Dutch national evicted from Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Mr. Hotze Beresman a Dutch national was asked by the Sri Lankan army in Batticaloa yesterday to leave the area immediately.
Full story >>

Seven Tigers killed in Vanni clashes

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers said this morning that there were confrontations between the Liberation Tigers and the SLA at Kankarayan Kulam and Karuppatta Murippu yesterday.
Full story >>

Jaffna conditions not conducive for elections: TULF

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
TULF politburo member and former MP Mr. Mavai Senathirarajah who is currently in the peninsula told the TamilNet's Jaffna correspondent today that the government has announced the local government elections to scuttle the peace signal in LTTE leader Prabhaharan's Maveerar day speech.
Full story >>

Colombo defences reorgainsed

[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The city of Colombo will soon have an unprecedented special security system which will be managed by the army, Navy and Police in a unified command under an Overall Operations Commander, Sri Lankan Defence Ministry sources said today.
Full story >>

Shot youth was civilian: inquest

[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Police from the detachment at Jayanthipuram which is a suburb of Batticaloa town shot dead a youth identified as Kirupananthan Arulanantham, 19 around 7.30 p.m. last night. The youth was returning home in Punnai Cholai, a village by the lagoon on the outskirts of the Batticaloa town, when the Jayanthipuram Police had shot at him, killing him on the spot.
Full story >>

Tigers list captured weapons

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VOT) said this morning that the Liberation Tigers had captured a massive haul of weapons from the Sri Lankan Army which they attacked on Thursday, December 4, at Mannankkulam.
Full story >>

Delegation to Vanni - Colombo weekly

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sunday Lankadeepa, the Sinhala weekly with the largest circulation in Sri Lanka, which hit the news stands this afternoon said in its page one lead story that a delegation will soon leave to the Vanni from Colombo to persuade the leader of the Liberation Tigers to let his organisation contest the forthcoming local government elections in Jaffna.
Full story >>

Mannakulam survivors returned

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sources close to the SLA said today that the Mannakulam counterattack by the LTTE was one of the greatest setbacks for the Sri Lankan army in the island's separatist war for this was the first time so many of its elite commandos have been killed.
Full story >>

LTTE - SLA clash

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers attacked the SLA in Madduvil in Jaffna around 8.30 a.m. this morning. The army claims that it killed one LTTE fighter identified as Seelan in this shootout on the Madduvil Sivan Kovil road.
Full story >>

School teacher shot dead

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A school teacher identified as S. Raveenthiran was shot dead by the SLA in Kaithady in Jaffna last night around 9.30 p.m. The Chavakachcheri Police brought his body to the Jaffna hospital mortuary today claiming that it was that of an LTTE activist.
Full story >>

Heavy casualties in Vanni Battle

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
At least two hundred Sri Lankan army soldiers were confirmed killed and 294 wounded when the Liberation Tigers surrounded and attacked a large SLA force which had tried to advance into LTTE held territory yesterday, as part of the seven month long Operation Jayasikurui.
Full story >>

300 SLA killed - Tigers

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers said in a press release issued today that 300 Sri Lankan troops were killed when the LTTE launched a counter offensive yesterday against the Jayasikurui troops near Kanakarayankulam. The Tigers said they have lost 35 fighters including 10 women.
Full story >>

Grenade attack in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sri Lankan army sources said that there was a grenade attack on one of its positions near the Jaffna railway station around 6.45 p.m this evening.
Full story >>

Fighting was at close quarters - MoD

[TamilNet, Friday, 05 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A communique put out by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense in Colombo tonight (another had been put out at 10.30 a.m.) confirmed doubts cast by informed sources in Vavuniya on the veracity of claims which emanated this morning from certain sections of the military establishment in Colombo, namely that SLA troops who were attacked yesterday by the Liberation Tigers had earlier destroyed an LTTE base along with two 120 mm mortars that had been there.
Full story >>

Trincomalee officials in embezzlement probe

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Lankadeepa, the Sinhala daily with the largest circulation in Sri Lanka said today that the the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Sri Lankan Police is grilling seven senior government officials in Trincomalee for embezzling two million rupees from funds claiming that their properties had been destroyed by the Liberation Tigers.
Full story >>

SLA soldier killed in bomb blast

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A soldier from the bomb disposal squad of the Sri Lankan army's Third Brigade HQ in Batticaloa town was killed around 12. 20 a.m. midnight in Kattankudy - the large Muslim town four miles south of Batticaloa.
Full story >>

Missiles deter SLAF flights

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sources close to the Sri Lankan army in Batticaloa revealed today that SLAF flights to the eastern town are yet to be resumed because there is reliable intelligence that the Liberation Tigers have deployed surface to air missiles in the eastern areas under their control.
Full story >>

Villages empty under artillery fire - Radio

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers said in its news broadcast tonight that the Jayasikurui troops have maintained a heavy barrage towards several areas west of the Kandy road (A9) since early this morning.
Full story >>

Plain speaking, but motives unknown - Paper

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 03 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
"The Deputy Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Mr.A.L.A.M Hisbullah is speaking realistically about the ethnic problem although he is in the government" said the Eelanatham in its editorial this morning.
Full story >>

Tigers, SLA clash at Manthivil

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 03 December 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Sri Lankan army said this evening that the Liberation Tigers had attacked its troops at Manthivil, in Jaffna last night, killing one soldier and wounding six.
Full story >>