Six MBTs damaged -VoT

[TamilNet, Monday, 28 June 1999, 07:50 GMT]
Six SLA Main battle Tanks (MBT) were damaged by the Liberation Tigers in the fighting on Saturday, said the Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio said in its morning news broadcast today.
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SLA advance thwarted says radio

[TamilNet, Sunday, 27 June 1999, 14:35 GMT]
The commercial radio service of the Liberation Tigers, Thamileela Vaanoli, said in its news broadcast this evening that 200 SLA soldiers were wounded and more than 100 killed in the heavy fighting yesterday northeast of Mannar. The radio said that the LTTE had stopped a massed advance by the SLA to take the Pallamadu junction and that twenty two Tigers were killed in the fighting. The Fighting continued in the area today, according to the Thamileela Vaanoli.
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Torture victims protest against police

[TamilNet, Saturday, 26 June 1999, 14:50 GMT]
The International Day in support of Victims of Torture was observed in Batticaloa town with a cultural pageant. Large numbers of Tamil women, most of whom had been tortured by the security forces, participated in the pageant, said TamilNet's Batticaloa correspondent.
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Batticaloa marks day against torture

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 23 June 1999, 17:41 GMT]
The International Day in support of Victims of Torture is to be observed in the eastern town of Batticaloa on June 26 with a cultural pageant. Four organisations are co-ordinating the pageant and public meeting to be held on the same day.
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Clashes reported

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 June 1999, 14:27 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) said today that three Liberation Tigers were killed and two SLA soldiers wounded in a skirmish at Thambakaamam in the Jaffna peninsula yesterday. The Liberation Tigers, however, denied they had sustained casualties.
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Madhu refugee clearance completed

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 May 1999, 19:57 GMT]
The last batch of refugees were removed from Madhu church at about 4.30 p.m. this afternoon, said government officials in Manner. The 300 refugees were taken by buses to welfare centres in Mannar.
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Cholera patient dies in the Vanni

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 May 1999, 08:09 GMT]
One suspected cholera patient died at Pallamadu on Tuesday and four patients with the symptoms of cholera have been admitted to the Mallavi and Mulangavil hospitals in the Vanni, said sources at the Department of Health.
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Further clashes in the Vanni

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 May 1999, 16:04 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio said in its morning transmission today that two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and a LTTE member were killed in confrontations at Oddusuddan in the Vanni region yesterday.
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Passage through Uyilankulam checkpoint restricted

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 May 1999, 04:29 GMT]
A large number of civilians were refused entry into the SLA controlled area of Mannar by security forces manning the Uylankulam checkpoint yesterday, said residents who arrived in Vavuniya yesterday evening.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Friday, 30 April 1999, 16:51 GMT]
Lung cancer increasing in the Vanni; New houses constructed in the Vanni and one LTTE casualty in Oddusudan.
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Fresh SLA operation in Vanni

[TamilNet, Sunday, 25 April 1999, 17:20 GMT]
Sources in the Vanni said that the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) had attempted to advance from its positions northwest of Madhu towards Periyamadhu yesterday and that the Liberation Tigers had thwarted the move.
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Ex-Tigers asked to register

[TamilNet, Saturday, 24 April 1999, 18:29 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) announced over loud hailers in Thadchanamaruthamadu yesterday that all former members of the Liberation Tigers now resident in this area should report to its camp immediately.
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Floods submerge forward defence lines

[TamilNet, Thursday, 22 April 1999, 12:11 GMT]
Hundreds of Sri Lankan Army forward defence lines in the Vanni have been flooded after heavy rain fell in the area over the past few days said sources.
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Detainees' parents appeal to Bishop

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 21 April 1999, 15:30 GMT]
The parents of five youths who were arrested by the Sri Lankan Army on 17, 18 and 19 April from Thadchanaamaruthamadu appealed to the Bishop of Mannar today to help them trace their sons.
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Five LTTE casualties in STF ambush

[TamilNet, Monday, 19 April 1999, 10:05 GMT]
Sri Lankan security sources said that the Special Task Force (STF) Police Commandos killed four Liberation Tigers in an ambush in the general area of Murunkan, in the Mannar district last night.
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Body parts collected for analyses

[TamilNet, Thursday, 15 April 1999, 18:34 GMT]
The remains of burnt human body parts were collected by the Vavuniya Police and have been despatched to Colombo for the Judicial Medical Officer's report, Vavuniya court sources said today.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 April 1999, 16:46 GMT]
Van that had been carrying TELO members set alight by armed men and cordon and search operation conducted this morning in Vadamaradchi East.
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Two SLA killed near Mallaavi - VOT

[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 April 1999, 07:44 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers said in its short wave broadcast this morning that two SLA soldiers from the Maruthamadukkulam camp near Mallaavi in the Vanni who were on a road patrol were killed in an ambush by the Liberation Tigers on Tuesday, April 6.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 31 March 1999, 22:22 GMT]
Loyal EPDP party workers prioritised in choice of new Jaffna MP's; Student shot dead in Sri Lankan army retaliatory fire and Sri Lankan Police arrest family of five in Jaffna.
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30,000 newly displaced in Mannar

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 March 1999, 12:38 GMT]
More than than thirty thousand people have been displaced in the western sector of mainland Mannar due to shelling and the recent army operation to take Madhu said sources in the area today.
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