1 July
• Four Tamil civilians, all residents of upcountry towns, were arrested by the Sri Lanka forces and police in Kandy and Gampaha in two separate cordon and search operations. The arrested were handed over to police stations and are being subjected to interrogation by the Terrorist Intelligence Division. Two Tamils arrested in Gampaha were taken into custody as they failed to provide satisfactory reason for their stay in the location, Police said. Two more Tamil civilians at Peradeniya in Kandy district were arrested as they were walking along the road close to Peradeniya depot of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation in suspicious manner, Police said. Both youths are residents of Nuwara Eliya.
30 June
• Gunmen shot dead Vallipuram Satgunarajah alias Nithiyananthan, 57, a father of four at Nelliyadi, Jaffna. The killers gunned down Satgunarajah, a former co-operative employee originally from Karaveddi and presently a trader in Thenmaraadchi, as he was returning with his wife after worshiping at a temple.
• Rajaratnam Satheesh, 24, from Puttur was shot dead at Kalladi junction, Jaffna. He was followed whilst riding his bicycle along Kaladdi Raamanaathan road and shot in his head and chest before the gunmen escaped from the site. There was speculation that SLA Military Intelligence was behind the killing.
• Four bodies were recovered in Mavilaru jungle area, Trincomalee, on information provided by local residents.
• A young fisherman from Naavalar Veethi in Navanthurai, a suburb of Jaffna town, has been missing since going to Jaffna Teaching hospital for treatment, according to complaints made by his family to the SLHRC and ICRC in Jaffna. The fate of Arulnesan Jeftin, 20, remains unknown, his family said.
• Mr. Samarasinghe, head of the Kandy office of SLHRC stated that he has received several complaints of abductions and disappearances of civilians in Kandy district.
• Four civilians were found shot dead in eastern Sri Lanka, the military said. The bodies of the four farmers were found in a jungle in eastern Trincomalee district, an official at the Defense Ministry information center said on customary condition of anonymity citing policy. While the last two weeks have seen combat between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and the LTTE, it is Tamil and Muslim civilians who have been the main victims of attacks.
• The SLN said they found 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of explosives in a truck in Colombo.
29 June
• Four Muslim villagers shot dead by Special Forces of the SLA in Maavilaaru, Serunuwara, were mistaken for LTTE cadres, two villagers who escaped the slaying told the media. The SLA has been conducting search operations in Maavilaaru to prevent LTTE cadre movement in the Thoppigala jungles. "We pleaded with the SLA soldiers not to kill us and that we were not members of the LTTE. But they fired at us killing four of us," the escaped fishermen told the media. The SLA handed over the four bodies to Kanthalaay hospital. When the relatives of the victims went to collect the bodies to the hospital they were told by the military officials that the LTTE had killed them. North Central Provincial Chief minister, Berty Premalal, told the relatives he will make arrangements to release the bodies. The National Security Media center had claimed the LTTE cadres "escaping from Thoppigala," shot and killed the four Sinhala civilians.
• Gunmen triggered a claymore device targeting a Sri Lanka Transport Board bus in Cheddikkulam, Jaffna, injuring a SLA trooper and four civilians. The police claimed the LTTE was responsible for the attack.
• Mohammed Hussein Mohammed, 34, a Mulsim trader from Kandy visiting Colombo for purchases of goods for resale, is missing, according to a report with the Colombo-based rights group, Civilian Monitoring Committee.
• Sellan Nalliah, 53, and T. Velmurugan, 47, were seriously wounded in indiscriminate gunfire by SLA soldiers in Maasiyappiddi, Jaffna, after a claymore attack in which two soldiers were wounded.
• Gunmen on two motor cycles, following Singaravel Logenthira, 29, and Subramaniam Ambihaipahan, 39, both residents of Aanaikkoaddai, Jaffna, as they rode their motor cycles, shot them dead in front of the former TRO office. The location is close to UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, ICRC offices in Temple Road, in the heart of the SLA HSZ in Jaffna. SLA troopers are present 24 hours guarding several International Organization offices. Three youths from Kachcheari-Nalloor road have been shot at the same location within the last three weeks.
• SLA soldiers launched artillery, MBRL and motor attacks targeting the Puliyangkulam-Omanthai checkpoint, the entry point to the LTTE administered Vanni region. The attacks disrupted passenger traffic to and from LTTE controlled area through the checkpoint. SLA stationed at Vavuniya, Mannar and Manalaru fronts have been carrying out sporadic shelling towards Vanni region since the first week of June. The LTTE's Puliyangkulam checkpoint also has come under attack several times.
