December 3
● A SLA trooper was seriously injured in a sniper attack on the Vavunativu SLA sentry post in Batticaloa. In a similar sniper attack on Vavunativu SLA camp Friday a paramilitary cadre named M. K. Rajan was seriously injured.
● Armed men shot dead Pakkianathan Calista Nirmala, 42, in her house at Antony Road, Palaiyootu, Trincomalee. The men had forcibly opened the doors of her house and shot her.
December 2
● At least one civilian was wounded and three houses were damaged when SLAF Kfir bombers hit a civilian area providing temporary settlement for the tsunami-affected in Mullaithivu district. Another village, Vadduvahal, was attacked within the hour in another sortie, while two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) were engaged in a reconnaissance mission over Kilinochchi. 2 Israeli built Kfir bombers dropped 8 bombs in Thevipuram.
● SLA DPU attackers exploded a claymore mine, damaging a Road Development Authority vehicle at Moonru Murippu in Liberation Tigers controlled territory in Vanni. No casualties were reported in the attack.
● The owner of a vehicle repair facility in Dutch Road, Chavakacheri, was shot dead by two gunmen riding a motorbike. Mylvaganam Thavarajah, 28, was on his way to open his garage located near the Chavakachcheri District Court when he was shot. He was earlier arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and threatened following a claymore attack near the Chavakachcheri Court premises but was released.
December 1
● Two Sri Lanka Police constables were killed when assailants triggered a claymore mine fitted to a motorcycle parked near the junction of Clock Tower road and Hospital road in the security reinforced HSZ near Jaffna town. The victims were walking towards the Police station located on the Clock Tower road when the attack happened.
● Three civilians abducted by armed men from their houses at Vinayagapuram, Thirukovil in Amparai, were found shot to death by Vinayagapuram residents at a junction near Vinayagapuram Tamil Maha Vidyalayam, around 200 meters from their houses. The victims were identified as Sabarathinam Raveenthiran, 31, a father of one, Mylvaganam Arulananthan, 28, and Kanthasamy Kantharoopan 35, father of five.
● Sritharan Kannan, 22, who was returning after a painting job, was abducted in Mallakam by SLA soldiers on motorbikes. Kannan was displaced from Valigamam North and was residing in Konappalam Lane in Mallakam. Officials at the Alaveddy SLA camp had told Kannan's parents that they had no information of any arrests.
● SLA soldiers travelling in a white van abducted Valyutham Gajendran, 27, a library employee at the Valigamam North Pradeshya Sabha. The soldiers entered Gajendran’s home, near the SLA camp in Mallakam Courts Road, and took him.
● Gunmen shot and killed S. Ramachandran, 36, a farmer, at Menkamam, a Tamil village in SLA controlled Muthur region in Trincomalee.
● A Sinhalese civilian, Waduge Karunaratne, 58, was found dead near Chinabay Railway Station, Trincomalee, with his throat slit and gun shot wounds on the body.
● Thevathasan Vimala, 56, from Oddumadam, in the suburbs of Jaffna, was called out of her residence in Araly Road, Oddumadam by a group of armed men who shot her dead on the spot.
● Due the death threats of the Sri Lanka forces and collaborating paramilitaries stationed in the peninsula, increasing number of youths fearing for their lives have been surrendering at the Jaffna office of the SLHRC seeking protection for their lives. Twenty eight youths are currently in protective custody at the Jaffna prison and more youths are surrendering each day.
● A SLA soldier was seriously injured in a sniper attack inside Vavunathivu camp in Batticaloa. The injured soldier was identified as Hettiarachi Sripala, 34. The SLA launched retaliatory mortar attacks against Liberation Tigers controlled areas close to Vavunathivu.
● Unidentified men triggered a claymore device along Udupiddy-Valvettithurai road killing a SLA trooper belonging to a unit returning to Valvettithurai SLA camp in Jaffna after constructing sentry posts near Ellankulam Heroes Resting Home. The SLA opened fire on the attackers and there was an exchange of firing for nearly 5 minutes but no one was injured.
