The bodies of two civilians, Sithampari Kanesharatnam, 39, and Visuwar Krishnar, 58, who lived near Kovilarkandy Amman Temple, were recovered in a bylane near Kaithady bridge close to the A9 main road. Eyewitnesses told authorities they had seen the victims being interrogated by SLA soldiers Monday evening.
Also Tuesday, a Muslim businessman, Ahamedlebby Abthul Bahir, 35, was beaten to death and his friend Nahurthamby Athambaba Lebby, 25, seriously injured by a Tamil mob protesting a shooting incident in Akkaraipattu Monday evening.
Nearly 250 employees including few medical officers Tuesday morning staged a walkout in protest demanding the withdrawal of armed forces personnel from the premises of the Mannar district hospital and a ban on soldiers visiting the wards of the hospital whilst carrying their weapons.
The Human Rights Commission in Jaffna received complaints Monday that ten civilians in Karainagar in Jaffna islets have been arrested by Navy personnel conducting a cordon and search operation. When relatives inquired at the Karainagar SLN camp on the whereabouts of the arrested the Navy denied arresting anyone.
Unidentified attacked lobbed a grenade into a Tamil shop located in the Madathady junction in Trincomalee Tuesday morning. Mr. Thevatharsan, 25, an employee of the shop was critically injured in the attack which took place a few yards away from the Trincomalee Police Headquarters along the Main Street.
The body of Suppiah Murugan was found with gunshot wounds Monday night at Urumpiray Junction along Jaffna Palaly road in front of Urumpirai Hindu College. A cook at a restaurant in Urumpiray, Murugan hailed from Trincomalee. The killing in high security zone where there is 24-hour surveillance by the security forces shocked Urumpirai residents.
Two Tamil civilians, Selvanayagam Mayooran, 35, and Sabaratnam Mathivathanakumar, 32, were wounded when unknown gunmen fired at them at 10.30 p.m. Sunday while they were going to their residences in Pallathoddam in Uppuveli Police division in Trincomalee. The motive is not known.
Two sisters, Bojan Renuka, 30, and Bojan Shanuka, 23, and their mother Bojan Arthanageswary, 51, residents of a house in Mudaliyar Kanagasabai Road in Manipay, close to the Manipay Hindu College, Jaffna district, were shot dead Sunday midnight by gunmen suspected to be SLA intelligence operatives and EPDP paramilitary cadres.
The father, Nagendran Bojan, 55, and brother Bojan Ullasan, 26, sustained gunshot injuries and are receiving treatment at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Bojans is a Maaveerar family and Renuka acted as the main character in a Tamil film “Amma Nalama?” (Mother, are you well?) produced by the Liberation Tigers’ film division Nitharsanam.
Sellathurai Yogarajah, 26, who was on his way to a Hindu temple in Kodikamam, in Thenmaradchi in Jaffna district, was shot and killed allegedly by SLA soldiers in Thenmaradchi Sunday morning.
Tharmarasan Tharmaseelan, 37, who was abducted by unidentified men Saturday night, was found shot dead with his hands tied behind his back near a Navy check post on Suruvil road in Kayts town, north-west of Jaffna, Sunday morning.
Tharmarasan was visiting his friend when four men, allegedly members of the paramilitary group, EPDP and Navy soldiers entered the house and took him away, according to residents.
Mr Raman Ranjan, 36, was shot dead by unknown gunmen who came in a motorbike at Karuwappankerny, 2 km north of Batticaloa town near Naagathampiran temple in Batticaloa at 5.00 p.m. Saturday.
All the members of a Tamil family were wounded in a grenade attack in Trincomalee on Saturday evening. An unidentified attacker lobbed a greande into the front verandah of the house located in Gandhinagar, 3 km southwest of the east port town, when the entire family, a father, mother and their two children, was watching a television programme following Pongal celebrations. SLA sentry points are located near the house, between Anpuvallipuram and Abeyapura.
Following a grenade attack on an SLA unit in Irupalai, residents said they witnessed soldiers arresting a tractor driver and taking him to the Irupalai SLA camp. However, SLA has denied arresting anyone from the area.
Mr Sulaimanlebbai Mohammed Esmail, 33, a labourer at a brick quarry in Nainakaddu Sammanthurai in Kalmunai was shot dead by unknown gunmen using an automatic rifle on Thursday night at 11-00 pm while he was sleeping in a shed near the quarry. The motive for the killing is not clear.
Unknown assailants hurled a grenade at the house of a businessman located at 2nd division Puliyady Road Valaichenai on Friday early morning at 4-30 a.m. but it failed to explode. The motive is not clear.
