| 08/04/2008, 09:12am, Tue. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| TMVP - Rajapakse combo creating terror in East |
It is learnt that many prominent popular Tamil politicians who were to
contest the May 10 Provincial Council elections in the Eastern
Province have withdrawn at the last minute owing to unrelenting threats
and intimidation from the LTTE breakaway group, Tamil Makkal Viduthalai
Pulikal- TMVP, (Pillayan group) although the Rajapakse Govt. repudiates
such accusations supporting the illegally armed TMVP.
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| 03/01/2008, 11:48am, Thu. | Ground Views |
| “Liberated”- A Personal Account Of Batticaloa And Ampara |
Mihiri Weerasinghe is an independent researcher and a Masters candidate at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. The lagoon lay shimmering in the afternoon heat, mesmerized by the sun.
Three young boys jostled in the thicket nearby sharing a smoke, then
tired, they plunged into the lagoon, rippling the waters, alarming a
stork.
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| 03/12/2007, 10:31am, Mon. | South Asian Media |
| Pressure on Batti IDPs to return: SLMM |
The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) said thousands of displaced
civilians from areas West of Batticaloa were being pressurised to
return to their original homes despite their unwillingness to do so
owing to security and other concerns.
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| 06/09/2007, 04:46am, Thu. | TamilNet |
| Colombo aims to carve out Sinhala district between North and East - Sampanthan |
The Government of Sri Lanka is giving in for the demands of the extreme
nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), with its plans a foot to carve
out a Sinhala district between Trincomalee district in the Eastern
Province and Mullaiththeevu in the Northern Province, aiming to split
the geographical contiguity of the Tamil homeland, charged R. Sampanthan, the senior Tamil parliamentarian and the parliamentary group leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA).
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| 25/07/2007, 12:23pm, Wed. | Lanka eNews |
| A semi-military rule for the Eastern Province |
Sri Lanka Army Eastern Commander Major General Parakrama Pannipitiya
has advised the security chiefs and the civil administrators by a
circular that the NGOs should not be allowed to engage independently in
the development work in the recently liberated Eastern Province.
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| 18/07/2007, 12:51am, Wed. | Daily Mirror |
| LTTE attack: Captain killed, soldiers wounded |
At least one Army captain was killed and several soldiers wounded when a group of fleeing Tigers from Thoppigala confronted the military at the Sittaru area in Kantale yesterday evening that ended in causing heavy casualties to the Tigers.A senior military official said the military had launched the attack targeting the fleeing LTTE cadres consisting of more than 50 cadres.
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| 17/07/2007, 08:45am, Tue. | Khaleej Times |
| Rajapaksa the liberator? |
THE victory at Thoppigala last week brought the Eastern Province, one of Sri Lanka’s nine administrative provinces, under the control of the government. The defeat of the LTTE in the east is, no doubt, a victory for the security forces.
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| 17/07/2007, 07:24am, Tue. | BBC Sinhala |
| LTTE leaders 'allowed to escape' |
UNP says LTTE leaders were allowed to escape from Thoppigala. Sri Lanka's opposition leader has accused the government of allowing the Tamil Tiger regional leaders to escape as the government troops recaptured a rebel stroghold.
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| 12/07/2007, 05:13pm, Thu. | Reuters |
| "Home has lost all meaning." Story from Sri Lanka |
"I had only heard the noise all this while, but two weeks ago I
actually saw one," says Christa about the shelling in her home town of
Batticaloa. "We all saw it. All the children in my class.
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| 09/07/2007, 06:42am, Mon. | TamilNet |
| SLA shoots dead Tamil youth in Chiththaa'ndi |
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) shot dead a Tamil youth at Chiththaa'ndi Murugan Koayil Road in Ea'raavoor Police division in Batticaloa district at 11:10 p.m. on Saturday, civil sources said. Ea'raavoor Police recovered the body of the victim, Konamalai Rajikumar, 18, of Kaali Koayil Road, Chiththaa'ndi, at 1:00 p.m. Sunday.
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| 28/03/2008, 09:41am, Fri. | Lanka eNews |
| Is the Batticaloa claymore Pillaiyan's? |
There are serious doubts if the claymore that targeted a troop of
police personnel at Walakala junction on Kanchurankuda - Arasiri road
in Batticaloa police division today (26) was an act of a non-LTTE
group.
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| 09/12/2007, 09:37am, Sun. | Lanka Dissent |
| Karuna-Pillayan factions clash again |
The latest clash that broke out between the Karuna and Pillayan
Factions in Batticaloa yesterday (Dec. 07th ) left two senior loyalists
of Karuna Amman dead, sources in the east say. The Pillayan Faction,
led by Karuna’s rival successor in the east identified as Era, overran
the TMVP office at Ariyampathi in the morning and seized nine enemy
supporters.
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| 07/09/2007, 11:30am, Fri. | Colombo Page |
| Sri Lanka Muslims deny acceptance of new Eastern Province flag |
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, the major constituent of the minority
community that accounts to 7% of the nearly 20 million population of
the country, says that the new flag designed by the recently set up
Eastern Province does not represent the Muslim community.
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| 25/07/2007, 12:28pm, Wed. | Bloomberg |
| Sri Lanka's Victory Claims Are Political, Rebels Say |
Sri Lanka's government is claiming victory over the Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eelam in the east as a political move to boost President
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the rebel group said, adding that its forces are
still in the region.
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| 17/07/2007, 08:53am, Tue. | Lanka Web |
| Archeologist Medhananda tells Ranil Thoppigala area was the birthplace of Suranimala and many national treasures are buried there |
Archeologist Venerable Ellawela Medhananda, rejected the notion expressed by United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe that Thoppigala, just captured from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is simply an insignificant jungle and said it is an area buried with archeological treasures very significant to Sri Lanka’s history including the birthplace of Suranimala, an ancient war hero who helped to liberate Sri Lanka from foreign yoke during the Anuradhapura civilization.
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| 16/07/2007, 03:29pm, Mon. | TamilNet |
| Eastern Provincial Chief Secretary shot dead in Trincomalee |
H.M.Herat Abeyeweera, Chief Secretary of East Provincial Council was
shot dead Monday around 6.15 p.m. by an unidentified man when he was
coming out of his office which is located along Inner Harbour Road in
Trincomalee town.
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| 11/07/2007, 05:00pm, Wed. | Reuters |
| Sri Lanka declares fall of rebel east, Tigers defiant |
Sri Lankan troops drove Tamil Tiger fighters from their last stronghold
in the island's east on Wednesday, the military said, but the rebels
vowed to carry on with a guerrilla-style war.
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| 08/07/2007, 06:11am, Sun. | TamilNet |
| SLA Major, 5 soldiers killed in Kudumpimalai |
A Sri Lanka Army Major and five soldiers were killed and seven wounded Friday morning in Kudumpimalai (Thoppikkal) jungle when SLA troops confronted fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE), according to military sources in the Eastern city of Batticaloa. In the North, 3 soldiers were killed on Thursday when fighting erupted in Vavuniyaa-Mannaar border.
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