First batch of women deminers completes training

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 July 2003, 13:46 GMT]
A function to mark the completion of three months of training for the first batch of thirty-three women deminers from the Humanitarian Demining Unit was held at the HDU’s training facility in Paranthan Thursday, sources said.
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Youth shot dead in Puthur

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:58 GMT]
Velupillai Paraneetharan (18), a supporter of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was shot dead Friday by unknown gunmen at 1.15pm on Batticaloa-Puthur Vipulanantha road, security sources said.


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Parliamentary debate sought on allegations against TNA MPs

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 July 2003, 10:36 GMT]
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentary group leader Mr.R.Sampanthan Friday wrote to the Speaker of the Sri Lanka Parliament seeking a parliamentary debate on allegations against TNA MPs by some opposition parliamentarians, political sources said. The allegations include TNA members provide training to members of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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LTTE returns captured army truck to SLA

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 July 2003, 14:33 GMT]
The army truck captured by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with six soldiers during the latter part of the last year was returned to the Sri Lanka Army Thursday around noon at no man zone close to Welgam Vihare in the Nilaveli area, about sixteen km north of Trincomalee town, the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission head in Trincomalee, Mr.Abdel Burkan, said.
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UNF readies Interim Administration proposals

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 July 2003, 14:01 GMT]
The United National Front government of Sri Lanka Thursday announced that the basic proposals for the proposed interim administrative structure for the Northeast province are now ready to be sent to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam through Norwegian facilitators within the next few days, sources said
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Nambiar recommendation unacceptable – ANC expert

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 July 2003, 00:39 GMT]
“The recommendation made by the Indian army expert General Nambiar that all the long range weapons of the Liberation Tigers should be placed under the supervision of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission cannot be accepted until permanent peace is achieved,” said retired South African army officer and a member of the African National Congress (ANC) Dr. Rocky Williams at a discussion held at Pandatherippu Meditation Center Wednesday.
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New Tamil weekly to be launched in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 July 2003, 12:43 GMT]
A Tamil weekly broadsheet 'Senthanal' (Burning Ash) is to be launched by the Sooriyan publications located in Katkuli, Vavuniya in a ceremony at Vavuniya Urban Council Hall on Saturday, 12 July, sources said.
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Norwegian envoy Westborg meets Thamilselvan

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 July 2003, 18:59 GMT]
Former Norwegian ambassador to Sri Lanka, Mr.Jon Westborg, who is currently a special advisor to the Norwegian government on the peace process in Sri Lanka, Tuesday held wide ranging discussions with the political head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Mr.S.P.Thamilselvan, at the Kilinochchi political secretariat of the LTTE, Vanni sources said.
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Velanai residents want SLN's electric fence removed

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 July 2003, 18:42 GMT]
Residents of Thuraiyoor area in the Velanai division in the Jaffna district Tuesday made an urgent appeal to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to take immediate steps to pressure the Sri Lanka Navy to remove its live electric fence bordering the Iyanar Vidiyalayam, civil groups said.
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Remand for two LTTE members in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 July 2003, 14:19 GMT]
Mr.Chandradasa Jayaweera Paiyas alias Kulatheeparaj and Vadivelu Chandrakumar alias Prasanth, both from Vaharai, who are members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), were remanded Tuesday by the Batticaloa Magistrate on a charge under the Offensive Weapons Act of 1966 till July 22, legal sources said.
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Jaffna’s GCE exam qualifying rate said among lowest in Sri Lanka

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 July 2003, 12:18 GMT]
“The percentage of students who pass the General Certificate of Education (GCE) exams in the northeast is lower than in the other parts of the country. Among the 30 Educational Districts in Sri Lanka, the percentage was lowest in Jaffna until recently. However, the district has now managed to move up to the 28th-27th place ”, said Mr. S. Mahalingam, Provincial Director of Education addressing the annual prize giving function of the Vincent Girl’s High School in Batticaloa Tuesday. Students in Sri Lanka have to qualify the GCE Ordinary and Advanced Level exams to enter universities.
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SLA-LTTE meet Wednesday to resolve Kurankupanchan standoff

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 July 2003, 11:45 GMT]
Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) officials said that a meeting has been arranged for Wednesday between Sri Lanka Army and Liberation Tigersof Tamil Eelam to resolve the matter related to the LTTE's establishment of a camp in the Kurankupanchan area which the SLMM claims falls within the Sri Lanka Government controlled area, reports said.
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UNHCR, LTTE meet to discuss Batticaloa refugee issues

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 July 2003, 21:26 GMT]
Batticaloa UNHCR officials and Officials of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) met at the Karadiyanaru 'Thenaham' Guest House to discuss issues related to providing safety and attending to the welfare of refugees in the Batticaloa district, sources from Batticaloa said.
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SLA-Police joint cordon and search in Vadamaradchi

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 July 2003, 19:48 GMT]
A joint cordon and search operation by the Sri Lanka Army and the Police was conducted in the Vadamaradchi area of the Jaffna district Monday evening, civil sources said.
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LTTE returns under-aged Tamil boys, Sinhalese villager

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 July 2003, 19:30 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Trincomalee district Monday handed over two boys aged about ten years to their parents in the presence of UNICEF officials and also handed over a Sinhalese villager who had strayed into the LTTE controlled area of Kumburupiddy, north of Trincomalee, to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission monitors, sources said.
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Grenade attack on TELO office in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 July 2003, 19:17 GMT]
Unidentified men Monday night lobbed a grenade inside the premises of the office of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), a constituent of the Tamil National Alliance, Trincomalee Police said.
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Ex-Jaffna GA charged in RRAN fund fraud

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 July 2003, 18:51 GMT]
The Criminal Investigation Department of Police Monday filed a case in the Jaffna Magistrate's Court, charging that a former Government Agent, Mr.K.Shanmuganathan, defrauded about forty million rupees allocated by the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority for North (RRAN), legal sources said.
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Sinhala Buddhist monks want monitors out

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 July 2003, 17:57 GMT]
Hundreds Buddhist monks protested in downtown Colombo Monday, demanding that Scandinavian peace monitors in Sri Lanka should leave the island immediately. The monks accused the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) of operating in cahoots with the Liberation Tigers against interests of the Sinhala people.
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Trinco LTTE, SLA commanders to meet

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 July 2003, 16:10 GMT]
A top level discussion is to take place between the commanders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lanka Army in the Trincomalee district on Wednesday evening at the no-man zone in Kattaiparichchan in Muttur, in the presence of the Norwegian head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General (retd.) Triggve Teleffsen, to thrash out the disputes that have arisen between them, SLMM sources said
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SLMM head’s Vanni visit postponed

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 July 2003, 13:26 GMT]
The Norwegian head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, Major General (retd.) Triggve Teleffsen, has put off his visit to the Vanni till he finds a solution to dispute between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lanka Army in the Trincomalee district, SLMM sources said.
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