| Date |
Name of
the victim(s) of LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists |
Incident |
Place |
|
14/09/06 |
Suspected LTTE Terrorists Kill Three
Civilians (see details)
|
THREE CIVILIANS WERE SHOT and killed by a
pistol group suspected to be LTTE terrorists in the general area
MATHAWATHAKULAM in VAVUNIYA.
|
VAVUNIYAVA
|
|
13/09/06 |
Lance Corporal ASHOKA KUMARA killed
(see details)
|
In the general lagoon area of KILALY, JAFFNA
a soldier got trapped to a terrorist booby trap and laid down his life
while on duty in the area.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
13/09/06 |
No Extortions Mean Grenade Attacks; Thirteen
Civilians Injured (see
details)
|
LTTE terrorists after failing to extort
money from a Tamil poultry vendor in VAVUNIYA town took their revenge on
him in the LTTE style after detonating a hand grenade against his
business place that inflicted injuries on 13 innocent civilians including
women.
|
VAVUNIYAVA
|
|
12/09/06 |
Two Police Officers RAMANAYAKA and
WIJERATHNA Shot By LTTE Terrorists and killed (see
details)
|
THE TWO POLICE OFFICERS who were shot and
injured by LTTE pistol men while they were on a bus bound for BATTICALOA
succumbed to their injuries in hospital late night, the same day .
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
12/09/06 |
Home Guards D DIMUTHU DARSHANA KUMARA
(T/54494) and W JAYASUNDARA (T/65721) Went Missing Found Slain By LTTE
Gunmen (see details)
|
TWO OF THE HOME GUARDS who went reportedly
missing after they were confronted by Tiger terrorists in KURINIYANKULAM,
TRICOMALEE were found shot to death later when the troops conducted a
search in the area.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
12/09/06 |
Claymore Blast In Town Injures Policemen
& Civilians (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS using a remote-controller
detonated a claymore mine targeting a passing Police vehicle, close to a
school that has housed displaced people in the mid of TRINCOMALEE
town.Three Police Constables in the vehicle and three civilians on the
street received serious injuries in the claymore blast
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
12/09/06 |
Disguised LTTE Pistol Men Strike Police
Constables On Bus (see
details)
|
TWO LTTE PISTOL MEN, after boarding a
BATTICALOA bound bus on its way from KALAWANCHIKUDY disguised as
passengers shot and injured two Police Constables in civvies on the bus
while they were proceeding to BATTICALOA for some duties.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
11/09/06 |
LTTE Artillery Fire Takes Two More Valiant
Lives of Sergeant P. J GUNASEKERA and Lance Corporal M. D. AJITH
DHARSHANA (see details)
|
LTTE’S INTERMITTENT DIRECTION of direct
and indirect artillery fire towards Army detachments in and around
MUHAMALE, KILALY, KODIKAMAM struck VIDATTAPALAI area killing two
soldiers on duty.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
11/09/06 |
Farmer Refusing To Plant LTTE Bomb Against
Troops Pays With Death (see
details)
|
A FARMER, who refused to set an LTTE bomb
targeting troops in the general area of CHENKALADY in BATTICALOA was
rebuked and later slain by an LTTE pistol man after storming his house.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
11/09/06 |
My Teenage Son Abducted by LTTE, says Father
(see details)
|
LTTE CONTINUES to abduct teenagers,
contrary to all their utterances and endless assurances, as it was evident
in another abduction of a 15-year-old boy, A. SUBHASCHANDRA that took
place in KARUWANKERNY, BATTICALOA .
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
10/09/06 |
LTTE Pressure Mine Kills Three More Soldiers
Lance Corporal D.M.R. DISSANAYAKE, Lance Corporal W.T PRADDEP KUMARA and
Private A.M.P.K WEERASINHE
(see details)
|
Three soldiers of the Army fell victim to an
LTTE pressure mine explosion, in ASIKKULAMA, VAVUNIYA where troops were
preparing themselves for picket duty on the wayside.
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
10/09/06 |
LTTE Claymore Explosion Injures Civilian (see
details)
|
LTTE terrorists detonated a claymore mine
targeting troops on foot patrol near the JAFFNA Hindu College
Soldiers received no injuries but one civilian was injured in the
explosion.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
09/09/06 |
LTTE Guns Down Civilian SINNATHAMBI
MAHENDRAN (50) (see
details)
|
A civilian was gunned down by LTTE
terrorists on in the general area of NAVALI SOUTH, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
09/09/06 |
LTTE Pistol Cadres Kill One Civilian
NANDARAJA JAGADEESWARAN (38) & Injure Another (see
details)
|
A civilian named was shot dead by LTTE
pistol group afternoon in the general area of JAFFNA. Initial
investigations revealed that the victim was living in MODARA, COLOMBO.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
08/09/06 |
One soldier injured by LTTE mortar fire (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS operating from jungle areas
in un-cleared areas surrounding MUHAMALAI Entry/Exit point launched mortar
fire on the Forward Defence Line.The fire that came from the rear side of
the soldiers manning the FDL injured one soldier critically.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
08/09/06 |
Soldier Injured In LTTE Hand Grenade
Explosion
(see details)
|
A SOLDIER WAS INJURED in the explosion of a
hand grenade lobbed by LTTE terrorists at troops in VELVETITHURAI
area
|
JAFFNA
|
|
08/09/09 |
Two Brothers KARADEEPAN ANANDAN (27) and
KARADEEPAN MAWANSEELAN (19) Found Shot To Death (see
details)
|
BULLET-RIDDLED DEAD BODIES of two youths
were recovered from SAVUKKADI area in EARAVUR
|
JAFFNA
|
|
08/09/06 |
LTTE kills one soldier Lance
Bombardier H.M. KAPILARATHNA BANDA, one civilian CHANDRASEKARAN KESHAWAN
(45) of RAMESHPURAM and injures three civilians (see
details)
|
AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ACTIVATEd BY LTTE
TERRORISTS in CHENKALADY town area, killed one soldier and one civilian
and injured three more civilians including a woman and a small child
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
08/09/06 |
Terrorists Trigger One More Claymore
Injuring Schoolgirls (see
details)
|
A CLAYMORE MINE exploded near a
three-wheeler in the general area of VAVUNIYA where the dead body of an
LTTE abducted civilian was found, injured one Police officer and six
civilians who were passing the location.
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
08/09/06 |
LTTE Kills Student BALASUBRAMANIAM
THIWAKARAN
(see details)
|
A SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLBOY, was shot and
killed by LTTE terrorists at MALAISANDI in JAFFNA
|
JAFFNA
|
|
07/09/06 |
Terrorists kill soldier Private K.D.K.
CHANDANA KUMARA and injure six (see
details)
|
one soldier was killed and six soldiers
including three Officers were forced to seek admission to hospital after
they were wounded in LTTE mortar and artillery fire in MUHAMALAI, KILALY
and NERAVILKULAM, JAFFNA
|
JAFFNA
|
|
07/09/06 |
Two soldiers injured by LTTE mortar fire (see
details)
|
Two soldiers received injuries due to
explosion of an LTTE Anti Personnel Mine (APM) in the general area of
NAVATKULI in JAFFNA during clearing operations in the area.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
07/09/06 |
Soldier Lance Corporal AAP INDUNIL On Duty
Killed In LTTE Artillery Fire (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS FIRED ARTILLERY at the
forward defence line (FDL) in the general area of KILALI and One
soldier, who was on duty was killed in the attack.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
06/09/06 |
LTTE Terrorists Kill Civilians SATHGUNARASA
RUSANTHAN (24) at THIRUNELVELI and SIVARASA SIVASEKARAN (28) (see
details)
|
LTTE terrorists on gunned down two civilians
in the general areas of THIRUNELVELI, KOKUVIL.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
06/09/06 |
LTTE Terrorists Attack FDL injuring two
soldiers
(see details)
|
LTTE terrorists fired mortars towards the
Forward Defence Line (FDL) at MUHAMALEI injuring two soldiers on duty.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
06/09/06 |
LTTE Gunmen Fire At Civilian PEERAMBALAM
(60)
(see details)
|
Two LTTE gunmen fired at a civilian in the
general area of MEESALAI PERUMKULAM north
|
JAFFNA
|
|
06/09/06 |
LTTE Artillery And Mortars Kill Soldier
Private H M A KUMARA HERATH (see
details)
|
ONE SOLDIER WAS KILLED and three more
injured when LTTE terrorists fired artillery and mortars on the Forward
Defence Line (FDL) at NAGARKOVIL in JAFFNA
|
JAFFNA
|
|
06/09/06 |
Police Constable Injured In LTTE Fire
Admitted To Hospital (see
details)
|
ONE POLICE CONSTABLE, attached to the MANNAR
Police station was shot and injured by terrorists of the LTTE pistol group
on PALLAIMUNNAI road, MANNAR.
|
MANNAR
|
|
06/09/06 |
EPDP member NALLATHAMBI PUNARATHNAM (46)
killed by LTTE (see
details)
|
An active EPDP member watching television at
his home in KALKUDAH, VALAICHCHENAI was gunned down by an LTTE gunman
after storming his house.
|
VALAICHCHENAI
|
|
05/09/06 |
Civilian 58-year-old VISHWALINGAM killed by
LTTE
(see details)
|
A 58 old civilian of No 418, THIRUGNANA
SAMBANDAN road, TRINCOMALEE was felled by the bullet of an LTTE
assassin
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
05/09/06 |
Officer LIEUTENANT A P P K DOORAGE Pays
Supreme Sacrifice In LTTE Blast (see
details)
|
An officer paid the supreme sacrifice
in the powerful LTTE claymore mine blast in NEERVELI, JAFFNA when the bus
carrying soldiers was caught up in the explosion triggered by terrorists.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
05/09/06 |
Terrorist’s Grenade Falls Short &
Injures Civilian
(see details)
|
A SUSPECTED LTTE TERRORIST lobbed a hand
grenade targeting a strong point of the Armed Forces in KOKUVIL, JAFFNA
but it fell short of the target injuring a civilian who was passing by at
that point of time.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
05/09/06 |
Terrorists Blast Bus Carrying Soldiers ,kill
one and injure eight (see
details)
|
A POWERFUL BLAST, apparently caused by a
claymore mine at SIRUPPIDDY junction in JAFFNA brought death to one
officer and injured another eight soldiers who were moving in a bus
|
JAFFNA
|
|
05/09/06 |
Terrorists abduct civilians KANAVADI PILLAI
MANORAJ (17) and SIVARASA SADEEP (19) (see
details)
|
SPECIAL TASK FORCE troops in cooperation
with local Police in AMPARA are conducting a search into whereabouts of
two young farmers who have been abducted by LTTE terrorists for
conscription while they were tilling their paddy fields in KAMBIARU
SACHALADIWATTE, off ANNAMALE, AMPARA.
|
AMPARA
|
|
04/09/06 |
Civilian MUTHTHUTHAMBI JEGANADAN (44) killed
by LTTE (see details)
|
Reports from JAFFNA hospital confirmed
that a civilian riding on his motor bicycle with his wife and daughter was
slain by an LTTE terrorist in INUVIL, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
04/09/06 |
Unarmed Civilian SELVARASA RAVIDEVAN
Shot
(see details)
|
AN UNIDENTIFIED GUNMAN has shot and injured
a civilian while he was at home in SERUWILA.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
03/09/06 |
LTTE Pistol Group kills a civilian B. SURESH
(31)
(see details)
|
TERRORISTS Of LTTE PISTOL GROUP shot and
killed a civilian in JAFFNA town
|
JAFFNA
|
|
03/09/06 |
Soldier Injured In Nagarkovil Attack Lance
Corporal W.D.N. WIJESOORIYA Dies (see
details)
|
ONE SOLDIER who was critically injured in
the LTTE attack on the NAGARKOVIL Forward Defence Line (FDL) of the
Security Forces succumbed to injuries.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
03/09/06 |
One More Civilian SELLAIYA SEVARAJA (49)
Dies In LTTE Fire (see
details)
|
AN UNIDENTIFIED GUNMAN, believed to be a
Tamil Tiger (LTTE), fired at a civilian near the KALAIMAGAR school in
TRINCOMALEE
|
TREINCOMALEE
|
|
03/09/06 |
LTTE Artillery Fire Kills One More Soldier (see
details)
|
LTTE DIRECTED ARTILLERY FIRE towards the
SELWEANAGAR Army detachment in TRINCOMALEE
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
03/09/06 |
Unidentified Gunman Kills Civilian
GANAESHAMOORTHI VIJAYAKUMARA (28)
(see details)
|
THE ERAVUR POLICE received a complaint to
the effect that one civilian had been shot dead by an unidentified gunman,
suspected to be from LTTE, in ERAVUR
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
02/09/06 |
One Soldier Private R.D. UPALI WIJERATHNE.
Killed by LTTE (see
details)
|
LTTE ARTILLERY FIRE on troops at NAGARKOVIL
killed one soldier on duty
|
JAFFNA
|
|
02/09/06 |
Unidentified Gunmen Kill Civilian
BALASUBRAMANIUM MANI (see
details)
|
A PERSON who was injured in firing by an
unidentified gunman succumbed to his injuries after he was admitted to
General Hospital Colombo
|
COLOMBO
|
|
01/09/06 |
Three Civilians PALANIYADY RAVEENDRAN
(35) , SATHYAMOORTHY SELVARASAN (27) and SATYAMOORTHY THANGARATHNAM
(57) Gunned Down (see
details)
|
THREE CIVILIANS were shot and killed by
suspected LTTE terrorists on KASTHURIYA road and in NAVAMDIL area in
JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
01/09/06 |
LTTE Claymore Claims One More Soldier’s
Life (see details)
|
ONE SOLDIER WAS KILLED and five more were
injured in the explosion of an LTTE claymore mine at NELLIADY, JAFFNA
|
JAFFNA
|
|
01/09/06 |
Four Tamil civilians SARAWAAMUTTU (55)
CHANDRASEKARAM WIJESEKARAN (22), PUSHPARASA WIMALARASAN (26) and
YATHENDRAN (21) killed by LTTE (see
details)
|
Four more civilians have been killed by LTTE in NAWATHKADU,
VALVAETTITHURAI and UDUVIL areas in JAFFNA
|
JAFFNA
|
|
31/08/06 |
Policeman MOHOMED RIYAZ Injured In LTTE Fire
Succumbs To Injuries (see
details)
|
THE POLICE CONSTABLE WHO WAS fired upon by
the LTTE in the ERAVUR town succumbed to gunshot injuries
while undergoing treatment at BATTICALOA
hospital.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
30/08/06 |
LTTE Terrorists shoots and kills a woman
Home Guard Mrs JAYASOORIYA ARACHCHIGE SUJEEWA DAMAYANTHI (30) (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS, now practicing their latest
brutal method of shooting women when they continue to fail in almost every
terror tactic, once again shot and killed a woman Home Guard in VAVUNIYA
town while she was returning home after her duties
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
27/08/06 |
Muslim Civilian MOHOMAD JEFTHRI ABDUL Shot
Dead by LTTE (see details)
|
LTTE PISTOL MEN gunned down a Muslim
civilian in the general area of LINGANAGAR, TRINCOMALEE
.
The victim was driving a three-wheeler at the time he was shot dead.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
27/08/06 |
Tamil MOTHER, SOMALINGAM LECHCHAMI (48) who
Refused LTTE Child Conscription Shot & Killed (see
details)
|
THE UNFORTUNATE MOTHER, who was brave enough
to save her young son from being abducted by LTTE terrorists and was
admitted to hospital after LTTE shot her succumbed to gunshot injuries at BATTICALOA
hospital.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
26/08/06 |
Police Post Attacked; PC Injured (see
details)
|
ONE POLICE CONSTABLE (PC) was admitted to
VAVUNIYA hospital after he was injured in the explosion of a hand
grenade thrown by LTTE terrorists towards Police personnel at the
VAIRAVAPULIYANKULAM Police Post in VAVUNIYA
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
26/08/06 |
Nine more soldiers The victims have been
identified as Staff Sergeant K.A. SIRIWARDANA, Sergeant W.W. PREMACHANDRA,
Sergeant W.M. NISSANKA KUMARA, Corporal S.P. WEERASINGHE, Lance Corporal
J.M.A. PREMAKUMARA, Lance Corporal S.M.P. SAMARAKOON, Private R.A.N.D.
RANAMUKA, Private R.O.R.K. LIYANAGE and Private C.D.T. MADUSHANKA
die from the explosion of LTTE Improvised Explosive Device (IED) (see
details)
|
THE DEATH TOLL OF SOLDIERS who were caught
in the explosion of the LTTE Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at
MUHAMALAI has risen to nine.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
26/08/06 |
LTTE Gunmen Kill Tamil civilians Brother
SINNARAJA (35), & Sister WIMALAKUMARI KOMALAN (44), At Home (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS shot and killed two
civilians at their home at MAVADIWEMBU, BATTICALOA
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
26/08/06 |
LTTE Mortars Fall On Village Injuring Five
Tamil Civilians (see
details)
|
A FEW ROUNDS OF MORTARS fired by LTTE
targeting the CHENKALADY Army detachment in BATTICALOA
fell on a village and injured five Tamil civilians
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
26/08/06 |
Home Guard Injured In LTTE Fire (see
details)
|
A GROUP OF TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) TERRORISTS who
waylaid a Home Guard attached to the DAMANA Police station shot and
injured him
|
AMPARA
|
|
25/08/06 |
Woman Home Guard Shot By LTTE (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS fired at a woman Home Guard
of the VAVUNIYA Police station while she was returning after her duties at
VAVUNIYA Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) office at Good Shed road
in VAVUNIYA
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
24/08/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men Kill Unarmed Soldier D.M.T.P.
DISSANAYAKE (32), And Civilian A.H. UPUL (30) (see
details)
|
LTTE PISTOL MEN shot and killed one soldier
and a civilian off duty in VAVUNIYA
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
24/08/06 |
Ex-Home Guard D.A. LENIN PERERA (46) Shot
Dead By LTTE (see details)
|
AN UNIDENTIFIED LTTE GUNMAN shot and killed
an ex- Home Guard in THORANKADU, TRINCOMALEE.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
24/08/06 |
NGO Worker P LESLEY (29), Gunned Down By
LTTE (see details)
|
A LOCAL EMPLOYEE of a New Zealand funded Non
Governmental Organization (NGO) engaged in tsunami reconstruction and
rehabilitation work was abducted and shot dead by LTTE pistol men at
THIRUKKOVIL, AMPARA
|
AMPARA
|
|
24/08/06 |
Soldier M.M.R.B. WIJERATHNE Killed In LTTE
Fire (see details)
|
A FIRE ATTACK LAUNCHED BY LTTE TERRORISTS
towards the Forward Defence Line (FDL) at MAHAKACHCHAKODIYA, VAVUNIYA
killed one soldier
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
23/08/06 |
LTTE Claymore & Fire Attack Kills
Policeman MALAKA GOONAWARDANE (see
details)
|
ONE POLICEMAN WAS KILLED when LTTE
terrorists launched a claymore attack coupled with small arms fire at a
Police foot patrol in OTTAMAVADY, BATTOICALOA
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
23/08/06 |
Tamil Civilian THAMMUGARAJA PRABHAKARAN (35)
Killed Inside Three-Wheeler (see
details)
|
AN UNIDENTIFIED GUNMAN, suspected to be from
the LTTE, shot and killed a civilian inside a three-wheeler in TRINCOMALEE
town centre
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
23/08/06 |
Civilian & Policeman Injured In Firing (see
details)
|
AN UNIDENTIFIED MOTORBIKE riding LTTE gunman
fired at a Police foot patrol in SALAMBAIKULAM area, BATTICALOA
.The LTTE fire injured one Policeman and a civilian who was passing by.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
23/08/06 |
Soldier G.G.N. WIJERATHNE On Duty Killed In
LTTE Fire (see details)
|
LTTE terrorists fired small arms and mortars
towards an Army point in the general area of VAVUNATHIVU, BATTICALOA
. One soldier, who was on duty, was killed in the incident.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
22/08/06 |
LTTE Hand Grenade Attack Claims One More
Soldier’s Life and injures three (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS ONCE AGAIN continued their
brutal acts of violence by throwing a hand grenade at a sentry point of
the Security Forces at ACHCHUVELI, JAFFNA
The grenade attack killed one soldier and three others received minor
injuries.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
20/08/06 |
Former TULF MP Mr. SIVAMAHARAJA Slain (see
details)
|
UNIDENTIFIED PISTOL MEN shot and killed a
former Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) parliamentarian (MP) inside
his residence at THELIPPALAI in JAFFNA
The seventy-year old former TULF
Parliamentarian, Mr. SIVAMAHARAJA, who had later on contested on the Tamil
National Alliance (TNA) ticket, was also the Managing Director of the
local JAFFNA
newspaper ‘Eelanadu’ when he was gunned down.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
20/08/06 |
LTTE Claymore Mine Explosion Injures
Policeman (see details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS DETONATED a claymore mine
targeting Police personnel on duty at SALAMBAKULAM, VAVUNIYA Police post
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
19/08/06 |
LTTE Fire Attack Injures One Soldier (see
details)
|
AN ARMY POST at KINNIADY area in
BATTICOLOA came under LTTE small arms fire.