• Kodithuwakku Pannasiri, 46, a SLA soldier, shot himself dead within the SLA camp at Polikandi coastal village in Vadamaraadchi north, Jaffna. The Officer-in-charge of the camp said in his statement to Point Pedro police that the trooper was distraught over not being granted leave. The magistrate said the body had suspicious injuries and directed the police to transfer the body to the Colombo for medical examinations.
28 June
• Gunmen shot and killed P. Nishanthan, a 16-year-old Tamil boy, at Siththaandi in Eravur. The painter had gone out to attend a festival at Maariamman temple.
• Attackers triggered a claymore mine in Navanthurai, Jaffna, killing two SLA soldiers riding bicycles along Navaanthurai-Kakaithevu road, on the outskirts of Jaffna city. A SLA road patrol unit on bicycles was on its way to Kakkaithevu from Navanthurrai area when the claymore device was triggered by the attackers from an abandoned house near the Mosque in the area, Police said. Recently, 3 SLA troopers were killed and one seriously injured in a similar claymore attack at Eechchamoaddai area, situated within Jaffna Municipality limits.
• The SLAF bombed Nedunkeni but casualty details were not known.
• Gunmen armed with pistols shot dead Sangarapillai Sivakanthan 29, a pavement fancy-goods seller in front of Poobalasingham Book Shop, at the entrance to Jaffna Central Bus Terminus and next to Jaffna Teaching Hospital, in the SLA HSZ. The killers left the site of crime, in close proximity to several SLA sentry points, without showing any great haste, raising suspicion of SLA complicity in the killing.
• Thillainathan Uthayakumar, 35, the chairman of the TNA Thirukovil Pradeshya Sabah in Amparai was assassinated outside his residence at Vinaayakapuram, Akkaraippattu. Gunmen took him away from his house and killed him by lobbing a grenade at him 100 meters away from his house. The assassination of the TNA politician comes after press reports in Colombo that the Government was planning for a new election in the East
• SLAF fighter jets bombed two Tamil Tiger camps in the island’s far north, the military said, the second batch of air strikes in three days, but there were no immediate details of any casualties.
27 June
• A SLS FDL post between SLA controlled Thalliadi and LTTE controlled territory in Mannar was attacked by the LTTE. Five SLA troopers were killed in the pre-dawn attack, the LTTE claimed, adding that the FDL post, 500 meters from the Thallaadi SLA base, was destroyed in the attack.
• The SLN shot dead a youth during a cordon and search operation at Ward No: 8 of Pesalai, Mannar. The SLN said they shot dead an unidentified youth in retaliation when he and another opened fire on the SLN troops. The other youth fled from the scene and a T-56 rifle was recovered from the site, the SLN said.
26 June
• Four men, Vadivel Raveendra, 32, Sinnathamby Sivanathan, 27, Nadarasa Jegatheeswaran, 24, and Navarathinarasa Ketheeswaran, 21, all daily wage earners, have been reported missing from Meesalai, Kodikamam and Inuvil areas, officials at the SLHRC in Jaffna, said citing complaints made by relatives. Raveendra and Sivanathan, both residents of Choalaiyamman Koayiladi in Meesaalai south, had been reporting to the SLA civil administration office in Chavakachcheri since May 23 to sign a register on SLA orders. Raveendra was not seen after June 23 and Sivanathan disappeared on June 16, both after signing the SLA registers. Jegatheeswaran was reported missing after he left for work on June 21 from his home at Inuvil. Ketheeswaran from Manthuvil, Kodikamam, was detained by the SLA and interrogated on June 16, and was ordered to report and sign the register at Kodikaamam SLA civil administration office. He has not been seen after he went to the Kodikamam office to record his signature.
• P. Suhirthan, 23, a resident of Railway Station Road, Kokkuvil, Jaffna, is missing, feared abducted, after he left home in the morning to visit his relatives, according to a complaint by his family at the Jaffna office of the SLHRC.
25 June
• The SLA and police conducted a cordon and search operation in Pallimunai and Uppukulam villages in Mannar. Every house was searched during the operation and all vehicles passing through the areas were stopped and searched.
