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ITRO condemns SLAF attack on "Peace Village" with 5 orphanages [TamilNet, August 14, 2006 13:42 GMT] Chencholai Valaham is the campus among the orphanages at the Peace Village of Vallipunam, said the International Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (ITRO London), the representative body of the overseas offices of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation in a press statement condemning the Sri Lanka Air Force bombing that killed 61 schoolchildren and wounded more than 129. "The area is well known by all parties: the Government of Sri Lanka, the Government Agent, ICRC, UNICEF and all those who work in the Vanni," the organisation said urging the international communit…

"SRI LANKA -THE COUNTRY WILL NEVER BE PUT TOGETHER AGAIN" - Lee Kuan Yew, 1998 Date: 13 August 2006 Source : Book - The Man and His Ideas by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez and Sumiko Tan 1998 Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas is the title of a book published in Singapore in 1998. Written by three Straits Times journalists Han Fook Kwang Warren Fernandez and Sumiko Tan, the book carries fresh interviews with Lee Kuan Yew on the events that shaped his life and the way he governed Singapore. Now in his graying years - he is 74 now - the founding father of Singapore is regarded as virtually a national institution at home. In transforming a busy ramsh…

Tigers repulse SLA counter-thrust [TamilNet, August 13, 2006 16:41 GMT] A counter-thrust by the Sri Lanka Army’s (SLA) elite 53 division to recapture areas in Jaffna lost to the Liberation Tigers in the past two days was destroyed by LTTE forces using artillery and close quarter fighting, sources in Kilinochchi said. In Colombo, ambulances have been shuttling between Ratmalana and hospitals in the capital since early hours Sunday carrying military wounded, sources said. LTTE fighters were consolidating in areas captured from the Sri Lankan military over the past two days whilst continuing operations against other SLA positions, sources in Kilino…

* Special announcement tonight from the Sri Lanka government Sunday, August 13, 2006, 13:27 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Aug 13, Colombo: The Sri Lanka government will make a special announcement on the current situation in the country, said a spokesperson for the Presidential Secretariat. The special announcement is expected to be made within a couple of hours. Meanwhile, fighting between government forces and the LTTE continues in the country's North and East.[/b

Eelam war IV rages on several fronts- Situation Report *** Tigers use long-range artillery to attack Palaly base *** Tigers occupy Army bunkers in Muhamalai but troops fight back Plans by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to lay siege on the Jaffna peninsula began to unravel on Friday evening as Eelam War IV raged for a second successive week. The most disturbing development came when guerrillas directed artillery fire at the Security Forces Headquarters (SFHQ) in Jaffna. It fell on many places including the runway at the Palaly Air Force base located in the same complex. A Bell 212 helicopter was damaged. Military officials said the guerrilla…

Sri Lanka claims "talks offer" as fighting continues [TamilNet, August 13, 2006 08:11 GMT] As heavy fighting continued between the Liberation Tigers and Sri Lanka’s military in the northern Jaffna peninsula, the government in Colombo claimed Sunday to have received on Friday an offer of talks from the LTTE and that it was accepting it. The government announcement came as press reports said the military’s air bridge to the Jaffna peninsula had been cut as the Palaly airbase continued to remain under LTTE artillery fire. The sea lines to Jaffna were also being disrupted by LTTE shelling of Trincomalee port, reports said. The head of the government's peace secretar…

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels broke through military defences in the island's far north and overran army bunkers on Saturday, truce monitors said, as the fiercest fighting since a 2002 truce spread. The Tigers and army exchanged intense artillery fire and government jets bombed near the rebels' forward defence lines in the northern Jaffna peninsula, residents said, as thousands of civilians fled to churches. The military said 27 of its personnel were killed and 80 injured, and estimated it killed more than 150 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels. It said it sank five Sea Tiger boats as they attacked army posts on t…

Muhamalai overrun, battle on Mandaithivu [TamilNet, August 12, 2006 07:11 GMT] Heavy fighting is reported at different locations in the southern Jaffna peninsula between Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops and the Liberation Tigers. The Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio confirmed that LTTE forces repelling SLA offensive towards Elephant Pass have now broken through SLA forward defence lines (FDLs) at Muhamalai. But Jaffna correspondents quoted military sources as saying that FDLs had been "breached in several locations." SLA artillery and Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) jets are bombarding Mandathivu island, which LTTE officials say had been prepared as a launch pad for another offe…