Troops also retaliated the LTTE fire. One soldier
received minor injuries and was admitted to hospital.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
19/08/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men Kill Another Tamil Tamil
Civilian SURIYAPALAN MAURAN (see
details)
|
ONE MORE CIVILIAN has been shot and
killed in broad daylight by the LTTE pistol group on Temple road, NALLUR, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
19/08/06 |
Tamil Civilian KARUNESHWARAM KANDIWARAN
Killed By Unidentified Gunmen suspected to be LTTE (see
details)
|
A civilian has been shot dead by an
unidentified gunman, suspected to be from the LTTE, at ILAWARADENKULAMA,
VAVUNIYA.
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
19/08/06 |
LTTE Terrorists claim one more Tamil
civilian BALAKRISHNAN (26)'s Life (see
details)
|
One more civilian has been shot and killed
in broad daylight Saturday (19) around 1.00 p.m. by LTTE pistol group men at
KALIKOVIL, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
18/08/06 |
Dead Bodies Of Two Tamil Civilians
PUBALIPILLE KONESHWARSA (45) and PUSHPARAJA CHANDRAKRISHNAN (18) killed by
LTTE Found (see details)
|
LTTE GUNMEN HAVE REPORTEDLY KILLED two
civilians in the general area of BATTICALOA
and VALACHCHENAI . Dead bodies recovered.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
18/08/06 |
Three-Wheeler Terrorist Takes life of Police
Constable KAPILA DISSANAYAKE (35) (see
details)
|
TERRORISTS OF LTTE PISTOL GROUP on a
three-wheeler while speeding past a combined security post of the Army and
the Police at POMPAIMADU on VAVUNIYA – MANNAR
road shot at one of the Police Constables on duty, killing him.
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
17/08/06 |
LTTE Hand Grenades Injure Civilians (see
details)
|
TWO CIVILIANS, including one female,
received injuries when LTTE terrorists flung three hand grenades towards
an Army Point in TRINCOMALEE
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
17/08/06 |
A Tamil civilian who refused to surrender
his child to the LTTE tortured (see
details)
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A civilian has complained to the SITTANDY
Army camp that he was tortured by LTTE men since he refused to
surrender his fourteen-year old child to the LTTE living in the general
area of SITTANDY. He has complained this to the ICRC, too.
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POLONNARUWA
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16/08/06 |
Two Tamil Civilians WIRAMUTTU PONNAMBALAM
(58), AIYAGUPARAMANEKI (48) Killed & One Tamil Civilian
MARIMUTTU MOHANASUNDAM (36) Injured In LTTE Fire (see details)
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A GROUP OF LTTE terrorists have
reportedly fired at a tractor carrying civilians in MORAWEWA, AMPARA.
Two civilians on the tractor died and another
received injuries due to LTTE fire.
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AMPARA
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16/08/06 |
TWO MORE Tamil TEENAGE boys PULLEINAYAGAM
(16) and SUDARASHAN (17) abducted by LTTE (see
details)
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TWO MORE TEENAGE boys were abducted by LTTE
terrorists in AMPARA. The two minors who have been abducted by LTTE
terrorists after they arrived in a van.
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AMPARA
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16/08/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men Kill Police Constable
SUDUBANDARA WIJENAYAKE (38) (see
details)
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A POLICE CONSTABLE attached to the AKKARAIPATTU
Police Station has been killed by the LTTE . He, a father of three, was on
his way home after duty at the time he was reportedly abducted by LTTE
terrorists
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AMPARA
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16/08/06 |
More Civilians Injured In LTTE Fire (see
details)
|
ARTILLERY ROUNDS fired by LTTE (Tamil
Tigers) terrorists from un-cleared areas have inflicted injuries to
civilians living in government-controlled areas and caused irreparable
damages to their property during past few days.
LTTE Artillery fire launched
targeting troops fell in populated areas of KODIKAMAM and MASERI in JAFFNA
and injured five more civilians. Troops hurriedly took the injured
civilians to MANTHIKAI hospital for treatment.
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JAFFNA
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16/08/06 |
Civilian beaten by LTTE (see
details)
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A CIVILIAN, who tried to make out two
suspicious men in HENANIGALA, area in POLONNARUWA after he entertained
some doubt about their presence, has been beaten by them. The two suspects
on the motorbike, believed to be LTTE terrorists, have fled immediately
after they assaulted the civilian.
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POLONNARUWA
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16/08/06 |
Refusal to rejoin LTTE Takes Tamil
Infant NILUSHAN (1 ½)'s Life and injures parents NIMALAN (20) and
GAJANMILAR (18) (see
details)
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LTTE terrorists as per report stormed
the house of the ex-LTTE cadre who had repeatedly refused the LTTE demand
to rejoin the organization, and opened fire indiscriminately at him while
he was with his wife and him one-and-half-year old son. The infant
died in the LTTE firing while his parents, received serious injuries in
the LTTE fire.
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BATTICALOA
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16/08/06 |
Sailor G.R.E. KUMARA Dies and another
injured In LTTE Fire (see
details)
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TWO SAILORS sustained critical injuries due
to LTTE fire at SALLIYA SAMBALATHIVU, TRINCOMALEE.
The two injured sailors were rushed to the Naval
hospital but one Able succumbed to his injuries on admission to hospital.
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TRINCOMALEE
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16/08/06 |
Sorikalmunai GS Mr. ANTHONY ERUDAYADAN (42),
a Tamil, abducted By Tamil Tigers
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A GROUP OF UNIDENTIFIED TAMIL TIGERS (LTTE),
have abducted a Grama Seva Niladhari (GS) from KALMUNAI area.
He was on his way home after duty when abducted
by Tamil Tigers
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AMPARA
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15/08/06 |
Public Market Bombed Injuring 12 –Year Old
Boy and nine other Muslim civilians
(see details)
|
A twelve – year old boy was among
nine Muslim civilians injured when LTTE (Tamil Tiger) terrorists with a
view to provoking the masses, threw a hand grenade at the public market in
OTTAMAVADI, BATTICALOA.
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BATTICALOA
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15/08/06 |
Desperate LTTE Terrorists Kill Three More
Tamil Civilians SINNIAH SIVASANKAR (21) , PARANKAMAN (23) , S. BASKARAN
(47) (see details)
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Two civilians were shot dead by LTTE gunmen
in KOKUVIL area. These killings were reported to the SLMM.
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JAFFNA
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15/08/06 |
LTTE Sniper Fire Injures Soldier (see
details)
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ONE SOLDIER RECEIVED INJURIES in an LTTE
sniper fire while the troops were clearing SANTHIVELY area
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BATTICALOA
|
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14/08/06 |
Tamil Teenagers SINNADORAI SIVADARAN (15)
and KRISHNA PULLAI SIVAMOORTHI (15) Abducted (see
details)
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THE ERAVUR POLICE have received complaints
to the effect that Tamil Tigers (LTTE) have abducted teenage sons of Mrs.
SIVARAJA YOGARANI (36) of KALI KOVIL Road, DEVAPURAM and Mrs. PUWALAPULLAI
DEVANAYAGAM (45) of SITTHANDI. They have complained to the
Police that their sons were abducted by, suspected LTTE men
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BATTICALOA
|
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14/08/06 |
LTTE attempts to assassinate Pakistani High
Commissioner Mr. BASHIR WALI MOHAMED who narrowly escapes. FOUR SOLDIERS
OF THE SRI LANKA ARMY on escort and three others die. Seventeen injured. (see
details)
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A POWERFUL EXPLOSION believed to have
been triggered by Tamil Tiger terrorists around the Liberty roundabout at
the intersection to ANANDAKUMARASWAMY Road at
KOLLUPITIYA, COLOMBO
03 killed at least seven including members of a security escort to
Pakistani High Commissioner
|
COLOMBO
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12/08/06 |
LTTE Fire Attack Injures Two Soldiers (see
details)
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AN ARMY FOOT PATROL at KUMBURMOOLAI area in BATTICALOA
came under LTTE small arms fire .Two soldiers received injuries and were
rushed to hospital.
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BATTICALOA
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12/08/06 |
LTTE Artillery Fire Kills civilian H.K.
RANJITH HETTI KANKANAM (28) and Injuries two (see
details)
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AN ARTILLERY FIRED BY
LTTE TERRORISTS from the un-cleared areas of SAMPOOR fell on an lorry
parked at the Prima Flour Mill in TRINCOMALEE
Killing a civilian and injuring two others.
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TRINCOMALEE
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12/08/06 |
Peace Secretariat Deputy Secretary General
Mr. KETHISHWARAN LOGANANATHAN (54) a Tamil Shot Dead by LTTE (see
details)
|
SUSPECTED LTTE PISTOL MEN in one of their
brutal assassinations, shot and killed the Deputy Secretary General of the
Secretariat for Coordinating of the Peace Process (SCOPP) after calling
him out to the gate at his home
|
COLOMBO
|
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11/08/06 |
Terrorists Abduct Schoolboy THAVARASA
THURUHARAN (15) For Conscriptions (see
details)
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A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD BOY was abducted by Tamil
Tigers (LTTE) from his home at VINAYAGAPURAM, BATTICALOA.
He was at home when a group of LTTE terrorists stormed
his house and took him away for conscription.
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BATTICALOA
|
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11/08/06 |
EPDP activist, CHANDRABOSE SUWANDAN (26)
killed by LTTE (see
details)
|
IN THE LTTE’S BARBARIC CYCLE OF MURDER AND
VIOLENCE, the anti-LTTE democratic group, Eelam People’s Democratic
Party (EPDP) appears to be the worst affected, as LTTE terrorists gunned
down one more EPDP activist in WEPPANKULAM, VAVUNIYA.
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VAVUNIYA
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11/08/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men take life of Tamil Tractor
Driver SIVALNGAM UDAYAKANTHAN (26) (see
details)
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A TRACTOR DRIVER was shot dead by LTTE
pistol group terrorists at SELVANAYAGAPURAM, JAFFNA
while he was going for a hire in the area.
|
JAFFNA
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10/08/06 |
Police Constable Injured In LTTE Fire (see
details)
|
A POLICE CONSTABLE, attached to the
KATTANKUDY Police station was injured when terrorists of LTTE pistol
group shot him at KATTANKUDY, BATTICALOA.
|
BATTICALOA
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10/08/06 |
Terrorist Detonate IED Kills one Soldier B
PREMATHILAKE (see details)
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An Improvised Explosion Device (IED) of
the LTTE (Tamil Tiger)which had been laid near an Army
point in KOKUVIL area, JAFFNA
exploded causing death to one soldier
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JAFFNA
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|
10/08/06 |
LTTE Rival Political Activist
THALAIMUTTUSIVA (30) Shot (see
details)
|
A MEMBER of People’s Liberation
Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) has been fired upon by unidentified
gunmen, suspected to be from LTTE at KOVILKULAM, VAVUNIYA.
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VAVUNIYA
|
|
09/08/06 |
Tamil Youth THAMBIRASA RAGINIANTH Found Shot
Dead By LTTE Gunmen (see
details)
|
ON INFORMATION received from civilians
troops rushed to the general area of MEERAVODAI to find the bullet riddled
dead body of a twenty-five year old civilian.
Hands of the dead man had been tied together when
it was found by troops
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BATTICALOA
|
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09/08/06 |
Police Constable CHANDRASOMA Injured in LTTE
Fire (see details)
|
LTTE (TAMIL TIGERS) opened small arms fire
on Police Constables who were on duty in PARAPPAKANDAL area in MANNAR
.A Police Constable received injuries in the incident and was evacuated to
Hospital for future treatment.
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MANNAR
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|
09/08/06 |
LTTE Kills One Tamil Civilian SILVARAJA
RATHNAKUMAR (31) and Injures Another AIYATHURAI SELDEEPAN (27) (see
details)
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A GROUP OF LTTE GUNMEN shot & killed one
civilian at SANDILIPAI, JAFFNA
The victim was near his house with his friend, when the LTTE gunmen fired
at them and fled.
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JAFFNA
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|
09/08/06 |
LTTE Claymore Mine Hits Ambulance Killing
Doctor & Nurses (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS, in their fanatic and wild
machinations, regardless of all civilized ethics and UN conventions,
attacked an ambulance and killed five persons including a doctor and two
nurses near un-cleared areas of NEDUNKERNY in VAVUNIA
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VAVUNIYA
|
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08/08/06 |
Terrorists explode bomb and injure
EPDP Stalwart Mr. SIVADASAN and kill two others (see
details)
|
AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE targeting an EPDP
stalwart exploded near a reputed Girls’ school in MILAGIRIYA killed two
but failed to strike their EPDP target.
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COLOMBO
|
|
08/08/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men Kill Another Civilian
SUDASIVAN ADARJUN (26) (see
details)
|
ONE MORE INNOCENT CIVILIAN was shot dead by
LTTE pistol group by terrorists of LTTE pistol group who came on a
motorbike in KONDAVIL area
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JAFFNA
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08/08/06 |
LTTE Abducts ICRC Vehicle (see
details)
|
OFFICIAL OF THE ICRC lodged a complain
against a group of LTTE men who abducted their vehicle while they were
proceeding from ARIPPU to MURUNKAN
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MANNAR
|
|
08/08/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men Kill Muslim Home Guard
KALANDAN LEBBE SUBAYAR (39) (see
details)
|
LTTE PISTOL GROUP TERRORISTS, in their
non-ending thirst for blood and violence shot and killed a Muslim Home
Guard on duty in AKKARAIPATTU
town
|
AMPARA
|
|
08/08/06 |
Tamil Tigers Hit and injure Soldier
Distributing Breakfast (see
details)
|
A SOLDIER DELIVERING BREAKFAST to a route
clearing team of the Security Forces was shot and severely wounded by LTTE
terrorists in hiding
|
ANURADHAPURA
|
|
08/08/06 |
LTTE Claymore Kills Two STF Personnel (see
details)
|
LTTE terrorists detonated one more claymore
mine at POTHUVIL, AMPARA and killed two Special Task Force personnel.
|
AMPARA
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|
07/08/06 |
SSP Mr. UPUL SENEVIRATNE Killed In Claymore
Mine Explosion (see
details)
|
SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE (SSP)
Director Training Special Task Force (STF) died in an LTTE claymore mine
explosion at DIGANE, KANDY.
|
KANDY
|
|
07/08/06 |
Police Constable G. WIKRAMASOORIYA (44),
Latest Prey Of Pistol Terrorists (see
details)
|
PISTOL GROUP TERRORISTS OF THE LTTE (Tamil
Tigers), showing once again their disregard for human lives, shot and
killed one Police Constable on duty in BATTICALOA
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
06/08/06 |
TELO Member ARUMUGAN NAVASIYAM (38) Shot By
LTTE (see details)
|
AN ACTIVE MEMBER of Tamil Ealam Liberation
Organization (TELO) was shot by an unidentified gunman at KUMAN
KULAM, VAVUNIYA
|
VAVUNIYA
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06/08/06 |
LTTE Kills Tamil Youth MANOHARAN PARATHEEPAN
(20) (see details)
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TAMIL TIGERS (LTTE), self-claimed to be the
sole representative of the Tamil population in Sri Lanka, killed one more
Tamil civilian at ANNEIKOTTEI, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
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06/08/06 |
LTTE Artillery Fire Injures Civilians (see
details)
|
A FEW ROUNDS of LTTE fire from the
un-cleared area of SAMPOOR fell on three houses belonging to civilians and
injured three civilians
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
06/08/06 |
One More Tamil Civilian KANDIAH SUDHAKARAN
(33) Falls Victim To LTTE Gunmen (see
details)
|
TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) GUNMEN claimed the life
of one more civilian in JAFFNA
|
JAFFNA
|
|
05/08/06 |
Two Tamil Civilians THAVASEELAN (21),ARUMUGAM
UDAYASOORIYAN (43) Killed In Jaffna (see
details)
|
A CIVILIAN HAS BEEN SHOT DEAD by LTTE gunmen
MARADANAMADAM, JAFFNA.Another
civilian has been shot dead by suspected LTTE terrorists in
THAMBISETTI area in POINT PEDRO, JAFFNA
|
JAFFNA
|
|
05/08/06 |
LTTE Fire Kills Soldier (see
details)
|
ONE ARMY SOLDIER WAS KILLED when LTTE
terrorists in hiding fired at troops on duty at PARAPPAKANDAL, MANNAR
|
MANNAR
|
|
05/08/06 |
Tamil Civilian Injured In LTTE Random Fire
Admitted To Hospital (see
details)
|
TROOPS ON DUTY AT THE BLACK BRIDGE
entry/exit point made arrangements to admit a Tamil civilian injured due
to LTTE gunfire in un-cleared areas to hospital.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
04/08/06 |
Tamil Police Sergeant SHIVARAJAH PAKYARASA
Died In Confrontation Found (see
details)
|
THE DEAD BODY OF A POLICE SERGEANT who was
believed to have died during confrontations with LTTE was recovered from
the general area of MUTTUR town
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
04/08/06 |
Tamil Civilian WASUDEWAN (25) Injured In
LTTE Fire (see details)
|
TWO UNIDENTIFIED MOTORBIKE RIDING gunmen,
suspected to be LTTE terrorists, shot and injured a civilian at PARAKUM
Village, TRINCOMALEE
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
04/08/06 |
Tamil civilian PONNATHURAI JINESHAMOORTHI
(56) Killed (see details)
|
A CIVILIAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED by terrorists
of the LTTE pistol group at THIRUNAVELY, JAFFNA
The victim, had been a bank manager of the Peoples Bank.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
04/08/06 |
Two Policemen Caught Up in Claymore
Explosion (see details)
|
ONE POLICE SUB INSPECTOR AND TWO CONSTABLES
sustained injuries in an LTTE planted claymore mine explosion while they
were on their way to reinforce Policemen at a bunker under LTTE fire
in VAVUNIYA area
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
03/08/06 |
LTTE artillery fire kill more than 20
Muslims and injure many displaced Muslims and school children see details
in links below.