● A young Kayts woman was injured by a stray bullet fired during SLN combat training at the Kayts SLN base. Following landing of LTTE cadres in Mandaitivu on 11 August and subsequent alleged preparations for war, SLN fears a large-scale attack by the LTTE on Jaffna Islets, and has been conducting combat rehearsals near the Kayts SLN camp the past two days, Kayts residents said. Yogan Thiruvarudchelvi 31, of Camp Road in Kayts was injured during this exercise and is recovering in Jaffna Hospital with a bullet wound in her upper body.
November 30
● Three policemen, including a woman police constable, and two army troopers were killed and four wounded when a SLA truck packed with soldiers collided with a train as it crossed a railway crossing in Enderamulla, northeast of Colombo. There were 10 police and military personnel in the truck. One trooper escaped without injuries. The woman police constable was identified as Nishanthi Luxica. The other victims were an Inspector of Police Methagoda, Constable Ratnayake and army troopers Gunapala and Eranga. The troopers were returning after a cordon and search operation.
● Two fisher families, comprising eleven members, arrived in government controlled Kothaipiddy seashore, Mannar, by boats from Vidathaltivu village in LTTE held area. They left their village due to constant air strike and artillery attack by the SLA towards the LTTE held area. The families said that there was severe shortage of supply of food and other essentials.
● Ten SLA soldiers were injured when two buses carrying troopers collided near Kantalai, southwest of Trincomalee town. One bus was transporting a group of soldiers on leave and the other was taking soldiers to Trincomalee from Colombo to report for duty near Kantalai town.
● The Head of Vavuniya Institute of Education, K. Bernard, said that 115 Sinhalese students of the institution had complained that armed men had come to the institution asking for them. As the students said they feared for their lives, arrangements were made with the Vavuniya SLA to protect the students overnight and they were escorted to their homes Thursday. Mr. Bernard said that he will be investigating the threats posed to his students.
● Two gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed Grama Sevakar Gilbert Anandarajah, 45, of Gurunagar West, Jaffna. Mr. Anandarajah is the third Grama Sevakar to be slain in Jaffna during the months since hostilities resumed in Jaffna on August 11. Mr. Anandarajah, father of two, was shot and killed at his office.
● A farmer was critically injured when a group of SLA troopers in ambush fired at him at Poonagar village in Eachchilampathu division. Muththar Kathiresan, a father of two, had gone to the area in search of his cattle.
● Armed men killed Jeyakumar Thiriyan, 24, of Madduvil South, Chavakachcheri in Thenmaradchchy area after he was ordered to come out of his home.
● The headless body of a youth of Naranthanai who was abducted from his home on Wednesday by unidentified men was found at Nerunchimunai area in Kayts in the islets of Jaffna, which is under the control of the SLN. Daniel Quinton, 24, was identified by his relatives and later taken to the hospital for an autopsy, which found he had most likely been shot dead first, and later beheaded. His head has not yet been found.
November 29
● The SLA bulldozed the Alankulam Heroes' Cemetery in Muthur East, on November 25, said LTTE's Trincomalee District Political Head, S. Elian. "Sri Lankan military has once again desecrated a war cemetery. No military in the civilized world, would engage in such an act," charged Mr. Elilan. Headstones were bulldozed away and the resting place was destroyed by the military two days ahead of Heroes Day, he further said.
● Sri Lanka Police officials produced two catholic priests and two youths before a judge, accusing the four of indulging in activities defaming both the Government of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka military. Allen Vinoja and Marianayagam Godfrey Morris Gnanageethan, were arrested Friday in Passayoor by SLA troops and were later handed over to the police. On the same day two catholic priests Fr. Francis Xavier Jeyasegaram, and Fr. Jesuratnam Bernard were arrested by police.
