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Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed the village of Oddusuddan on Saturday morning, causing injuries to two Tamil civilians. Half a dozen bombs dropped by SLAF jets landed in agricultural land, Tamileelam Police say.
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Dozens of Sinhalese have escaped a bus bomb attack in Mount Lavinia, south of Colombo on Saturday morning. A powerful bomb exploded onboard the bus that was travelling from Colombo to Moratuwa, at around 10.55am.
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A young construction worker from Jaffna working at the site of
Colombo Mahavidyalaya Mawathe has not returned home after leaving his
workplace for lunch Friday, the relatives of the youth complained to
Deputy Minister Rathakrishnan, sources in Colombo said.
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"The lack of at least one police officer proficient in Tamil
language is the
cause for the public's reluctance to seek police assistance to have
their needs attended," Jaffna magistrate Mr. R. T. Vicknarajah said,
speaking at the official opening ceremony of the new office for
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) at the Jaffna police station
premises Tuesday around 2:00 p.m. According to the 13th amendment of
the Sri Lankan constitution, the Tamil language also shall be the
official language of Sri Lanka. Despite this, the status of Tamil as an
official language has not been implemented for the past 20 years.
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At least 12 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were sniped and killed and 27
wounded Tuesday morning when Liberation Tigers Operations Command in
Mannaar deployed Tiger snipers to confront advancing SLA troops in
Paalaikkuzhi. The SLA movement was repulsed without LTTE casualties,
the LTTE command in Mannaar told media.
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Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Robert F. Willard,
visited Sri Lanka on Thursday and Friday to meet Sri Lanka Navy
leadership and the Sri Lankan President and Commander-in-Chief of the
SL armed forces Mahinda Rajapaksa. He also visited Trincomalee to
discuss "U.S. - Sri Lankan cooperation against LTTE terrorism,"
according to a press release issued by the U.S. Embassy in Colombo.
Reaffirming the support of the United States to Sri Lanka in defending
against terrorist activity through cooperation on maritime security, he
noted that improvements in human rights protection could lead to
enhanced cooperation, the press release added.
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Sri Lanka Amy (SLA) in Jaffna launched an intensive large scale
cordon and search operation from early morning in Valikaamam until
evening Friday forcing people to gather in public places where they
were subjected to lengthy interrogation, sources in Jaffna said.
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International Tamil Rehabilitation Organization, iTRO, based in
U.K., in a press release issued this week following the unilateral
abrogation of Cease Fire Agreement by the Government of Sri Lanka,
appealed to the Governments of the West "to allow space for the Tamil
Diaspora to provide much needed humanitarian assistance to their
people. International organizations have been restricted in their
ability to access the affected areas and deliver the necessary relief
and the GoSL has restricted food, medicine, fuel and construction
materials to the Vanni. As a result in many areas TRO is the only
organization with access to the war and tsunami affected populations,"
the release said.
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Liberation Tigers anti-aircraft guns fired at Sri Lanka Air Force
(SLAF) warplanes that bombed a civilian area with a mechanic workshop
near Kanakapuram Maha Viththiyaalayam school at Kanakapuram, a suburb
of Kilinochchi town, Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. Seven civilians were
wounded in the SLAF attack. Nine houses were damaged in the bombardment
that was launched at 9:30 a.m. and carried out four times.
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Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) officials told media in Kilinochchi that a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) unit that was lured into a booby-trapped minefield in Mullikkulam in Mannaar abandoned its ground movement Wednesday around 3:30 p.m. Meanwhile, a group of SLA soldiers engaged in setting up Claymore mines in the area were counter-attacked by the Tigers.
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Abrogation of the CFA by the Government of Sri Lanka has removed the
only reporting body of human rights and humanitarian law violations
that take place in Sri Lanka, said K. Sivapalan, a senior
attorney-at-law from Trincomalee, addressing four hundred participants,
mainly members of the Tamil diaspora, who participated in a march
carrying torches towards the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo, expressing
solidarity with the Tamils in the homeland Wednesday evening.
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