India-bound refugees detained

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 May 1999, 06:08 GMT]
Seventy-seven Tamil refugees, including 25 women and 11 children, were detained by the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) yesterday when they attempted to cross over to India to seek refuge there.
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Army recruitment deadline extended

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 May 1999, 12:02 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army extended the deadline for the recruitment of Jaffna youths in to its ranks as no one had turned up for the walk-in interviews until yesterday evening.
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PLOTE disbands intelligence unit

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 May 1999, 20:57 GMT]
The military wing leader and the second in command of PLOTE, Mr.N.Manikathasan, said that the group's intelligence division was dissolved today. The announcement was by Mr. Manikathasan's secretary, Mr. Baskaran, during a press conference called today at the PLOTE office in Vavuniya.
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Majority opinion for political solution - report

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 May 1999, 03:46 GMT]
An opinion poll conducted amongst voters in the last Provincial council election showed that 66 percent were in favour of a political solution to the island's ethnic conflict, said Prof. Hettige of the University of Colombo while presenting the results of the survey at the Renuka Hotel in Colombo yesterday.
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Valaichenai Schoolboy reported missing

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 May 1999, 21:49 GMT]
The mother of a school boy, M.Thusikaran, attending year six at the Meeravodai Tamil School in Valaichenai, 32 km north of Batticaloa, has informed the school's principle that her son has been missing since Tuesday, May 18.
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Complaints follow aerial banners

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 May 1999, 16:40 GMT]
The Civil Aviation Authority in UK received a number of complaints yesterday when a light aircraft buzzed over the Wantage Road ground which staged the game between South Africa and Sri Lanka, said press reports in London today.
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Valaichenai youth shot dead

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 May 1999, 22:50 GMT]
(News Feature) A Tamil youth was shot dead by security forces personnel manning the cemetery sentry point at Valaichenai town in the Eastern province at around 2.00 p.m. today, said sources.
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Protest by relatives of missing servicemen

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 May 1999, 17:43 GMT]
Almost 500 relatives of Sri Lankan Security Forces personnel who have been listed as missing in action marched to the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this evening following a public meeting held at the auditorium of the Buddhist Youth League.
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Weapons recovered from paramilitary groups

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 May 1999, 20:06 GMT]
The Sri Lankan Army has today recovered weapons from the paramilitary groups The People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) in Vavuniya, sources said.
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Staff shortage affects Tamil medium schools

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 May 1999, 19:29 GMT]
The Commissioner of Examinations has admitted that conducting administration in Tamil in his department has almost come to a standstill due to severe shortage of staff who could transact in Tamil.
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PLOTE denies involvement in Colombo killings

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 May 1999, 18:45 GMT]
The central committee of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) has denied the allegations that the group was behind the killing of the senior TELO cadres in Colombo yesterday.
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Eastern Villagers face terror again

[TamilNet, Sunday, 16 May 1999, 10:14 GMT]
(NEWS FEATURE) One hundred and fifty Tamil families at Thiraikerni, a village in the Amparai district, are being terrorised once again by groups of armed masked men who come to the village at night, said sources from the area.
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Senior TELO members shot dead in Colombo

[TamilNet, Saturday, 15 May 1999, 16:13 GMT]
Three members of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), including two senior members, were shot dead in Bambalapitiya, a suburb of the capital Colombo around 6.45 p.m. today.
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Arrested schoolboy released

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 May 1999, 17:30 GMT]
The Magistrate of Mallakam, Mr. S.Sabanathan, today ordered the release of Thatparanathan Sivarooban, 19, a school boy who was arrested by the Sri Lanka Army on April 29. He was produced in the courts today by the police.
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Nineteen acquitted in Rajiv Ghandhi case

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 May 1999, 23:05 GMT]
The Indian Supreme Court had today acquitted 19 of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Ghandhi murder case. They had earlier been sentenced to death.
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Sinhalese fishermen protest outside Indian embassy

[TamilNet, Monday, 10 May 1999, 15:49 GMT]
More than forty Sinhala fishermen demonstrated in front of the Indian High Commission this afternoon, demanding the release of their colleagues who have been detained in India. The protesters were blocked when they attempted to enter the high commission and present a memorandum.
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Tamil language journalists form association

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 May 1999, 20:26 GMT]
Sri Lankan Tamil language journalists formed their own media organisation today. More than sixty five Tamil language journalists, broadcasters, TV presenters etc., gathered this evening at the Ramakrishna mission hall to form the Sri Lanka Tamil Media Alliance.
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SLA sends demolition crew home

[TamilNet, Sunday, 09 May 1999, 06:24 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops prevented a group of Policemen from demolishing five shops at Horowapothana Road in Vavuniya town yesterday.
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Disappointment for detainees' parents

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 May 1999, 11:56 GMT]
Six Tamil youths arrested in Jaffna were not produced in Anuradhapura Magistrate's court yesterday as expected. Instead they were produced at a small court in the town of Kahatagaskeliya, 20 km south of Anuradhapura.
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News in Brief:

[TamilNet, Saturday, 08 May 1999, 11:54 GMT]
Families move for airforce expansion; Army Captain accused of selling explosives; EPDP leader calls for NEPC elections, Mylanthanai massacre hearing postponed and LTTE shells SLA camp.
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