31 December
● Armed men abducted three youths from a house at Kiran in Batticaloa district and shot them dead inside the Christian cemetery on Vishnu Temple road. Valaichenai police recovered the bodies blindfolded and hands tied behind back. The victims were identified as Veerasingham Senthooran, 22, from Kiran, a student at Batticaloa Technical College, Yoganathan Mayooran, 27, of Vantharumoolai and Namasivayam Puvaneswaran, 24, from Kiran. Mayooran and Puvaneswaran, both employed in a private insurance company, had come to meet Senthooran at his house from where the armed men abducted the three. Valaichenai Police suspected they were abducted while they were marketing insurance policies.
30 December
● Armed paramilitaries in a white van at 23-year old Perumal Prasanth's house in Nachimar Kovilady in Jaffna and forcibly took Prasanth away in the van.
29 December
● The LTTE launched a counter-attack on a group of paramilitary Karuna Group cadres when the group attempted to launch a penetration attack on a LTTE camp in Kudumbimalai, northwest of Batticaloa. A wounded paramilitary cadre was captured alive and the dead body of another was recovered by the Tigers. Four Tiger fighters were wounded in the confrontation. Kudumbimalai, a hat shaped hill, is located in the middle of the large Vadamunai-Tharavai region, northwest of Batticaloa. The paramilitary cadres had entered the LTTE territory to launch an attack on a LTTE camp, while the Sri Lanka Army was providing field artillery support.
● One police constable was killed in accidental gunfire at Kayts Police station. The constable was cleaning his weapon when it accidentally fired, killing the officer identified as Sisira Kumara, 44, from Thangattuwa in Negombo.
● The SLAF, in its latest bombing raids in Vaharai, completely destroyed a water refinery constructed by the UN agencies to remedy the drinking water shortage in the area near Verugal Murugan temple, charged S. Jeyanandamoorthy, the TNA Parliamentarian from Batticaloa. In a press communiqué, the MP said: "the bombardment on the water refinery is not only a Ceasefire violation but is a human rights violation and a war crime too."
● Sothilingam Janarthan, 23, disappeared after he left his home in Kasturiar Road to cycle to Jaffna Town on a personal errand. SLA soldiers had arrived at his house on Saturday morning and searched the house, his parents said.
28 December
● The Officer-In-Charge of the Suduventhapilavu area police station in Vavuniya was shot and seriously injured when gunmen carrying pistols fired at him in close range.
● Two SLA soldiers were killed and three seriously injured when assailants triggered a claymore mine targeting the pickup truck the soldiers were travelling in between Post Office Road and Dutch Road in Chavakachcheri in Thenmaradchy, Jaffna.
● One SLA soldier, deployed on road-side security duty near Madathady junction, along Point Pedro-Jaffna road, and another student passing-by were injured when gunmen riding a motorbike hurled hand grenades at the SLA sentry point. Jeyasingham Ilaventhan, 19, student from Puloly, was injured in the grenade attack.
● A group of armed men forcibly entered a house at Eluthoor area in Mannar town and abducted four Tamil youths. Two of the abducted were released shortly. The other two were identified as Rasanayagam Jeyasekar, 30, a father of one child and Francis Thurairaj, 26. Francis Thurairaj is a resident from Kallikattaikadu village and had been staying with his friend Rasanayagam Jeyasekar at that time of incident. Parents and relatives of the youths lodged complaints with Mannar Police, SLMM, Regional Office of the SLHRC and Mannar Bishop about the abductions.
● The SLA announced the official extension of curfew on Thenmaradchi in Jaffna peninsula until further notice without citing any reason, over its radio at the Palaly Army Head Quarters. The curfew hours imposed on the rest of the Jaffna peninsula are extended from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Though there are no visible signs of the SLA making any significant movement of troops or vehicles, the sudden extension of curfew on Thenmaradchi has raised residents’ suspicion of a major action about to take place on the southern FDL.
27 December
● A policeman was killed when unidentified persons set off a claymore mine targeting a police patrol about 150 metres from the STF camp at Park Road in Vavuniya. STF elite troops rushed to the blast site and searched the area.
