18 March
● Thirty-eight civilians, including twenty women, of all three communities, were arrested in a cordon and search operation by Sri Lanka government troops in Mt. Lavinia police division in Colombo. The police said they were taken into custody as some failed to prove their identity and others could not justify their presence in the location. Cordon and search operations were also conducted in Moratuwa, Soysapura, further south of Mt. Lavinia.
● Gunmen shot dead Vaiyramuthu Jeyachandran, 36, resident of LB3 Sivapuram, Kiliveddy, at Kiliveddy in Muthur, Trincomalee.
● A trader and a student accompanying him disappeared in Pungankulam, Ariyalai, inside the Jaffna Municipal area, after being interrogated by SLA soldiers. The disappeared were identified as trader, Vigneswaran Subaskaran, 39, from Nunavil along A9 highway in Chavakachcheri, and Thavarajah Nitharsan, 18, a school student who was helping Subaskaran in his errands. Both had gone to Jaffna town to attend to business matters, later visited Subaskaran's mother's house in Ariyalai, and were returning home to Nunavil along A9, when they were stopped by the SLA soldiers near Pungankulam and interrogated for several hours. Traders in Ariyalai and other witnesses said that an armoured Buffel vehicle entered the area and took the two civilians. Subaskaran had earlier been arrested by the SLA in December 2006, while he was staying with his mother, on false charges of possessing a hand grenade and released after being tortured.
● Kopalapillai Rameshthasan, 30, a family man, was abducted in Aanaikottai area in Jaffna, when he went to visit his family members in Velanai.
● A SLA soldier was killed at Sembimalai in Kuchchaveli police division Trincomalee when an unidentified group of persons fired at a SLA foot patrol. The military claimed LTTE cadres had fired at the government troops.
17 March
● Amid an escalating number of killings in Jaffna peninsula, C. Meihandathevan, 28, a farmer, was shot at his home in Mirusuvil North, Thenmaradchy. This is the fourth shooting incident involving farm workers who are being increasingly targeted in Mirusuvil area.
16 March
● Reports from Jaffna said the SLA shot dead a youth who attempted to enter their Intelligence Unit main camp at Koolavady, Annaikottai, Valigamam, after lobbing a hand grenade, which did not explode. The SLA said the youth’s jacket was packed with explosives.
● The SLA arrested three Tamil youths travelling in a private bus from Vavuniya to Mannar. The SLMM was informed of the arrest. Three Tamil youths stopped and boarded the bus at Murunkan. SLA soldiers stopped the bus at Koolankulam and arrested the three youths and took them away.
● Hundreds of SLA troopers who advanced into LTTE territory in Palamoddai, northwest of Vavuniya, were forced to hurriedly withdraw from the area, leaving behind military hardware. The Tigers put up stiff resistance against the SLA troopers, the LTTE's Military Spokesman, Irasiah Ilanthirayan, siad. Four SLA troopers were killed and 20 wounded in the operation, the LTTE claimed. However, the SLA said it suffered casualties when LTTE attacked their positions. A similar SLA move was thwarted the previous evening at Mullikkulam along Vavuniya Mannar border, west of Palamoddai.
● At least 19 SLA soldiers were injured, 4 of them seriously, when SLA troopers and the LTTE exchanged heavy artillery and rocket fire along the Thenmaradchi FDLs in the Jaffna peninsula. It is not known if LTTE suffered any casualties.
15 March
● The SLA launched heavy artillery and mortar fire towards the Mannar - Vavuniya border villages of Mullikulam, Keerisuddan and Periya Pandivirichchan, causing hundreds of civilian families to flee the villages. Artillery and mortar fire from Iranai Iluppaikulam targeted villages surrounding Mullikulam, inside LTTE controlled territory in Madu. Heavy artillery fire was also reported towards the areas surrounding the access point in Puliyankulam from Poovarasankulam SLA camp.
● The SLAF carried out three aerial attacks on Mullaithivu district.
● SLA soldiers and police arrested thirteen Tamils from North and Eastern provinces in a pre-dawn search in Hathuduwa, Mt.Lavinia, a suburb of Colombo.
● Sivagnanam Rathikaran, 27, of Kasthuriyar Road, disappeared after he went to Jaffna city in the morning to attend personal errands.
● Thiraviyam Sasikumar, 37, a young family man of Point Pedro, left home for shopping in Point Pedro town and did not return.
