Thinamurasu chief editor killed

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 November 1999, 07:09 GMT]
Unidentified gunman shot and killed the chief editor of the Tamil weekly tabloid, 'Thinamurasu', Atputharajah Nadarajah, 38, in Colombo around 10.30 am this morning, said sources.
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Three bodies handed over

[TamilNet, Monday, 01 November 1999, 16:35 GMT]
The bodies of three people with gunshot injuries were handed over to the Muttur hospital by the Sri Lankan Police Monday evening at about 4.30, hospital sources said.
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Fighting in Ampakamam continues

[TamilNet, Sunday, 31 October 1999, 11:26 GMT]
Eleven Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers including an office officer have been killed and 187 wounded in the renewed fighting which broke out last evening said security sources.
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SLA camps shelled

[TamilNet, Sunday, 31 October 1999, 11:21 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers ambushed a SLA unit at Vammivedduvaan and shelled Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camps in Vaakarai and Kathiraveli in the eastern Batticaloa District last night said sources.
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S.Thondaman dies

[TamilNet, Saturday, 30 October 1999, 16:14 GMT]
Mr.Soumiyamoorthy Thondaman,86, the Minister for Rural and Industrial Development, and leader of the Ceylon Workers' Congress died at the Jeyawardenepura National Hospital around 8.10 p.m. this evening.
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Thondaman ill

[TamilNet, Saturday, 30 October 1999, 11:12 GMT]
Sri Lankan cabinet Minister and veteran trade union leader Saumiyamoorthy Thondaman is reported to be seriously ill. He has been flown to Jeyawardenepura National Hospital in Colombo this morning according to sources.
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University student remanded under ER

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 October 1999, 20:52 GMT]
The Kankesanthurai Police produced today the detained university student Selvanayagam Suganthan before the Magistrate Mr.S.A.E.Ekanathan. Officer-in-charge of the KKS Police, K.T.Jayatilake, told the court that he was producing the suspect under the Emergency Regulations (ER), on the orders of his superior.
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Amnesty concern over disappearances

[TamilNet, Friday, 29 October 1999, 19:38 GMT]
Amnesty International said today it is concerned for the safety of three Tamil men reportedly arrested by Sinhalese home guards on October 8 this year, who have since "disappeared".
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Indian official visits Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Thursday, 28 October 1999, 14:50 GMT]
The Deputy High Commissioner for India in Colombo, Mr.S.Thripathi, was in Trincomalee since Tuesday, meeting several leading citizens and delegations of Tamil political parties, sources said.
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Imminent offensive "will trigger catastrophe"

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 15:56 GMT]
An imminent offensive by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in the Vanni will cause a "a massive displacement of tens of thousands of people with no shelter provisions whatever in the adjoining areas, triggering a major catastrophe," said the London based Tamil Information Centre in a press release today.
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Appeal to Indian President

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 October 1999, 10:07 GMT]
An appeal to the President of India, asking for clemency to save the lives of four who have been sentenced to death in connection with the assassination of former Indian Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was handed over to the Permanent Representative for India at the UN in Geneva yesterday.
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EPDP denies intimidation allegations

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 26 October 1999, 09:16 GMT]
The organiser of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) for the Ampara District, M.Kunasegaram, has denied the allegations that the group's members are intimidating civilians in Karaithivu.
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MPGA warns of hunger strike

[TamilNet, Monday, 25 October 1999, 09:11 GMT]
The Missing Persons Guardian Association (MPGA) in Jaffna has warned that it will launch a hunger strike if Government authorities do not reveal, before the 30 October, the details of those who have been arrested by the security forces in the northern peninsula and reported missing.
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Independent in presidential elections: TULF M.P.

[TamilNet, Thursday, 21 October 1999, 09:50 GMT]
The Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) will not support any political parties in the forthcoming presidential election, said Mr. Joseph Pararajasingham, M.P for the Batticaloa District. The party will play an independent role, he said, while commenting on President Kumaratunga's announcement yesterday to hold early elections.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Thursday, 21 October 1999, 04:05 GMT]
Para militaries advised against fighting each other, Food convoys to Vanni resume, Minister visits Vanni war fronts.
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Arrests in Colombo continue

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 October 1999, 09:14 GMT]
About sixty Tamils, including 5 women were arrested when the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers and Police conducted a cordon and search operation in the suburbs of Kotahena and Maradana in Colombo yesterday evening.
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SLA summons MP

[TamilNet, Monday, 18 October 1999, 10:53 GMT]
Mr.R. Yogarajan, MP for the Colombo District, was summoned by the Police to record a statement from him yesterday following a complaint made against him by a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) officer said sources.
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Six civilians wounded

[TamilNet, Sunday, 17 October 1999, 16:46 GMT]
Six Tamil civilians were wounded when the Sri Lanka Army fired shells from their positions in Mankulam, Karippattamurippu and Ampkamam in the Vanni region towards Uddayarkaddu and Visuvamadu today at about 12.45 p.m. sources said.
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SLA offensive continues - LTTE

[TamilNet, Saturday, 16 October 1999, 21:27 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers said today they had inflicted heavy casualties on Sri Lanka Army (SLA) units which had advanced into LTTE territory on October 14 on twin fronts to the east and west of Mankulam. Scores of SLA troops and 48 Tigers were killed in the heavy fighting which is continuing, a press release issued by the LTTE's International Secretariat in London today.
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75 Tamils detained in Colombo

[TamilNet, Saturday, 16 October 1999, 15:20 GMT]
Several hundred people were arrested and interrogated during a combined cordon and search operation by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Police in the Pettah area, a suburb of capital Colombo, last night said sources.
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