The priests and the two youths belong to Commission Justice of Peace (CJP), an organization directly under Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas Savundaranayagam, Bishop of Jaffna, and were arrested for possessing pre-printed post cards to be distributed to the public. These cards detailed the current situation prevailing in the peninsula, including atrocities of the Sri Lanka military, the closure of A9 Highway, and disappearance of youths. The four were planning to obtain signature and opinions from 5000 members of the general public and forward them to the Secretary General of United Nations requesting early action to bring back normalcy to the Northeast.
November 28
● Sri Lankan security forces must immediately stop assisting abductions of boys and young men by the Karuna Group and help those abducted return safely to their families, Human Rights Watch said (see separate story).
● Unidentified persons shot and killed a Tamil civilian and injured two others at the sixth milepost north of Trincomalee. The dead man was identified as Somasuntharam Inban, 25, a mason of Nilaveli. The two injured men were identified as Satheeswar and Suthahar, both aged 25, and residents of Sambaltivu village. All three were returning home after work when they were shot at.
● Unidentified gunmen following Uthayakumar Rajitha, 34, on a motorcycle, shot her dead on Aathisoody Road in Thirunelveli, Jaffna, as she was on her way out of her home.
● Key SLA commanding officers were said to have visited Palaly Military base as the SLA resumed reinforcing security arrangements in the Jaffna peninsula. Private air crafts flying between Ratmalana and Palaly, avoided using the regular air routes.
● Sounds of shell and artillery fire were heard from the Thenmaradchi Forward Defence Lines throughout Monday night, with Urumpirai residents reporting that a shell fell within the populated area in Urumpirai, but fortunately did not explode.
November 27
● SLA troopers from Meeravodai SLA camp lay in ambush and shot dead Rasiah Manickavasagam, 59, a fishmonger and father of five at Meeravodai, a Tamil village in Valaichenai. Manickavasagam was shot dead on his way home after visiting his relatives. The SLA then arrested C. Yogan, a 27 year old youth from Meeravodai, implicating him in the killing of Manickavasagam, Meeravodai residents told TamilNet, adding that the Meeravodai SLA had warned three days earlier that anyone found on the roads after 7:00 p.m. would be shot.
● The Sri Lankan police force and LTTE exchanged mortar fire for 45 minutes in Murunkan, east of Mannar. 6th Mile Post and 17th Mile Post sentry posts manned by military trained policemen were attacked by LTTE mortar fire, according to police officials, who claimed that they launched mortar fire in retaliation. Civilians who reached Mannar from LTTE controlled areas above Murunkan said around 10 mortar shells hit civilian settlements. No casualties were reported.
● Armed masked men robbed cash and other valuables worth many hundreds of thousand rupees from 8 houses in Batticaloa town and its suburbs at gunpoint. The men forcibly entered the houses of A. Velmurugu, M. Letchumy, K. Perinpanayagi, K. Shanthakumari and V. Vijayaranee in Eravur Kurichi and robbed cash, jewellery, hand phones and other valuables worth around 800,000 rupees, according to complaints made by those robbed with Eravur police. Later armed masked men stole cash, jewellery and other valuables from the houses of Subramaniam Parameswary, Gnanasekaram Kumutha and Justice of Peace Ariyanayagam Kanagasundram in Mamankam, also at gunpoint.
● Unidentified persons lobbed hand grenades at a SLA sentry post near Puthur junction, Jaffna, injuring two SLA troopers. The SLMM in Jaffna visited the site of the attack and conducted investigations.
● Jaffna police recovered the bodies of two youths with knife wounds and cut injuries on throats and hands, dumped in a deserted plot of land at Thavadi North, Valigamam, Jaffna. Residents of Inuvil said the youths are suspected to be from Kodady and Kondavil and were the accused in criminal cases in Mallakam District Courts.
● The body of a youth who disappeared from Irupalai Saturday was found with gunshot wounds along the Stadium Road in Irupalai. K. Senthurchelvan, 23, disappeared after venturing out from his home in Milkfarm area in Thirunelvely to run personal errands.