(SL Defence)
(SPUR)
|
RETREATING LTTE TERRORISTS IN UN-CLEARED
areas of THOPPUR, TRINCOMALEE
directed artillery shell fire on displaced Muslim civilians, housed inside
MUTTUR Arabic college in MUTTUR town killed and injured many.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
03/08/06 |
LTTE Detonate a Claymore Mine and injure two
soldiers (see details)
|
LTTE terrorists repeating their criminal
tactics once again activated a claymore mine targeting troops on
route clearing duties in PARAPPAKANDAL, MANNAR
area and injured two soldiers.
|
MANNAR
|
|
02/08/06 |
Police Constable SAMARAKKODIGE MAHINDA’s
shot and killed (see
details)
|
A Police Constable who went to nearby town
to purchase some items after leaving PESALAI Police station was reportedly
shot at close range by an LTTE pistol man .
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
02/08/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men Strike and kill Tamil
Musician PATHMANADHAN SEVANETTHARI (31) (see
details)
|
The 31-year old leader of a Tamil music
group has been assassinated by LTTE pistol men near YARL Junction, JAFFNA
for his failure to honour an order given by the LTTE, the Police were
told.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
01/08/06 |
Police Sergeant Shot Dead By LTTE (see
details)
|
AN LTTE GUNMAN ON BOARD A three-wheeler shot
and killed a Police Sergeant closer to MAMADUWA junction on HOROWPATHANA-
VAVUNIYA road.
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
01/08/06 |
LTTE gunns down an 18-year-old Tamil boy
MOHANDAS (18) (see
details)
|
In the latest crime, suspected LTTE
terrorists gunned down an 18-year-old Tamil boy this at ALAI ADIWEMBU, AKKARAIPATTU.
|
AKKARAIPATTU.
|
|
31/07/06 |
LTTE kills three-wheeler driver H.D.
SUSANTHA LAKSHMAN (30) (see
details)
|
Meanwhile, suspected two unidentified Tamil
Tigers have gunned down a thirty-year-old three-wheeler driver on Love
Lane at TRINCOMALEE
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
31/07/06 |
ONE MORE HOME GUARD fell victim to LTTE (see
details)
|
ONE MORE HOME GUARD fell victim to LTTE
pistol men in the general area of SELVANAYAGAPURAM, TRINCOMALEE
while he was travelling in a vehicle.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
31/07/06 |
Terrorists In Tit For Tat Attack Blasts Army
Bus Killing Sixteen Soldiers (see
details)
|
IN WHAT WAS SEEN as a tit for tat attack,
LTTE terrorists blasted an Army bus that was carrying troops to KANTALAI
on KANTALAI – SERUNUWARA road killing 16 soldiers on the spot and
injuring two.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
30/07/06 |
LTTE kil Tamil civilian BASKARAN KAPILRAJ
(18) (see details)
|
Earlier, civilians informed the Police that
LTTE gunmen have killed a young man in URUMPIRAI, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
30/07/06 |
Fleeing Tamil Young Men To Avoid LTTE
Conscription RASARATHNEM SENTHURAN and THANGARASA MANOHARAN Shot injuring
one seriously (see
details)
|
TWO TAMIL YOUNG MEN under LTTE’s
intense threat forcing them to join the LTTE have deserted their village
in RALKULLY, MUTTUR and escaped on a canoe, but met with LTTE fire.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
30/07/06 |
LTTE Claymore & Fire Attack Injures
Soldier (see details)
|
AN LTTE CLAYMORE MINE EXPLOSION followed by
subsequent fire attack injured one soldier at PUTUKULAM, VAVUNIYA.
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
29/07/06 |
Policeman Injured In LTTE Bomb Attack (see
details)
|
ONE POLICE SERGEANT received injuries
Saturday in the explosion of an LTTE Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
at KUDUMALU junction, VAVUNIYA
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
28/07/06 |
Tamil Students PARATHIVAN (15) and
PUVANARASA (15),Escape LTTE Detention (see
details)
|
Two students of the PUDUKUDIRUPPU Maha
Vidyalaya VALACHCHENAI were abducted by LTTE terrorists while they
were on their way home after school. However, the two students, managed to
escape LTTE detention, the same day evening.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
28/07/06 |
Terrorist kill three Home Guards G. SUNIL
GUNAWARDANE (28), SAMAN KUMARA DISSANAYAKE (30) and , BANDAGE
THILAKARATHNE (37) in Kebethigollewa (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS, undeterred by all
reconciliatory measures, once again showed their brutality in
KEBETHIGOLLEWA area by killing three Home Guards returning home after
duties.
|
ANURADHAPURA
|
|
28/07/06 |
LTTE pistol group gunns down two Police
Constables SARATH and JESDASAN (see
details)
|
TERRORISTS OF THE LTTE pistol group gunned
down two Police Constables at KUNGU ARU, PALAUTTUR in TRINCOMALEE
while they were on foot patrol in the area.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
28/07/06 |
LTTE Grenade Injures Tamil Civilian
KOBALAPILLAI SIVANADAN (49) & Soldier (see
details)
|
AN ARMY FOOT PATROL at THATTATTHIRI area in JAFFNA
came under LTTE hand grenade attack .
One soldier and a civilian received injuries in the incident.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
27/07/06 |
Tamil Police Constable JAYARASA JAYABALA
RAJENDRAN Abducted & Killed (see
details)
|
A TAMIL POLICE CONSTABLE on his way to
THIRUKKOVIL Police station has been abducted and subsequently killed by
suspected LTTE terrorists
|
AMPARA
|
|
27/07/06 |
Innocent Tamil Woman Ms SUNDARALINGAM
PUNESHWARAM (48) LTTE’s Latest Prey (see
details)
|
LTTE PISTOL MEN claimed the life of another
innocent woman at BHARATHIPURAM, TRINCOMALEE.
She was killed by LTTE assassins in front of the eyes of her own two
children.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
27/07/06 |
Two Police Constables In Mannar Hospital
Post and a woman injured from LTTE attack
(see details)
|
ONE MORE POLICE CONSTABLE and a woman came
under an LTTE hand grenade attack at MANNAR
town when an unidentified Tamil Tiger (LTTE) mingling with the public
threw the grenade, targeting Police Constables. Another Police Constable
on duty near the Hospital Police post at ULUPAIKULAM, MANNAR
had to seek admission to MANNAR
hospital after he received injuries in an LTTE fire attack
|
MANNAR
|
|
27/07/06 |
LTTE’s Terror Kills killed at least two
Tamil civilians MARIYADAS MANOJAN RAJ (22), KANDAIAH CHITHRA VADIVEL
injures two Tamil civilians including Mr. KRISHNAKUMAR (50) and one soldier
(see details)
|
TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) terrorists in separate
pre-dawn claymore mine and fire attacks in JAFFNA
aiming civilians as well as members of the Security Forces killed at least
two civilians, injured two civilians and one soldier within a matter of
four hours.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
26/07/06 |
One More Cowardly Terrorist Attack
Kills Soldier (see
details)
|
BARELY THREE HOURS later LTTE terrorists
wounded a Police Constable at MURUNKAN, terrorists once again shot and
killed a soldier on duty in the east of OMANTHAI Entry/Exit point
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
26/07/06 |
A Police Constable Injured by LTTE attack (see
details)
|
ONE MORE POLICE CONSTABLE SERVING
Police post near MURUNKAN in MANNAR
received injuries when LTTE terrorists fired small arms.
|
MANNAR
|
|
25/07/06 |
Terrorists Detonate Grenade & Injure Two
Police Constables (see
details)
|
TWO POLICE CONSTABLES, attached to the
Police post near VAVUNIYA Railway Station were evacuated to hospital
when LTTE terrorists threw a hand grenade at the Police post and fled the
scene.
The explosion caused panic among the public who were heading towards the
Railway Station to board trains.
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
25/07/06 |
Terrorists Snipe At Soldiers and injure one
soldier (see details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS in un-cleared areas sniped
and injured one soldier at KOKKUTUDUWAI, WELIOYA .
The injured soldier was clearing the area with fellow-soldiers when he
came under LTTE sniper fire.
|
WELIOYA
|
|
25/07/06 |
Two Police Constables Injured In Terrorist
Attack (see details)
|
TWO POLICE CONSTABLES received serious
injuries at THIRUNAVELI road, KOPAY in JAFFNA
when LTTE terrorists detonated a claymore mine on a Police foot patrol.
Terrorists who had taken cover inside a wayside building activated the
claymore mine as the Police team on foot patrol was walking past the area
in order to maintain law and order.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
24/07/06 |
Tamil civilian NAGARASA SUNDARALINGAM (35)
Shot & Killed In Broad Daylight (see
details)
|
UNIDENTIFIED motorbike-riding gunmen,
believed to be from the LTTE, shot and killed a Tamil man at a location
between SERUNUWARA and ARIPPU junction in TRINCOMALEE
.
The victim, was on his push bicycle when gunmen confronted the rider and
assassinated him after shooting him at close range.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
24/07/06 |
Terrorists Strike Again Killing Army
Sergeant (see details)
|
ONE MORE TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) claymore attack
on a moving Army tractor at SETTIKULAM, VAVUNIYA claimed the life of an
Army Sergeant.
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
24/07/06 |
Minister Devananda’s Public Relation
Officer MAHAKANAPATHY PILLE Gunned Down (see
details)
|
PUBLIC RELATION OFFICER to the Ministry
of Hon. Minister DOUGLAS DEVANANDA, leader of the Eelam Peoples’
Democratic Party (EPDP), was shot dead by pistol men, suspected to be from
LTTE, at IBC road, WELLAWATTE
|
COLOMBO
|
|
23/07/06 |
Home Guard NISSANKA RANJITH BANDARA Beheaded
By LTTE Terrorists (see
details)
|
TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) terrorists resorting to
their usual bloodthirsty cycle of terror brutally beheaded a Home Guard,
attached to the SIRIMANGALAPURA Police Post, TRINCOMALEE
.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
23/07/06 |
Motorbike-Riding Terrorists Shoot and kill
Young Tamil Men SELVAM SUDARSHAN (22) and ANTON KANAGARATNAM RUSIYANDAS
(19) (see details)
|
REPORTS CONFIRMED two motorbike-riding LTTE
pistol men, for reasons best known only to them have shot dead two young
men in the general area of THIRUNALVELY east in JAFFNA
.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
23/07/06 |
Sailor Injured In LTTE Hand Grenade Attack (see
details)
|
TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) terrorists hurled a hand
grenade towards naval troops at the WELANI junction Navy picket point in
KAYTS, JAFFNA.
The explosion caused injuries to one sailor on duty at the point near
Education Office in KAYTS.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
23/07/06 |
Tamil Civilian SIVAPRAKASHAM THIRUNAKARASHU
(66) Killed By Unidentified Gunman (see
details)
|
A CIVILIAN has been shot dead by an
unidentified gunman, suspected to be from the LTTE.
The victim, has been killed in front of MALAKKAM College.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
22/07/06 |
LTTE claymore mine claims lives of 2 more
soldiers JAYASINGHE UDGW and PRIVATE ANURUDDHA BANDARA PGW (see
details)
|
TWO MORE SOLDIERS WERE KILLED AND another
two were injured when Tamil Tiger terrorists activated a claymore mine
against troops at MEESALAI South, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
21/07/06 |
More Tamil Civilians WALLI KIDNAM
(65), SINNAMAM DHARMARAJAH (27), THAVACHELVAM (28), Fall Victim To
LTTE Terrorism (see
details)
|
LTTE GUNMEN shot and killed a man inside his
residence at URANI in JAFFNA
.
Another civilian was shot dead by LTTE at KARANTHAN junction, KOPAI in JAFFNA
A civilian residing at PALALY road, THIRUNAVELI meanwhile has also been
gunned down by LTTE terrorists .
|
JAFFNA
|
|
21/07/06 |
Parliamentarian’s Mr. JAYANANDA
MOORTHY’s house damaged in bomb attack (see
details)
|
DISTRICT TAMIL NATIONAL ALLIANCE (TNA)
Member of Parliament ’s home in BATTICALOA
was partly damaged in a bomb attack . Police said a gang of terrorists,
yet to be identified have carried out the attack .
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
21/07/06 |
Young Tamil woman KAMALANI
SHIVANESHWARI (23) who was going for a movie shot dead (see
details)
|
A 23 YEAR – OLD YOUNG WOMAN proceeding to
a cinema hall had been shot dead by LTTE pistol men for reasons best
known only to the pistol men in the general area of NAKOLLI, ILLAWALI, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
21/07/06 |
Soldier Injured In LTTE Claymore Explosion (see
details)
|
ONE SOLDIER received injuries after
LTTE terrorists detonated a claymore mine targeting troops at
CHEKKADIPILAM on CHETTIKULAM – ULUKKULAM road, VAVUNIYA
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
20/07/06 |
Six More Tamil civilians under LTTE attack (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS lobbed a hand grenade
towards troops on picket duty at the ARASADI junction, JAFFNA.Explosion
of this hand grenade injured five innocent civilians, who were passing by
at the time the LTTE terrorists threw the hand grenade. Another civilian
at KOKUVIL in JAFFNA
was shot and injured by LTTE gunmen when he was at his residence
|
JAFFNA
|
|
20/07/06 |
Tamil Hair Dresser Victimized For Working
With Soldiers (see
details)
|
LTTE terrorists have shot and killed a
barber in the general area of CHUNNAKAM.
LTTE terrorists wanted to revenge from the barber because he used to do
hair cutting of the members of the Security Forces
|
JAFFNA
|
|
20/07/06 |
Four NGO Employees Latest Victims In LTTE
Blast (see details)
|
Four employees attached to a World Bank
Funded Project Operating in uncleared areas of MANNAR
under NEIAP organization were injured in an LTTE activated claymore mine
blast
|
MANNAR
|
|
19/07/06 |
Motorbike-Riding Gunmen Take One More Life
of a civilian GUNARAJADEVA (38) (see
details)
|
UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN on a motorbike have
gunned down a thirty-eight year old civilian in THORANKADU, TRINCOMALEE
for reasons yet to be ascertained.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
19/07/06 |
Tamil Shop Keeper NAGAMANI NADEESHWARAN
Gunned Down (see details)
|
AN UNKNOWN GUNMAN stormed a shop in KOTAHENA,
COLOMBO
13 and shot a civilian who is said to have arrived from JAFFNA
and settled there.
|
COLOMBO
|
|
18/07/06 |
LTTE-Seized Vehicles Not Returned (see
details)
|
LTTE terrorists after threatening drivers of
eleven tractors and eight lorries in the town have forcibly taken their
vehicles away into un-cleared areas, asking their respective owners to pay
Rs 20,000/- (about USD 200) for each tractor and Rs 50,000/- (about USD
500) for a lorry, if they were to be released.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
19/07/06 |
Two Officers & Soldier Injured in
Terrorist Blast Captain E.R.S.H.P.A. SIRIWARDENE, Lieutenant P.G.S.G.
KUMARA and Lance Corporal U.S. THILAKARATHNE Succumb To Injuries (see
details)
|
THREE ARMY PERSONNEL among the
fourteen injured in the brutal LTTE (Tamil Tigers) claymore mine attack on
an Army bus this morning (19) at about 11.05 a.m. at MARADANAMADAM, JAFFNA
who were proceeding on leave, succumbed to injuries in the military
hospital two hours later.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
19/07/06 |
Fourteen Army & Police Personnel Escape
Death In Explosion (see
details)
|
AT LEAST THREE ARMY OFFICERS, two Police
Constables and nine Soldiers proceeding to the PALALY Airport on JAFFNA
– CHUNNAKAM road were severely injured in an LTTE (Tamil Tigers)
claymore mine attack near MARADANAMADAM when hiding terrorists
targeted their bus.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
18/07/06 |
Terrorists Detonate Claymore Mine In Crowded
Town Killing Tamil One Civilian SIINATHAMBI NAGARASA (55) & Injuring
Six Others (see details)
|
A STATE OF PANIC AND ABSOLUTE MAYHEM
enveloped KODIKAMAM town in JAFFNA
when LTTE (Tamil Tigers) with scant regard to others, activated a claymore
blast killing one innocent civilian and injuring six others including four
soldiers on route clearing duty.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
18/07/06 |
Two Dead Tamil Young Men MURUGAPILLAI
MAHADEVAN (24) and SINNARASA SOMSUNDARAM (31),With Gunshot Injuries by
LTTE Identified (see
details)
|
Dead bodies of two youths, slain by
suspected Tamil Tiger (LTTE) gunmen, were recovered by the BATTICALOA
Police from the general area of SATHURUKONDAN Colony, BATTICALOA.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
17/07/06 |
LTTE Claymore Blast Kills Sailor (see
details)
|
Tamil Tiger terrorists’ claymore attack on
the Naval troops returning after duties in the port city of TRINCOMALEE,
near SALLISAMBALTHIVU, has claimed the life of one Navy officer while he
was being rushed to hospital in the aftermath of the explosion.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
17/07/06 |
Five Sailors, Latest Victims In LTTE
Claymore Blast (see
details)
|
FIVE SAILORS WERE INJURED when Tamil Tiger (LTTE)
terrorists detonated a claymore mine at SALLISAMBALTHIVU, TRINCOMALEE.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
17/07/06 |
Terrorists Claim One More Soldier’s Life (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS REPEATED THEIR TERRORIST
ACTS when they detonated a claymore mine targeting three Army soldiers,
near SIVAM KOVIL on JAFFNA
– POINT PEDRO road.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
16/07/06 |
Terrorists Sniper Fire Injures Soldier (see
details)
|
AN LTTE SNIPER FIRE ATTACK directed towards
troops on duty at JANAKAPURA, PADAVIYA area inflicted head injuries to one
of the soldiers
|
WELIOYA
|
|
16/07/06 |
Three Tamil civilans JOSHEP JUDE (20), ANTON
DENSIL (22) and PAKYARASA ARULDAS (23) hacked to death (see
details)
|
THREE CIVILIAN WERE HACKED TO DEATH near the
SINNA VINAYAGAR Kovil on ARULAMBALAM Road, ARIALAI, JAFFNA
.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
16/07/06 |
LTTE Claymore Mine Injures Two STF Personnel
(see details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS DETONATED A CLAYMORE MINE
targeting Special Task Force (STF) troops on duty at THIRUKKOVIL area in
AMPARA .
Two STF personnel who received injuries in the explosion were referred to
hospital for medical treatments.
|
AMPARA
|
|
16/07/06 |
LTTE Fire From Un-Cleared Areas Injures
Civilian & Soldier
(see details)
|
TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) TERRORISTS from
un-cleared areas launched an attack on troops at the SELVANAGAR Army camp
in TRINCOMALEE
One soldier and one civilian were injured when Tamil Tigers fired at the
troops using 81 mm mortar and small arms.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
14/07/06 |
LTTE attacks army and kills 12 soldiers
LIEUTENANT M.A.K.G. HANANGALA, LIEUTENANT T.B.H.S. FERNANDO,
CORPORAL V.P JAYASINGHE, CORPORAL H.D JAYASIRI, CORPORAL A.P.R
PATHIRANA, LANCE CORPORAL N.S. THALAWATHTHAGE, LANCE CORPORAL W.
LASANTHA, LANCE CORPORAL L.A.M GNANASENA, LANCE CORPORAL R.M.C RATNAYAKE,
PRIVATE K.K PERERA, PRIVATE S.A JAGATH and PRIVATE M.M.S.N.
ALAHAKOON.
