Two Tamils abducted in Colombo Friday

[TamilNet, Saturday, 07 June 2008, 03:01 GMT]
Two Tamil civilians were abducted in Vaalaithoddam and Aattupattiththeru in Colombo city Friday afternoon by unidentified persons who came in vehicles, according to complaints lodged with respective police stations by the relatives, media sources in Colombo said.
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SLN blocks resettlement in Naavaladi

[TamilNet, Saturday, 07 June 2008, 01:57 GMT]
Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) refused permission to twenty nine Tamil families to resettle in their village Naavalady in Moothoor division in Trincomalee district. These families displaced from Naavalady in 2006 military operation have been sheltered in a welfare centre in Moothoor town, civil society sources in Trincomalee said.
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28 men, 7 women arrested following Kattubedda Claymore attack

[TamilNet, Friday, 06 June 2008, 16:17 GMT]
Sri Lanka police imposed a curfew from Friday 9:00 a.m morning and launched a joint cordon and search operation, following the Claymore attack Friday around 7:45 a.m. on a bus in the area near the University of Moratuwa, in which 28 men and 7 women, most of them Tamil students of Moartuwa University, were arrested. The arrestees are held in police detention, sources in Colombo said.
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Amnesty Australia exhibits photos on Sri Lankan rights abuses

[TamilNet, Friday, 06 June 2008, 09:21 GMT]
Amnesty International Australia held a photo exhibition, Cries of the Voiceless, over two days in central Sydney city, at the Martin Place Amphitheatre on 5-6 June 2008, o highlighting human rights abuses and violence against journalists in Sri Lanka. The photos taken with a rented camera by a 23-year-old man in Sri Lanka and explore life as a child in a conflict situation.
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Two policemen killed, another injured in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Friday, 06 June 2008, 00:32 GMT]
Two police constables were killed, and another injured in two separate shooting incidents Thursday afternoon 7:15 p.m. in Kalladi and Thaandvenwe’li, Batticaloa, sources said.
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Pillaiyan elected Chairman of CM Forum, decides not to seek police powers

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 21:03 GMT]
Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, alias Pillaiyan, has been elected Chairman of the Chief Ministers' Forum, which decided not to press for police powers to the provincial council but sought powers pertaining to land and transport. The Forum also decided to take legal action to achieve this.
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Emergency extended for another month

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 21:01 GMT]
Sri Lanka's parliament Thursday adopted the motion to extend the state of emergency by another month with a majority of 89 votes. 106 parliamentarians voted for the motion and 19 parliamentarians voted against. Parliamentarians of the main opposition United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) were not present in the house at that time when the motion was put to vote, parliamentary sources said.
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27 Tamils arrested in Wellawatte

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 20:59 GMT]
Twenty seven Tamil civilians including four women were taken in for questioning by the police in Wellawatte in a lightning cordon and search conducted in Wellawatte area Thursday. They are being detained in the police station and interrogated by the Terrorist Intelligence Division (TID), media sources reported.
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Two civilians killed in DPU Claymore attack

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 16:58 GMT]
A 45-year-old man and a 24-year-old youth were killed on the spot Thursday morning when Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) set off a Claymore mine targeting a tractor carrying Internally Displaced Persons who were on their way to relocated their personal belongings from the houses in Maanthai West in Mannaar district to Maanthai East in Mullaiththeevu district, Tamileelam Police officials said.
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Tamil Businessman shot dead in Dambulla

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 09:54 GMT]
Two unidentified gunmen who came in a motorbike entered the shop of a Tamil vegetable businessman and shot him dead inside his shop at Dambulla Economic center Thursday morning around 9:45, police said.
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Mob attacks ambulance in Kaththaankudi

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 07:56 GMT]
Nine civilians, 6 of them patients and 3 medical staff, were wounded Thursday around 11:00 a.m. when a mob stoned an ambulance which was on its way to Batticaloa Hospital from Akkaraippattu Base Hospital. The angry Muslim mob was not aware that it was attacking an ambulance with 6 Muslims, Police said. Tension prevails in Kaaththaankudi and the surrounding areas. Meanwhile, medical staff at Batticaloa Teaching hospital staged a protest rally towards Batticaloa Police protesting against the security laps in the area where tension prevailed Thursday and demanded improved security measures for medical workers and ambulances.
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Sea Tiger Marines raid SLA posts in Naakarkoayil