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060811/wl_nm/...nka_attack_dc_1 Tiger rebels attack eastern Sri Lankan harbor: Navy COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers fired artillery at a Navy base in the island's strategic eastern Trincomalee harbor before dawn on Saturday, the military said, as the worst fighting since a 2002 truce deepened. "Trincomalee harbor is under artillery attack," said Navy spokesman Commander D.K.P. Dassanayake. There were no immediate details. Fierce shelling continued in the island's far north, where a new battlefront opened up late on Friday, officials said Rebels attack Navy base as Sri Lanka fighting rages http://news.yahoo.co…

Fresh fighting in Sri Lanka Friday, August 11, 2006 Posted: 1828 GMT (0228 HKT) Manage Alerts | What Is This? COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Tamil rebels struck the main military base at Palaly in northern Jaffna Friday, marking the first time rebels have targeted military headquarters during the four-and-a-half-year cease-fire between Sri Lanka's government and the Tamil Tigers. Security forces conduct all military operations against rebels on the northern Jaffna peninsula. Earlier, government troops were locked in a battle of artillery and mortar fire with Tamil rebels at the Muhamalai checkpoint, known as the gateway from government-contr…

SLA launches offensive from Muhamalai [TamilNet, August 11, 2006 12:10 GMT] Liberation Tigers Military Spokesman Irasaiah Ilanthirayan said the Sri Lankan troopers launched artillery attacks and began a troop movement towards south. The Tiger fighters were rushed to Muhamalai area in defence, he further said. Further details are not available at the moment.

Sri Lanka accused of killing civilians and aid workers By Justin Huggler, Asia Correspondent Published: 11 August 2006 Fighting in Sri Lanka has dramatically worsened, as the UN humanitarian chief called for an independent investigation into the killing of 17 international aid workers. The Tamil Tiger rebels claimed 50 civilians were killed in the areas they control after the government launched a renewed offensive with ground forces backed with air strikes and artillery fire. There was no way of confirming the Tigers' claim, but European ceasefire monitors said the rebels had informed them of 30 to 40 civilian deaths and they considered the figures credibl…

Sri Lanka's ultra-nationalist JVP party has called for the government to wipe out not ony LTTE but its supporters as well in a heated debate Thursday over the Trincomalee crisis. Jayantha Wijesekara, JVP MP from Trincomalee district made his comments in support of JVP Propaganda Secretary Wimal Weerawansa, who said that the LTTE areas of Sampur and Maavilaru must be captured by the Sri Lankan military. The Trincomalee situation dominated Thursdays deliberations in Parliament. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauf Hakeem tabled a motion on the plight of the Muslim people of Trincomalee. JVPs Weerawansa claimed that Mavilaru and Sampur were Sri Lankan gov…

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'Fresh fighting' in Sri Lanka Fresh fighting has broken out between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels in north-eastern Sri Lanka, reports say. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan told the Associated Press that the government troops were attacking Tiger-held areas. "They are attacking us on ground and from air," he said. The Sri Lankan military has confirmed the fighting, but given no further details. On Tuesday, both the army and Tamil Tiger rebels said they had reopened the Maavilaru waterway in the north-east after two weeks of fighting. The government had deployed some 2,000 troops in a bid to reopen the waterway after farmers…

South Asian Centre Urges Collective Action against Sri LankaSource: ITP - August 8, 2006 London, ITP: Dr. Raymond Philipps, Founder-Director of the South Asian Centre for Racial Equality and Peace (SACREP) has written a strongly worded letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations and to the International War crimes Commission stating that it is time these world bodies acted in favor of the Rule of Law to protect the most oppressed community in South Asia, namely, the Tamils of the proto-State of Eelam. The International community has a responsibility to save them from extinction and annihilation by the lethal Sinhala military machine. Though he was unwill…

ACF workers demand handover of massacred NGO workers' bodies [TamilNet, August 07, 2006 11:39 GMT] The humanitarian workers of the French NGO, Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger, ACF) have urged the support of all NGO workers to excert pressure to release the bodies of the massacred Tamil workers in Muthur, NGO sources said. Fifteen Tamil NGO workers were allegedly massacred by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers who entered Muthur town after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters returned to their original positions Friday midnight after launching a 3-day-long counter offensive following Sri Lanka Army offensive towards Maavilaru. …

