Tamils denied justice in Sri Lanka - JVP

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 May 1999, 03:20 GMT]
"We accept that Tamils face problems in Sri Lanka. Tamils have received unequal treatment from successive Sri Lankan Governments. They have been denied social justice. Due to these injustices Tamils are undergoing immense hardships now," said Tilvin de Silva, the General Secretary of Janatha Vimukti Peramuna (JVP), while addressing the foreign correspondents at the Galle Face Green Hotel yesterday.
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India-bound refugees detained

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 May 1999, 06:08 GMT]
Seventy-seven Tamil refugees, including 25 women and 11 children, were detained by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) yesterday when they attempted to cross over to India to seek refuge there.
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Army recruitment deadline extended

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 May 1999, 12:02 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army extended the deadline for the recruitment of Jaffna youths in to its ranks as no one had turned up for the walk-in interviews until yesterday evening.
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PLOTE disbands intelligence unit

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 May 1999, 20:57 GMT]
The military wing leader and the second in command of PLOTE, Mr.N.Manikathasan, said that the group's intelligence division was dissolved today. The announcement was by Mr. Manikathasan's secretary, Mr. Baskaran, during a press conference called today at the PLOTE office in Vavuniya.
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Valaichenai Schoolboy reported missing

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 May 1999, 21:49 GMT]
The mother of a school boy, M.Thusikaran, attending year six at the Meeravodai Tamil School in Valaichenai, 32 km north of Batticaloa, has informed the school's principle that her son has been missing since Tuesday, May 18.
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Complaints follow aerial banners

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 May 1999, 16:40 GMT]
The Civil Aviation Authority in UK received a number of complaints yesterday when a light aircraft buzzed over the Wantage Road ground which staged the game between South Africa and Sri Lanka, said press reports in London today.
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Nineteen acquitted in Rajiv Ghandhi case

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 May 1999, 23:05 GMT]
The Indian Supreme Court had today acquitted 19 of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Ghandhi murder case. They had earlier been sentenced to death.
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SLA sends demolition crew home

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 May 1999, 06:24 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops prevented a group of Policemen from demolishing five shops at Horowapothana Road in Vavuniya town yesterday.
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Over 4000 displaced families in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Friday, 07 May 1999, 18:14 GMT]
The total number of displaced families living in the Trincomalee district now stands at 4068, said a report prepared by the District Consortium of the non-governmental organisations.
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Jaffna paper condemns SLA recruitment

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 04 May 1999, 14:28 GMT]
Uthayan, the only daily published in Jaffna criticised in its editorial today the Sri Lanka Army's (SLA) attempt to recruit Tamil youth. It described the recruitment drive as an insidious a plot against the Tamils. The SLA advertised in the paper yesterday calling on the youth of Jaffna to join its ranks.
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People's revolution has started - Karikalan

[TamilNet, Monday, 03 May 1999, 16:05 GMT]
Karikalan, the deputy Leader of the Political Wing of the LTTE said at a May day rally held at Mallavi Mahavidiyalayam in the Wanni area that the Tamil people were determined to continue the liberation struggle though they live under immense pressure due to economic embargo and other difficulties.
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Democratic rights of Tamils suppressed - EPRLF

[TamilNet, Saturday, 01 May 1999, 23:29 GMT]
The Secretary General of the Eelam People Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), Suresh Premachandran addressing the May Day rally in Trincomalee, said today that the democratic rights of the Tamil people were being suppressed by the government.
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CWC meeting disrupted

[TamilNet, Saturday, 01 May 1999, 16:42 GMT]
The Sinhala Veera Vidhaana, an extremist Sinhala Buddhist group disrupted the May day rally and meeting of the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) in Nuwara Eliya today said trade union sources in the hill country town.
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Pass system restricts freedom of movement

[TamilNet, Thursday, 29 April 1999, 11:55 GMT]
The Forum for Human Dignity has brought to the attention of the Anti-Harassment Committee the problems faced by Tamils travelling between different areas of the country.
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Tamil teachers meet World Bank delegation

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 27 April 1999, 22:06 GMT]
A two member team from the World Bank visiting Sri Lanka met with a delegation from the Ceylon Tamil Teachers Unioun (CTTU) today. The team is in Sri Lanka to asses the implementation of World Bank funded educational reforms.
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London conference 'backs Tamil independence'

[TamilNet, Monday, 26 April 1999, 21:53 GMT]
(News Feature) An estimated five thousand Tamil people living in Britain attended a rally and conference titled 'Tamil Eelam Towards Independence,' at Alexander Palace, London on April 25, 1999, said the organisers, the Federation of Tamil Associations (UK). However, widespread speculation about a 'unilateral declaration of independence' at the event proved unfounded.
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PA stalwarts' seats fall to UNP

[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 April 1999, 23:59 GMT]
The PA lost the electorates of its key leaders to the UNP at Tuesday's provincial polls. The ruling party was defeated by the UNP in the electorate of Senkadagala in the Kandy District, the 'seat' of Deputy Defence Minister General Anuruddha Ratwatte.
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PA stalwarts' seats fall to UNP

[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 April 1999, 18:17 GMT]
The PA lost the electorates of its key leaders to the UNP at Tuesday's provincial polls. The ruling party was defeated by the UNP in the electorate of Senkadagala in the Kandy District, the 'seat' of Deputy Defence Minister General Anuruddha Ratwatte.
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Polls predict uncertain future for government

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 April 1999, 23:59 GMT]
The results of the provincial council elections in Sri Lanka have left the country's ruling coalition wondering about its political future. Political uncertainty looms large in the horizon for all the main players in the island's Parliamentary elections scheduled next year.
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Tiger ambush kills seven

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 March 1999, 10:37 GMT]
Seven Sri Lankan Army (SLA) soldiers were killed last night around 7.15 p.m. in an attack by the Liberation Tigers in Weli Oya. Army sources in Vavuniya said that the tractor in which they were travelling was hit by a claymore mine.
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