In Mannar, the petrol station run by Manthai West Multi Purpose Co-operative Society is now surrounded by military camps and sentry points and residents of the west coast town fear going to the station. They have begun making a thirteen kilometre journey to refuel at two other stations.
69 year-old Kanapathy Murugesu, a retired Post Master, was shot dead by Sri Lankan soldier near Odakarai Lane, in Point Pedro in Jaffna district Thursday at 1 p.m. Army officials claimed the gun had gone off accidentally. The victim from Thunnalai North, Karaveddy, was returning home in a bicycle after collecting his monthly pension when he was killed.
Five civilians, including a mother, a 60-year-old devotee and a 71-year-old man were wounded in soldiers’ retaliatory fire after two grenade attacks aimed at troops and policemen manning the checkpoints at two separate junctions in the suburbs of Jaffna town Thursday morning.
SLA soldiers at Lingapuram, Trincomalee Wednesday morning ganged up and beat to death a 40-year-old Tamil farmer, Thanabalasingham, in his paddy fields, villagers protested to truce monitors.
Soldiers opened fire in Kokkuvil, 5km northeast of Jaffna town, killing a civilian traveller on Jaffna KKS Road around 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, residents said. Doctors said the cause of death was gunshot wounds contrary to the claim of the SLA that the victim was killed in grenade explosion.
Two demining workers, Tharmasiri and Kandeepan, employed by the humanitarian Danish De-mining Group, DDG, were abducted by unknown armed men who came in a white Hiace van Wednesday early morning in Point Pedro.
Thambiah Tharmasiri and Narayanamoorthy Kandeepan were abuducted at 5:20 a.m. Wednesday on Odaikarai lane while they were on their way to work in Kuppilan, close to the High Security Zone near the Palaly Military Base.
Four de-mining workers of another De-mining group, HALO Trust, are already reported missing. They are suspected be either abducted by the gunmen, or in the custody of the SLA troopers or the Sri Lankan Police in Jaffna District.
Thambu Nadesu, who runs a business near the Puthur junction on the Jaffna - Point Pedro road was shot dead allegedly by Sri Lankan military intelligence operatives Tuesday around 11.30 p.m. He was asked to come out of his house for investigatations and shot dead, villagers said.
Fifty-years-old Thambu Nadesu, from Saraswathy Lane in Puthur East, was an active organisor of the civilian protest against an attempted rape of a woman in the area allegedly by Sri Lanka Army soldiers on October 28, reports said.
He was also is a close relative of Nirojan Tharmarajah (20) who was shot dead by the SLA in October 2005, when SLA opened fire when people protested against attempted rape of a woman in the area by the SLA soldiers.
Unknown gunmen shot and killed a 31-years-old woman in Thenmaradchi Wednesday noon last week at the grounds of Panrithalaichi Amman Temple. The victim, Pavalarani, had been abducted from her house in Mattuvil East, 6 km north of Chavakacheri, Wednesday morning.
P. Sivasankar, 28, from Meesalai and owner of a clothing store in Chavakacheri town was shot dead at 5.30 p.m. Tuesday last week on Dutch Road by gunmen suspected to be Sri Lankan military intelligence.
Residents said two of Sivasankar’s in-laws who owned the Clothing Store received death threats from SLA intelligence for several months. Both fled fearing for their lives and have now taken refuge in Tamil Nadu.
Navy soldiers arrested eight Tamil youths on Tuesday night last week at 7 p.m at the Manpuri checkpoint located in Puttalam - Kalpity Road. All are residents of Liberation Tigers controlled area of Kaddaiparichchan in Mutur and were travelling in a private minibus which was stopped at the Manpuri checkpoint.
Kondavil schoolgirl’s family warned
The Jaffna school girl abducted by four Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers from Paalpannai (Milk Farm) Road in between Thirunelvely and Kondavil junction was returned to her parents in Kondavil Tuesday night by higher officers of the SLA.
Kondavil residents who witnessed the abduction and other residents allege that the SLA soldiers were intending to subject the school girl to sexual abuse but had to abandon their pursuit on the direction of higher SLA officers who flew into Jaffna from Palaly military camp on being notified of the escalating protests in Kondavil following the abduction on Tuesday afternoon 2 p.m.
The abducted girl is sixteen years old and said to be a GCE (Ordinary Level) student at a popular Kondavil mixed school, residents said.
She was on her way to her aunt's house and was going in a bicycle along Paalpannai road when she was forcefully taken away by SLA soldiers.
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) officers have threatened the family with death if the details of abduction were made public.
The principal of the school where the abducted girl attends warned TamilNet correspondents to be cognizant of the seriousness of the threat to life of the girls family when filing stories with details of abduction.