Two houses set ablaze by paramilitaries in Batticaloa [TamilNet, August 07, 2006 17:08 GMT] Two houses located along Batticaloa-Kaluwankerni main road were burnt down by a paramilitary group working with Sri Lanka State security forces around 6.30 a.m., Monday. One house belonged to Mylvaganam Arumugam who is the sister of Gnanatheepan, the paramilitary Karuna group cadre who surrendered to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after killing five Karuna group members, including Iniyabarathy, last year. Other house destroyed by the fire belonged to family which has four school going children, sources said. Complaint has been lodged with the Eravur …

Sri Lanka’s shelling ‘declaration of war’ - LTTE [TamilNet, August 06, 2006 17:26 GMT] The Liberation Tigers said Sunday that the Sri Lankan government’s artillery bombardment of LTTE-controlled territory as amounting to “declaration of war.” The LTTE has not said if it is going to retaliate. Norwegian Special Envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer is undertaking hectic diplomatic efforts from Kilinochchi where he had been meeting LTTE officials. “We consider this [bombardment] a declaration of war and strongly condemn the attitude of the government," S.P. Thamilselvan told Reuters through a translator via satellite phone. The LTTE called off a major counter-offensive ag…

Eyewitness: 'Trincomalee paralysed' Heavy fighting is continuing in Trincomalee district Heavy fighting has continued between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Trincomalee district. The violence spread on Tuesday to Trincomalee port. The BBC News website spoke to a Tamil man there who lives close to the navy base which has come under mortar attack from the Tamil Tigers. He wishes to remain anonymous. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trincomalee has been paralysed by the violence. There have been blasts close to the navy camp and people in the surrounding area are evac…

Blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms Thursday, 03 August 2006 Hon. Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European External Relations Commission (Sri Lanka) Honoured Madam, Re: “I am deeply concerned at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms,” European External Relations Commission Benita Ferrero-Waldner said in a statement. You were not concerned at the disruption of the peace process to the extent you are concerned, that also deeply, at the blockage of water supplies to thousands of families and farms. You were not concerned at least on humanitarian grounds, when the implementation of the "Joint Mecha…

When Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed the Tamil Homeland killing seven Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres on Thursday 27 July 2006 he was silent. When Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed the Thenam Conference Centre killing eight Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres on Thursday Saturday 29 July 2006 he was silent. When Sri Lanka Army launched offensive to capture Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) administered Mavilaaru on Sunday 30 July 2006 he was silent. When the residents of Mavilaaru complained of promised water facilities not materialising he was silent. When around a million Tamil fishermen complained of not being a…

SLAF bombs Verukal ferry [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 13:41 GMT] Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers Friday evening around 5:00 p.m. bombed and destroyed the ferry linking Liberation Tigers controlled Vakarai mainland with Trincomalee south, civilian sources said. Further details are not available at the moment http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=19070

PK Balachandran Colombo, August 4, 2006 The Sri Lankan Muslim Congress (SLMC), the island's premier Muslim political party, has blamed the Sri Lankan government primarily, for the shelling of the Muslim town of Mutur which has killed more than 30 civilians in the past three days. "We may seem to be making an anti-government statement. But we have to go by what the local people tell us, and they say, that most of the shells had come from the direction of the army camps in the vicinity," the Leader of the SLMC, Rauff Hakeem, told newspersons here on Friday. He said that he had brought this to the notice of the Sri Lankan top brass, Presidential Advisor Ba…

TRO caring 10 000 IDPs, seeks assistance from ICRC, GoSL, SLMM [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 12:35 GMT] Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) on Thursday said the organisation was taking care of ten thousand IDPs in Trincomalee district. Food and water has been provided by the TRO to the IDPs since 01 August 2006. "Stockpiles of food are running low and TRO is appealing to the ICRC, Government of Sri Lanka, and the SLMM to facilitate the transportation of humanitarian relief to the displaced persons," the organisation said. TRO has also received requests for assistance from the Muslim Council in Kinniya, a community TRO has assisted post-tsunami. Full te…