● A SLA trooper was seriously injured in a sniper attack on the Vavunativu SLA sentry post in Batticaloa. In a similar sniper attack on Vavunativu SLA camp Friday a paramilitary cadre named M. K. Rajan was seriously injured.
● Armed men shot dead Pakkianathan Calista Nirmala, 42, in her house at Antony Road, Palaiyootu, Trincomalee. The men had forcibly opened the doors of her house and shot her.
December 2
● At least one civilian was wounded and three houses were damaged when SLAF Kfir bombers hit a civilian area providing temporary settlement for the tsunami-affected in Mullaithivu district. Another village, Vadduvahal, was attacked within the hour in another sortie, while two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) were engaged in a reconnaissance mission over Kilinochchi. 2 Israeli built Kfir bombers dropped 8 bombs in Thevipuram.
● SLA DPU attackers exploded a claymore mine, damaging a Road Development Authority vehicle at Moonru Murippu in Liberation Tigers controlled territory in Vanni. No casualties were reported in the attack.
● The owner of a vehicle repair facility in Dutch Road, Chavakacheri, was shot dead by two gunmen riding a motorbike. Mylvaganam Thavarajah, 28, was on his way to open his garage located near the Chavakachcheri District Court when he was shot. He was earlier arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and threatened following a claymore attack near the Chavakachcheri Court premises but was released.
December 1
● Two Sri Lanka Police constables were killed when assailants triggered a claymore mine fitted to a motorcycle parked near the junction of Clock Tower road and Hospital road in the security reinforced HSZ near Jaffna town. The victims were walking towards the Police station located on the Clock Tower road when the attack happened.
● Three civilians abducted by armed men from their houses at Vinayagapuram, Thirukovil in Amparai, were found shot to death by Vinayagapuram residents at a junction near Vinayagapuram Tamil Maha Vidyalayam, around 200 meters from their houses. The victims were identified as Sabarathinam Raveenthiran, 31, a father of one, Mylvaganam Arulananthan, 28, and Kanthasamy Kantharoopan 35, father of five.
● Sritharan Kannan, 22, who was returning after a painting job, was abducted in Mallakam by SLA soldiers on motorbikes. Kannan was displaced from Valigamam North and was residing in Konappalam Lane in Mallakam. Officials at the Alaveddy SLA camp had told Kannan's parents that they had no information of any arrests.
● SLA soldiers travelling in a white van abducted Valyutham Gajendran, 27, a library employee at the Valigamam North Pradeshya Sabha. The soldiers entered Gajendran’s home, near the SLA camp in Mallakam Courts Road, and took him.
● Gunmen shot and killed S. Ramachandran, 36, a farmer, at Menkamam, a Tamil village in SLA controlled Muthur region in Trincomalee.
● A Sinhalese civilian, Waduge Karunaratne, 58, was found dead near Chinabay Railway Station, Trincomalee, with his throat slit and gun shot wounds on the body.
● Thevathasan Vimala, 56, from Oddumadam, in the suburbs of Jaffna, was called out of her residence in Araly Road, Oddumadam by a group of armed men who shot her dead on the spot.
● Due the death threats of the Sri Lanka forces and collaborating paramilitaries stationed in the peninsula, increasing number of youths fearing for their lives have been surrendering at the Jaffna office of the SLHRC seeking protection for their lives. Twenty eight youths are currently in protective custody at the Jaffna prison and more youths are surrendering each day.
● A SLA soldier was seriously injured in a sniper attack inside Vavunathivu camp in Batticaloa. The injured soldier was identified as Hettiarachi Sripala, 34. The SLA launched retaliatory mortar attacks against Liberation Tigers controlled areas close to Vavunathivu.
● Unidentified men triggered a claymore device along Udupiddy-Valvettithurai road killing a SLA trooper belonging to a unit returning to Valvettithurai SLA camp in Jaffna after constructing sentry posts near Ellankulam Heroes Resting Home. The SLA opened fire on the attackers and there was an exchange of firing for nearly 5 minutes but no one was injured.