When the abduction occurred, residents of the area and a youth who saw the girl being dragged away by the SLA, searched the shrub area near by. Sri Lankan troopers who came to the scene around 5 p.m. with an official of the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (fired in the air to disperse the crowd.(TamilNet)
Also Tuesday, a Muslim businessman, Ahamedlebby Abthul Bahir, 35, was beaten to death and his friend Nahurthamby Athambaba Lebby, 25, seriously injured by a Tamil mob protesting a shooting incident in Akkaraipattu Monday evening.
Nearly 250 employees including few medical officers Tuesday morning staged a walkout in protest demanding the withdrawal of armed forces personnel from the premises of the Mannar district hospital and a ban on soldiers visiting the wards of the hospital whilst carrying their weapons.
The Human Rights Commission in Jaffna received complaints Monday that ten civilians in Karainagar in Jaffna islets have been arrested by Navy personnel conducting a cordon and search operation. When relatives inquired at the Karainagar SLN camp on the whereabouts of the arrested the Navy denied arresting anyone.
Unidentified attacked lobbed a grenade into a Tamil shop located in the Madathady junction in Trincomalee Tuesday morning. Mr. Thevatharsan, 25, an employee of the shop was critically injured in the attack which took place a few yards away from the Trincomalee Police Headquarters along the Main Street.
The body of Suppiah Murugan was found with gunshot wounds Monday night at Urumpiray Junction along Jaffna Palaly road in front of Urumpirai Hindu College. A cook at a restaurant in Urumpiray, Murugan hailed from Trincomalee. The killing in high security zone where there is 24-hour surveillance by the security forces shocked Urumpirai residents.
Two Tamil civilians, Selvanayagam Mayooran, 35, and Sabaratnam Mathivathanakumar, 32, were wounded when unknown gunmen fired at them at 10.30 p.m. Sunday while they were going to their residences in Pallathoddam in Uppuveli Police division in Trincomalee. The motive is not known.
Two sisters, Bojan Renuka, 30, and Bojan Shanuka, 23, and their mother Bojan Arthanageswary, 51, residents of a house in Mudaliyar Kanagasabai Road in Manipay, close to the Manipay Hindu College, Jaffna district, were shot dead Sunday midnight by gunmen suspected to be SLA intelligence operatives and EPDP paramilitary cadres.
The father, Nagendran Bojan, 55, and brother Bojan Ullasan, 26, sustained gunshot injuries and are receiving treatment at the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.
Bojans is a Maaveerar family and Renuka acted as the main character in a Tamil film “Amma Nalama?” (Mother, are you well?) produced by the Liberation Tigers’ film division Nitharsanam.
Sellathurai Yogarajah, 26, who was on his way to a Hindu temple in Kodikamam, in Thenmaradchi in Jaffna district, was shot and killed allegedly by SLA soldiers in Thenmaradchi Sunday morning.
Tharmarasan Tharmaseelan, 37, who was abducted by unidentified men Saturday night, was found shot dead with his hands tied behind his back near a Navy check post on Suruvil road in Kayts town, north-west of Jaffna, Sunday morning.
Tharmarasan was visiting his friend when four men, allegedly members of the paramilitary group, EPDP and Navy soldiers entered the house and took him away, according to residents.
Mr Raman Ranjan, 36, was shot dead by unknown gunmen who came in a motorbike at Karuwappankerny, 2 km north of Batticaloa town near Naagathampiran temple in Batticaloa at 5.00 p.m. Saturday.
All the members of a Tamil family were wounded in a grenade attack in Trincomalee on Saturday evening. An unidentified attacker lobbed a greande into the front verandah of the house located in Gandhinagar, 3 km southwest of the east port town, when the entire family, a father, mother and their two children, was watching a television programme following Pongal celebrations. SLA sentry points are located near the house, between Anpuvallipuram and Abeyapura.
Following a grenade attack on an SLA unit in Irupalai, residents said they witnessed soldiers arresting a tractor driver and taking him to the Irupalai SLA camp. However, SLA has denied arresting anyone from the area.
Mr Sulaimanlebbai Mohammed Esmail, 33, a labourer at a brick quarry in Nainakaddu Sammanthurai in Kalmunai was shot dead by unknown gunmen using an automatic rifle on Thursday night at 11-00 pm while he was sleeping in a shed near the quarry. The motive for the killing is not clear.
Unknown assailants hurled a grenade at the house of a businessman located at 2nd division Puliyady Road Valaichenai on Friday early morning at 4-30 a.m. but it failed to explode. The motive is not clear.
In Mannar, the petrol station run by Manthai West Multi Purpose Co-operative Society is now surrounded by military camps and sentry points and residents of the west coast town fear going to the station. They have begun making a thirteen kilometre journey to refuel at two other stations.