● Two SLA troopers from the Kadjuwathe SLA camp were seriously injured when the Liberation Tigers retaliated to the intensive mortar and artillery barrage launched by the SLA from its camps at Mankerny, Kadjuwathe and Valaichenai Paper Factory on Vaharai area in LTTE held territory. SLA shells fell and exploded in the civilian residential areas of Palchenai, Panichankerny and Kandalady, but no one was hurt.
● Eravur police in Batticaloa district recovered the partly buried body of a man along Kaluvankerny beach on information provided by the local residents. The body was identified as belonging to Kaalikutty Chandrasegaran, 29, a married man from Kaluvankerny, who was reported abducted by armed men on December 8, when he went to a temple in Kaluvankerny.
● The body of a youth was found with gunshot injuries at Varothiyanagar, a suburb in Trincomalee town. His hands were tied from behind. The victim was identified as Mahendran Kiritharan, 17, resided in Palaiyutru and originally from Jaffna.
● Armed men in a van reportedly abducted two Tamil persons, said to be senior operatives of PLOTE, from a house located at Chenaikudiruppu along Puttalam-Anuradhapura Road. One person has been identified as 'Mama' Pakiyarajah and the other as Karikalan. Abductors were seen armed with T 56 rifles and hand grenades. Their bodies were recovered Friday morning with hands tied beind their backs and gunshot injuries.
● The night watchman at the Pampaimadu, Vavuniya Ayurvedhic Hospital has been reported missing by his relatives. His possessions and motorbike were found intact inside the building by the Police. Somasundaram Sathiyakumar, 42, has been a regular nightwatchman at the site for several years.
● Rasu Sangeethan, 19, a student from Karampan in Jaffna Islets of Kayts, disappeared after he left his house towards Kayts town to buy provisions, his parents said in a complaint at the SLHRC.
26 December
● SLAF Kfir fighter jets bombed Kathiraveli and Palchenai residential areas in Vaharai in LTTE controlled territory and the SLA launched artillery and rocket fire from SLA camps in Mankerny, Kadjuwathe, during a memorial to mark the second anniversary of the 2004 tsunami. Five houses were badly damaged but no one was hurt when shells fell and exploded on residential areas.
● Four civilians, two women and two men employed at a shop, were severely wounded in a grenade attack near a SLA post close to Sathira Juction on Hospital Road in Jaffna town. No SLA soldier was wounded in the grenade attack amid repeated threats by the SLA troopers to the shop owners in the area, to close down their establishments near the army post. Medical sources in Jaffna identified the wounded civilians as Alagaratnam Koneswaran, 24, Alagaratnam Muraleeswaran, 26, both brothers from Araly East, employed at a shop in the area, Kandasamy Selvamalar, 66, from Vannarapannai Road and Vigneswaran Jeyasithra, 36, from Hospital Road, Jaffna.
● Five of the 19 passengers abducted by Karuna paramilitary cadres from the Saravana Travels private bus on its way from Kathankudy to Colombo on December 20, escaped Monday and surrendered at Eravur police station. Nagamany Jegatheesan, 31, of Araiyampathy, Palipodi Kovinthan, 24, of Puthukudiruppu, Kanthasamy Kannan, 20, of Kokkadicholai, Chellathurai Premalatha, 21, and Aiyathurai Thajeevan, 25, both from Puthukudiruppu surrendered to the police. All of them were on their way to Colombo on personal errands when abducted. The abductors forced them to leave the bus and took them blindfolded, they said, adding they were not aware of the whereabouts of the other 14 abducted civilians.
● Armed men abducted two youths displaced from Vaharai area, from their relatives house at Union Colony, Valaichenai in Batticaloa district. The two abducted youths were forcibly taken away by the armed men who said the youths have to be interrogated. N. Tharmalingam, 25 and M. Balendran, 27 were among the civilians displaced from Vaharai because of the continuous shelling on Vaharai by the SLA. The youths were abducted from a house 300 meters from the Valaichenai police station, an area dominated by Karuna paramilitary group which collaborates with the SLA.
● A man was shot dead by unidentified persons in front of Kalaimakal school at Nelukkulam - Cheddikkulam road.
● Kandasamy Sundararasa, 39, and Vettivelu Jeyapalan, 42, two civilians from Thunnalai in Vadamaradchy, disappeared while they were riding to Kodikamam on a business errand, their relatives said in a complaint at the SLHRC.
