Jaffna island troops pulled out

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Sections of the 514 Brigade of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) stationed at Allaipiddy, Mandatheevu and Mankumban, in the islands off the Jaffna peninsula, are in the process of being withdrawn to other areas, said sources in Jaffna.
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Former SLAF chief's guard charged

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 05 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Rukmal Herath, a bodyguard of the former Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) commander, Air Marshal Oliver Ranasinghe, was produced before the Gangodawila courts, in a suburb of Colombo, on the charge of attacking Iqbal Athas, a well known Sri Lankan journalist, said legal sources in Colombo.
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Seminar on education of war children

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
A seminar is in progress at the Pastoral House in Trincomalee on how the estimated 10,000 children in the areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are unable go to school due to the war, can be educated, said sources at the Ministry of Education inTrincomalee.
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Thoppur KIA at Muthur hospital

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The bodies of the ten policemen and one soldier of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) killed last evening at the Thoppur police and SLA camp when it was stormed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are now lying at the Muthur District Hospital 40 km south of Trincomalee, said sources in Trincomalee.
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Police demand better security

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
A conference was held at the Kalmunai police station today, to seek ways whereby security at the police stations and posts in the Kalmunai area could be strengthened, said sources in Batticaloa.
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Tamil groups seek govt. cease-fire

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The Eelam Peoples' Democratic Party (EPDP), Peoples' Liberation Organisation Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and EPRLF. are meeting this evening to draft a request to the Sri Lanka Government to reciprocate the cease-fire declared by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Wednesday and Thursday (May 6&7), said sources in Batticaloa.
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Wattewewa police station attacked

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
One home-guard was killed and two policemen injured, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked a police post at Wattewewa, within the Madirigiriya police division in the Polonnaruwa District, around 12:30 a.m. last night, said sources in Valaichenai.
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Archaeological treasures to be catalogued

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
A two day workshop, which was addressed by prominent scholars, began today in Trincomalee today, to recruit 30 graduates and equip them with the required Equipment to make an inventory of the archaeological and traditional artefacts in north-east, said sources in Trincomalee.
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Ratwatte orders Amparai borders strengthened

[TamilNet, Monday, 04 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Deputy Minister of Defence, Anuruddha Ratwatte, during a tour of the camps coming within the Amparai Brigade's area of command, told senior SLA personnel that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which was once on the fringes of the area coming under SLA control in Amparai, had managed to infiltrate within, said sources in Batticaloa.
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Army uses civilians as human shields - MP

[TamilNet, Sunday, 03 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Joseph Parajasingham MP (Tamil United Liberation Front, Batticaloa District) has written to Sri Lanka President Chandrika Kumaratunga requesting her to bring to a halt the practice of subjecting youths to hard labour under inhuman conditions by Sri Lankan Army (SLA).
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Unidentified man killed in confrontation

[TamilNet, Sunday, 03 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
An unidentified man, suspected to be a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was killed and a soldier of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) injured in a confrontation at Sivappupaalathady in Aarankal in the Kinniya area, 15 km south of Trincomalee on Friday night, said sources in Trincomalee.
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Lone gunman panics police force

[TamilNet, Sunday, 03 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Two contradictory stories emerged today of a man who went berserk at the Kalmunai police station this evening, shooting three policemen dead and wounding seven others, before he was killed, said sources in Batticaloa.
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LTTE declares cease-fire for visit

[TamilNet, Sunday, 03 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has declared a cease-fire on Wednesday and Thursday (6 and 7 May) as an expression of its support for the visit of United Nations Special Representative on Children in Armed Conflict Areas, Olara Otunnu, said Voice of Tigers (V0T) in its broadcast tonight.
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Eleven killed as camp overrun

[TamilNet, Sunday, 03 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Ten policemen and one soldier were killed when the Thoppur Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and police camp, 40 km south of Trincomalee, on the Muthur-Thoppur road, was overrun by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) around 5:30 p.m. today, said sources in Trincomalee.
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Meetings mark Jaffna May Day

[TamilNet, Saturday, 02 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Eleven public meetings were held in Jaffna yesterday as part of the May 1 celebrations. Eelam People's Democratic Organisation (EPDP) organised 6 public meetings in Jaffna yesterday. Approximately 40-50 people attended each of these meeting, said sources in Jaffna.
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Thopoor embargo begins to bite

[TamilNet, Saturday, 02 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
A shortage of food and other consumer necessities has arisen at Thopoor, 25 km south of Trincomalee, since last week, when the police intensified restrictions placed on food and other consumer items being transported into the village, said sources in Trincomalee.
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Two more boats stolen

[TamilNet, Saturday, 02 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Two fibre glass boats belonging to the Fisheries Training School at Navalady, 4 km north of Batticaloa, were removed around 11:00 p.m. last night, by unidentified persons after they overpowered the guards in the training school premises, said sources in Valaichenai.
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Tigers confirm boats' capture

[TamilNet, Friday, 01 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has acknowledged its military activity at Sathurkondan, 4 km north of Batticaloa Wednesday night, said the Voice of Tigers (VoT) broadcast in its night transmission yesterday.
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Central province blasts

[TamilNet, Friday, 01 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Two transformers at Hatton, a town in the Central Province's Nuwara Eliya District, were extensively damaged by explosions around 4:00 a.m. this morning, said sources in Hatton. One of transformers is located at Malliappuwa and the other at Dunbar Road.
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Two Tiger boats sunk - SLN

[TamilNet, Friday, 01 May 1998, 23:59 GMT]
Two boats of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were sunk by the Sri Lanka Navy's (SLN) Dvora Inshore Patrol Craft after an hour long battle in the Mullaitivu sea near Challai, around 5:30 a.m. this morning, said SLN sources in Trincomalee.
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