69 year-old Kanapathy Murugesu, a retired Post Master, was shot dead by Sri Lankan soldier near Odakarai Lane, in Point Pedro in Jaffna district Thursday at 1 p.m. Army officials claimed the gun had gone off accidentally. The victim from Thunnalai North, Karaveddy, was returning home in a bicycle after collecting his monthly pension when he was killed.
Five civilians, including a mother, a 60-year-old devotee and a 71-year-old man were wounded in soldiers’ retaliatory fire after two grenade attacks aimed at troops and policemen manning the checkpoints at two separate junctions in the suburbs of Jaffna town Thursday morning.
SLA soldiers at Lingapuram, Trincomalee Wednesday morning ganged up and beat to death a 40-year-old Tamil farmer, Thanabalasingham, in his paddy fields, villagers protested to truce monitors.
Soldiers opened fire in Kokkuvil, 5km northeast of Jaffna town, killing a civilian traveller on Jaffna KKS Road around 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, residents said. Doctors said the cause of death was gunshot wounds contrary to the claim of the SLA that the victim was killed in grenade explosion.
Two demining workers, Tharmasiri and Kandeepan, employed by the humanitarian Danish De-mining Group, DDG, were abducted by unknown armed men who came in a white Hiace van Wednesday early morning in Point Pedro.
Thambiah Tharmasiri and Narayanamoorthy Kandeepan were abuducted at 5:20 a.m. Wednesday on Odaikarai lane while they were on their way to work in Kuppilan, close to the High Security Zone near the Palaly Military Base.
Four de-mining workers of another De-mining group, HALO Trust, are already reported missing. They are suspected be either abducted by the gunmen, or in the custody of the SLA troopers or the Sri Lankan Police in Jaffna District.
Thambu Nadesu, who runs a business near the Puthur junction on the Jaffna - Point Pedro road was shot dead allegedly by Sri Lankan military intelligence operatives Tuesday around 11.30 p.m. He was asked to come out of his house for investigatations and shot dead, villagers said.
Fifty-years-old Thambu Nadesu, from Saraswathy Lane in Puthur East, was an active organisor of the civilian protest against an attempted rape of a woman in the area allegedly by Sri Lanka Army soldiers on October 28, reports said.
He was also is a close relative of Nirojan Tharmarajah (20) who was shot dead by the SLA in October 2005, when SLA opened fire when people protested against attempted rape of a woman in the area by the SLA soldiers.
Unknown gunmen shot and killed a 31-years-old woman in Thenmaradchi Wednesday noon last week at the grounds of Panrithalaichi Amman Temple. The victim, Pavalarani, had been abducted from her house in Mattuvil East, 6 km north of Chavakacheri, Wednesday morning.
P. Sivasankar, 28, from Meesalai and owner of a clothing store in Chavakacheri town was shot dead at 5.30 p.m. Tuesday last week on Dutch Road by gunmen suspected to be Sri Lankan military intelligence.
Residents said two of Sivasankar’s in-laws who owned the Clothing Store received death threats from SLA intelligence for several months. Both fled fearing for their lives and have now taken refuge in Tamil Nadu.
Navy soldiers arrested eight Tamil youths on Tuesday night last week at 7 p.m at the Manpuri checkpoint located in Puttalam - Kalpity Road. All are residents of Liberation Tigers controlled area of Kaddaiparichchan in Mutur and were travelling in a private minibus which was stopped at the Manpuri checkpoint.
Kondavil schoolgirl’s family warned
The Jaffna school girl abducted by four Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers from Paalpannai (Milk Farm) Road in between Thirunelvely and Kondavil junction was returned to her parents in Kondavil Tuesday night by higher officers of the SLA.
Kondavil residents who witnessed the abduction and other residents allege that the SLA soldiers were intending to subject the school girl to sexual abuse but had to abandon their pursuit on the direction of higher SLA officers who flew into Jaffna from Palaly military camp on being notified of the escalating protests in Kondavil following the abduction on Tuesday afternoon 2 p.m.
The abducted girl is sixteen years old and said to be a GCE (Ordinary Level) student at a popular Kondavil mixed school, residents said.
She was on her way to her aunt's house and was going in a bicycle along Paalpannai road when she was forcefully taken away by SLA soldiers.
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) officers have threatened the family with death if the details of abduction were made public.
The principal of the school where the abducted girl attends warned TamilNet correspondents to be cognizant of the seriousness of the threat to life of the girls family when filing stories with details of abduction.
When the abduction occurred, residents of the area and a youth who saw the girl being dragged away by the SLA, searched the shrub area near by. Sri Lankan troopers who came to the scene around 5 p.m. with an official of the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (fired in the air to disperse the crowd.(TamilNet)