● A young Kayts woman was injured by a stray bullet fired during SLN combat training at the Kayts SLN base. Following landing of LTTE cadres in Mandaitivu on 11 August and subsequent alleged preparations for war, SLN fears a large-scale attack by the LTTE on Jaffna Islets, and has been conducting combat rehearsals near the Kayts SLN camp the past two days, Kayts residents said. Yogan Thiruvarudchelvi 31, of Camp Road in Kayts was injured during this exercise and is recovering in Jaffna Hospital with a bullet wound in her upper body.
November 30
● Three policemen, including a woman police constable, and two army troopers were killed and four wounded when a SLA truck packed with soldiers collided with a train as it crossed a railway crossing in Enderamulla, northeast of Colombo. There were 10 police and military personnel in the truck. One trooper escaped without injuries. The woman police constable was identified as Nishanthi Luxica. The other victims were an Inspector of Police Methagoda, Constable Ratnayake and army troopers Gunapala and Eranga. The troopers were returning after a cordon and search operation.
● Two fisher families, comprising eleven members, arrived in government controlled Kothaipiddy seashore, Mannar, by boats from Vidathaltivu village in LTTE held area. They left their village due to constant air strike and artillery attack by the SLA towards the LTTE held area. The families said that there was severe shortage of supply of food and other essentials.
● Ten SLA soldiers were injured when two buses carrying troopers collided near Kantalai, southwest of Trincomalee town. One bus was transporting a group of soldiers on leave and the other was taking soldiers to Trincomalee from Colombo to report for duty near Kantalai town.
● The Head of Vavuniya Institute of Education, K. Bernard, said that 115 Sinhalese students of the institution had complained that armed men had come to the institution asking for them. As the students said they feared for their lives, arrangements were made with the Vavuniya SLA to protect the students overnight and they were escorted to their homes Thursday. Mr. Bernard said that he will be investigating the threats posed to his students.
● Two gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed Grama Sevakar Gilbert Anandarajah, 45, of Gurunagar West, Jaffna. Mr. Anandarajah is the third Grama Sevakar to be slain in Jaffna during the months since hostilities resumed in Jaffna on August 11. Mr. Anandarajah, father of two, was shot and killed at his office.
● A farmer was critically injured when a group of SLA troopers in ambush fired at him at Poonagar village in Eachchilampathu division. Muththar Kathiresan, a father of two, had gone to the area in search of his cattle.
● Armed men killed Jeyakumar Thiriyan, 24, of Madduvil South, Chavakachcheri in Thenmaradchchy area after he was ordered to come out of his home.
● The headless body of a youth of Naranthanai who was abducted from his home on Wednesday by unidentified men was found at Nerunchimunai area in Kayts in the islets of Jaffna, which is under the control of the SLN. Daniel Quinton, 24, was identified by his relatives and later taken to the hospital for an autopsy, which found he had most likely been shot dead first, and later beheaded. His head has not yet been found.
November 29
● The SLA bulldozed the Alankulam Heroes' Cemetery in Muthur East, on November 25, said LTTE's Trincomalee District Political Head, S. Elian. "Sri Lankan military has once again desecrated a war cemetery. No military in the civilized world, would engage in such an act," charged Mr. Elilan. Headstones were bulldozed away and the resting place was destroyed by the military two days ahead of Heroes Day, he further said.
● Sri Lanka Police officials produced two catholic priests and two youths before a judge, accusing the four of indulging in activities defaming both the Government of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka military. Allen Vinoja and Marianayagam Godfrey Morris Gnanageethan, were arrested Friday in Passayoor by SLA troops and were later handed over to the police. On the same day two catholic priests Fr. Francis Xavier Jeyasegaram, and Fr. Jesuratnam Bernard were arrested by police.