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 07:20 GMT]
Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) officials in Ki'linochchi on Thursday said that the Sea Tiger Marines of the LTTE's naval force launched a sea-borne raid on Sri Lanka Army positions along the coast of Naakarkoayil in the Northern Front at 6:00 a.m. Thursday, destroying 3 posts and causing damage to 5 posts.
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16 Tamils wounded in mob attack in Kaaththaankudi

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 06:40 GMT]
Sixteen Tamil civilians, traveling in a private bus, lorry and another vehicle on Batticaloa Kalmunai road were wounded when a Muslim mob armed with stones and batons attacked them in Kaththaankudi around 10:30 a.m., following a rumour that a Muslim trader was knifed in Araiyampathi. Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) opened fire to disperse the crowd and brought the said Muslim trader to the street to show that he was unhurt, police officials said. 26 Tamils were wounded. 16 Tamils including 3 females and a 12-year-old minor were admitted to the district hospital in Aaraiyampathi and four of them were transferred to Batticaloa Teaching hospital.
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UNP, SLMC councilors boycott EPC first sitting

[TamilNet, Thursday, 05 June 2008, 00:32 GMT]
Fifteen councilors elected to the 35 member Eastern Provincial Council on the main opposition United National Party (UNP) ticket Wednesday boycotted the first sitting of the council convened on the instruction by the East Provincial Governor Mohan Wijewickrema, sources in Trincomalee said. Eighteen councilors elected on the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and sole member of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and of the Democratic National Tamil Alliance (DNTA) participated.
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10 SLA killed in Vavuniyaa fighting - LTTE

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 June 2008, 23:06 GMT]
Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) officials have claimed that the Sri Lanka Army had suffered casualties, at least 10 killed and more than 18 wounded, on Wednesday, when the LTTE fighters at Paalamoaddai in Vavuniyaa district confronted the SLA that attempted to break into LTTE FDL.
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9 civilians arrested in Dehiwala

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 June 2008, 21:35 GMT]
Nine Tamil persons were taken into custody by the Dehiwala police in connection with the bomb blast that took place along the rail track Wednesday morning in which eighteen persons were injured. They are being detained in the police station to conduct further inquiries, police sources said.
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Indian Tamil fishermen on token strike against Sri Lanka Navy

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 June 2008, 17:47 GMT]
Fishermen's associations in Thangakchchimadam in the state of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday organized a token strike to protest against the Sri Lanka Navy that shot and killed a 20-year-old Indian Tamil fisherman in the waters off Raameasvaram. An SLN vessel had opened fire on four Tamil Nadu fishermen who had set out in a mechanized boat on Monday when the 45-day fishing ban imposed by the state government of Tamil Nadu had come to an end, according to the representatives of the fishermen's associations in Thangkachchimadam. The fishermen were fishing near Kachchatheevu around midnight. The Deputy High Commission of Sri Lanka in Chennai, has denied SLN involvement in the attack.
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2 civilians wounded in SLA artillery attack in Vavuniyaa North

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 June 2008, 12:38 GMT]
Two civilians were seriously wounded Wednesday noon when artillery shells fired by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) hit the civilian settlements in Nedungkea'ni, Olumadu, Paddikkudiyiruppu and Cheanaippulavu villages in Vanni, Tamileelam Police officials told media. Nedungkea'ni is located in Vavuniyaa district, 37 km northeast of Vavuniyaa town and 30 km southwest of Mullaiththeevu town.
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SLA mortar base neutralised in artillery fire - LTTE

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 04 June 2008, 10:41 GMT]
A key Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camp with its mortar launchpad at Ezhuthumadduvaa'l in the Northern Front was targeted by Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) artillery guns Wednesday morning from 10:00 a.m., LTTE officials in Vanni told media. Claiming that the mortar launchpad was neutralised in the attack, the Tigers said that the SLA had suffered heavy casualties in the artillery barrage.
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SLA arrests 15 Tamil youths in Ka'luvaagnchikkudi

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 03 June 2008, 19:46 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) arrested fifteen Tamil youths on suspicion following the killing of two TMVP Pillayan group operatives including the deputy chairman of Ma'nmunai South Eruvilpattu Piratheasa Chapai (Pradeshiya Sabah) Monday in Eruvil, 35 km south of Batticaloa, sources in Ka'luvaagnchikkudi said.
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