• Four Tamil civilians, all residents of upcountry towns, were arrested by the Sri Lanka forces and police in Kandy and Gampaha in two separate cordon and search operations. The arrested were handed over to police stations and are being subjected to interrogation by the Terrorist Intelligence Division. Two Tamils arrested in Gampaha were taken into custody as they failed to provide satisfactory reason for their stay in the location, Police said. Two more Tamil civilians at Peradeniya in Kandy district were arrested as they were walking along the road close to Peradeniya depot of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation in suspicious manner, Police said. Both youths are residents of Nuwara Eliya.
30 June
• Gunmen shot dead Vallipuram Satgunarajah alias Nithiyananthan, 57, a father of four at Nelliyadi, Jaffna. The killers gunned down Satgunarajah, a former co-operative employee originally from Karaveddi and presently a trader in Thenmaraadchi, as he was returning with his wife after worshiping at a temple.
• Rajaratnam Satheesh, 24, from Puttur was shot dead at Kalladi junction, Jaffna. He was followed whilst riding his bicycle along Kaladdi Raamanaathan road and shot in his head and chest before the gunmen escaped from the site. There was speculation that SLA Military Intelligence was behind the killing.
• Four bodies were recovered in Mavilaru jungle area, Trincomalee, on information provided by local residents.
• A young fisherman from Naavalar Veethi in Navanthurai, a suburb of Jaffna town, has been missing since going to Jaffna Teaching hospital for treatment, according to complaints made by his family to the SLHRC and ICRC in Jaffna. The fate of Arulnesan Jeftin, 20, remains unknown, his family said.
• Mr. Samarasinghe, head of the Kandy office of SLHRC stated that he has received several complaints of abductions and disappearances of civilians in Kandy district.
• Four civilians were found shot dead in eastern Sri Lanka, the military said. The bodies of the four farmers were found in a jungle in eastern Trincomalee district, an official at the Defense Ministry information center said on customary condition of anonymity citing policy. While the last two weeks have seen combat between the Sri Lankan Armed Forces and the LTTE, it is Tamil and Muslim civilians who have been the main victims of attacks.
• The SLN said they found 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of explosives in a truck in Colombo.
29 June
• Four Muslim villagers shot dead by Special Forces of the SLA in Maavilaaru, Serunuwara, were mistaken for LTTE cadres, two villagers who escaped the slaying told the media. The SLA has been conducting search operations in Maavilaaru to prevent LTTE cadre movement in the Thoppigala jungles. "We pleaded with the SLA soldiers not to kill us and that we were not members of the LTTE. But they fired at us killing four of us," the escaped fishermen told the media. The SLA handed over the four bodies to Kanthalaay hospital. When the relatives of the victims went to collect the bodies to the hospital they were told by the military officials that the LTTE had killed them. North Central Provincial Chief minister, Berty Premalal, told the relatives he will make arrangements to release the bodies. The National Security Media center had claimed the LTTE cadres "escaping from Thoppigala," shot and killed the four Sinhala civilians.
• Gunmen triggered a claymore device targeting a Sri Lanka Transport Board bus in Cheddikkulam, Jaffna, injuring a SLA trooper and four civilians. The police claimed the LTTE was responsible for the attack.
• Mohammed Hussein Mohammed, 34, a Mulsim trader from Kandy visiting Colombo for purchases of goods for resale, is missing, according to a report with the Colombo-based rights group, Civilian Monitoring Committee.
• Sellan Nalliah, 53, and T. Velmurugan, 47, were seriously wounded in indiscriminate gunfire by SLA soldiers in Maasiyappiddi, Jaffna, after a claymore attack in which two soldiers were wounded.
• Gunmen on two motor cycles, following Singaravel Logenthira, 29, and Subramaniam Ambihaipahan, 39, both residents of Aanaikkoaddai, Jaffna, as they rode their motor cycles, shot them dead in front of the former TRO office. The location is close to UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, ICRC offices in Temple Road, in the heart of the SLA HSZ in Jaffna. SLA troopers are present 24 hours guarding several International Organization offices. Three youths from Kachcheari-Nalloor road have been shot at the same location within the last three weeks.