(see details)
|
REMAINS OF TWELVE SRI LANKA ARMY soldiers
slain by LTTE terrorists during a confrontation in VAKANERI, WELIKANDA
area on Friday morning have so far been received by ICRC through the Sri
Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM)
Troops came under heavy LTTE mortar and small arms fire on Friday morning
when they were on a search and clear duty in the area, compelling them to
retaliate in self - defence.
The confrontation resulted in the death of four terrorists and twelve Army
personnel.
|
WELIKANDA
|
|
14/07/06 |
LTTE Snipers Injure Two Sailors (see
details)
|
LTTE Terrorists Sniped Two Sailors while
they were on duty at MUTTUR Naval detachment .
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
12/07/06 |
Six Policemen and a civilian injured in LTTE
mine blast (see details)
|
The number of injured in the LTTE claymore
mine blast at Nallur now reported to be six Policemen and a
civilian.
The incident occurred when the tiger terrorist targeted a Police Vehicle
at Nawaladi .
|
JAFFNA
|
|
12/07/06 |
Soldier W.R. Weerasinghe, Killed by a LTTE
Sniper (see details)
|
A soldier of the SL Army was killed while on
duty at Nagarkovil Forward Defence Line by a LTTE terrorist Sniper
|
JAFFNA
|
|
12/07/06 |
PLOTE member Sebastian Irudarajan (48)
killed by LTTE (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORIST KILLED A PLOTE MEMBER at the
Jaffna Town . The victim was shot near the Wembadi Girls School close to
the JAFFNA lagoon.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
11/07/06 |
Explosion near Kovil kills soldier (see
details)
|
A CLAYMORE MINE EXPLODED NEAR THE SETTIPURAM
KOVIL in JAFFNA
. One Soldier was reported killed.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
10/07/06 |
Innocent Tamil Civilian SINHARAYAR
CHRISTOPHER (48) Killed By Tamil Tigers (see
details)
|
A civilian employed at PLOTE office - JAFFNA
was shot dead by a LTTE pistol man when he was issuing tickets at the
bicycle park.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
10/07/06 |
LTTE Tiger Terrorists Kill Tamil Colleague
VELUPILLAI MOHANARASA (25)
(see details)
|
A TAMIL TIGER TERRORIST SHOT AND KILLED
another tiger terrorist for failing to follow the orders of the LTTE .
He has been an active member in the LTTE organization who took part
in many activities against Security Forces.
|
AMPARA
|
|
09/07/06 |
LTTE Fires At Buddhist Monks Of Somawathiya
Chaitiya (see details)
|
THE RESIDENT BUDDHIST MONKS OF SOMAWATHIYA
CHAITIYA with an Army and Police escort were fired upon by a group of LTTE
terrorists when they went to the Mahaweli Ganga .
This ancient Buddhist Chaitiya is provided security as it is not the first
incident of the LTTE targeting the Buddhist monks and the Chaitiya itself.
|
POLONNARUWA
|
|
09/07/06 |
Home Guard M. NIZAR (36) Gunned Down by LTTE
(see details)
|
A HOME GUARD attached to the SAMANTHURAI
Police returning after work was chased behind by two unidentified gunmen
suspected to be LTTE terrorists and brutally gunned down.
|
AMPARA
|
|
08/07/06 |
LTTE Terrorists Shoot and Injure a Civilian (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS SHOT AND INJURED A CIVILIAN
NEAR ST ZAVIERS’ COLLEGE MANNAR
.
|
MANNAR
|
|
08/07/06 |
An Anti Personal Mine Injures a Soldier (see
details)
|
A SOLDIER WAS CRITICALLY INJURED when an
Anti Personal mine exploded at KILALY
|
JAFFNA
|
|
08/07/06 |
LTTE PISTOL CADRES SHOOT at a PLOTE member
and injure another Tamil civilian (see
details)
|
LTTE PISTOL CADRES SHOT at a PLOTE member
and injured a civilian at the JAFFNA Hospital entrance
|
JAFFNA
|
|
07/07/06 |
LTTE Kills Innocent Muslim Civilian THUWAN
VAHID ALI (41) (see
details)
|
A MALAY MUSLIM , a resident of No 64,
SANGAMAN, CHINABAY was shot dead by LTTE pistol Group. Incident happened
on GANESH ROAD and the victim is reported to be a fisherman.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
07/07/06 |
LTTE TERRORISTS OPEN FIRE with small arms
and mortars injuring one soldier (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS OPENED FIRE with small arms
and mortars injuring one soldier at the 64 Mile Post Army detachment,
MUTTUR
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
06/07/06 |
Muslim Fisherman Killed by LTTE terrorists (see
details)
|
A MUSLIM FISHERMAN WAS SHOT at by the LTTE
terrorists in SELVANAGAR,
Later, he succumbed to his injuries.
|
TRINCOMALEE
.
|
|
06/07/06 |
More Tamil Families Flee LTTEControlled
Areas (see details)
|
THREE MORE TAMIL FAMILIES consisting of
three males, seven females, two girls and four boys has left the LTTE-controlled
area and sought refuge in cleared areas. During the last five days 57
families comprising 168 persons have so far left the LTTE controlled area
and sought refuge in the cleared area.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
04/07/06 |
Tamil Tiger Terrorists Shoot At Tamil
Civilians and injure one PLOTE member (
see details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS fired at three
fishermen severely injuring one, who has been identified as a member of
Peoples Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE).
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
03/07/06 |
A Muslim civilian MOHOMMED ALI (24) gunned
down by LTTE ( see
details)
|
TWO LTTE ARMED CADRES gunned down a civilian
when he was at his residence in MUD COVE around
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
03/07/06 |
LTTE Claymore Explosion Kills a Soldier (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS EXPLODED A CLAYMORE MINE
targeting a Army foot patrol at WADIRI-NELLIADI .
One soldier was killed and another sustained injuries.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
03/07/06 |
Three Policemen, Army soldier a Home Guard
and a civilian killed and fourteen including children injured due to the
LTTE explosion (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS CAUSED AN EXPLOSION at the
ANURADHAPURA junction . The explosion occurred when Police personnel were
trying to check a three wheeler parked near the market. Three Policemen,
Army soldier a Home Guard and a civilian were killed due to the explosion
A total of fourteen persons had been seriously injured - three Army
personnel, two Policemen, an Airman, a Home Guard and seven civilians
including two children.
|
ANURADHAPURA
|
|
03/07/06 |
LTTE Terrorists Fire Small Arms at Police
Check Point injuring one civilian (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS DIRECTED SMALL ARMS FIRE at
the KALAWANCHIKUDI Police check point .
One civilian was injured in the LTTE firing.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
03/07/06 |
LTTE Detonate Another Claymore At Police
Personnel injuring two (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS detonated a claymore
mine aiming Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel while on route
clearing along the PUDIKUDIRIPPU – KURUKKA MADAM road
Two Police person received injuries in the incident and was evacuated to
the BATTICALOA
hospital for treatment.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
02/07/06 |
Tamil Civilian MUTHURAJAH (63) &
Soldier Injured In LTTE Hand Grenade Attack (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS in hiding fired towards
troops returning after a search operation at NELLIADY . In another
incident, LTTE terrorists lobbed a hand grenade towards troops on picket
duties at URUMPIRAI junction . A civilian was also injured due to LTTE
hand grenade attack and admitted to JAFFNA hospital.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
30/06/06 |
A soldier who was concerned about civilians
killed by LTTE (see
details)
|
TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) TERRORIST made another
attempt to provoke Security Forces into harming civilians at ALAVEDDY
church JAFFNA. The terrorist attempt failed but one soldier was injured
and succumbed to his injuries when the Tigers opened fire at the troops,
who did not retaliate to avoid causing injuries to civilians.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
30/06/06 |
sailor, Able Patrolman D. COSTA (28) killed
by LTTE (see details)
|
A SRI LANKA NAVY SAILOR AND A TAMIL TIGER (LTTE)
TERRORIST AND were killed during an exchange of fire near the JUMMA MOSQUE
in MANNAR . The LTTE pistol cadre in a deliberate attempt to provoke the
Security Forces in the vicinity of a this sacred place opened fire at the
Navy personnel killing the sailor
|
MANNAR
|
|
30/06/06 |
Tamil Civilian KANDASAMY JAYANTHAKUMAR (28)
Shot & Killed (see
details)
|
SUSPECTED TAMIL TIGER TERRORISTS shot dead
the civilian, a Tamil civilian in KALMUNAI Police area .
|
AMPARA
|
|
30/06/06 |
EPDP Office Attacked (see
details)
|
LTTE (TAMIL TIGER) TERRORISTS attacked the
Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) office at MANNAR with a hand
grenade .
|
MANNAR
|
|
30/06/06 |
Tamil lady NAVALAXMI (34) Stabbed To
Death & Her House Robbed by LTTE (see
details)
|
SUSPECTED TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) ASSOCIATES who
are in a malicious attempt to spread terror in JAFFNA killed one more
innocent female civilian and robbed her house . According to Police, a
gang of armed robbers who entered the house of the woman had stabbed her,
who later succumbed to injuries, when she resisted their cause before they
robbed her house. They also fired two neighbours who ran in to assist the
victim and snatched their jewellery.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
29/06/06 |
Tamil civilian, D. VIJERAJAH (53) killed by
LTTE (see details)
|
AT ARALI-WADUKOTTE in JAFFNA
the LTTE had killed the civilian..
|
JAFFNA
|
|
29/06/06 |
Tamil Civilian W. WANIGASINGHAM (35)Shot At
By Tamil Tigers (see
details)
|
At MANIPAY in JAFFNA the LTTE had shot W. a
civilian who was riding a motorcycle. He was severely injured and was
rushed to hospital.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
28/06/06 |
Three Civilians Injured in LTTE Mortar
Attack (see details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS FIRED MORTAR ROUNDS WHEN A
NAVY BOAT approached the MUTTUR jetty .Three civilians were injured in the
mortar attack and they were rushed to the TRINCOMALEE
Navy hospital.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
28/06/06 |
Five sailors killed and three sailors
injured when Sri Lanka Navy Confronts LTTE Sea Tigers off KALPITIYA. At
least 10 to 12 sea Tigers destroyed (see
details)
|
MOVEMENT OF ABOUT TWENTY SUSPICIOUS boats
were detected by the Sri Lanka Navy patrol craft off BATTALANGUNDUWA,
KALPITIYA .
They were confirmed to be belonging to the LTTE.
Those LTTE sea Tiger boats opened fire at naval units.
Naval craft too returned the fire.During the confrontation, an Inshore
Patrol Craft of the Navy was damaged.
Three sailors were injured and five sailors had been killed in the
incident.
Two LTTE Sea Tiger boats were destroyed along with at least 10-12 LTTE Sea
Tigers.
|
PUTTALAMA
|
|
28/06/06 |
Home Guard Injured in LTTE Fire (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS FIRED AT POLICE PERSONNEL
serving Police post on SAMAGI MAWATHA (road) when Policemen were
conducting a foot patrol in TANKIYAWATTA area in PADAVIYA .. The Police
retaliated the fire with small arms. One Home Guard sustained injuries and
was rushed to the hospital.
|
ANURADHAPURA
|
|
27/06/06 |
PLOTE member MANIKKA RASA injured by LTTE (see
details)
|
AN UNKNOWN GUNMAN SUSPECTED TO BE A TAMIL
TIGER (LTTE) fired a member of the Peoples Liberation Organization of
Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and injured him at RAMBEKULAM, VAVUNIYA .
|
VAVUNIYA
|
|
26/06/06 |
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army
Major General Parami Kulatunga and three others killed in an LTTE suicide
bomb attack (see
details)
|
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army
Major General Parami Kulatunga and three others were killed in an LTTE
suicide bomb attack at Pannipitiya . He was on his way to Army
Headquarters.Major General Kulatunga is the highest ranking Army Officer
to be killed in an LTTE suicide attack after the aborted attempt by an
LTTE woman suicide bomber on Army Commander .
|
PANNIPITIYA
|
|
26/06/06 |
Tamil Tigers killed Tamil civilian civilian,
KANDAIYAH YOGESWARAN (59) and injure another Tamil civilian Mr. M.
KANAKARATHNAM (71) (see
details)
|
BLOOD THIRSTY TIGERS GUNNED DOWN one
innocent Tamil civilian and injured another JAFFNA showing their brutality
and disregard towards humanity. The civilian was shot dead near a welding
shop at VELANY, KAYTS. An EPDP member was shot on the head four times with
a 9-mm pistol whilst he was at his residence on POINT PEDRO-JAFFNA ROAD
.He was rushed to the hospital by the neighbours.
|
JAFFNA
|
|
25/06/06 |
Tamil Civilian Defying LTTE
Fundraising in Switzerland VADUVEL PUVENDRAN (33), Gunned Down (see
details)
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A Tamil civilian who was on a short visit to
the island after ten year residence in SWITZERLAND was shot dead by
unidentified Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in VALAICHCHENAI.
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BATTICALOA
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25/06/06 |
LTTE Hand Grenade Explosion Injures Civilian
(see details)
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EXPLOSION OF A HAND GRENADE lobbed by LTTE
terrorists injured one more Muslim civilian closer to the ANURADHAPURA
junction in TRINCOMALEE . LTTE terrorists hurled the hand grenade
targeting the troops providing security near the market paying no regard
to the presence of civilians.
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TRINCOMALEE
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25/06/06 |
LTTE Pistol Group Kills PLOTE Member
JAYAHULABDEEN MOHAMAD WAZEER (48) (see
details)
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LTTE PISTOL GROUP SHOT DEAD PLOTE
MEMBER near the JAFFNA Hospital. He was a ticketing officer attached
to the bicycle park near the JAFFNA hospital. He was issuing parking
tickets when two motorbike raiding pistol men shot him dead and fled the
area.
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JAFFNA
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24/06/06 |
LTTE Fire Injures One More Soldier (see
details)
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LTTE TERRORISTS CONTINUED FIRING AT ARMY
TROOPS ENGAGED IN PICKET duties on VAVUNIYA - MANNAR road injuring a
soldier closer to the AMBASEWANA Police post
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VAVUNIYA
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24/06/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men Kill Two Army Soldiers
Private K.G. RUKMAN WARNAKULASOORIYA and Private D.M DISSANAYAKE (see
details)
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LTTE TERRORISTS SHOT and killed two Army
soldiers on picket duties at KURUMANKADU on VAVUNIYA-MANNAR road . The two
soldiers died due to LTTE pistol firing. A cordon and search operation is
in progress
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VAVUNIYA
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23/06/06 |
LTTE Abducts Two Teenagers Amirthalingam
Palakumar (16), a Grade 11 student, and Thangavel Nimalanathan
(18) a labourer (see
details)
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AN ARMED GANG OF FIVE LTTE TERRORISTS , two
of them carrying T- 56 rifles, forcibly entered the house of
Thamotherampillai Amirthalingam at No 136, Colony road MANNAMPITIYA ).
They abducted his son and a labourer of No 237, KARAPOLA.
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POLONNARUWA
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21/06/06 |
Two Tamil Civilian Dead Bodies of SHAMMUGAM
JEYARATHNAM (31) and KANDASAMI THAWARASA (20) Found (see
details)
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THE BODIES OF TWO CIVILIANS WERE found in
two separate locations. One of a resident of VALACHCHENA was
recovered by the VALACHCHENA Police at VINAYAGAPURAM. The
VALACHCHENA Police are conducting investigations. The body of the other a
resident of SANTHIVELI was also found by the villagers .
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BATTICALOA
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21/06/06 |
Tamil civilian Roy Belt (39) shot dead (see
details)
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At VIJAYAPURAM, AN UNIDENTIFIED GUNMAN shot
dead the civilian, in his home at 74, VIJAYAPURAM ROAD, BATTICALOA .
His father was also injured in the firing.
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BATTICALOA
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20/06/06 |
LTTE Pistol Gang Fails Murder Attempt (see
details)
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AN ATTEMPT TO GUN DOWN A FORMER secretary of
the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) by a LTTE
pistol gang in URANI, BATTICALOA failed as the victim managed to escape
with gunshot injuries. The victim was riding a push bicycle when he was
shot by LTTE terrorists of the pistol group after coming behind him.
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BATTICALOA
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20/06/06 |
Bullet-riddled body of Tamil civilian killed
by LTTE NIRMALA MUMARA (60) recovered (see
details)
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A BULLET-RIDDLE BODY OF A CIVILIAN was found
from KOMMANTHURAI, ERAVUR . The victim , shot dead by LTTE pistol men
because he refused a ransom demanded by LTTE terrorists.
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BATTICALOA
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19/06/06 |
Muslim Grama Niladhari MOHIDEEN BAWA NURDEEN
Shot By LTTE (see details)
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GRAMA NILADHARI attached to the
SAMANTHURAI Police was abducted from his house at No. 2, MOHIDEEN Mawatha,
KALATCHCHAL by a LTTE terrorist armed with a T-56. He was later shot
about 50 yards away from his home.
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AMPARA
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19/06/06 |
TAMIL TIGERS fire small arms at the
SOMAWATHIE Buddhist temple (see
details)
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TAMIL TIGERS fired small arms at the SACRED
SITE of world famous SOMAWATHIE Buddhist temple from three sides . On
retaliation by the Security Forces guarding the sacred site, the
terrorists fled the scene abandoning yet another attempt to create a
communal backlash. This was an attempt by the brutal Tigers in a series of
such attacks before and after CFA to arouse the sentiments of SINHALESE
BUDDHISTS against the INNOCENT TAMILS to cause a Sinhalese – Tamil
strife.
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POLLONNARUWA
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19/06/06 |
Unidentified Person Shot Dead by LTTE (see
details)
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AN UNIDENTIFIED BODY OF A MALE was found
shot dead by a LTTE pistol group with a 9 mm pistol at the ARUNAGIRI-LLYOD
AVENUE ROAD junction, BATTICOLOA . He had received four shots on his head
and back.
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BATTICALOA
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19/06/06 |
LTTE Kills Three More Policemen Sergeant L.
Y. Sugathapala (PS 23218), Police Constable J. A. Jayawardena (PC
30184) and Police Constable M. K. G. Rathnayake (PC 46668).
(see details)
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THREE POLICEMEN WERE KILLED when Tamil Tiger
terrorists detonated a claymore mine blasting a bowser carrying water to
DUTUWEWA Police station on the VAVUNIYA – KEBITHIGOLLEWA road .
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VAVUNIYA
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18/06/06 |
IDP Centre OIC Critically Injured In LTTE
Firing (see details)
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THE POLICE POST PROVIDING SECURITY to the
POONTHOTTAM Internally Displaced persons (IDP) centre in VAVUNIYA was
fired upon by Tamil Tigers .Officer in Charge of the IDP centre received
serious gunshot injuries in his head and chest in the LTTE firing.
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VAVUNIYA
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17/06/06 |
LTTE Attack On Police Post And Navy
Successfully Retaliated. Six Navy personnel killed and another three
suffered injuries (see
details)
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THE POLICE POST at PESALAI and TALAIMANNAR
Navy detachment came under LTTE attack from land and sea around . LTTE had
launched twelve (12) boats to carry out this attack and the Navy had been
able to destroy eight (8) boats while damaging another three (3) which
resulted in killing at least thirty (30) LTTE sea tigers. Six Navy
personnel killed and another three suffered injuries during the
confrontation while two Navy boats too were damaged. The LTTE terrorists
continued their practice of targeting innocent civilians when they fired
and injured civilians who took shelter at the PESALAI Church. The Army
artillery fire and MI-24 Gun ships of the Air Force assisted in countering
the failed LTTE attack.
