Civil society members meet SLA in Jaffna Bishop's House

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 April 2006, 10:35 GMT]
Representatives of the People's Committee for Peace and Goodwill (PCPG) and members of Jaffna NGOs consortium met with Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Senior officials at the House of Jaffna Bishop, Rev Fr Thomas Saundaranayagam at 11.30 a.m., Monday to explore ways to arrest the increasing violence in the district, civil society sources in Jaffna said.
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Two youths killed in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Monday, 24 April 2006, 06:38 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers gunned down a youth and another was reported killed in a blast that took place around 7:30 a.m., Monday, when SLA soldiers detected a Claymore attack on Thivu Road in Vantharumoolai, police said. SLA sources have claimed that the youths killed were attackers. An SLA soldier was wounded. An ambush on an SLA patrol was also reported at 10:30 a.m. at 18th Mile Post on Batticaloa - Valaichenai Road, no casulties were reported.


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Jaffna ice-cream vendor injured by gunfire

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 April 2006, 15:02 GMT]
S. Kajendran, 25, an ice-cream seller was seriously injured when gunmen fired at the van he was travelling in at the Natchimar Kovil area in Jaffna-KKS road at 7 p.m. Sunday, sources said. The driver and his front-seat passenger said that the gunfire was from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers who were stationed near the junction.
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LTTE sentry attacked in Vavunathivu, 3 wounded

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 April 2006, 12:48 GMT]
Three Liberation Tigers cadres who were repairing the bunkers at LTTE controlled Vavunathivu were wounded in Sri Lanka Army soldiers gun and mortar fire, alleged LTTE's Political Head of Batticaloa District, Mr. Daya Mohan.
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Two SLA soldiers wounded in gunfire in Welikanda

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 April 2006, 09:57 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were wounded when unidentified gunmen launched an ambush attack on an SLA checkpost at Vadamuani, 6 km southeast of Welikanda Sunday around 6:30 a.m. Welikanda police said.
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Gunnmen target auto-rickshaw owners, another killed

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 April 2006, 09:50 GMT]
An auto-rickshaw owner was shot dead by gunmen at Irupalai junction on the Jaffna-Pt.Pedro main road, around 1 p.m., Sunday. "The victim was sitting inside his vehicle. He was chased by the assailants when he tried to escape. He was shot and killed near Vairavar temple. Sri Lanka Army soldiers were standing by," an eyewitness told TamilNet. The SLA has a large camp about 100 metres from the junction. In a seperate incident, a former member of the PLOTE, Amirthanathan Kennady,35, was gunned down at Navanthurai, in Jaffna, around noon, Sunday.
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Funeral of Kanniya Tamil youth held

[TamilNet, Sunday, 23 April 2006, 08:22 GMT]
Kanniya resettled Tamil community plunged into deep grief and sorrow when the funeral of seventeen year old Pakkiaraja Baskaran alias Batchcha, a member of a resettled family was held Sunday morning in the Kanniya cemetery. SLA soldiers took the youth into custody Friday evening. Later he was shot and killed allegedly by SLA soldiers, civil sources said.
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Vavuniya trader shot dead

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 15:07 GMT]
Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a shop owner at Veppankulam, 2.6 km northwest of Vavuniya Saturday at 7:55 p.m.
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Claymore blast hits Buffel APC, 2 SLA soldiers killed, 6 wounded in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 13:29 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed and 6 wounded when a Buffel Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) was hit by a claymore blast at Kalmadu in Vavuniya around 5.30. p.m., Saturday, SLA sources said.
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Two auto-rickshaw drivers shot dead in Nelliady

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 13:01 GMT]
Unidentified gunmen riding in a motorbike shot dead two owners of auto-rikshaws, at the central bus stand in Nelliady, Vadamaradchy at 5 p.m. Saturday, sources in Jaffna said. Subramaniam Vaseekaran, alias Kannan, one of the two killed, is the current President of the Vadamaradchy branch Auto-rickshaw Owners Union, civil sources said. Relatives and witnesses accuse the Sri Lanka Army and collaborating paramilitaries for carrying out the killing.
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Kanniya shocked over youth's killing

