Gampaha police arrest 14 Tamil civilians

[TamilNet, Sunday, 21 December 2008, 02:44 GMT]
Sri Lanka Police, with the assistance of home guards, Saturday arrested 14 Tamil residents during a search operation conducted in several parts of the Gampaha town and its suburbs. The police said the arrested residents were taken in for questioning as they failed to prove their identity and to justify their presence in the location. However, civil sources said the arrested Tamils have been working in buisness establishements in Gampaha for several years.
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11 Tamil youths arrested in Gampaha

[TamilNet, Saturday, 20 December 2008, 00:05 GMT]
Sri Lanka police arrested eleven Tamil youths traveling in Colombo bound Vavuniyaa passenger Yarldevi train at Gampaha railway station Wednesday evening. The police searched all compartments of the train and subjected every commuter to severe questioning, sources said.
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Colombo-Vavuniyaa train service to resume

[TamilNet, Monday, 15 December 2008, 13:35 GMT]
Direct train service between Colombo and Vavuniyaa, suspended ten months ago due to security reason, is to resume Tuesday morning, sources in Colombo said. The first train bound for Vavuniyaa will leave Tuesday morning at 5:45 am from Fort-Colombo, sources added.
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Elderly woman knifed to death in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Saturday, 13 December 2008, 22:16 GMT]
An elderly Tamil woman was knifed to death while in her house on Thursday night by unidentified men. This killing took place at Chekkadippulavu in Chelva Nakar in Vavuniyaa.
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Tamil woman detainee dies in Anurathapura prison

[TamilNet, Saturday, 13 December 2008, 22:10 GMT]
A 63-year-old retired Tamil woman teacher died Thursday in the Anuradhapura prison while being detained under Emergency Regulation. The victim, Mrs. Atputham Kulanthaivel, fell ill and passed away on Thursday, Police said.
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Heavy shelling blocks return of WFP convoy

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 09:59 GMT]
The convoy of World Food Programme (WFP) that delivered humanitarian supplies to Vanni this week has been unable to return to Vavuniyaa due to heavy artillery shelling in Nedungkea'ni area by the Sri Lanka Army, reports from Vanni said Wednesday.
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Family man reported missing in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Monday, 08 December 2008, 14:28 GMT]
The wife of a 42-year-old family man from Valikaamam in Jaffna has lodged a complaint with the Sri Lankan Human Rights Commission (SLHRC) in Jaffna that her husband was missing since October after having gone out of the shop, where he was employed.
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North East to experience heavy rains, strong winds

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 2008, 19:27 GMT]
Low depression above the Indian ocean about 350 km off Trincomalee town would pass through between Trincomalee and Mullaitivu Sunday morning between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., warned Meteorological Department, in a press release issued Saturday.
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White van armed men abduct Tamil female in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 December 2008, 05:35 GMT]
Unidentified armed persons, who arrived in a white van abducted a 25-year-old Tamil female from her residence located in Uppukku'lam in Vavuniyaa Tuesday night, according to complaints lodged with the police and human rights groups by her relatives.
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Faultline of Sri Lanka’s conflict now clear - paper

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 November 2008, 19:50 GMT]
Pointing out that it is as Sinhalese have become more and more confident of winning the war that overt racism against Tamils has become blatant, the Tamil Guardian newspaper this week said “what is qualitatively different between the late nineties and now is the clarity of the ethnic faultline in Sri Lanka.” The paper, published Wednesday, argued “Since independence the island’s core problem has been Sinhala domination and … persecution, of the Tamils. In the global liberal bubble of the nineties, this fundamental truth was subsumed amidst the logics of underdevelopment, resource wars and so on.”
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2 Tamil civilians shot dead in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 November 2008, 09:43 GMT]
Unidentified armed men shot and killed Tuesday night two Tamil civilians in two separate shootings, in Vaakarai and Vavu’natheevu police divisions in Batticaloa district.
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President of RDS abducted in Batticaloa district

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 November 2008, 09:01 GMT]
Unidentified armed men abducted the President of Karadippooval Rural Development Society (RDS) Sunday around 3:00 p.m after he had passed Vavu’natheevu Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camp check post while returning home from Batticaloa town.
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Relief supplies from Tamil Nadu still not reached Vanni

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 November 2008, 05:25 GMT]
Emergency relief supplies, sent by the efforts of Tamil Nadu people and their government, received in 100 containers in Colombo 11 days ago, have not reached Vanni due to the sabotage by the Sri Lankan military, a top government official, who did not wished to be named, told TamilNet. Severe flooding has cut off Vanni on Wednesday. However, contradicting to the ground reports, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi was made to believe that the supplies were reaching the affected civilians unhindered.
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Hundreds displaced in Trincomalee floods

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 November 2008, 15:52 GMT]
Seventeen GS (village unit) areas in five Divisional Secretariat divisions in Trincomalee district have been badly affected due to torrential rains since Saturday. Social department officials are providing cooked meals as immediate relief to hundreds of families displaced from low lying area are being sheltered in public buildings. Trincomalee district till Monday morning recorded the highest rainfall in the north and east- 159 mm, Jaffna 56 mm and Vavuniyaa 26 mm, according to meteorological department sources.
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Tamil lodge owner abducted in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 November 2008, 15:50 GMT]
A 53-year-old owner of a temporary lodge located along Vavuniyaa-Mannaar road was abducted by unidentified armed men arrived in a white van Saturday early morning around 2:00 a.m., Police said.
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Missing Tamil youth found shot dead in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 November 2008, 15:49 GMT]
The blind folded body of a youth with hands tied, recovered on the bund of Pa'ndaarikulam in Vavuniyaa Sunday morning with gunshot injuries, was identified as of Kumaraswamy Kugathasan, 22, of Paranthan in Ki'linochchi district. The youth went missing since November 13, according to complaints lodged with the Vavuniyaa police by his relatives.
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SL forces tighten security in government controlled territory in NE

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 November 2008, 12:28 GMT]
Sri Lankan forces have beefed up military deployment in Northern and Eastern provinces controlled by their troops, prior to Tamileelam Heroes Day remembrance by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on November 27. All vehicles passing through the checkpoints of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Mannaar, Vavuniyaa, and Trincomalee are being thoroughly checked and people are questioned on the purpose of their travel.
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Body of youth with gunshot injuries found in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 November 2008, 12:29 GMT]
Sri Lankan Police in Vavuniyaa recovered a body of a blind folded male, with gunshot shot injuries and his hands tied, lying in Chaanthasoalai area in Vavuniyaa police division Friday morning. The body was handed over to the Vavuniyaa general hospital for identification, sources said.
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2 STF commandos killed, 3 injured in Tiger attack in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 2008, 14:08 GMT]
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) combatants launched an attack Thursday around 7:30 p.m on the Special Task Force (STF) sentry post at Makizhadiththeevu in Vavu'natheevu police division, killing two STF commandos and seriously injuring three.
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White van armed men abduct TELO district organizer in Vavuniyaa

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 November 2008, 12:50 GMT]
Vavuniyaa district organizer of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), Rex Ganeshalingam, was abducted Thursday early morning around 4:30 from his house by armed persons arrived a white van, according to complaints lodged with the Vavuniyaa Police by his wife.
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