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MANNAR
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16/06/06 |
A Tamil Civilian ARUL DINESH USHA (32)
Suffers Shock Injuries Due To Mobile Phone Blast (see
details)
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A FEMALE lost her mobile phone while
she was inside the Bank of Ceylon at STANLEY Road, JAFFNA. An unidentified
woman found the phone and returned it to the owner within few minutes. The
Mobile phone exploded when she tried to use it .
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JAFFNA
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16/06/06 |
A Civilian Injured Due To LTTE Hand Grenade
Explosion (see details)
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TWO LTTE CADRES who were travelling in a
motor cycle hurled a Hand Grenade at an Army picket point at THALAYALE,
KOKUWIL . A civilian who was about 150 m away from the point was injured
and rushed to the hospital.
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JAFFNA
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16/06/06 |
A Soldier Injured Due To An Anti Personal
Mine Explosion (see
details)
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A SOLDIER SUSTAINED INJURIES when an Anti
Personal (AP) mine exploded while he was on duty at PONNAR . The Soldier
was rushed to the Army Base Hospital at PALALY.
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JAFFNA
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16/06/06 |
LTTE Terrorists Continue Killing Tamil
Civilians KANDAPILLE MEGARAJA, KUGADAS WIJAYAKANTH (see
details)
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LTTE WENT ON KILLING CIVILIANS when they
shot dead three Tamil civilians while they were transporting Sand in a
Lorry in the PERIYAKULAM-KUNDIMALAI road .
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TRINCOMALEE
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16/06/06 |
Suspected LTTE Terrorists Loot A NGO Office (see
details)
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SUSPECTED LTTE TERRORISTS entered into an
office of a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) named EMERGENCY ARCHITECT
with a T-56 weapon and looted Rs 950,000.00 along with 400 Euro currencies
and the passports belonging to the foreign nationals of the NGO which is
situated near the AL HILAL Girls School, TRINCOMALEE . The suspects fired
at the office while they were fleeing the area after the criminal act.
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TRINCOMALEE
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16/06/06 |
LTTE Terrorists Injure A Samurdhi Officer (see
details)
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LTTE SHOT and injured a Samurdhi officer
named KARUNANIDI (38) who is working at MAVADIVEMBU area while he was
traveling in a bus around . He was admitted to the hospital for
treatments.
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BATTICALOA
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15/06/06 |
LTTE Claymore Mine Attack On Civilian Bus
Kills 64 and injures over 70. Dead include 15 School Children, several
pregnant women, one Buddhist priest and many civilians
(see
full details with photos)
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A BUS TRAVELING FROM KANUGAHAWEWA to
KEBITHIGOLLEWA belonging to the Sri Lanka Transport Board with about 100
passengers mainly from the YAKAWELA area was trapped in an LTTE claymore
mine explosion at VIHARAHALMILLEWA, KONGOLLEWA killing 64 passengers
and injuring over 70. The powerful explosion had thrown the bus off the
road to a distance of about 20 meters.
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ANURADHAPURA
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14/06/06 |
Home Guard WASANTHA SENEVIRATNE Shot Dead (see
details)
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A HOME GUARD, was shot and killed by a
LTTE armed group at MAMADUWA, VAVYNIYA
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VAVUNIYA
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|
14/06/06 |
Soldier Lance Corporal R.A. Victor (29)
killed (see details)
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A SOLDIER WAS SHOT DEAD at KALLIYANKADU in
JAFFNA The victim, was examining a motor bicycle at a check point
when terrorists opened fire at him from a distance location of 50 meters
to the check point.
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JAFFNA
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14/06/06 |
Tamil civilian PHILIP MARIYANAYAGAM (56)
killed by LTTE (see
details)
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AN LTTE PISTOL GANG killed a Tamil civilian
near the cement building on the JAFFNA
hospital road . His assailants were riding a motorcycle.
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JAFFNA
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14/06/06 |
LTTE shoots and seriously injures TAMIL
CIVILIAN, MUTHUKARUPAN WIJEKUMAR (see
details)
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TAMIL CIVILIAN, MUTHUKARUPAN WIJEKUMAR was
seriously injured when he was shot on by a six-member armed gang,
suspected to be Tamil Tigers (LTTE).
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VAVUNIYA
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13/06/06 |
Two Policemen injured by LTTE Grenade Attack
On Roadblock (see details)
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TAMIL TIGERS (LTTE) lobbed a hand grenade at
the Police roadblock at Telecom Junction, ERAVUR .
Two Policemen were injured in the explosion and admitted to BATTICALOA
Hospital
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BATTICALOA
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13/06/06 |
HOME GUARD, U. ANANDA PREMATILAKE shot
dead (see details)
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HOME GUARD was killed by an unidentified armed group in his village at
HALMILLAPOTHANA, KANUGAHAWEWA, KEBETHIGOLLEWA
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KEBETHIGOLLEWA
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13/06/06 |
Two soldiers injured due to hand grenade
attack on troops (see
details)
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TROOPS DEPLOYED AT THE
TRINCOMALEE-ANURADHAPURA junction were attacked by Tamil Tiger terrorists
(LTTE) with hand grenades . Two soldiers were injured and admitted to
hospital.
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TRINCOMALEE
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12/06/06 |
Tigers Kill Former Comrade a Tamil J. PODI
PULENDRAN (20) (see
details)
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TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) TERRORISTS shot dead a
young man after dragging him out of his home in ERAVUR, BATTICALOA . He
was dragged out despite the pleadings and cries of his mother. He had left
the LTTE after one-and-half years and re-joined his family.
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BATTICALOA
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|
12/06/06 |
Tamil Political Party Member Escapes With
Severe Injuries (see
details)
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AN ATTEMPT TO GUN DOWN a Tamil political
party member by an unidentified person suspected to be a Tamil Tiger
terrorist failed. He, however sustained severe injuries and was
admitted to the JAFFNA
Teaching hospital for treatment.
|
JAFFNA
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|
12/06/06 |
Soldier injured when Tamil Tigers throw hand
grenades (see details)
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TAMIL TIGERS threw a hand grenade at an Army
check point in URUMPIRAI junction, JAFFNA . One soldier was injured and
admitted to military hospital
|
JAFFNA
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|
12/06/06 |
Tigers Injure Asst. Divisional Secretary
aTamil KADIRAMALANADAN PASANTHAMAN, & Four Others (see
details)
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TIGER (LTTE) TERRORISTS BLASTED a claymore
mine in un-cleared areas off NEDUNKERNI, MULLAITTIVU injuring a Tamil
Assistant Divisional Secretary his driver and three others . The victims
were travelling in a double cab when the terrorists exploded the mine .
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MULLAITTIVU
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12/06/06 |
Blast Kills Soldier As Passenger Bus Passes (see
details)
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TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) TERRORISTS blasted a
claymore mine killing one soldier and injuring one civilian at
RASENDRAKULAM, NELUMKULAM on the VAVUNIYA-MANNAR road . The injured
soldier was engaged in a route clearing patrol in the area with others.
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VAVUNIYA
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|
12/06/06 |
Divisional Secretary Injured In LTTE
Claymore Mine Explosion (see
details)
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An LTTE claymore mine explosion at
NEDUNKERNI, PULIYANKULAM in un-cleared areas has reportedly injured one
Senior Government Administrative Official, his driver and three others .
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VAVUNIYA
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12/06/06 |
Home Guard Injured In LTTE Fire (see
details)
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TAMIL TIGERS (LTTE) directed small arms fire
at the SERUNUWARA Police Post, TRINCOMALEE .. One Home Guard on duty
sustained injuries in the LTTE firing and was referred for medical
treatment.
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TRINCOMALEE
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11/06/06 |
Soldier H.B.S. KUMARARATHNE (34),Dies Due To
LTTE Fire (see details)
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TAMIL TIGERS from un-cleared areas fired and
killed a soldier on duty at the VAVUNATHIVU Forward Defense Line (FDL),
BATTICALOA
|
BATTICALOA
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11/06/06 |
LTTE Hand Grenade At Troops Explodes Near
Medical Centre Injuring Eight Civilians & One Soldier (see
details)
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HAND GRENADE EXPLOSION detonated by LTTE
terrorists targeting troops on route picket duties at THIRUNAVELI
junction, JAFFNA injured at least eight civilians including a teenage boy
and one soldier. Wife of the JAFFNA VOG (Visiting Obstetrics
Gynecologist) is also among the injured civilians.
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JAFFNA
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|
10/06/06 |
LTTE Gunmen Storms Bus and Kills Two
Passengers (see details)
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A Terrorist opened fire inside a bus which
was transporting civilians from MUTTUR to TRINCOMALEE at PULLIADI
junction. Due to the firing two civilians including a child (10) were
killed and another civilian was seriously injured.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
10/06/06 |
LTTE Gun Fire Severely Injures a Muslim
Civilian ABDUL JAVAHEED (36)
(see details)
|
Suspected LTTE gun fire severely injures a
civilian . His condition is critical and warded at the AMPARA Hospital.
|
AMPARA
|
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10/06/06 |
Two more Civilians MADEE (40) a Tamil and
MOHOMED ISMAIL SUNNI (18) a Muslim who refused To Pay Ransom To LTTE Shot
Dead (see details)
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Two more innocent woodcutters, who
refused to pay ransom to LTTE fell victim to LTTE fire at KORAGNAPAGNA in TRINCOMALEE.
They along with four others were returning home on their bullock carts
when a group of LTTE terrorists encountered them at KORAGNAPAGNA in
un-cleared areas and questioned about ransom.
|
TRINCOMALEE
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|
09/06/06 |
Attempt By Tamil Tiger Terrorists To
Assassinate Kopay Grama Niladhari a Tamil JOSEPH RATNARAJAH (56) (see
details)
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THE GRAMA NILADHARI of KOPAY a father
of two children accused of co-operating with the Security Forces and
thereby considered a traitor by the LTTE was shot inside his residence
.His condition is critical and warded at the JAFFNA Teaching Hospital
Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
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JAFFNA
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|
09/06/06 |
A Dead Body of a Tamil Civilian killed by LTTE
SRIDHARAN WAIRADARAN (20) recovered (see
details)
|
Troops on route clearing duties at
PATHTHINIPURAM recovered a civilian dead body on a tractor with gun shot
injuries which is believed to be carried out by the LTTE .
|
TRINCOMALEE,
|
|
09/06/06 |
Army Soldier Injured Due to an LTTE Attack (see
details)
|
LTTE launched a small arms fire at the Army
troops performing duties in SINHAKANDA area a. LTTE fled the area due to
the Army retaliatory fire. One Soldier sustained minor injuries.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
09/06/06 |
Three injured when Tamil Tigers throw Hand
Grenade On Civilians (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS threw a hand grenade at
civilians who were inside a boutique this at BAZAAR Road, VAVUNIYA.
|
VAVUNIYA.
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08/06/06 |
Entire Tamil Family - SINNAIYAH MOORTHI
MARTIN (38) (husband), ANTHONY MERY KULAS (27) (wife), ANNE LAKSHITHA
ARUNA (09) (daughter) and ANNE DILAKSHAN ANPIYA (07) (son) Hacked To Death
by LTTE (see details)
|
An entire family who had been co-operating
with the Security Forces was hacked to death in the village, VANKALAI,
MANNAR around 12.00 p.m. mid night.
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MANNAR
|
|
08/06/06 |
Unidentified Gunmen possibly LTTE Kill
Another Tamil Civilian JOSEPH KAMALARAJ (30) (see
details)
|
A CIVILIAN on a motor bicycle in ANDANKULAM,
TRINCOMALEE was shot dead by an unidentified gunmen suspected to be a
Tamil Tigers .The reason for this assassination in still unknown.
|
TRINCOMALEE
|
|
08/06/06 |
Blast Kills SLA Officer J.D.S.N. SIRIWARDENE
and injures another (see
details)
|
AN LTTE CLAYMORE MINE blast killed one Sri
Lanka Army Officer and seriously injured one soldier at PARAPPAKANDAN,
UYILANKULAM
|
MANNAR
|
|
06/06/06 |
LTTE Terrorists Throw Hand Grenades At
Security Forces and injures three soldiers and a policeman
(see details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS threw two Hand Grenades at a
security point at BMC Junction, MANNAR
One grenade exploded causing injuries to three soldiers and a Police
Constable on duty at the post.
|
MANNAR
|
|
06/06/06 |
Tamil Civil Security Guard SIVALINGAM RAJINI
KADAN (26) Shot And Killed By LTTE (see
details)
|
A SECURITY GUARD, attached to a civil
security firm serving at the main entrance to the BATTICALOA
hospital was shot to death by LTTE pistol men while he was on duty.
|
BATTICALOA
|
|
06/06/06 |
LTTE Cowardly Attacks Continue Mingling With
Crowds and injures soldier (see
details)
|
ONE SOLDIER ON PICKET DUTIES IN AMMAN
junction, received injuries on when a group of LTTE men threw a Hand
Grenade at them .
LTTE men after mingling with civilians threw the hand grenade towards the
soldier and vanished immediately after the explosion.
|
JAFFNA
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|
06/06/06 |
Tamil School-Teacher YOGARAJAH SATEESHWARAN
(24)Dragged Out Of Bus & Shot by LTTE (see
details)
|
SCHOOL-TEACHER, who opposed Tamil Tiger (LTTE)
conscription of school children in area was shot and seriously
injured after he was dragged out of the bus, was admitted to the Intensive
Care Unit (ICU)
|
VALAICHCHENAI
|
|
06/06/06 |
Tamil Tiger Terrorism kills Tamil Sales
Executive & Two Police Constables (see
details)
|
Tamil Tiger (LTTE) terrorists in their
seemingly un-ending orgy of bloodshed and violence claimed the lives of
two Police Constables (PCs) and a Tamil Sales Executive in
BANDARIKULAM, VAVUNIYA while they were proceeding in a private vehicle
of the SINGER Company Ltd
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VAVUNIYA.
|
|
05/06/06 |
LTTE PISTOL MEN kill a Tamil THANGANAGAR KUGAN (28)
and another civilian (see
details)
|
LTTE PISTOL MEN shot and killed two more
civilians in SERUNUWARA, KANTHALAI around 7.00 p.m.
The bullet-riddled bodies of the two civilians were found by the KANTHALAI
Police.
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KANTHALAI |
|
05/06/06 |
One soldier killed and another Private K.P.
DISSANAYAKE injured (see
details)
|
a soldier on duty at a sentry point in
ACHCHANKULAM, MANNAR
was injured when LTTE terrorists in hiding fired at him using small arms
and several rounds of 40 mm Grenade Launchers .He later succumbed to his
injuries and another
sustained severe injuries in the LTTE firing and was admitted to MANNAR
hospital for treatment.
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MANNAR |
|
05/06/06 |
Ex-EPDP Member a Tamil KESHAMAN ANANDAN &
His Cousin RATHNASINGHAM PODINI Gunned Down While Asleep (see
details)
|
AN EX-EELAM PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (EPDP)
member and a close relative of his were shot and killed by LTTE pistol men
at their residence in VELANI, KAYTS around 10.30 p.m.
|
KAYTS
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|
05/06/06 |
Soldier killed in LTTE Fire (see
details)
|
ONE SOLDIER ON OBSERVATION POST duty at
NANATTAN, MANNAR
died Monday (05) around 3.30 p.m. when Tamil Tigers opened fire at him.
|
MANNAR |
|
04/06/06 |
Soldier B.A.D.U.N. DE SILVA Injured In LTTE
Hand Grenade Attack Dies At Hospital (see
details)
|
SOLDIER WHO WAS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL after
being injured in LTTE hand grenade explosion succumbed to injuries
at the COLOMBO
National Hospital
|
MANNAR |
|
03/06/06 |
One More Soldier W.G.D.I. JAYATISSA Dies and
another injured In LTTE Claymore Mine Attack (see
details)
|
ONE SOLDIER WAS KILLED and another injured
Saturday (03) around 7.50 p.m. when LTTE (Tamil Tiger) terrorists
detonated a claymore mine on an Army vehicle at ODDUPEDY, JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA |
|
03/06/06 |
Tamil Civilians E.SITTARAVEL (42) and
NALLIAH WIMALENDRAN who Refused To Pay Ransom To LTTE Killed (see
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS gunned down two civilians at
KALUWANKERNI, BATTICALOA
Investigations revealed that the two victims, were killed by LTTE
since they refused paying ransom to LTTE when they were in un-cleared
areas.
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BATTICALOA |
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03/06/06 |
LTTE Kill Bus Depot Security Officer a Tamil
VAIDYALINGAM MUJEEWARAN (26) (see
details)
|
TWO MOTORBIKE-RIDING LTTE GUNMEN shot and
killed the security guard of the VALAICHCHENAI
Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) depot .
Tamil Tigers had gone there for some undisclosed purposes became angry
when they were refused entry
and Tamil Tigers shot him dead on the spot.
|
VALAICHCHENAI |
|
02/06/06 |
LTTE Hand Grenade Explosion At Vehicle Park
Injures Civilian (see
details)
|
AN UNIDENTIFIED PERSON lobbed a hand grenade
at the vehicle park in VAVUNIYA town Friday (02) around 5.30 p.m..One
civilian was injured and one vehicle was damaged in the hand grenade
attack.
|
VAVUNIYA |
|
02/06/06 |
ONE MORE MUSLIM CIVILIAN A.L.RAKIBULLAH
receives injuries (see
details)
|
The MUSLIM CIVILIAN received injuries Friday
(02) at about 4.45 p.m. when an unidentified person fired at him when he
was in MUTUNAGAR
|
TRINCOMALEE |
|
02/06/06 |
LTTE Blow Off Another Land Mine Kills A
Soldier (see
details)
|
A SOLDIER DIED whilst on route clearing in
VANDARAMULLA, on BATTICALOA
– POLONNARUWA Main Supply Route (MSR) Friday (02) around 12.20 p.m. by
Tamil Tigers detonating a land mine using a remote controller from a
distance
|
BATTICALOA |
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01/06/06 |
LTTE Claymore Mine Kills One Soldier and
severely injures two soldiers(see
details)
|
TAMIL TIGER TERRORISTS activated a claymore
mine against an Army ration distribution vehicle at WANKALE south
NARUVILIKULAM Thursday (01) evening around 7.25 p.m.
