian Human Rights Commission, citing 11 cases where 12 Tamil media personnel were killed since 31 May 2004 till 29 April 2007, on Tuesday urged the public to write letters to the concerned Sri Lankan authorities demanding impartial investigation in order to identify and bring the perpetrators to justice. "Not a single person has been brought before the court," in the 11 cases, the AHRC noted and urged the public to forward a copy of their appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
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Paramilitary person shot dead in Maavadiveambu

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 October 2007, 04:27 GMT]
An unidentified gun man shot dead a paramilitary person of Karuna (TMVP) group Friday evening around 6:00 p.m. on Maavadiveambu Road, at Maavadiveampu in Ea'raavoor police division in Batticaloa district, according to Ea'raavoor police.
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Paramilitary member shot dead in Ea'raavoor

[TamilNet, Thursday, 25 October 2007, 16:36 GMT]
Unidentified armed men shot dead a paramilitary person of Karuna group with a pistol Thursday around 8:00 a.m at Maavadiveampu in Ea'raavoor police division in Batticaloa district, according to Ea'raavoor police.
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Jaffna Co-operative Official hacked to death in Kaithadi

[TamilNet, Monday, 22 October 2007, 11:06 GMT]
Unidentified armed men abducted Mr. Subramaniam, the president of Jaffna district Co-operative Societies Federation (CSF), from his house at Kaithadi Sunday midnight and hacked him to death at Kaithadi junction. Mr. Subramaniam was in charge of the distribution of essential food items, in stock and shipped into the peninsula, through the co-operative retail shops in Jaffna district.
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2 Tamil youths abducted, killed in Ampaa'rai

[TamilNet, Sunday, 21 October 2007, 11:42 GMT]
Sammaanthu'rai police in Ampaa'rai district recovered the bodies of two Tamil youths with gun shot wounds Sunday morning in front of Addaippaalam Maariyamman Koayil in Sammaanthu'rai police division. Alleged to be from Karuna group paramilitary armed men had abducted the two youths and shot them dead elsewhere before dumping their bodies in front of the temple, residents in Sammaanthu'rai said.
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Family man shot dead in Ea'raavoor

[TamilNet, Friday, 19 October 2007, 09:48 GMT]
Paramilitary men who knocked the doors of a 55-year-old farmer (Poadiyaar) in Vanthaa'rumoolai, shot him dead Friday early morning around 1:10. The victim, Kannaayiram Peethamparam, a father of three, was shot in his chest and hands with 7.62 mm rounds that are used in T-56 assault rifles, according to the Police. Vanthaa'rumoolai is located 17 km northwest of Batticaloa city.
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Paramilitary contact gunned down in Ampaa'rai

[TamilNet, Friday, 19 October 2007, 09:38 GMT]
Two armed men, riding in bicycles, gunned down a 24-year-old youth, Piradeepan Sivasara, on Veeramuani Pi'l'laiyaar temple road Friday around 10:25 a.m., Police in Chammaanthu'rai said. The victim, who had returned home from foreign employment 6 months ago, had established contacts with the TMVP (Karuna) paramilitary group in the area.
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Paramilitary post attacked in Ampaa'rai, 1 killed

[TamilNet, Friday, 19 October 2007, 08:52 GMT]
A 16-year-old recruit of the TMVP (Karuna) paramilitary was gunned down when a group of armed men stormed a checkpost located 50 meters from the TMVP camp at Annamalai in the Chava'lakkadai police division of the Ampaa'rai district. The attackers had seized a T-56 assault rifle from the recruit, Police said.
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Paramilitary person shot dead in Ea'raavoor

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 16:52 GMT]
Unidentified armed men shot dead a paramilitary person of Karuna (TMVP) group Monday around 10:00 p.m at Jeevapuram area in Ea'raavoor in Batticaloa district, Ea'raavoor police said.
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UNP drops federalism

[TamilNet, Monday, 01 October 2007, 11:15 GMT]
The decision by Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) to ditch the federal constitutional model as a solution to the island’s protracted ethnic conflict makes it the last of the major southern parties to embrace Sinhala nationalism again. In doing so, the former ‘pro-peace’ party may finally have resolved its ethnic dilemma.
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Farmer shot dead in Akkaraipattu

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 September 2007, 16:42 GMT]
Unknown gunmen on a motorcycle followed a farmer riding home on his motorcycle and shot him dead around 01:05 p.m Monday with a pistol in front of Aalaiyadivempu Divisional Secretariat, located on Chaakaamam road in Akkaraipattu in Amparai district, Akkaraipattu police said.
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One karuna group member shot dead, 2 injured in Akkaraipattu

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 September 2007, 08:56 GMT]
One person was killed and two seriously injured in a shooting incident Saturday around 8:45 p.m in Karuna group office located at Aaliyadivempu area in Akkaraipattu police division in Ampaa'rai district, Akkaraipattu police said.
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Tamil youth shot dead at Periyakulam

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 September 2007, 16:30 GMT]
A Tamil youth was shot dead by unidentified men on Wednesday night around 8:00 p.m.at Periyakulam in Uppuveli Police division in Trincomalee district. The victim has been identified as 26 year-old Senthooran, police sources said.
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Karuna group member shot dead in Vaazhaicheanai

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 13:40 GMT]
Unidentified armed men shot dead Monday around 9:00 p.m a member of Karuna group at his house in Vinaayakapuram in Vaazhaicheanai in Batticaloa district, Kalkudaa police said.
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Oddusuddaan education standards at all time low - Principal

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 00:20 GMT]
"The prevailing war situation has severely affected the education of our young people. Students attendance rates have dropped due to fear of aerial bombardments and claymore attacks in the vicinity of our school. Only a permanent solution to our conflict will allow the schools to prosper and educational standards to improve,” said Mr.N.Karunaharan, principal of Oddusuddaan Maha Vidyalayam located within Thu'nukkaay Educational Zone last week.
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Death threats escalate in Jaffna, doctors flee extortion

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 10:25 GMT]
Death threats from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) backed armed Tamil paramilitary groups, have forced many doctors and medical specialists in Jaffna to complain to Human Rights Commission (HRC) and to leave the peninsula fearing death and abduction of their children and family members while more of them are contemplating flight from the peninsula, civil society sources in Jaffna said. Meanwhile, an editor of the Jaffna edition of a Colombo based daily has been threatened to death. Paramilitary personnel are targeting the Tamil intellectuals in Jaffna with extortion, abduction and death threats.
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Sign of the times in Tamil Nadu

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 00:40 GMT]
Veteran Tamil Nadu activist Pazha Nedumaran’s attempted crossing of the Palk Straits in a bid to deliver emergency relief to Sri Lanka’s Tamils was thwarted last week when he and hundreds of volunteers were arrested. Whilst the attempted crossing and its ‘failure’ has been dismissed, especially in Sri Lanka’s south, as a stunt by mavericks on the fringe of Tamil Nadu’s politics, the event has both highlighted and boosted resurgent support in the south Indian state for the Sri Lankan Tamils’ cause.
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EPDP member shot dead in Vaazhaicheanai

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 September 2007, 11:20 GMT]
Unidentified armed men riding in a three-wheeler shot dead Thursday around 11:30 a.m, a member of Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP), selling 'Thinamurasu' Tamil daily in front of a studio on Vaazhaicheanai Main Street, spraying bullets with a T56 type gun, Vaazhaicheanai police said.
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