25 December
● SLA authorities in Jaffna said that 6 LTTE members were killed and 9 SLA soldiers were injured, two of them seriously, in clashes at Kakaithivu in Navanthurai, a suburb of Jaffna town. The SLA handed over the bodies of five men to the Jaffna hospital. Later, the police handed over another body with gun shot injuries. The police said the body was recovered at Aanaikoddai, a village close to Navanthurai. SLA soldiers cordoned off Kakaithivu till Tuesday noon and thoroughly searched the area. No one was allowed to enter or leave Kakaithivu. It is not known if any arrests were made. According to SLA officials in Jaffna, the clashes erupted when LTTE members attempted to enter the coastal village of Kakaithivu. The LTTE has not commented on the incident.
● One police sergeant was killed and three constables were injured when an unidentified person lobbed a grenade on a group of police personnel who were on duty near the Pallimunai St. Lucia Church premises in Mannar district. Following the explosion people gathered in the church premises had fled from the site as additional police personnel rushed to the scene started firing at random in the area. The dead police constable has been identified as Sergeant Somapala.
● Unidentified men attacked a SLA sentry point located along the Vathiry- Uduppiddy road in Navindil, Vadamarachchy Jaffna district, killing one SLA soldier, and seriously injuring another. The attack which took place in the broad daylight in a densely populated area has shocked the Military command in Jaffna. The attack lasted for more than 20 minutes and the attackers escaped unharmed. The camp was used by the Sea Tigers until 1995 when Jaffna district came under control of the SLA.
● Unidentified persons launched Rocket Propelled Grenades on the office of the Karuna paramilitary group at 15th Colony in Amaprai district, completely destroying it. The attackers first lobbed hand grenades and followed with RPGs.
● Armed men called a woman from her house at Akkaraipattu in Amparai district and shot her dead on the spot. The armed men had come looking for the victim's 25 year old son and had killed the mother when they couldn’t find the son. The dead woman was identified as Pathmasiri Leelawathy, 48 of Amaparai Road at Akkaraipattu.
● Two youths from Ariyali area, Sri Ayanthan, 22, and Rasenthiram Thevaseelan, 25 were found missing from Ariyalai, Jaffna. They are believed to have been abducted by either the SLA or paramilitaries working with the SLA.
● Armed men abducted three youths from a house at Kiran in Batticaloa district and shot them dead inside the Christian cemetery on Vishnu Temple road. Valaichenai police recovered the bodies blindfolded and hands tied behind back. The victims were identified as Veerasingham Senthooran, 22, from Kiran, a student at Batticaloa Technical College, Yoganathan Mayooran, 27, of Vantharumoolai and Namasivayam Puvaneswaran, 24, from Kiran. Mayooran and Puvaneswaran, both employed in a private insurance company, had come to meet Senthooran at his house from where the armed men abducted the three. Valaichenai Police suspected they were abducted while they were marketing insurance policies.
30 December
● Armed paramilitaries in a white van at 23-year old Perumal Prasanth's house in Nachimar Kovilady in Jaffna and forcibly took Prasanth away in the van.
29 December
● The LTTE launched a counter-attack on a group of paramilitary Karuna Group cadres when the group attempted to launch a penetration attack on a LTTE camp in Kudumbimalai, northwest of Batticaloa. A wounded paramilitary cadre was captured alive and the dead body of another was recovered by the Tigers. Four Tiger fighters were wounded in the confrontation. Kudumbimalai, a hat shaped hill, is located in the middle of the large Vadamunai-Tharavai region, northwest of Batticaloa. The paramilitary cadres had entered the LTTE territory to launch an attack on a LTTE camp, while the Sri Lanka Army was providing field artillery support.
● One police constable was killed in accidental gunfire at Kayts Police station. The constable was cleaning his weapon when it accidentally fired, killing the officer identified as Sisira Kumara, 44, from Thangattuwa in Negombo.
● The SLAF, in its latest bombing raids in Vaharai, completely destroyed a water refinery constructed by the UN agencies to remedy the drinking water shortage in the area near Verugal Murugan temple, charged S. Jeyanandamoorthy, the TNA Parliamentarian from Batticaloa. In a press communiqué, the MP said: "the bombardment on the water refinery is not only a Ceasefire violation but is a human rights violation and a war crime too."
● Sothilingam Janarthan, 23, disappeared after he left his home in Kasturiar Road to cycle to Jaffna Town on a personal errand. SLA soldiers had arrived at his house on Saturday morning and searched the house, his parents said.