In the claymore mine explosion, one soldier was killed and two soldiers
were severely injured.
|
NARIVIKULAM |
|
01/06/06 |
One More AP Mine Blasts Injuring One soldier
(see details)
|
EXPLOSION OF AN ANTI – PERSONNEL MINE (APM)
planted by LTTE terrorists Thursday (01) KILALY, JAFFNA injured one
Army soldierwhile patrolling the area at the time this mine went off.
|
JAFFNA |
|
01/06/06 |
EPDP member a Tamil KANDIAH ARUMALINGAM (62),Injured
In LTTE Explosion (see
details)
|
Victim injured when an LTTE Improvised
Explosive Device (IED) was activated aiming the EPDP political office in BATTICALOA.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
01/06/06 |
Two EPDP members Tamils SEBASTIAN IRAYAPPAN (37)
and ARUMUGAM LOGANATHAN (19) shot dead (see
details)
|
The victims were distributing THINAMURUSU
Tamil Newspaper in the area on their push bicycle at the time they were
gunned down by the LTTE at a place closer to 38th Communication centre in
PANDARIKULAM, VAVUNIYA.
|
VAVUNIYA. |
|
31/05/06 |
LTTE Hand Grenade Explosion Injures Two
Policemen (see details)
|
Injured when AN UNIDENTIFIED TAMIL TIGER
lobbed a hand grenade at the PANDIRIPPU Police Post, KALMUNAI Wednesday
(31) around 7.50 p.m.
|
KALMUNAI |
|
01/06/06 |
EPDP member a Tamil KANDIAH ARUMALINGAM (62),Injured
In LTTE Explosion (see
details)
|
Victim injured when an LTTE Improvised
Explosive Device (IED) was activated aiming the EPDP political office in BATTICALOA.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
31/05/06 |
Teenage boy RAMAJEYAN VINAYARAJ (14) shot
and injured (see details)
|
A FOURTEEN YEAR old boy was admitted to
hospital for immediate treatment after he was fired upon by LTTE at URANI,
BATTICALOA around 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday (31).
|
BATTICALOA |
|
31/05/06 |
Tamil Tigers Kill One More Home Guard (see
details)
|
Tamil Tiger terrorists using small arms and
hand grenades attacked three Home Guards at a post around 12.45 a.m. and
fled in the darkness killing one of them.
|
MANGALAGAMA,
AMPARA |
|
31/05/06 |
Tamil Tigers Kill One More Soldier (see
details)
|
ONE SOLDIER PROVIDING security to the
Telecommunication building, died when Tamil Tiger terrorists directed fire
at them.
|
JAFFNA |
|
30/05/06 |
Soldier Injured In LTTE Fire (see
details)
|
AN UNIDENTIFIED TAMIL TIGER TERRORIST, who
suddenly appeared opened fire with a pistol towards the troops at
the roadblock and soldier on duty received injuries and was admitted to
PALALY hospital.
|
CHULLIPURAM
roadblock in JAFFNA |
|
30/05/06 |
Tamil civilian THANGARAJA REJINIKANTH (24)
killed (see details)
|
AN EX-LTTE CADRE (Tamil Tiger), who refused
the LTTE demand to rejoin the organization was shot dead by unidentified
Tamil Tiger gunmen
|
PETHALAI,
BATTICALOA |
|
30/05/06 |
12 Sinhala civilians S. K. SUNIL JAYAWARDANE,
E. A. SARATH KUMARA, B. J. ABEYSOORIYA, G. S. GUNAWARDANE, SIRISENA, AJITH,
T. M. DARMADASA, SARATH, T. B. WASANTHA KUMARA, B. T. T. DAMMIKA, T. M.
GUNARATHNE and KUMARA killed. (see
details)
(access
full web page about this)
|
Twelve innocent civilians who were working
as labourers at OMIDIYAMADU border village, WELIKANDA
were killed by Tamil Tiger terrorists Monday (29) evening at about 6.30
p.m.
|
OMIDIYAMADU |
|
30/05/06 |
One Police Sergeant and one Constable
injured (see details)
|
TWO POLICEMEN WERE INJURED when LTTE
terrorists activated a claymore mine on Police personnel at SALAMPEKULAM
between 10th and 11th Mile Posts on MANNAR – POMPEMADU road.
|
SALAMPEKULAM |
|
29/05/06 |
One soldier, Private G.U. BATUGAMPOLA of
HANDAPANGODA, INGIRIYA killed and two others (see
details)
|
TAMIL TIGER TERRORISTS ACTIVATED a claymore
mine on an Army foot patrol killed and two others were injured in the
explosion.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
29/05/06 |
Lance Corporal D.M.VIJITHA KUMARA killed (see
details)
|
SUSTAINED INJURIES in LTTE firing at
PETHALAI, BATTICALOA
succumbed to gunshot injuries on admission to BATTICALOA
hospital.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
29/05/06 |
4 Tamil civilians MICHEAL JESUDASAN, S
DEWARASAM (30), AMIRTHALINGAM SABESHAN (23), WIMALASUNDARAN KEKULA RAJ
(23) killed (see
details)
|
LTTE has killed former members of EPDP and
those who had served in JAFFNA Police station some time back.
|
JAFFNA |
|
29/05/06 |
Muslims In Muttur Remain Regardless LTTE
Threat To Vacate Home (see
details)
|
TAMIL TIGERS HAVE DISTRIBUTED leaflets in
MUTTUR area, demanding the Muslim community to vacate the area
within three days of the notice.
|
MUTTUR |
|
27/05/06 |
Darrel Perera, Nihal de Silva (N.S.) -
author of ‘The Road from Elephant Pass’, Nandana Abeysuriya, Condista
Abeysuriya, Chandhi Asirvathan, Anula Asirvathan and the volunteer guide
Anura Dissanayake killed by LTTE landmine. (see
details)
|
vehicle
carrying six local tourists and a guide got caught to a suspected LTTE
landmine.
|
WILPATTU |
|
26/05/06 |
LTTE Terrorists Gunned Down Two More
Civilians (read full
details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS CONTINUING their ruthless
killing spree shot two more civilians to death in ACHCHUVELI, JAFFNA
on 26th May 2006 around 8 p.m.
|
JAFFNA |
|
26/05/06 |
One soldier injured in LTTE attack (read
full details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS Friday (26) launched a
mortar attack on troops who were conducting a search in PONTHIVUKANDAL, MANNAR
around 5.30 a.m.
One soldier was injured in the attack and admitted to the MANNAR
hospital
|
MANNAR |
|
25/05/06 |
Civilian, a Muslim RAMAZIN ASADI (26),shot in his
chest (read full details)
|
Tamil Tigers shot and injured the civilian
close to ANURADHAPURA
junction in TRINCOMALEE
Thursday (25) morning. He was shot in his chest by two
motorbike-riding Tamil Tigers when he was working in his garden.
|
TRINCOMALEE |
|
25/05/06 |
Police Constable AROGGIYAM PRASANNA killed (read
full details)
|
POLICE CONSTABLE returning home after duty
was ruthlessly shot dead by Tamil Tigers in KALLADY on BATTICALOA
– KALMUNAI road Thursday (25) afternoon around 4.00 p.m.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
25/05/06 |
A Civilian And A Soldier Die Off The
Claymore Attack (read full
details)
|
A claymore attack aimed at troops on foot
patrol brought death to a civilian and a soldier today (25) evening at
KOKUVIL, JAFFNA another soldier injured due to the attack was evacuated to
the hospital.
|
JAFFNA |
|
25/05/06 |
Policemen JAYARATNE and NAVARATNE and
auxiliary policemen RAMANADAN and BADURDEEN killed (read
full details)
|
While on duty near the FAILVAN Mosque at
UTTUKATTANKUDY on BATTICALOA–KALMUNAI road when the Tamil Tigers
activated another claymore mine and killed all four of them.
|
UTTUKATTANKUDY |
|
24/05/06 |
LTTE Claymore Mine Kills Two More Soldiers
& Policeman Increasing Death Toll To 125 (read
full details)
|
TAMIL TIGERS (LTTE) in hiding once more
activated a claymore mine in THANDIKULAM, VAVUNIYA area Wednesday (24)
morning at about 9.30 a.m. and killed two more soldiers and a Police
Constable (PC) carrying meals in a tractor.
|
VAVUNIYA |
|
24/05/06 |
Three Teenagers Returning After School
Abducted & Released (read
full details)
|
THREE TEENAGERS returning from private
tuition classes in PETHALAI, BATTICALOA
have been abducted by suspected LTTE cadres on Tuesday (23) at about 5.00
p.m. and subsequently released after about an hour, the Police were told.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
23/05/06 |
Pre-Dawn LTTE Attack Takes One More Life
One Soldier Killed (read
full details)
|
ONE OF THE SOLDIERS on duty closer to the
Forward Defence Line (FDL) at IRAMPERIYAKULAM, VAVUNIYA died due to small
arms fire directed by terrorists Tuesday (23) morning around 3.25 a.m.
|
IRAMPERIYAKULAM,
VAVUNIYA |
|
23/05/06 |
Colombo-Bound Train Comes Under Terrorist
Fire - passengers escaped unhurt but one of the carriages received slight
damages. (read
full details)
|
LTTE TERRORISTS hiding in jungle areas
between VANDARAMOOLAI and DEVAPURAM area in BATTICALOA opened fire at the
moving “night mail” passenger train at about 6.00 p.m. on Monday (22)
while it was proceeding towards POLONNARUWA.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
22/05/06 |
LTTE kills civilians WIJESIRI PRIYANTHA (28)
, IGNATIUS WESTMOND BARTHWELOT (20) and ex-Police Constable, JAMALDEEN
MOHOMMED ROSHAN (35) (read
full details)
|
Shot and killed by LTTE in different places.
|
AMPARA,
BATTICALOA and JAFFNA |
|
21/05/06 |
Tamil civilian GOPAL BALASUBRAMANIYAM (47)
killed (read
full details)
|
SUSPECTED LTTE GUNMEN on a motorbike had
stormed the house of a civilian in UNIT 09, KANTALE and gunned him down on
Sunday (21) around 12.30 noon.
|
KANTALE |
|
21/05/06 |
Lance Corporal K PIYADASA
(read full details)
|
died in explosion of another LTTE claymore
mine followed by a shower of fire at troops the same day around 8.20 a.m.
|
TRINCOMALEE |
|
21/05/06 |
Killed Lance Corporal JAYAMPATHI BANDARA and
injured another soldier. (read
full details)
|
LTTE (TAMIL TIGER) TERRORISTS activated a
claymore mine targeting troops on route clearing duties at
IRANAIIRRUPPAIKULAM, VAVUNIYA
|
VAVYNIYA |
|
20/05/06 |
Teenage Tamil boy who turned down LTTE order shot
dead
S. SATHYAM (12).Preliminary
investigations confirmed that the victim had rejected the LTTE demand to
join the organization as a child soldier. (read
full details)
|
S. SATHYAM (12) of MAVADIODAI, MANKERNI was
with his grand mother in her residence at MAVADIVEMBU when Tamil Tiger (LTTE)
terrorists shot him dead in front of his elders.
|
MAVADIVEMBU |
|
19/05/06 |
One person, a Tamil, SUBRAMANIUM KRISHNAMOORTHY (25) injured (read
full details)
|
Civilian’s House Under Hand Grenade Attack.
Injured, who was inside the house, has received injuries in the explosion
and admitted to BATTICALOA
hospital.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
19/05/06 |
Lieutenant K.A.A.S. KODITHUWAKKU and
Corporal W.D.P. WIJETUNGA (read
full details)
|
Killed by LTTE attacks on Army FDLs
|
MARUTHAMADU,
ARIYAKIRITTAKULAM area in OMANTHAI, VAVUNIYA |
|
18/05/06 |
Rival LTTE men gun down candidate and his
supporter - BALASUBRAMANIUM KAMAL RAJ (27), SURESH (29) (read
full details)
|
shot and killed them at close range.
|
ANNAMALAI,
AMPARA |
|
18/05/06 |
LTTE’s Sniper Fire Kills Another Soldier -
Private M.A.R. PUSHPAKUMARA (read
full details)
|
Killed by AN LTTE SNIPER FIRE directed at a
sentry post
|
MUHAMALAI,
JAFFNA |
|
17/05/06 |
LTTE Claymore Mine Takes Two More Lives Of
Soldiers (read full
details)
|
took the lives of two soldiers of the Army
after detonating a claymore mine around 8.15 a.m.
|
WELIKANDA |
|
17/05/06 |
LTTE Pistol Men Grab Another Prey SELVARASA
SIRIDAS (36) (read full
details)
|
TWO LTTE PISTOL MEN on a motorbike Wednesday
(17) morning shot and killed a civilian
|
JAFFNA |
|
16/05/06 |
Terrorists Strike At Army Truck Injuring Two
Soldiers (read full
details)
|
LTTE terrorists in hiding activated another
powerful claymore mine this evening (16) at about 4.00 p.m. and injured
two soldiers near 11th Km post
|
VAVUNIYA |
|
16/05/06 |
Terrorists Blow Up Home Guard ANURA
THILAKARATHNE Using Claymore Mines (read
full details)
|
detonated two more claymore mines this
morning (16) around 7.15 a.m. in THAMBALAGAMUWA, KANTALE and killed one
Home Guard.
|
THAMBALAGAMUWA,
KANTALE |
|
16/05/06 |
The twenty-year old GEETHA PONKALAN
SELVAKUMAR (20) who was providing assistance to the fellow-patient died of
pistol injuries received inside the ward itself, but the LTTE target,
THURESH KUMAR (24) survived with severe injuries. (read
full details)
|
Injured THURESH KUMAR was lying in hospital
for treatment after LTTE WANNI men struck him on a previous occasion since
he was against the LTTE.
|
BATTICALOA |
|
15 / 05 / 2006 |
R.K. Piyasena of Rajagalatenna (read
full details)
|
Shot dead by LTTE
|
paddy field in track No.39 within Bakkiella police division |
|
15 / 05 / 2006 |
AHAM RAZUL (35) of JINNA NAGAR, THOPPUR
(Muslim) (Read full
report).
|
found murdered by LTTE using sharp weapons while he was delivering bread as usual.
|
DEHIWATTA junction, THOPUR in TRINCOMALEE |
|
14 / 05 / 2006 |
SINNAIAH JAYA CHANDRAN (28) and RAMANADAN SEKAR (34)
(Tamils) (Read full
report).
|
gunned down by LTTE.
|
PERIYAPALAM area, TRINCOMALEE |
|
14 / 05 / 2006 |
PASUWALINGAM KANDEEPAN (24) (Tamil) (Read
full report).
|
murdered by LTTE
|
ATTCHUVELI and AVARANKAL in JAFFNA. |
|
14 / 05 / 2006 |
R. SUNDARAN (30) of ATCHCHUVELI, (Tamil) (Read
full report).
|
murdered by LTTE
|
ATCHCHUVELI |
|
13 / 05 / 2006 |
Two soldiers of Sri Lanka Army and a
civilian (Read full
report). One civilian, who sustained injuries in the explosion, was also admitted to JAFFNA hospital.
|
LTTE terrorists lobbed one hand grenade towards troops returning to the KALLADDY Army detachment in
JAFFNA.
|
JAFFNA. |
|
13 / 05 / 2006 |
ADAMBAWA SAHEEL (26) (Muslim) (Read
full report).
|
LTTE shot another youth at the point blank range and brutally killed
|
KATHTHANKUDI town center |
|
13 / 05 / 2006 |
Two Soldiers Killed In LTTE Ambush
- Corporal N.A.C. Deshapriya and Lance Corporal W.A.S. Thusitha Kumara (Read
full report).
|
LTTE men in hiding ambushed them.
|
NOCHCHIMODAI, VAVUNIYA |
|
13 / 05 / 2006 |
Private W. L. Dissanayake (Read
full report).
|
TROOPS DEPLOYED NEAR THE CHUNDIKKULI girls school on COLOMBOTHURAI road, JAFFNA were fired upon by LTTE terrorists from a distance location on Saturday (13) around 8.05 a.m.
|
HUNDIKKULI girls school on COLOMBOTHURAI road, JAFFNA |
|
12 / 05 / 2006 |
LTTE Pistol Men Kill Policeman And A Civilian.
KANDAIYA SHIVAGHANAM (43) who was the owner of the hair dressing station at the THUMPALAI junction, JAFFNA
(Tamil civilian) (Read
full report).
|
AMIL TIGER TERRORISTS FROM LTTE PISTOL GROUP shot and cold bloodedly killed a civilian
|
THUMPALAI junction in JAFFNA |
|
12 / 05 / 2006 |
N. S. Weerasinghe, a resident of 88, GONADENIYA, KALAWEWA, THALAWA in ANURADHAPURA was attached to the VAVUNIYA police station at the time he was assassinated by
terrorists (Read full
report).
|
LTTE PISTOL MEN in their unabated killing spree gunned down another Policeman on duty
|
THAMBANKULAM police post in VAVUNIA |
|
11 / 05 / 2006 |
TWO HOME GUARDS on duty at the DADAYANTHAWALA police road block in AMPARA were severely injured.
The injured were immediately evacuated to the base hospital AMPARA and Home Guard W. Rohitha succumbed to his injuries on admission to the hospital.
|
LTTE threw a hand Grenade
(read full details).
|
DADAYANTHAWALA |
|
11 / 05 / 2006 |
17 Navy sailors (Read
full report); The crew list of - Dvora-P-418:- EALP Edirisinghe, RMDHS Rathnayake, DW Premalal, PLGS Kumara, MATSL Perera, DMPGS Wickramathilake, TBC Kumara, HNG Nelson, TN Priyanandana, MCK Dissanayake, DDP Kumara, AMAN Bandara, RMDS Rathnayake, RAR Kumara, SHJ Sanjeewa, MMCK Bandara, EACP Edirisinghe and AM Tissa Abeykoon. Meanwhile, wreckage of a vessel was also found at the site where the incident
occurred. Sergeant A.M. TISSA ABEYKOON, attached to the Sri Lanka Signal Corps
(SLSC) (Read full report).
|
Suicide attack by
LTTE - AN ATTEMPT BY A CLUSTER OF LTTE SUICIDE BOATS with as much as 15 boats to assault and destroy a heavy Troops Carrying vessel (PEARL CRUISER) off the VETTILAIKERNI
|
VETTILAIKERNI |
|
11 / 05 / 2006 |
Injured two soldiers and killed one civilian
(Read
full report)
|
struck two military checkpoint
|
KALLIYANKADU and VELVETITHURAI in JAFFNA |
|
10 / 05 / 2006
|
H.G. Wijeratne (49) father of three children lying alone in his resident at No. 138,
GRAVELKANDA, PADAVIYA. (read
details)
|
Killed by LTTE (read
full details).
|
PADAVIYA.
|
|
10 / 05 / 2006 |
Two sailors
(read full
report)
|
Two sailors were injured this morning when reported LTTE cadres triggered a powerful claymore mine close to Vellani junction in
Kayts, Jaffna.
|
Vellani junction in
Kayts, Jaffna |
|
09 / 05 / 2006 |
Lieutenant J.S.M. HEWAGE of the 8th Gemunu Watch was among five Army personnel who sustained serious injuries when LTTE men activated a claymore mine targeting their vehicle on 22nd April 2006. Another officer died on the spot in the explosion. (See Situation Report 22nd April 2006)
|
LTTE men activated a claymore mine (read
full details).
|
SINHAPURA, WELIKANDA |
|
07 / 05 / 2006 |
THARAKA SANDARUWAN KRISHANTHA (26) of NEERVELI South
(Tamil) (read
full details).
|
shot dead by LTTE
|
THIRUNELVELI area in JAFFNA o |
|
07 / 05 / 2006 |
SEVEN POLICEMEN ATTACHED TO THE BATTICALOA Police station were injured;
One civilian who was at the scene also sustained injuries (read
full details). the number of injured Policemen and civilians had risen to fourteen including two civilians.
Injured Policemen admitted to the BATTICALOA hospital for treatment have been identified as Sub Inspector ARIYAWANSA, Sergeant NAVARATHNA (8339), Sergeant STEPHEN (16344), Woman Police Constable SANDHYA (712), Police Constable 40235 WASAANTHA, Police Constable WEERAKOON (6689), Police Constable MANOHARAN (15987), Police Constable RATHNAYAKE (39712), Police Constable KEERTHIRATHNA (23799), Police Constable NIMALARATHNA (6044), Police Constable DAYANANDA (5406) and Police Constable CHANDRAN (1041).
The two civilians, M. KILOJAN and S. DEVENNDRAN who sustained injuries in the terrorist attack are also lying in
hospital (read full
details).
|
An explosion of a hand grenade lobbed by two motorbike-ridding Tamil Tigers towards the Police station in BATTICALOA
|
BATTICALOA |
|
07 / 05 / 2006 |
THARAKA SANDARUWAN KRISHANTHA (26) of NEERVELI South
(Tamil) (read
full details).
|
shot dead by LTTE
|
THIRUNELVELI area in JAFFNA o |
|
07 / 05 / 2006 |
SEVEN POLICEMEN ATTACHED TO THE BATTICALOA Police station were injured;
One civilian who was at the scene also sustained injuries (read
full details). the number of injured Policemen and civilians had risen to fourteen including two civilians.