14 March
● The SLA refused permission to hundreds of Christian devotees to continue their annual foot pilgrimage to Calvary, in Komarasankulam, Vavuniya, citing security reasons. Devotees were forced to return to Mannar after they were stopped at Murunkan on their way to Vavuniya. The SLA also turned down appeals by Mannar Bishop Rt. Rev. Rayappu Joseph, church officials said.
● Three youths, from Kodikamam, Columbuthurai and Manipay, were accompanied by Jaffna SLHRC officials to safer areas, after they called for help fearing danger to their lives. The youths went underground fearing death at the hands of the SLA, after their names were called out during cordon and search operations in their respective areas earlier.
● The body of Mohamed Ali Nanthakumar, 26, with gun shot wounds, was recovered within the SLA HSZ at Konan Thottam Veethy near KKS road-Hospital road junction in the heart of Jaffna town. He had been missing since Tuesday evening when he went to escort his brother's daughter from school. Residents speculate Nanthakumar, of A.V. Road, Colombuthurai, was abducted and killed elsewhere before being brought in a vehicle and dumped at Konan Thottam Veethy. There is constant movement of SLA troops during curfew hours in the area where the body was recovered and could not have been dumped there without the SLA’s knowledge, residents added.
● Police recovered mutilated male body packed in a green plastic bag, normally used by the SLA, caught in the fishing net along the coast at Punguduthivu, an islet of Jaffna,. The body, with head, hands and legs severed, bore deep cut wounds in the stomach and appeared to belong to a male under 30. The bag containing the corpse was filled with stones and tied with barbed wire to stay in deep ocean bottom, but had been washed ashore due to rough seas.
● Thiraviyam Susikumar, 32, of Muthumariaman Kovilady in Alvai, Jaffna, was arrested by Navalady junction SLA camp troopers, according to his wife, who reported to the SLHRC that she witnessed SLA troopers taking her husband's motorbike into the camp.
● Anantharasa Anton Mariagnanarasa, 35, a fisherman and father of four, from Kudathanai in Vadamaradchy east, Jaffna, was stopped at the SLA sentry post near Valipuram Temple while returning home from Point Pedro, and taken away in a Buffel Armoured Personnel Carrier. His wife reported to the SLHRC that relatives had seen her husband being taken away by SLA soldiers.
● STF troopers shot dead a youth at VC junction in Kannaki village, Thirukovil, Amparai.
13 March
● Mortar shells launched by the LTTE hit the SLA Omanthai brigade base, seriously injuring a trooper. The SLA launched random shelling on Omathai following the attack.
● A fisherman, Charles Peiris, 34, and 2-year old son Joyson were injured when the SLN fired at a group of people in Pesalai, Mannar. SLN crafts patrolling the Pesalai Sea noted persons loading goods in boats along the coast. The soldiers started firing at them, and a father and a son who were inside their house near by were injured.
● A Muslim textile dealer disappeared in Mallakam area, according to a complaint lodged by his wife at the Jaffna branch of the SLHRC. Abdul Galam Subaideen, 26, a young family man, married to a Tamil woman, set out from home on business and did not return.
12 March
● Thirteen Tamil civilians, including three women, were arrested in a cordon and search operation by the SLA and Police at Kohuwela, Colombo. All are natives of the North East and were temporarily staying with friends and family or in lodges when they were arrested. Some of the arrested have failed to prove their identity, the police said.
● A postman and another civilian were killed in a claymore attack by a SLA DPU at fourth mile post along Madhu-Parapukadanthan road in LTTE held territory in Mannar. The postman, Fernando Arulananthan Croos, 48, was earlier a resident of Adamban and had sought refuge in Madhu refugee camp with his family following heavy artillery fire by the government forces towards his village. He was cycling towards Vattakandal Sub-Post Office to report for work when he hit the claymore.
● The body of a SLA DPU soldier, killed by the LTTE Saturday at Periyathambanai, in LTTE held territory in Mannar, was handed over to army officers. The soldier was identified as Corporal Senaratne of Kadugannawa, Kandy.
● Gunmen shot dead a textile vendor along Hospital road, Jaffna in front of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital. The men shot Lawrence Mariyaselvam, 32, a young family man from Navaly North, Manipay, in broad day light and escaped from the site by bicycle.
● A body of youth strangled to death, was found in a toilet pit in an abandoned house in Chunnakam South, Valikamam, Jaffna. Neighbours alerted officials after detecting a bad stench, and the body was found after a search. The body is believed to belong to one of the youths abducted recently in the peninsula by SLA soldiers and SLA-backed paramilitaries.