28 December
● The Officer-In-Charge of the Suduventhapilavu area police station in Vavuniya was shot and seriously injured when gunmen carrying pistols fired at him in close range.
● Two SLA soldiers were killed and three seriously injured when assailants triggered a claymore mine targeting the pickup truck the soldiers were travelling in between Post Office Road and Dutch Road in Chavakachcheri in Thenmaradchy, Jaffna.
● One SLA soldier, deployed on road-side security duty near Madathady junction, along Point Pedro-Jaffna road, and another student passing-by were injured when gunmen riding a motorbike hurled hand grenades at the SLA sentry point. Jeyasingham Ilaventhan, 19, student from Puloly, was injured in the grenade attack.
● A group of armed men forcibly entered a house at Eluthoor area in Mannar town and abducted four Tamil youths. Two of the abducted were released shortly. The other two were identified as Rasanayagam Jeyasekar, 30, a father of one child and Francis Thurairaj, 26. Francis Thurairaj is a resident from Kallikattaikadu village and had been staying with his friend Rasanayagam Jeyasekar at that time of incident. Parents and relatives of the youths lodged complaints with Mannar Police, SLMM, Regional Office of the SLHRC and Mannar Bishop about the abductions.
● The SLA announced the official extension of curfew on Thenmaradchi in Jaffna peninsula until further notice without citing any reason, over its radio at the Palaly Army Head Quarters. The curfew hours imposed on the rest of the Jaffna peninsula are extended from 8:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. Though there are no visible signs of the SLA making any significant movement of troops or vehicles, the sudden extension of curfew on Thenmaradchi has raised residents’ suspicion of a major action about to take place on the southern FDL.
27 December
● A policeman was killed when unidentified persons set off a claymore mine targeting a police patrol about 150 metres from the STF camp at Park Road in Vavuniya. STF elite troops rushed to the blast site and searched the area.
● Two SLA troopers from the Kadjuwathe SLA camp were seriously injured when the Liberation Tigers retaliated to the intensive mortar and artillery barrage launched by the SLA from its camps at Mankerny, Kadjuwathe and Valaichenai Paper Factory on Vaharai area in LTTE held territory. SLA shells fell and exploded in the civilian residential areas of Palchenai, Panichankerny and Kandalady, but no one was hurt.
● Eravur police in Batticaloa district recovered the partly buried body of a man along Kaluvankerny beach on information provided by the local residents. The body was identified as belonging to Kaalikutty Chandrasegaran, 29, a married man from Kaluvankerny, who was reported abducted by armed men on December 8, when he went to a temple in Kaluvankerny.
● The body of a youth was found with gunshot injuries at Varothiyanagar, a suburb in Trincomalee town. His hands were tied from behind. The victim was identified as Mahendran Kiritharan, 17, resided in Palaiyutru and originally from Jaffna.
● Armed men in a van reportedly abducted two Tamil persons, said to be senior operatives of PLOTE, from a house located at Chenaikudiruppu along Puttalam-Anuradhapura Road. One person has been identified as 'Mama' Pakiyarajah and the other as Karikalan. Abductors were seen armed with T 56 rifles and hand grenades. Their bodies were recovered Friday morning with hands tied beind their backs and gunshot injuries.
● The night watchman at the Pampaimadu, Vavuniya Ayurvedhic Hospital has been reported missing by his relatives. His possessions and motorbike were found intact inside the building by the Police. Somasundaram Sathiyakumar, 42, has been a regular nightwatchman at the site for several years.
● Rasu Sangeethan, 19, a student from Karampan in Jaffna Islets of Kayts, disappeared after he left his house towards Kayts town to buy provisions, his parents said in a complaint at the SLHRC.
26 December
● SLAF Kfir fighter jets bombed Kathiraveli and Palchenai residential areas in Vaharai in LTTE controlled territory and the SLA launched artillery and rocket fire from SLA camps in Mankerny, Kadjuwathe, during a memorial to mark the second anniversary of the 2004 tsunami. Five houses were badly damaged but no one was hurt when shells fell and exploded on residential areas.
