New SLA Psy Ops in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Saturday, 03 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) unit of the Sri Lankan army put up colour posters for the first time in Batticaloa today. The numerous psyops posters by the army in the past have been in black and white.
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Seven SLA soldiers killed

[TamilNet, Friday, 02 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Seven Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and twenty were wounded when the Liberation Tigers fired heavy artillery on Operation Jayasikurui's forward defences at Olumadu last night said army sources in Vavuniya today.
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SLAF Helicopter damaged

[TamilNet, Friday, 02 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
An airforce Mi-17 helicopter was heavily damaged by LTTE fire while it was attempting to land at the Olumadu SLA camp around 2.30 this afternoon. Seven soldiers in the helicopter were wounded, according to intial unconfirmed reports from Vavuniya.
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Kayts elections to be sober - army

[TamilNet, Friday, 02 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The sale of liquor has been banned in Kayts from today in order to maintain law and order during the forthcoming local government polls, the Sri Lankan army told the Tamil groups this morning.
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Vanni officials seen discriminated against

[TamilNet, Thursday, 01 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Government officers are compelled to work under severe constrains in the North, especially in the Vanni area, said sources in the Vanni. They charged that that senior government administrators such as government agents (GA), additional government agents (AGA) and grama sevakas (village level government employees) were subjected to pressures which government employees in other areas did not have to face.
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Tiger checkpoints within SLA zone

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers set up a check point at Sungankerni again this morning. Two bowsers carrying Kerosene which did not stop at the point were shot at.
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Letter bomb intercepted

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A greeting card bomb addressed to the chief inspector of the Batticaloa Police station was discovered and defused this morning around 10.30 a.m.
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SLA camp attacked - Radio

[TamilNet, Monday, 29 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VOT) said yesterday that the Liberation Tigers attacked the Sri Lankan army's Jeyanthiyaya camp west of Batticaloa near the Ampara border on the morning of December 27 and brought it under their control after 30 minutes.
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Tigers ambush SLA patrol

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Two soldiers were killed early this morning when the Liberation Tigers attacked a SLA patrol on the main trunk road from Polannaruwa to Batticaloa.
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TELO harassing civilians in Araippattai

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Civilians in the Araippattai (Aryampathi) market, six kilometers south of Batticaloa, were beaten up by cadres of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) this morning after one of their colleagues was shot dead by a lone gun man near a tea boutique around 6.10 a.m.
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Father recovers shot sons body

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The father of Yogarajah Ramesh, the school boy who was shot dead by the SLA on Christmas day in Madduvil while reading an election poster, claimed the boys body today from the Jaffna hospital.
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Arms recovered from Razeek group - LTTE

[TamilNet, Saturday, 27 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers announced in Batticaloa today that they recovered seven assault rifles including one NATO G-3 from the SLA's Razeek group in yesterday's ambush in the Thalavai-Punnaikudah, eight kilometers north of the Batticaloa town.
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Tigers attack Razeek group in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Friday, 26 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers attacked the Razeek group which had been waiting in ambush for them in the Punnaikudah area east of Eravur town which is about eight kilometers north of Batticaloa this morning around 10.45 a.m.
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Pro-LTTE tone in TELO campaign

[TamilNet, Friday, 26 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) which is contesting all the local government bodies in Jaffna held a press conference today.
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Six Razeek group cadres killed

[TamilNet, Friday, 26 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Razeek group brought back six bodies of their cadres who were killed in a counter ambush by the LTTE today in the Thalavai-Punnaikudah area east of Eravur, eight kilometers north of Batticaloa.
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LTTE - SLA clash at Manthivil

[TamilNet, Friday, 26 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers and the Sri Lankan army clashed at Manthivil, north west of Chavakachcheri around 7.30 a.m. this morning.
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Tigers attack SLA in Vanni - 6 killed

[TamilNet, Thursday, 25 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Six SLA soldiers, including an officer were killed in two separate attacks in the Vanni by the Liberation Tigers last evening.
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SLA - LTTE clash in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 25 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
There was a confrontation between Sri Lankan Army and the Liberation Tigers at Kaithady - Nunavil junction, at 3.30 p.m., about 17 k.m from Jaffna town. No details of the casualties on either side are known.
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Jaffna civilians shot dead

[TamilNet, Thursday, 25 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army shot dead a youth identified as Yogarajah Ramesh, 18, in Madduvil around 1.30 p.m. today. The youth's body was brougt to the Jaffna Hospital by the SLA this evening.
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Tigers attack Kaluwanchikudy STF

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers attacked a group of Special Task Force (STF) and Police personnel near the Kaluwanchikudy STF camp last evening around 5.30 p.m. wounding three seriously. Kaluwanchikudy is about thirty kilometers south of Batticaloa on the Kalmunai road.
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