Tigers continue to press Jaffna SLA

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers attacked the Sri Lankan army at Vathiri, in Jaffna this evening at 6.30. Initial reports from Jaffna say that 4 Sri Lankan troops were wounded in the fighting.
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Jaffna university students riot over newspaper report

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
A large group of about three hundred students from the University of Jaffna demonstrated in front of the Uthayan newspaper office in Kasturiyar road this morning around 11 a.m.
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Tamil civilians assaulted

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
All civilians who went past the Muththirai junction in Jaffna after 7 p.m. last night were severely assaulted by the SL army.
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SLA to control urea supplies

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Jaffna farmers will be able to buy urea now after a gap of seven years. The army told the Jaffna GA today to send lorries to collect 500 metric tons of urea which have been lying at the KKS harbour since June this year.
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SLA commander predicts easy victory - again

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Recently the Sri Lankan army commander, Major General Rohan Daluwatte said that victory was imminent in Eelam War III. However, General Daluwatte's assessment of the war has not always been entirely accurate.
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SLAF say missile brought gunship down

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The SLAF confirmed that a missile fired by the Liberation Tigers brought down the Mi 24 helicopter gunship over the Kokkilai lagoon.
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STF using Tamil children as human shields

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Vigneswara Vithiyalayam is a small school in the 13th colony near the Batticaloa- Ampara border. Children from poor farming families who study here have been forced by the Special Task Force which occupies part of the school to be its human shield.
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Tigers ambush SLA patrols

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers attacked a Sri Lankan army patrol near Vathiri junction in Jaffna around 10 a.m this morning killing four soldiers.
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Tamil youth reported missing

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Eelanatham, the only Tamil daily published in the LTTE controlled Vanni region said today that a youth who went to see the house and garden of his family in Konthakkaran Kulam two kilometers west of Omanthai on Thursday Nov. 6 has been reported missing since then.
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10 Sri Lankan policemen killed - Radio

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers broadcast in the Vanni said this morning quoting the Liberation Tigers, that ten bunkers on the Vavuniya Parayanalankulam road manned by military trained Sri Lankan Police personal were attacked and destroyed by LTTE troops in the early hours of dawn yesterday.
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Tigers kill five Sri Lankan Policemen

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers attacked a bunker line on the Mannar Vavuniya road this morning killing five policemen and wounded seven.
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Tigers supplies by air?

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sri Lankan intelligence sources have told the Sunday Lankadeepa, one of the largest selling Sinhala papers in the island that they have reliable information that the Liberation Tigers are preparing to bring in their arms supplies by air to Mullaithivu.
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Two hour fire-fight in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Heavy fighting erupted in Nagar Kovil in Vadamaradchi east around 9.30 a.m. in the morning yesterday when the Liberation Tigers confronted a Sri Lankan army patrol that had entered the area.
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Tigers hit Arayampathi TELO camp

[TamilNet, Friday, 07 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers fired mortar shells at the TELO camp at Arayampathi, at 9.30 last night. The TELO had fortified the camp after an attack by the LTTE a few weeks ago and most TELO members had taken cover in a bunker soon after the shelling started.
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Jaya Sukuri defences breached

[TamilNet, Friday, 07 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Sources close to SLA in Vavuniya said today that LTTE units broke through the forward defences of the "Jaya Sukuri" troops, east of Mankulam, last Wednesday (5th November) and that heavy fighting had followed in the area.
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LTTE challenges US designation

[TamilNet, Friday, 07 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The LTTE has challenged the US State department's designation as a 'terrorist' organization, according to one of its lawyers. The LTTE has formally filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington,D.C. said Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran.
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Tigers intended ship as bait - paper

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Thinamurasu, the Tamil weekly with the largest circulation in Sri Lanka, said in this week's issue which hit the news stands in Colombo this morning, that the LTTE ship that was bombed and sunk by the Sri Lankan airforce on Sunday appears to be the vessel that went missing with the cargo of 81mm mortar shells meant for the Sri Lankan army from the Zimbabwe Defence Industries.
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SLA facing cas-evac problems

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
Reports from Vavuniya revealed today that the Sri Lankan Army is faced with serious casualty evacuation problems in the forward areas of Operation Jayasikurui in the Vanni due to concentrated LTTE mortar fire and stormy monsoon weather.
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Tigers lose seven fighters - radio

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VOT) announced in the Vanni today that another member of the LTTE called Capt. Mathan also died in the attack on the organisation's ship in the Mullaithivu sea on sunday.
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Grenade explodes near EPDP office

[TamilNet, Thursday, 06 November 1997, 23:59 GMT]
There was a grenade blast near the EPDP office which is situated close to the Sreethar theater in Jaffna.
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