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 12:31 GMT]
Resettled families in Kanniya, a traditional Tamil village in Trincomalee are shocked over the killing of 17 year-old Tamil youth Pakkiaraja Baskaran alias Batchcha allegedly by soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Friday nigh, civil sources said. His body was recovered near Barathipuram located close to Mihindupra Saturday morning,
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SLA Major killed, Claymore ambush in Welikanda

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 08:30 GMT]
A Major rank Sri Lanka Army official and an SLA soldier were killed and five SLA soldiers wounded when their pickup vehicle was ambushed with a Claymore mine at Welikanda in Batticaloa-Polonnaruwa border Saturday around 1:00 p.m. SLA officials in Colombo said.
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SLA soldier killed, one wounded in Vavuniya Claymore attack

[TamilNet, Saturday, 22 April 2006, 06:20 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) solder was killed and another soldier sustained minor wounds when three claymore mines targeted at an SLA road patrol at Thevapuram, 7 km north of Vavuniya Saturday around 10:00 a.m. exploded, Sri Lanka Army sources in Vavuniya said.
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Sri Lankan trooper succumbs to injuries

[TamilNet, Friday, 21 April 2006, 18:20 GMT]
A Sri Lankan soldier attached to Batticaloa military base succumbed to serious injuries Friday around 2.45 p.m. at Colombo National Hospital where he was admitted after being injured in the claymore blast Monday at Korakallimadu, Kiran in Batticaloa, Eravur police said.
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Youth shot dead by SLA in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 April 2006, 19:40 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers shot and killed a Tamil youth, Thursday morning near Kanniay village during a road patrol, sources said. The body is lying in Trincomalee hospital and has not been identified yet, hospital sources said. Meanwhile, a civilian has gone missing and another youth shot and injured by unknown gunmen in a separate incident in Trincomalee between Wednesday evening and Thursday, sources said.
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Attacks on Sri Lankan forces escalate in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 April 2006, 09:22 GMT]
Three claymore attacks targetting Sri Lankan forces were reported Thursday morning in Batticaloa. Two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were wounded in one attack in Urani where a claymore mine was fixed to a boat, Police said.
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Five civilians shot and killed by SLA soldiers in Puthur East, Jaffna

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 03:11 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers shot and killed five Tamil civilians Tuesday night close to an SLA 51-1 Division camp located at Vatharavathai, 13 km north-east of Jaffna. The soldiers took the five civilians, a Municipal Council official, an electrical mechanic, a farmer and two auto-rikshaw drivers, into their camp and later brought them out to an open terrain and gunned them down, villagers said. A terror-campaign, let loose on the civilians in Puthur in October 2005, when the villagers spoiled a rape attempt by the soldiers, triggered a series of Claymore attacks in Jaffna. Tuesday's killings come a few hours after Australia commending Colombo for "not retaliating in kind."
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Grenade attack, SLA soldiers open fire at Poonthottam, Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 April 2006, 18:05 GMT]
A Sri Lanka policeman was killed and two wounded when unidentified attackers lobbed a grenade into a Sri Lanka Army and Police checkpost in Poonthottam, Vavuniya at 9:30 p.m. Monday. SLA soldiers and policemen opened fire and blocked all traffic. Telephone lines remained cut in the area. Tension prevailed in the area following the incident.
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2000 Tamils seek refuge in Kappalthurai School

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 April 2006, 14:34 GMT]
About two thousand members from four hundred Tamil families of resettled Tamil village Kappalthurai have sought refuge in Kappalthurai government Tamil school. They fled from their houses when soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army assaulted some of them following the claymore mine blast that killed three troopers of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Saturday night, sources said.
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Another Thenmaradchi trader shot and killed

[TamilNet, Monday, 17 April 2006, 08:11 GMT]
Four gunmen riding in two motorbikes entered an electric shop located on A9 Road at Meesalai in Thenmaradchi and gunned down Mr. Ramalingam Sakilan, 30, the owner of the shop, around 11:30 a.m., Monday. The gunmen were wearing military uniforms. Around 15 SLA soldiers were standing outside the shop blocking civilian traffic when the killing took place. Tamil traders are being targetted by SLA operated gunmen in retaliation to the escalating Claymore attacks, civilian sources said.
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