| 29/01/2008, 10:39am, Tue. | Sri Lanka Watch |
| Tiger Strategy Ahead of Forthcoming Ground Invasions |
The number 10 Fighter Jet Squadron of the Sri Lanka Air force launched
a counter attack on LTTE Artillery Trenches at Kalmunai Point, in the
general area Pooneryn this morning, soon after a rebel attack on the
Palaly Military Base, Kankesanthurai and Keeramalai that grounded all
air traffic to a halt. A total of 15 shells fell inside the Palaly base.
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| 17/01/2008, 10:56am, Thu. | Good Sri Lanka |
| SLA disrupts Thaippongkal Day in Thenmaraadchi |
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops in Kaithadi in Jaffna forcibly took more
than 600 local residents Tuesday early morning, disrupting their
Thaippongkal rituals, to the playgrounds and schools in the area and
held them for interrogation until evening.
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| 27/12/2007, 12:16pm, Thu. | Tamileelam News |
| Sea Tigers Destroys Sri Lankan Navy Dvora FAC in Jaffna (Update -2) |
Jaffnar - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sea Tigers and the Sri Lankan Navel forces (SNF) clashes in Neduntheevu sea at 12:45 pm on Wednesday. At least ten Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) sailors were killed, including a commanding officer, when a Sri Lanka Navy Dvora Fast Attack Craft (FAC) was destroyed by the Sea Tigers while two more Dvora FAC were badly damaged and fighting still continue at see, according to the informed sources in Jaffna.
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| 18/12/2007, 10:55am, Tue. | Colombo Page |
| Red Cross worker killed in Jaffna |
The body of a 40-year-old volunteer of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS in Jaffna was found yesterday in Jaffna.
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| 03/12/2007, 04:15am, Mon. | Lanka Business Online |
| Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula – an inside look from outside |
The air force pilot takes no chances landing on the Jaffna peninsula,
the northern tip of Sri Lanka held by the government but cut off from
the south by Tamil Tiger rebel territory. Descending fast from over the Indian Ocean, the Russian-made transport
plane banks hard, its wing almost clipping the jungle canopy below.
Flares pump out the back to fool any heat-seeking missile.
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| 13/10/2007, 07:55am, Sat. | BBC |
| 'No access' to Arbour in Jaffna |
Civilians affected by the escalated hostilities in the northern Sri
Lankan peninsular were prevented from meeting a top UN rights official,
Jaffna residents said.
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| 13/09/2007, 10:38am, Thu. | Asia News |
| Women in the north, the forgotten victims of the civil war |
Women living in the Jaffna Peninsula, in northern Sri Lanka, are crying
out for help. Forgotten victims of a civil war that is devastating the
country’s northern and eastern regions, they want the same
opportunities that women enjoy in the south.
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| 03/08/2007, 12:37pm, Fri. | TamilNet |
| Jaffna students boycott lectures protesting Journalist's killing |
Undergraduate students at Jaffna campus and the students of Jaffna
Technical College (High Tech) boycotted lectures Friday protesting the
Wednesday murder of Deluxshan, 22, a young media student at Jaffna
University Media Research and Training Center and Sasiroopan, 25, a
student of Jaffna Technical College (High Tech) who was shot dead
Thursday, sources in Jaffna said.
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| 26/07/2007, 08:04am, Thu. | TamilNet |
| Youths corroborate SLA complicity in abductions |
Youths recently released after being abducted corroborated the alleged involvement of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in the recent wave of abductions of youth in the Jaffna peninsula using Buffel Armoured Personnel Carriers.
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| 19/01/2008, 12:13pm, Sat. | Daily Mirror |
| Indian firm cements KKS deal |
The Birla Corporation of India is to take over the Kankesanturai Cement
Factory which is the first such industry in Sri Lanka. The government
suspended operations of the KKS cement factory since the 1980s after
the eruption of the ethnic conflict.
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| 18/12/2007, 11:08am, Tue. | Ground Views |
| Until the Guns are silent |
I set out on the journey to Jaffna hoping to report on the situation
there. I got back yesterday but am still unable to put down anything on
paper as I don’t know where to start. Do I start with the little boy I
met who saved his baby brother’s life by scooping his intestines back
into his torn belly and holding him till he was given medical
attention?
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| 05/12/2007, 04:44am, Wed. | Yahoo! News |
| Sri Lanka to blame for 700 deaths in Jaffna: rights group |
Sri Lankan security forces are to blame for the murder of 700 civilians
in Jaffna, a rights body said Tuesday, holding both Colombo and the
Tamil Tigers accountable for the island nation's misery.
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| 13/10/2007, 08:00am, Sat. | Lanka eNews |
| UN Human Rights Commissioner loses her own human rights |
UN Human Rights Commissioner Louise Arbour who came to Sri Lanka to
inspect the security situation in north-east and to look into the human
rights violations has been made desperate by the government.
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| 06/09/2007, 06:15am, Thu. | Lanka eNews |
| Special IDs for Jaffna residents over 10 yrs. Of age |
All persons above the age of 10 in Jaffna have been asked to apply for
special identity cards before September 12 by the Palaly Army
Headquarters. The rule also applies to those who are permanent residents of Jaffna as well.
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| 03/08/2007, 05:44am, Fri. | Reporters Without Borders |
| Student magazine editor gunned down at his home in Jaffna |
Reporters Without Borders voiced outrage at the murder today of
Sahathevan Nilakshan, a journalism student and editor of a publication
linked to a student union. He was shot dead by gunmen who entered his
home near Jaffna early this morning before the end of a nighttime
curfew.
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| 29/07/2007, 09:37am, Sun. | TamilNet |
| SLA launches artillery barrage in Northern FDL |
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna has launched a barrage of artillery
shells Sunday early morning into Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE)
territory across the Northern Forward Defence Line of the Tigers. The
artillery barrage continued for more than 4 hours.
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| 23/07/2007, 02:55pm, Mon. | TamilNet |
| NGO worker shot dead in Jaffna |
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a field officer of Danish Refugee Council
(DRC), an International humanitarian organization in Jaffna, at
Aanaikoaddai Monday around 8:30 a.m, when the victim was on his way to
work at DRC Jaffna office, sources in Jaffna said.
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