• SLA soldiers launched artillery, MBRL and motor attacks targeting the Puliyangkulam-Omanthai checkpoint, the entry point to the LTTE administered Vanni region. The attacks disrupted passenger traffic to and from LTTE controlled area through the checkpoint. SLA stationed at Vavuniya, Mannar and Manalaru fronts have been carrying out sporadic shelling towards Vanni region since the first week of June. The LTTE's Puliyangkulam checkpoint also has come under attack several times.
• Kodithuwakku Pannasiri, 46, a SLA soldier, shot himself dead within the SLA camp at Polikandi coastal village in Vadamaraadchi north, Jaffna. The Officer-in-charge of the camp said in his statement to Point Pedro police that the trooper was distraught over not being granted leave. The magistrate said the body had suspicious injuries and directed the police to transfer the body to the Colombo for medical examinations.
28 June
• Gunmen shot and killed P. Nishanthan, a 16-year-old Tamil boy, at Siththaandi in Eravur. The painter had gone out to attend a festival at Maariamman temple.
• Attackers triggered a claymore mine in Navanthurai, Jaffna, killing two SLA soldiers riding bicycles along Navaanthurai-Kakaithevu road, on the outskirts of Jaffna city. A SLA road patrol unit on bicycles was on its way to Kakkaithevu from Navanthurrai area when the claymore device was triggered by the attackers from an abandoned house near the Mosque in the area, Police said. Recently, 3 SLA troopers were killed and one seriously injured in a similar claymore attack at Eechchamoaddai area, situated within Jaffna Municipality limits.
• The SLAF bombed Nedunkeni but casualty details were not known.
• Gunmen armed with pistols shot dead Sangarapillai Sivakanthan 29, a pavement fancy-goods seller in front of Poobalasingham Book Shop, at the entrance to Jaffna Central Bus Terminus and next to Jaffna Teaching Hospital, in the SLA HSZ. The killers left the site of crime, in close proximity to several SLA sentry points, without showing any great haste, raising suspicion of SLA complicity in the killing.
• Thillainathan Uthayakumar, 35, the chairman of the TNA Thirukovil Pradeshya Sabah in Amparai was assassinated outside his residence at Vinaayakapuram, Akkaraippattu. Gunmen took him away from his house and killed him by lobbing a grenade at him 100 meters away from his house. The assassination of the TNA politician comes after press reports in Colombo that the Government was planning for a new election in the East
• SLAF fighter jets bombed two Tamil Tiger camps in the island’s far north, the military said, the second batch of air strikes in three days, but there were no immediate details of any casualties.
27 June
• A SLS FDL post between SLA controlled Thalliadi and LTTE controlled territory in Mannar was attacked by the LTTE. Five SLA troopers were killed in the pre-dawn attack, the LTTE claimed, adding that the FDL post, 500 meters from the Thallaadi SLA base, was destroyed in the attack.
• The SLN shot dead a youth during a cordon and search operation at Ward No: 8 of Pesalai, Mannar. The SLN said they shot dead an unidentified youth in retaliation when he and another opened fire on the SLN troops. The other youth fled from the scene and a T-56 rifle was recovered from the site, the SLN said.
26 June
• Four men, Vadivel Raveendra, 32, Sinnathamby Sivanathan, 27, Nadarasa Jegatheeswaran, 24, and Navarathinarasa Ketheeswaran, 21, all daily wage earners, have been reported missing from Meesalai, Kodikamam and Inuvil areas, officials at the SLHRC in Jaffna, said citing complaints made by relatives. Raveendra and Sivanathan, both residents of Choalaiyamman Koayiladi in Meesaalai south, had been reporting to the SLA civil administration office in Chavakachcheri since May 23 to sign a register on SLA orders. Raveendra was not seen after June 23 and Sivanathan disappeared on June 16, both after signing the SLA registers. Jegatheeswaran was reported missing after he left for work on June 21 from his home at Inuvil. Ketheeswaran from Manthuvil, Kodikamam, was detained by the SLA and interrogated on June 16, and was ordered to report and sign the register at Kodikaamam SLA civil administration office. He has not been seen after he went to the Kodikamam office to record his signature.
• P. Suhirthan, 23, a resident of Railway Station Road, Kokkuvil, Jaffna, is missing, feared abducted, after he left home in the morning to visit his relatives, according to a complaint by his family at the Jaffna office of the SLHRC.
25 June
• The SLA and police conducted a cordon and search operation in Pallimunai and Uppukulam villages in Mannar. Every house was searched during the operation and all vehicles passing through the areas were stopped and searched.