Injured Policemen admitted to the BATTICALOA hospital for treatment have been identified as Sub Inspector ARIYAWANSA, Sergeant NAVARATHNA (8339), Sergeant STEPHEN (16344), Woman Police Constable SANDHYA (712), Police Constable 40235 WASAANTHA, Police Constable WEERAKOON (6689), Police Constable MANOHARAN (15987), Police Constable RATHNAYAKE (39712), Police Constable KEERTHIRATHNA (23799), Police Constable NIMALARATHNA (6044), Police Constable DAYANANDA (5406) and Police Constable CHANDRAN (1041).
The two civilians, M. KILOJAN and S. DEVENNDRAN who sustained injuries in the terrorist attack are also lying in
hospital (read full
details).
|
An explosion of a hand grenade lobbed by two motorbike-ridding Tamil Tigers towards the Police station in BATTICALOA
|
BATTICALOA |
|
05 / 05 / 2006 |
Two Sri Lanka Army soldiers (read
full details)
|
ROOPS PROVIDING SECURITY near the office of “Uthayan” newspaper on KASTHURIYA Road in JAFFNA were fired upon by LTTE men Saturday (06) around 12.10 p.m.
|
KASTHURIYA Road in JAFFNA |
|
05 / 05 / 2006 |
Police Constable W.T.WAJIRASIRI (39) received injuries and admitted to BATTICALOA hospital but later succumbed to
injuries (read full
details)
|
Terrorists of LTTE pistol group on Friday (05) around 11.30 a.m. shot at Police personnel on duty.
|
BATTICALOA town. |
|
05 / 05 / 2006 |
S. PRADEEPAN (26), a trader (Tamil) (read
full details)
|
Two unidentified gunmen, suspected to be Tamil Tigers, who came on a motorbike shot and killed a Tamil civilian on Friday (05) around 4.10 p.m.
|
KOVILGAMA,
KANTALE. |
|
05 / 05 / 2006 |
NE MORE POLICE CONSTABLE died and four others were seriously injured
(read full report).
|
Tamil Tigers activated a claymore mine on a Police Double Cab
|
MANDAN in
NELLIADY, JAFFNA. |
|
05 / 05 / 2006 |
Three Policemen sustained serious injuries and were subsequently admitted to hospital after the claymore trapped to a branch of a wayside tree was triggered by a remote controller
(read full report).
|
LTTE claymore mine targeting a Police jeep was activated by hiding LTTE terrorists.
|
THE RAILWAY STATION ROAD AT
PANDARAKULAM, VAVUNIYA |
|
04 / 05 / 2006 |
PAKYARASA NARESH KUMAR, said to be a former LTTE member
(Tamil) (read full
details)
|
killed by LTTE
|
THAMBILIVIL, THIRUKKOVIL |
|
04 / 05 / 2006 |
Private M. P GUNARATHNA (S/02597) of the Sri Lanka Army, who was severely injured on Wednesday (03) when terrorists fired on them while the troops were taking their meals to the CHULLIPURAM Army Camp, succumbed to injuries at PALALY Military Hospital late Thursday (04) evening.
|
errorists fired on them while the troops were taking their meals
(read full report).
|
CHULLIPURAM Army
Camp |
|
04 / 05 / 2006 |
One of the soldiers injured in the LTTE firing was evacuated to Military Hospital
PALALY. (read full
report).
|
An LTTE cadre has meanwhile fired a few rounds of small arms towards the troops
|
INUVIL, JAFFNA |
|
04 / 05 / 2006 |
Danny Douglas and Pushpakumara (Two Home
Guards). Home Guards H. DANIEL FERNANDO (HG 40938) of 400 Acre Garden, ULUKKULAMA, VAVUNIYA and GUNATHILAKEGE PUSHPAKUMARA (HG 40488) of FISHERY Village, PERIYAULUKKULAMA, VAVUNIYA died in the explosion when both of them were returning to the Police station after their duty at the post.
(read full report).
|
killed in an LTTE claymore mine attack (read
full details)
|
Avaranthulawa in the Chettikulam police area in Vavuniya |
|
04 / 05 / 2006 |
A Police Constable on duty at the Clock Tower in VAVUNIYA was injured when a terrorist hurled a Hand Grenade at him Thursday (04) at 12.15 p.m.
(see details)
|
Hand Grenade attack
|
Clock Tower in VAVUNIYA |
|
04 / 05 / 2006 |
Two policemen, one army soldier and 10
civilians injured (see
details)
|
Tamil Tiger attack on the Police personnel
|
near the clock tower in VAVUNIYA town |
|
04 / 05 / 2006 |
One soldier who sustained injuries in the incident was admitted to PALAY
hospital (see details)
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A TAMIL TIGER TERRORIST who was hiding on the slab of the THIRUNAVELI market in JAFFNA today (04) around 2.05 p.m. indiscriminately opened fire at troops providing security near the market
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THIRUNAVELI market in JAFFNA |
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03 / 05 / 2006 |
One more Police Constable attached to the VAVUNIYA Police station;
One civilian who was in the scene at that point of time also received injuries in firing
(see details)
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received injuries when Tamil Tiger terrorists fired at him on
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VAVUNIYA. |
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03 / 05 / 2006
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injured one Policeman on duty (see
details)
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An explosion of a hand grenade lobbed by Tamil Tiger terrorists
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Post near the BATTICALOA Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) Depot at NADAVANVELI |
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03 / 05 / 2006 |
Two soldiers received injuries due to LTTE firing and were admitted to PALALY hospital for medical
treatment (see
details)
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fired by LTTE
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CHANKANI area in JAFFNA |
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02 / 05 / 2006 |
Sergeant G.W. RUWAN KUMARA of 2nd Battalion Sri Lanka Army Corps of Military Police
(SLACMP) (See
details)
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succumbed to injuries while being treated at COLOMBO National
Hospital (Read details)
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Colombo |
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01 / 05 / 2006 |
ONE MORE SOLDIER of the Sri Lanka Army sustained injuries
(Read details)
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LTTE terrorist, hidden inside a house threw a hand grenade at him
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NELLIADY, JAFFNA |
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01 / 05 / 2006 |
One Sailor and four passengers in the three-wheeler died on the spot and injured one more sailor
(Read
details).
(See details in SPUR).
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Hiding LTTE terrorists targeting Naval troops who were proceeding along the road activated the IED fixed on to a stationary bicycle parked by the wayside
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In the heart of TRINCOMLAEE town near SHANMUGAM Vidyalaya |
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01 / 05 / 2006 |
killed two civilians and injured three others.
Five fishermen in the lake from which the victims were to collect sand, have reportedly gone missing
(Read
details).
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Four civilians, engaged in sand collection labour work were proceeding in the area on their lorry when LTTE gunmen suddenly confronted the lorry and indiscriminately went on firing at them at about 8.30 a.m. killing one of them on the spot.
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THALGASWEVA, BOGAS Junction area on PULMODAI road in WELIOYA |
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01 / 05 / 2006 |
One motorbike rider. Three labourers sustained injuries in the lorry attack were evacuated to
hospital (Read
details). Somapalage Kumaradasa (41), the lorry driver and the motorcyclist K.B. Gamini Kularatne.
(details in
Daily Mirror).
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shot by LTTE
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THALGASWEVA, BOGAS Junction area on PULMODAI road in WELIOYA |
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30 / 04 / 2006 |
One civilian died in the LTTE firing and three other civilians sustained injuries
(Read details).
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LTTE TERRORISTS FOR THE FIRST TIME after the Cease-Fire Agreement (CFA) was signed mounted fierce simultaneous Artillery and Mortar attacks towards the Forward Defence Line (FDL) Army Camps at KOKKUTHUDUVAI and KOKILAI areas in WELIOYA during late hours on Sunday (30) creating a sense of fear and panic among the civilians in those fishing hamlets.
LTTE terrorists on boats with heavy guns have first carried out fire attacks from the coastal areas, bordering un-cleared areas towards the FDL in KOKILAI camp in civil populated KOKILAI fishing village while simultaneously directing artillery and mortar fire rounds at KOKKUTHUDUVAI Army detachment, around the same time
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KOKKUTHUDUWAI and KOKILAI |
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30 / 04 / 2006 |
One soldier (Read
details).
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One soldier was injured in the grenade explosion and admitted to BATTICALOA hospital after the attack.
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BATTICALOA town center |
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30 / 04 / 2006 |
RUWAN SAMEERA of NUGELANDA, RAJAGALATENNA, AMPARA and W.M. CHULA of the same area
(Read details).
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Two villagers going for work in their paddy fields in NUGELANDA area, AMPARA were fired upon by LTTE gunmen
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NUGELANDA area, AMPARA |
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30 / 04 / 2006 |
W. K WICKRAMA, farther of two children and a resident in BELIATTA, MATARA
(Read full report).
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Civil clad LTTE pistol man covertly approaching towards the checkpoint shot Police sergeant W K WICKRAMA from behind and vanished from the area.
The Police sergeant who sustained severe injuries succumbed to injuries on admission to the VAVUNIYA hospital.
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SANASA roadblock in VAVUNIYA |
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29 / 04 / 2006 |
VINAYAGAM KANDASAMY (27) and VADIWEL PERAVI (18),
Tamil civilians (read
details).
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shot and killed two more civilians in call blood
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KINNIYADY, BATTICALOA |
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29 / 04 / 2006 |
WAIRAVAMUTTU NAWARAYHNAM (71), A Tamil
civilian (read
details).
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sustained severe injuries to his hands was admitted to the BATTICALOA hospital immediately
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IRIDIYAPURAM, BATTICALOA |
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29 / 04 / 2006 |
PRIVATE D.S.S.P. GUNATHILAKE attached to the 1st Battalion Sri Lanka Army Women’s Corps
(read
details).
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Who sustained severe injuries in the suicide attack on 25 April 2006 at the Army Headquarters succumbed to her injuries on 28 April 2006 around 9.30 a.m. while undergoing treatments in the National Hospital Colombo
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Colombo |
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29 / 04 / 2006 |
Corporal B. A. D. PRASAD of 10th Gajaba Regiment
(read details).
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injured on 15 April 2006 LTTE claymore attack in MUNNIMURIPPU in MANNAR road succumbed to injuries in ANURADHAPURA hospital on 27th April 2006 around 11.10 a.m.
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MUNNIMURIPPU in MANNAR |
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28 / 04 / 2006 |
Vice Chancellor (VC) for Eastern University Mr ABDUL GANEE HUSSAIN ISMAIL
(Read
details) (Full
report in Daily Mirror). (Full
report in Island).
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Two motorbike-riding gunmen confronted the VC’s vehicle and opened fire at it indiscriminately but the driver managed to escape with four gunshots received to the outer body of the car.
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ATTALAICHCHENAI near MINODUKATTU bridge in
OLUVIL, VALAICHCHENAI |
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28 / 04 / 2006 |
Private SUNIL WICKRAMASINGHE of KEKIRAWA
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LTTE sniper (Read
details)
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NANADDAN, MANNAR |
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27 / 04 / 2006 |
rivate P. PRADEEP KUMARA of the Sri Lanka National Guards (SLNG) succumbed to injuries at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at JAFFNA teaching hospital.Two soldiers received injuries following the explosion and were evacuated to PALALY Military and JAFFNA teaching hospitals.
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LTTE terrorists covering behind civilians threw the hand grenade and ran away after creating panic among the public who were busy in the area.
(Read details)
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VANNARPANI, JAFFNA |
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27 / 04 / 2006 |
Two Sri Lanka Navy sailors, K.L.N.YASARATHNE and
V.G.S. GOONASINGHE (read
full report).
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The sailors, K.L.N.YASARATHNE and V.G.S. GOONASINGHE were proceeding towards JAFFNA when LTTE terrorists in hiding activated the claymore mine with a remote-control device and killed those passing Navy personnel on the spot.
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JAFFNA, close to the Holy Cross junction, |
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27 / 04 / 2006 |
Three Sri Lanka Army
soldiers (read full
report). and injured two STF personnel (read
details)
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The group of soldiers after day’s duties at about 4.30 p.m. was bathing in the lake when LTTE terrorists detonated another claymore mine after the previous claymore mine explosion.
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NARAVILKULAM, MANNAR |
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26 / 04 / 2006 |
Killing four innocent civilians and injuring twelve personnel including two sailors of the Sri Lanka Navy
(read more details)
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gangs of Tamil Tiger (LTTE) terrorists directed a barrage of motor fire towards the naval jetty
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MUTTUR, TRINCOMALEE |
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25 / 04 / 2006 |
Police Constable ABEYRATNE
(read more details)
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Tamil Tiger (LTTE) terrorists shot at a Police foot patrol
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BATTICALOA – KALMUNAI road. |
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25 / 04 / 2006 |
9 killed. 27 injured. Commander of
Army, General Sarath Fonseka critically injured ( Read
full details in SPUR).
Sergeant W.A.M. PRIYANTHA (S/34753) - 4th Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment, Corporal K. WARUSAWITHANA (S/2L00040) - 2nd (Volunteer) Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps, Lance Corporal O.K.D.P. VIRAJ (S/676049) – 3rd Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police, Lance Corporal G.M.S.L. JAGATH (S/408689) – Gemunu Watch, Lance Corporal D.M.S. SUNIL RAJARATHNE (S/34196) – 1st Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment, Private W.D.S.K. DEVASURENDRA (S/409111) – 7th Gemunu Watch, Private DAMINDA ATTANAYAKE (S/602069) – Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps and the civilian, Ms. NIRUPA PRIYANGANI of KURUNEGALA
died on the spot and Corporal Y.L.A.C.R. YAKANDAWALA (S/675382) – 1st Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police succumbed to his injuries at COLOMBO National Hospital Wednesday (26)
morning (read
more details)
PRIVATE D.S.S.P. GUNATHILAKE attached to the 1st Battalion Sri Lanka Army Women’s Corps
died on 29 April 2006 (read
details).
Sergeant G.W. RUWAN KUMARA died on 02 May
2006 (read details)
WICKRAMASINGHE (O/62317) - Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment, Major M. P. RAMANAYAKE (O/3389) – 14th Sri Lanka Light Infantry, Major CHAMINDA EDIRISINGHE (O/3845) – 14th Sri Lanka National Guard, Staff Sergeant J.M.S. WIJESOORIYA (S/82752) – 1st Sri Lanka Army Service Corps, Staff Sergeant S. M. D. DESHAPRIYA (S/42925) - 4th Gemunu Watch, Sergeant H. G. D. JAYANTHA KUMARA (S/550731) – 1st Commando Regiment, Sergeant G.W. RUWAN KUMARA (S/90921) - 2nd Sri Lanka Corps of Military Police, Corporal H. PRADEEP KUMARA (S/401268) – 5th Gemunu Watch, Corporal S. H. SISIRA KARUNARATNE (S/00099) – 2nd Vijayabahu Infantry Regiment, Lance Corporal N. H. SILVA (S/605509) – 1st Sri Lanka Army Medical Corp, Lance Corporal D.A.P. SENEVIRATNE (S/553765) – 1st Commando Regiment, Lance Corporal A.M.A. SUSANTHA KUMARA (S/553785) - 1st Commando Regiment, Lance Corporal P.D.M. PATHIRAGE (S/552247) - 1st Commando Regiment, Lance Corporal P. H. PUSHPA KUMARA (S/460791) – 1st Gajaba Regiment, Lance Corporal G. K. SARATH (S/00427) – 2nd Sri Lanka Army Service Corps, Rifleman R. M. U. KUMARASIRI (S/366578) – 4th Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment, Private P. KEERTHIRATHNE (S/307378) – 4th Sri Lanka Light Infantry, Private L. S. K. SILVA (S/02239) – 5 Sri Lanka Light Infantry, Private K. M. C. L. BANDARA (S/464620) - 4th Gajaba Regiment, Private K. ANURADASA (S/360347) – 4th Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment, Private W. P. RUWAN KUMARA (S/01114) – 12th Sri Lanka National Guard, Private J.R. RAJAPAKSHE (S/379084) – 7th Field Sri Lanka Engineers, Private R.G.S. RANJITH KUMARA (S/412527) – 7th Gemunu Watch, Private SITHARA GUNATHILAKE (S/59427) – 1st Sri Lanka Army Women’s Corps, GOONARATHNE (Civil) and W.G. SUNITHA RAJAPAKSA (Civil) are among the total of 27 personnel injured in the LTTE suicide attack
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A suicide bombing inside the main military headquarters here 'critically ounded' Sri Lanka's army chief Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka and killed five of his bodyguards, officials said.
Fonseka's convoy was targeted as it drove past the army hospital well within the high security zone, police said, adding that they suspect that a woman suicide bomber may have carried out the attack.
'Five of his bodyguards who escorted the car on motocycles were killed on the spot,' a police official said, adding that more than a dozen were wounded.
'There are casualties but the fate of the commander is not known yet,' police chief Chandra Fernando told Agence France-Presse. 'He was critically wounded.' (read
more details)
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Colombo |
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24 / 04 / 2006 |
DON JAYASEKARA RANJITH HEMASIRI JAYASEKARA (43) of Hotel OSHIN, ANDANKULAM, TRINCOMALEE
(read
more details)
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LTTE (TAMIL TIGERS) PISTOL GANG after storming a hotel in ANDANKULAM, TRINCOMALEE late night on Monday (24) had butchered its owner after firing on him at close range.
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ANDANKULAM, TRINCOMALEE |
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23 / 04 / 2006 |
Kalyanapura,
Gomarankadawala Massacre on 23 April 2006
Six (6) innocent Sinhalese farmers (full
report in Sri Lanka army).
The school boys D. ARUNA SHANTHA (17), R. CHAMINDA SANDARUWAN (16) and farmers, CHAMINDA SUSANTHA (27), A. AJITH KUMARA (18), D.S. LALITH (18) and D. WASANTHA KUMARA (24) of KALLAMPATTUWA died in the brutal LTTE
attack (read full report).
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Armed LTTE terrorists indiscriminately fired on those farmers who were from neighbouring villages.
