Three LTTE members killed

[TamilNet, Friday, 17 March 2000, 12:36 GMT]
Three members of the Liberation Tigers were shot dead by the Sri Lanka Army soldiers in Vavunthivu, 3 km. south-west of Batticaloa in the early hours of the morning today, army sources in the eastern town said.
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UNP, PA press release

[TamilNet, Thursday, 16 March 2000, 12:24 GMT]
A joint communique was issued after the second round of talks held on Thursday between the delegations from the People's Alliance (PA) and the United National Party (UNP). President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge chaired the discussion.
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UNP to talk despite accusations

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 15 March 2000, 20:49 GMT]
The General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP) said that the UNP would participate in second round of talks scheduled for tomorrow with the Government despite allegations made by President Chandrika that the main opposition party was working hand in glove with the LTTE.
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SLA, Tigers skirmish near gateway base

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 15 March 2000, 11:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers and the Sri Lanka army clashed in several places to the east and north of the Elephant Pass base yesterday according to military sources in Jaffna. They said that troops had fired on a bunker line of the LTTE at Uduththurai and had engaged in a fire-fight with the Tigers at Vaththirayan yesterday.
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Shooting victim identified

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 15 March 2000, 02:19 GMT]
The Counter Subversive Unit (CSU) of the Police in Mannar told the courts today that the young man killed in a shooting incident at 'Sector 11' in Uiylankulam in the early hours of last Sunday was Thangarasa Thuraisingam(35) of Manippoorkulam, Vaddakandal.
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Police hand over killed LTTE suspect

[TamilNet, Monday, 13 March 2000, 13:59 GMT]
Police handed over a body of a youth with gun shot injuries and burn marks on his chest to the Mannar hospital yesterday. Police officials claimed the youth was a member of a Liberation Tigers killed near 'Sector 11' near Uyilankulam in the Mannar District.
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Youths say assaulted in detention

[TamilNet, Sunday, 12 March 2000, 18:34 GMT]
Two youths who were arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers during a search operation told the Jaffna courts that they were assaulted while they were held in the Urelu SLA camp, sources in Jaffna said. The youths were produced before the Jaffna Additional Magistrate on Thursday, 8th March.
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Six Tamils arrested over Friday attack

[TamilNet, Sunday, 12 March 2000, 11:05 GMT]
Six Tamils have been arrested in Colombo by the investigations arm of the Sri Lankan Police in connection with the suicide attack by a commando group suspected to be of the Liberation Tigers on the main route to the Parliament on Friday, March 10.
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Four casualties in Uduthurai clashes -VoT

[TamilNet, Sunday, 12 March 2000, 08:44 GMT]
Three Sri Lanka Army (SLA) commandos were killed and 7 others were wounded in clashes in Uduthurai in the Vadamaradchi East on Wednesday, 8 March. One member of the Liberation Tigers was also killed in the fighting, the Voice of Tigers Radio (VoT) said this morning.
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Wife identifies Trinco shooting victim

[TamilNet, Saturday, 11 March 2000, 17:29 GMT]
One of the two Tamil youths shot dead by the Police at Anpuvallipuram, a suburb in Trincomalee town was identified as a civilian, by his wife today, hospital sources said.
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SLA and LTTE duels on Jaffna coast

[TamilNet, Saturday, 11 March 2000, 13:34 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers and the Sri Lankan Army exchanged gun and mortar fire in the early hours of the morning today on the southeastern coast of Jaffna.
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Four attackers commit suicide

[TamilNet, Saturday, 11 March 2000, 07:56 GMT]
Four gunmen, suspected to be members of the Liberation Tigers who had taken up positions in apartment building near the scene of the fighting in Colombo yesterday committed suicide as the Sri Lankan army special forces broke into the building this morning after several hours of fighting Police sources said.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Friday, 10 March 2000, 20:26 GMT]
Two policemen, including an officer, were wounded in a grenade attack in Trincomalee, SLA search operation in Vavuniya, EPDP member flees party in Jaffna.
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Govt. info Department confirms shootout

[TamilNet, Friday, 10 March 2000, 17:30 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Governemnt Information Department's central news desk issued a communique on the incident in Borella this evening. The communique indicated that there had been fighting in the area following the explosion.
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Peace maker government falls

[TamilNet, Friday, 10 March 2000, 00:40 GMT]
Norway's ruling coalition government led by Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik resigned Thursday night after the opposition voted in favour of building a new gas power plant. A spokesman for the Norwegian Foreign Minister told TamilNet, that Norway's peace initiative in Sri Lanka will be followed up by the new government.
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'Keep us informed on the peace talks' - UNP

[TamilNet, Friday, 10 March 2000, 00:22 GMT]
"We have also been informed by the Government of Norway that the Government of Sri Lanka asked for discussions with the LTTE and we are also being informed of certain other developments and I thought I should be briefed on that matter before we start talks," said Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe, leader of the Sri Lankan opposition, United National Party, according to the communique» on today's meeting between the Government and UNP, issued jointly by both parties this evening.
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CID grills Batticaloa MP

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 08 March 2000, 14:07 GMT]
Mr.Alisahir Moulana, United National Party member of Parliament for Batticaloa was grilled by officers of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the Sri Lankan Police for five hours about his party's alleged contacts with the Liberation Tigers in the east last evening .
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Four LTTE casualties in sea battle

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 08 March 2000, 10:51 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio said today that four Tigers were killed in the sea battle that took place in the seas off Kokkilaai in the Mullaithivu district yesterday.
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Two Tiger boats sunk - SLN

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 07 March 2000, 07:59 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and the Liberation Tigers were engaged in a sea battle in the seas off Pulmoodai, about 45 km. north of Trincomalee, in the early hours of the morning today, naval sources said.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Monday, 06 March 2000, 18:34 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers hand over the body of a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldier to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Women raped by Muslim extremists in Eravur and Youth injured in STF firing.
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