● Four civilians, two women and two men employed at a shop, were severely wounded in a grenade attack near a SLA post close to Sathira Juction on Hospital Road in Jaffna town. No SLA soldier was wounded in the grenade attack amid repeated threats by the SLA troopers to the shop owners in the area, to close down their establishments near the army post. Medical sources in Jaffna identified the wounded civilians as Alagaratnam Koneswaran, 24, Alagaratnam Muraleeswaran, 26, both brothers from Araly East, employed at a shop in the area, Kandasamy Selvamalar, 66, from Vannarapannai Road and Vigneswaran Jeyasithra, 36, from Hospital Road, Jaffna.
● Five of the 19 passengers abducted by Karuna paramilitary cadres from the Saravana Travels private bus on its way from Kathankudy to Colombo on December 20, escaped Monday and surrendered at Eravur police station. Nagamany Jegatheesan, 31, of Araiyampathy, Palipodi Kovinthan, 24, of Puthukudiruppu, Kanthasamy Kannan, 20, of Kokkadicholai, Chellathurai Premalatha, 21, and Aiyathurai Thajeevan, 25, both from Puthukudiruppu surrendered to the police. All of them were on their way to Colombo on personal errands when abducted. The abductors forced them to leave the bus and took them blindfolded, they said, adding they were not aware of the whereabouts of the other 14 abducted civilians.
● Armed men abducted two youths displaced from Vaharai area, from their relatives house at Union Colony, Valaichenai in Batticaloa district. The two abducted youths were forcibly taken away by the armed men who said the youths have to be interrogated. N. Tharmalingam, 25 and M. Balendran, 27 were among the civilians displaced from Vaharai because of the continuous shelling on Vaharai by the SLA. The youths were abducted from a house 300 meters from the Valaichenai police station, an area dominated by Karuna paramilitary group which collaborates with the SLA.
● A man was shot dead by unidentified persons in front of Kalaimakal school at Nelukkulam - Cheddikkulam road.
● Kandasamy Sundararasa, 39, and Vettivelu Jeyapalan, 42, two civilians from Thunnalai in Vadamaradchy, disappeared while they were riding to Kodikamam on a business errand, their relatives said in a complaint at the SLHRC.
25 December
● SLA authorities in Jaffna said that 6 LTTE members were killed and 9 SLA soldiers were injured, two of them seriously, in clashes at Kakaithivu in Navanthurai, a suburb of Jaffna town. The SLA handed over the bodies of five men to the Jaffna hospital. Later, the police handed over another body with gun shot injuries. The police said the body was recovered at Aanaikoddai, a village close to Navanthurai. SLA soldiers cordoned off Kakaithivu till Tuesday noon and thoroughly searched the area. No one was allowed to enter or leave Kakaithivu. It is not known if any arrests were made. According to SLA officials in Jaffna, the clashes erupted when LTTE members attempted to enter the coastal village of Kakaithivu. The LTTE has not commented on the incident.
● One police sergeant was killed and three constables were injured when an unidentified person lobbed a grenade on a group of police personnel who were on duty near the Pallimunai St. Lucia Church premises in Mannar district. Following the explosion people gathered in the church premises had fled from the site as additional police personnel rushed to the scene started firing at random in the area. The dead police constable has been identified as Sergeant Somapala.
● Unidentified men attacked a SLA sentry point located along the Vathiry- Uduppiddy road in Navindil, Vadamarachchy Jaffna district, killing one SLA soldier, and seriously injuring another. The attack which took place in the broad daylight in a densely populated area has shocked the Military command in Jaffna. The attack lasted for more than 20 minutes and the attackers escaped unharmed. The camp was used by the Sea Tigers until 1995 when Jaffna district came under control of the SLA.
● Unidentified persons launched Rocket Propelled Grenades on the office of the Karuna paramilitary group at 15th Colony in Amaprai district, completely destroying it. The attackers first lobbed hand grenades and followed with RPGs.
● Armed men called a woman from her house at Akkaraipattu in Amparai district and shot her dead on the spot. The armed men had come looking for the victim's 25 year old son and had killed the mother when they couldn’t find the son. The dead woman was identified as Pathmasiri Leelawathy, 48 of Amaparai Road at Akkaraipattu.
● Two youths from Ariyali area, Sri Ayanthan, 22, and Rasenthiram Thevaseelan, 25 were found missing from Ariyalai, Jaffna. They are believed to have been abducted by either the SLA or paramilitaries working with the SLA.
