Two tamil policemen arrested

[TamilNet, Friday, 18 September 1998, 17:59 GMT]
Two Tamil Policemen, accused of spying for the Liberation Tigers were arrested yesterday in Batticaloa by the office of the Deputy Inspector General Police of the district. Both men were handed over to the local Counter Subversive Unit (CSU) by the arresting authorities.
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Police officer cleared of charges

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 September 1998, 12:05 GMT]
The Tamil police inspector, suspected of involvement in a bomb-explosion in Marudane earlier this year, has been cleared of the offence by court.
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Tamil speakers neglected - Minister

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 September 1998, 09:39 GMT]
Producers and marketers of consumer goods in Sri Lanka are practising racial discrimination in packaging, says Mr. P. Chandrasekaran, junior minister for housing in plantation areas.
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Sporadic Vanni fighting - SLA

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 September 1998, 23:12 GMT]
Sri Lankan Army (SLA) conducted search operations in the Ambakamam and Kunchikkulam Forwards Defence Localities (FDL) and recovered 127 anti-personnel mines set by the Liberation Tigers, claimed Brigadier Tennekoon at the weekly cabinet press briefing held today.
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Senior businessman abducted in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 15 September 1998, 20:34 GMT]
The search for the Vice President of the Vavuniya Traders' Association Mr.K Shanmugarajah who was abducted on Sunday, Sept.13, has drawn a blank as all the armed Tamil groups and the Police in the town have said that they have no connection in the matter said sources.
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Ethnic cleansing in the estates

[TamilNet, Monday, 14 September 1998, 21:41 GMT]
Tamil areas in the estate sector of the Ratnapura district were tense again today following the murder of a Tamil labourer from the Horamulla estate in the Rakkuwana division. The labourer, identified as Nehru, 38 was burnt to death this afternoon.
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SLA soldier killed near Chenkalady

[TamilNet, Monday, 14 September 1998, 07:42 GMT]
Five soldiers were wounded and one was killed when an SLA convoy from Batticaloa town to Polannaruwa was hit by a claymore mine blast this morning around 10.40 a.m. near Chenkalady, 16 kilometers north of the eastern town.
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Concern for activists - Amnesty

[TamilNet, Monday, 14 September 1998, 07:41 GMT]
Amnesty International, the human rights organisation, said Friday that it is concerned about five activists of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), formerly the Revolutionary Communist League, following their arrest by the intelligence unit of the Liberation Tigers in the embattled Kilinochchi district.
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Mayor's funeral arrangements finalised

[TamilNet, Sunday, 13 September 1998, 13:42 GMT]
An emergency meeting of the Jaffna Municipal Council was convened this morning by deputy Mayor Nadarajah Raviraj of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF).
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Protest shuts Trincomalee down

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 September 1998, 23:15 GMT]
The Hartal called by the Trincomalee Urban Council(UC) today to mark the intervention by the Sri Lankan security forces and Sinhala officials one year ago to stop the opening of the council's new market was a complete success said sources in the eastern port town this afternoon.
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Begin talks with LTTE - TULF MP

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 September 1998, 18:26 GMT]
A senior member of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) said that the assassination of the Jaffna Mayor P. Sivapalan indicated that the Sri Lanka Government (SLG) and the Opposition should not play hide and seek in the matter of finding solution to the ethnic problem, but begin talks with the key player in the issue ñ the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
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Tamil labour settlement attacked

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 September 1998, 18:16 GMT]
The situation in the Ratnapura district continued to be volatile as Sinhala mobs attacked another Tamil labour settlement in the Benegoda estate.
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It all ends in tears

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 September 1998, 15:14 GMT]
Allegations of murder and kidnapping that had led to tensions between the Muslim and Tamil communities in Batticaloa finally fizzled out today.
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Para-military shot dead

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 September 1998, 18:19 GMT]
Suspected members of the Liberation Tigers shot dead a member of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation, a Tamil para-military group operating with the Sri Lankan army. The incident occurred last night in Chenkalady,16 kilometers north of Batticaloa, while the TELO cadre was on patrol duty.
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Jaffna Mayor succumbs to injuries

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 September 1998, 10:19 GMT]
Sri Lankan Police sources in Jaffna confirmed that the Jaffna Mayor Pon Sivapalan who was critically wounded in the explosion this morning in Nallur died at the Jaffna hospital around 12.45 p.m.
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Eighteen killed in Jaffna blast

[TamilNet, Friday, 11 September 1998, 06:49 GMT]
Sources in Jaffna said that a massive explosion this morning at the Jaffna Municipal council office had killed 18 people including senior members of the Sri Lankan security forces. The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) confirmed that Jaffna town commander, Brigadier Susantha Mendis and his Principal Staff Officer (PSO), Captain Ramanayaka, were killed in the blast.
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Conditional negotiations only - Ratwatte

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 September 1998, 22:00 GMT]
While maintaining that a settlement in Sri Lanka's war in could only be reached through a political process involving the Liberation Tigers, Deputy Minister of Defence, Anuruddha Ratwatte , said that this could be only be achieved by negotiating on the conditions put forward by the Peoples' Alliance (PA) Government and not unconditionally as the opposition United National Party (UNP) was proposing.
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TULF leader recuperating

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 September 1998, 21:54 GMT]
M. Sivasithamparam, leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) left for Chennai, India, to be with his family after being discharged from the National Hospital of Sri Lanka today after a period of illness.
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Line rooms torched

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 September 1998, 21:51 GMT]
Tamils from a tea estate in the Arulpola Division at Wewalwatte in the Ratnapura District, took refuge in a tea factory after a 300 strong Sinhala mob set fire to their 'line rooms' on Wednesday night, said sources.
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Inland Revenue discriminates against Tamils - MP

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 September 1998, 05:32 GMT]
Despite the Sri Lankan Department of Inland Revenue having regional offices in Jaffna and Batticaloa, people living in nearby Mannar, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya and Trincomalee districts of the Northeast Province have to deal with the Department through its regional office in Anurdhapura which is in the North Central Province, said Joseph Pararjasingham, MP (Tamil United Liberation Front - Batticaloa District) in Parliament on Wednesday.
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