The priests and the two youths belong to Commission Justice of Peace (CJP), an organization directly under Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas Savundaranayagam, Bishop of Jaffna, and were arrested for possessing pre-printed post cards to be distributed to the public. These cards detailed the current situation prevailing in the peninsula, including atrocities of the Sri Lanka military, the closure of A9 Highway, and disappearance of youths. The four were planning to obtain signature and opinions from 5000 members of the general public and forward them to the Secretary General of United Nations requesting early action to bring back normalcy to the Northeast.
November 28
● Sri Lankan security forces must immediately stop assisting abductions of boys and young men by the Karuna Group and help those abducted return safely to their families, Human Rights Watch said (see separate story).
● Unidentified persons shot and killed a Tamil civilian and injured two others at the sixth milepost north of Trincomalee. The dead man was identified as Somasuntharam Inban, 25, a mason of Nilaveli. The two injured men were identified as Satheeswar and Suthahar, both aged 25, and residents of Sambaltivu village. All three were returning home after work when they were shot at.
● Unidentified gunmen following Uthayakumar Rajitha, 34, on a motorcycle, shot her dead on Aathisoody Road in Thirunelveli, Jaffna, as she was on her way out of her home.
● Key SLA commanding officers were said to have visited Palaly Military base as the SLA resumed reinforcing security arrangements in the Jaffna peninsula. Private air crafts flying between Ratmalana and Palaly, avoided using the regular air routes.
● Sounds of shell and artillery fire were heard from the Thenmaradchi Forward Defence Lines throughout Monday night, with Urumpirai residents reporting that a shell fell within the populated area in Urumpirai, but fortunately did not explode.
November 27
● SLA troopers from Meeravodai SLA camp lay in ambush and shot dead Rasiah Manickavasagam, 59, a fishmonger and father of five at Meeravodai, a Tamil village in Valaichenai. Manickavasagam was shot dead on his way home after visiting his relatives. The SLA then arrested C. Yogan, a 27 year old youth from Meeravodai, implicating him in the killing of Manickavasagam, Meeravodai residents told TamilNet, adding that the Meeravodai SLA had warned three days earlier that anyone found on the roads after 7:00 p.m. would be shot.
● The Sri Lankan police force and LTTE exchanged mortar fire for 45 minutes in Murunkan, east of Mannar. 6th Mile Post and 17th Mile Post sentry posts manned by military trained policemen were attacked by LTTE mortar fire, according to police officials, who claimed that they launched mortar fire in retaliation. Civilians who reached Mannar from LTTE controlled areas above Murunkan said around 10 mortar shells hit civilian settlements. No casualties were reported.
● Armed masked men robbed cash and other valuables worth many hundreds of thousand rupees from 8 houses in Batticaloa town and its suburbs at gunpoint. The men forcibly entered the houses of A. Velmurugu, M. Letchumy, K. Perinpanayagi, K. Shanthakumari and V. Vijayaranee in Eravur Kurichi and robbed cash, jewellery, hand phones and other valuables worth around 800,000 rupees, according to complaints made by those robbed with Eravur police. Later armed masked men stole cash, jewellery and other valuables from the houses of Subramaniam Parameswary, Gnanasekaram Kumutha and Justice of Peace Ariyanayagam Kanagasundram in Mamankam, also at gunpoint.
● Unidentified persons lobbed hand grenades at a SLA sentry post near Puthur junction, Jaffna, injuring two SLA troopers. The SLMM in Jaffna visited the site of the attack and conducted investigations.
● Jaffna police recovered the bodies of two youths with knife wounds and cut injuries on throats and hands, dumped in a deserted plot of land at Thavadi North, Valigamam, Jaffna. Residents of Inuvil said the youths are suspected to be from Kodady and Kondavil and were the accused in criminal cases in Mallakam District Courts.
● The body of a youth who disappeared from Irupalai Saturday was found with gunshot wounds along the Stadium Road in Irupalai. K. Senthurchelvan, 23, disappeared after venturing out from his home in Milkfarm area in Thirunelvely to run personal errands.