One Home Guard who also does farming during his leisure was also among those slain farmer
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more details on Kalyanapura Massacre
LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists massacred 61 Sinhalese villagers including 17 Women and 7 children on 18 September 1999
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In their paddy fields at KALLANPATTU, GOMARANKADAWALA in TRINCOMALEE |
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24 / 04 / 2006 |
Sri Lanka Army soldiers, Private M.P.D.S.K. JAYASINGHE
killed and Private H.M.K. BASNAYAKE (injured) (read
full report). |
a gang of LTTE terrorists taking cover behind a building directed fired at the troops on piquet duties. |
SARASALAI in JAFFNA |
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24 / 04 / 2006 |
Pushpakumari, a young mother while she was breastfeeding her infant at home
(read full report). |
hacked to death
by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists |
BLOCK ‘C’ area of SERUNUWARA in
TRINCOMALEE. |
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24 / 04 / 2006 |
RAZEEK SHAREEF YASMY (3 years) Muslim infant while he was with his mother
(read full report). |
Three LTTE terrorists on motorbike after their failure to apprehend the prey, brutally assassinated a three-year old infant and severely injured his mother, who is now placed on a life saving machine at POLONNARUWA hospital |
MUSLIM COLONY,
KADURUWELA, POLONNARUWA |
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24 / 04 / 2006 |
M.H.B. HERATH BANDARA and S.SUNIL RATHNAYAKE,
both from KALYANAPURA, GOMARANKADAWALA - two Home Guards while they were proceeding from their duty post towards the DUTUWEWA
base (read full report).. |
died on the spot when terrorists in hiding directed a rain of gunfire towards the Home Guards on foot. |
KALYANAPURA,
GOMARANKADAWALA, |
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23 / 04 / 2006 |
AMITHANATHAN KENNEDY (40), Tamil |
shot dead by a suspected LTTE gunman |
NAWANTHURAI area, JAFFNA |
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23 / 04 / 2006 |
Two army soldiers injured (full
report in Sri Lanka army). |
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WADUMUNAI entry/exit point at WELIKANDA |
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22 / 04 / 2006 |
Two soldiers killed and injuring four others
(Read details). |
bumped off by LTTE terrorists |
between THANDIKULAM and KIDACHOLEI |
|
22 / 04 / 2006 |
Three-wheeler driver, named GURUNDAN JENADAN (22)
(Tamil) (read full
report). |
shot
dead by LTTE |
IRUPPALAI Junction in JAFFNA |
|
22 / 04 / 2006 |
One army officer killed (Read
details). |
Army vehicle was blown up in an LTTE claymore explosion |
SINHAPURA, WELIKANDA |
|
22 / 04 / 2006 |
Private S.A SARATH (Read
details). |
Tamil Tigers detonated a claymore mine on troops |
KALMADU in VAVUNIA |
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21 / 04 / 2006 |
The Police Constable, INDIKA SAMARANAYAKE (PC 38074) and the Home Guard K.T. RANJITH SWARNAPALA (GD 25175).
Severely wounded another Sub Inspector D.M.K DISSANAYAKE and Home Guard E.P SOMASIRI (GD 21926). |
killed in the LTTE blast on the spot and the explosion
(Read full details).
The Police team, attached to KANTALE Police station was proceeding from KILIVEDDY to SERUNUWARA area around 1.20 p.m. this afternoon when Tamil Tiger terrorists in hiding activated the claymore mine. |
THANGANAGAR, TRINCOMALEE |
|
21 / 04 / 2006 |
Kiled one home guard (Read
full details) |
terrorists detonated a claymore mine and fired on a Police patrol on road clearing duty |
DEHIWATTE, TRINCOMALEE |
|
20 / 04 / 2006 |
MUMOMAD NISAR (31) of No 82, 6th Lane, MANIPURAM, VAVNIYA
(Read details). A
muslim civilian. Victim’s wife has also been injured in firing and admitted to VAVUNIYA hospital. |
shot
by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists |
Vavunia |
|
19/04/2006 |
The Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) activist, SELLADORAI SIVAKUMAR (32) of
SINNAURANI, BATTICALOA
(Read full details),
Sivakumar is a Tamil civilian. |
LTTE pistol men shrewdly approached him and shot him at close rang |
inside the public market at BATTICALOA |
|
19/04/2006 |
THAMBAPULLE AMBIGA PAGAN (38) of PALANI KOVIL Avenue, KOPAI South,
KOPAI. (Read full details).
He is a Tamil covilian. |
The LTTE assassins fled the scene immediately after they have shot the victim |
near KONDAVIL junction in
JAFFNA. |
|
19/04/2006 |
Two unidentified civilians with cut injuries from the general area of MAHARAMBAKULAM, VAVUNIYA
(Read full details), |
TTE men had carried out the killing in retaliation against their
anti-LTTE stand, |
MAHARAMBAKULAM, VAVUNIYA |
|
19/04/2006 |
Jongman Lee (51-years), South Korean (read
full) (Read full
details) |
LTTE
Tamil Tiger Terrorists claymore mine |
Vavunia |
|
18/04/2006 |
K.GOWRYBALAN (32), MAHADEVAN KISHOR KUMAR (20), BALASUBRAMANIAM KANNADASAN (27), THANGARAJA RAVEENDRAN (27) and SELLAPPU KAMALLA DASAN (25)
(All Tamil civilians) |
Attack
by LTTE Tamil Tiger terrorists (read
full report) |
PUTTUR in JAFFNA |
|
17/04/2006 |
Killed four (4) and injured seven (7) Sri
Lanka Army soldiers (read
details). Monday’s (17) LTTE claymore mine attack on the Armed Forces and the Police was the 14th (Fourteenth) one after Tamil Tigers intensified terrorist attacks using deadly claymore mines on the Security Forces and the Police on 08th April 2006.
Sixteen Army soldiers, Ten Navy personnel, Three Air Force personnel, Two Police officers, Two Home Guards and Fourteen civilians perished in brutal LTTE attacks after the Geneva talks held in February, this year.
A total of Thirty Three service Police personnel and Home Guards and Fourteen civilians were killed in those LTTE attacks causing injuries to Forty service and Police personnel and Sixty One civilians. The number of injured remains at One Hundred and One as on Monday (17). In addition, Eight Navy personnel have hitherto gone missing after another LTTE sea attack.
LTTE terrorist have also abducted at least four civilians after the Geneva talks. |
killed four more soldiers and injured seven more using one more claymore mine. |
VEPPANKULAM, VAVUNIYA |
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17/04/2006 |
Five Sri Lanka Army soldiers (read
details). The Airman, B.M. THILAKERATNE succumbed to his injuries early Friday (21) morning around 2.30 a.m.
(Read full details) |
Tamil Tiger terrorists have also gone on firing on the Air Force convoy soon after they (LTTE) triggered the claymore mine |
KIRAN in BATTICALOA |
|
16/04/2006 |
Danasiri, a resident of Tekkawatte (read
details) |
Shot
dead by LTTE |
Vavuniya |
|
16/04/2006 |
Private A.R.S. SANDARUWAN received severe injuries in the explosion and was to be airlifted to COLOMBO for immediate surgery while Recruit M.A.K.N. GUNASEKARA was admitted to PALALY hospital with minor injuries.
(Sri Lanka Army soldier) |
CLAYMORE MINE ATTACK directed by Tamil Tigers at troops on foot patrol
(Read full report). |
PASMANG junction in
SARASALAI, JAFFNA |
|
15/04/2006 |
Lance Corporal N.W.A.P.S. PERERA (Read
full report). |
due to LTTE small arms fire |
KAITHADI, JAFFNA |
|
15/04/2006 |
Three (3) Air-Force personnel, Sergeant Jayantha, Leading Air Craftsman Jayantha and Leading Air Craftsman
Jayasekara (Read full
report). |
Air Force jeep (3151) with three Air Force personnel were proceeding towards HABARANA - TRINCOMALEE main road from KAPPALTHURAI Air Force detachment when LTTE terrorists blew up the Air Force jeep using a powerful claymore mine.
Two of the victims died on the spot and the third one died on admission to hospital. |
KAPPALTHURAI, TRINCOMALEE |
|
15/04/2006 |
SULAIMAN NETTHIWELLA THAMBI LATHIF (32). |
Shot
dead by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists (Read
full report). |
ODDAMAVADI in
BATTICALOA.. |
|
15/04/2006 |
Five (5) Army soldiers killed and eight (8)
soldiers injured (read
details) |
TERRORISTS ONCE AGAIN RAISED their ugly heads on Saturday (15) afternoon when a powerful explosive device triggered by terrorists in hiding killed five more soldiers and injured eight others at MUNNIMURUPPU in VAVUNIYA.
The Army bus carrying soldiers on duty came under LTTE explosive device attack killing 05 of the soldiers on the spot after the LTTE explosive device were detonated by terrorists. |
MUNNIMURUPPU in
VAVUNIYA. |
|
12/04/2006 |
A senior officer and a soldier of the Sri Lanka Army
(Read full details) |
brutally shot and injured by an LTTE pistol men |
MIRAVODAI Army camp,
BATTICALOA, |
|
11/04/2006 |
Eleven Navy Personal and Injures Eleven Other Including Two Foreigners
(Read in full) |
Tamil Tigers (LTTE) detonated a power full claymore mine at a convoy of the Sri Lanka Navy
(SLN) personal |
about 20 k.m. South of TRINCOMALEE |
|
10/04/2006 |
Killed seven persons including five soldiers and injured three.
Two civilians, PATHMANADAN (55) and PRADEEP (29), working for a Non Governmental Organization (NGO), HUDEC CARITAS, engaging in tsunami rehabilitation work in JAFFNA, who were traveling in one of their vehicles from the opposite direction at that point of time fell victim to the explosion.
Two more HUDEC members, THAPARADARAN (48) and AJANTHAN (28), inside the NGO vehicle were severely injured in the explosion and admitted to General Hospital
JAFFNA. |
The claymore mine detonated on an Army double cab proceeding towards MUHAMALAI from KODIKAMAM destroyed the vehicle causing death to five soldiers and severe injuries to another traveling in the
vehicle (Full report in
Sri Lanka Army). |
MIRUSUVIL in JAFFNA |
|
09/04/2006 |
SIWALINGAM PUSHPARAJA (15), and KRISHNAPILLAI AJITH (21)
(Both Tamil civilians) |
TWO TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) PISTOL MEN from the LTTE Wanni faction have shot and injured one school boy and another civilian |
KARUVANKRNI junction in VALAICHCHENAI |
|
09/04/2006 |
Two persons believed to be Karuna supporters
(Tamils) (Read
details) |
shot and injured allegedly by LTTE cadres |
Karuvankaram |
|
08/04/2006 |
A Civilian & Soldier Injured (read
details in Sri Lanka Army) |
a claymore mine aiming an Army truck was detonated by Tamil Tigers (LTTE) at NEERVELI in JAFFNA.
One soldier inside the truck was injured. The truck was badly damaged.
One civilian who was passing by at the time of the incident was also wounded and admitted to the hospital for the treatments. |
NEERVELI in
JAFFNA. |
|
08/04/2006 |
The soldier, Private K.A. KULANAYAKE was killed and another Sergeant K.G. T. WASANTHA KUMARA seriously injured in the LTTE
attack (read details in
Sri Lanka Army) |
LTTE
Tamil Tiger terrorists launched a fierce attack on a post situated on the perimeter defence of the SELVANAGAR Army detachment using several rounds of mortar fire and Rocket Propel Grenades (RPG) followed by small arms fire. |
Selva
Nagar |
|
07/04/2006 |
B.A. Bawa (30) and V. Tahibu (35) (Muslims) |
shot with a T-56 weapon |
Katuwanvila in Welikanda |
|
25/03/2006 |
Attack on Sri Lanka Navy |
Six LTTE suicide cadres
blew themselves up with their trawler sinking a naval Dvora wounding 11 sailors. Eight other sailors missing were believed to have been killed, a senior Navy official told the Sunday Observer yesterday. However, this attack seriously breached the Geneva joint declaration signed between the Government and the LTTE. Six members in the LTTE trawler were also killed in the blast that occurred around 10.30 am
ob 25 March 2006. |
Kuthiraimalai off
Kalpitiya. |
|
24/03/2006 |
ONE TAMIL BUSINESSMAN, PONNAIYAH MURUGES (45)
was killed and his assistance NAGAPPAN RAMESH (30) was injured |
According to the Police, the assassins who came in a vehicle have opened fire indiscriminately at the “Vinayagar Stores” in
PUDUKULAM, VAVUNIYA killing its owner PONNAIYAH MURUGES (45) on the spot before they fled. The victim’s assistance NAGAPPAN RAMESH (30) who was inside the shop at the time of the incident has received severe gunshot injuries and was initially admitted to VAVUNIYA hospital later he was transferred to ANURADHAPURA general hospital due to his worsening health condition.
Investigations were revealed that deceased had refused the LTTE demand for ransom several times. |
VAVUNIYA. |
|
23/03/2006 |
The Tamil students, R.R. SARADHA (16), M.S. SINDRAJA (16) and D. WANITHA (16) |
Abducted
by LTTE |
VAVUNIYA |
|
21/03/2006 |
KUMARASINGHAM NAVAN (20), an advanced level
Tamil student of THIRUKKOVIL VINAYAGAPURAM School, BATTICALOA (Read
full details) |
abducted by a group of LTTE cadres, while on his way back home after school, on 21 March 2006 around 3.30 p.m, claimed a complain made by his father SELLAIYAH THANGANESHAM to THIRUKKOVIL Police.
Further the complainant has told the Police, that he saw his son KUMARASINGHAM NAVAN (20) was being given LTTE training at the KANDIKUDICHCHI ARU LTTE camp when he went to inquire about his missing son. |
BATTICALOA |
|
18/03/2006 |
DEVARAJAH NAVALINGAM alias BABU residing at No. 156, SHANTHIPURAM, SOUTH BAR, MANNAR
|
Abducted
by LTTE |
MANNAR
|
| 17/03/2006 |
SEENITHAMBI THANGARAJA
(16 year old innocent Tamil student) nd another eighteen-year-old youth SINNAYAH RAMESHWARAM |
a complaint made by a mother at KIRAN in BATTICALOA on 17 March 2006, the VALAICHCENAI Police has commenced investigation into abduction of two children by the LTTE on 12 March 2006 around 4.30 p.m. |
VALAICHCENAI |
| 13/03/2006 |
SUDAKARAN SULOCHAN (15) and JEYARAJ KISHNAN (15) |
LTTE
Tamil Tiger Terrorists on a white coloured van, abducted two school children, Monday (13) evening at about 5.00 p.m. at PETHALAI, VALAICHCHANAI while those students were returning after attending private tuition classes. |
VALAICHCHENAI town |
| 13/03/2006 |
RAVICHANDRAN EISHWARAN (14) of SOORIYA Lane, NAVATHKUDAH and SAMBASIVAN SURESH (25) of ANNAMALAI Street, VEECHCHU
KALMUNAI. |
abducted
by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists |
BATTICALOA. |
| 06/03/2006 |
ABDUL MAJEED JAUFER (32) of RAHUMANIYA STREET, ERAVUR |
shot and killed |
NAVALADY lane in ERAVUR town |
| 27/06/2006 |
A FIFTEEN-YEAR OLD BOY abducted and conscripted to the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) has escaped LTTE detention and surrendered to the Police at BATTICALOA on Tuesday (07),
March 2006. He was only 14 years of age when he was taken away forcibly with three of his friends to give him one-month long LTTE training in their place of detention. The teenager has however managed to escape from LTTE detention on 4 March 2006 and reached his home to inform of his abduction.
The escapee has further told the Police that there are over 70 more teenagers including his three abducted friends being given training in this KOKADICHOLAI LTTE camp. |
The victim, according to the complaint, was in a Kovil (Hindu Temple) area in KOKADICHOLAI, BATTICALOA, with three of his friends when he and his three friends were abducted by the LTTE on 27 |
Battocaloe |
| 01-02/03/2006 |
Both teenagers X and Y are 15 and 17 years of age and are schoolboys at Trincomalee Mavadichchena Vidyalaya and Sirasamaba College respectively at the time they were abducted and taken away by armed LTTE men.
Those escapees have further told the naval troops that more than 100 children of the same age range are receiving LTTE weapon training in the same camp at
SAMPOOR. |
armed Tamil Tigers stormed their houses and took them away by force late night on 01st & 2nd March 2006 to be detained afterwards at an LTTE camp at
SAMPOOR. |
Trincomalee |
| 05/03/2006 |
11 year old child in Colony 11, Central Camp, Ampara |
Abducted
by LTTE. LTTE is destroying childhood of Tamil children for the sake of their terror leader Pirabaharan’s blood thirst. It is reported currently there are more than 400 children in “Tora Bora” and “Sinna Pillumale” LTTE training camps. |
Central Camp,
Ampare. |
| 05/03/2006 |
Mohamed
Navas, 22
(a former Sri Lankan army soldier), Muslim |
shot three times in his chest at his home |
Valachchani |
| 28/02/2006 |
A. DINESHWARAM (23),
A Tamil civilian. |
Abducted
by LTTE |
KILIVEDDY area in
TRINCOMALEE. |
|
Geveva Talks |
| 22/01/2006 |
SINNATHAMBI THEVARASA (29) of NIMESHAN VEEDIYA, VISHNU KOVIL road, KIRAN
(Tamil) |
LTTE gunned down a twenty-nine year old civilian resident in KIRAN last night (22) around 10.30 p.m |
KIRAN |
| 20/02/2006 |
KAILASAPILLAI RAVEENDRAN (21)
- Tamil |
Shot
dead by LTTE |
VANDARAMOOLAI, BATTICALOA |
| 20/02/2006 |
THAMBAIAH GANESH (25) of GOODSHED Road, VAVUNIYA
(Tamil) |
abducted
by LTTE |
Vavunia |
| 20/02/2006 |
KAILASAPILLAI RAVEENDRAN (21) after calling him out to the entry gate in his home compound
(Tamil) |
shot
by LTTE |
VANDARAMOOLAI area in BATTICALOA |
| 19/02/2006 |
Innocent
Tamils |
Some of the villagers were severely beaten by armed LTTE men for reasons known only to them |
IRANDAL village in
PUTTUR, JAFFNA |
| 13/02/2006 |
One
Tamil civilian injured. |
Five grenades were thrown into the
TELO (Tamil political party) office, four of which exploded |
Eastern
Sri Lanka |
| 12/02/2006 |
H.G.F. Premakumara of Passara
(Sri Lanka Navy Sailor)
|
A sailor who was critically injured after the LTTE allegedly exploded its own boat off |
Talaimannar |
| 10/02/2006 |
U.L. NAJEEB DEEN (44) of Sector 01, AKKARAIPATTU |
shot and injured a farmer |
KANNAGIPURAM in AKKARAIPATTU |
| 08/02/2006 |
NAGENDRAM GNANASELVAM (24) of KUPPILAN North,
ILLALAI, |
brutally hacked with a sword
by LTTE |
ILLALAI |
| 05/02/2006 |
KUMARA MOHAN RAJ (22); (see details in SPUR,
News on 02 February 2006) |
abducted by two armed LTTE cadres while he was at home at about 9.15 p.m. on Sunday (5th). |
SEVADI ROAD, MAVADIVEMBU |
| 04/02/2006 |
Mr. MURUGARASU THAVARASA (56),
Principal of VALACHCHENAI Hindu College (see details in SPUR,
News on 02 February 2006) |
abducted
by LTTE (and later released) |
VALACHCHENAI |
| 28/01/2006 |
R.B. BALASUBRAMANIYAM CHANDRAKUMAR of KADIRASAN road in
VAVUNIY; inflicted injuries on three civilians. Those three victims, SIROSA DEVI (36), SUREJA (14) and THAMILSELVAM (12) who received injuries were rushed to the VAVUNIYA hospital |
Grenade
attck |
KADIRASAN road in VAVUNIYA |
| 28/01/2006 |
Sri
Lanka Army soldier injured |
A soldier was injured when an army sentry point in Chullipuram, Jaffna came under a grenade attack last night |
sentry point in
Chullipuram, Jaffna |
| 25/01/2006 |
One
Police Constable injured. |
Grenade
attack |
PUTHOTTAM in VAVUNIYA |
| 24/01/2006 |
FIVE EXPLOSIONS TRIGGERED in five different Urban areas namely
BORELLA, NUGEGODA, WATTALA, KIRIBATHGODA and MOUNT LAVINIA Tuesday (24) evening between 8.15 – 8.45 p.m. caused no damage or any loss of human lives.
However, no casualties have been reported at the time this report was filed. |
Simultaneous
explosions |
BORELLA,
NUGEGODA, WATTALA, KIRIBATHGODA and MOUNT LAVINIA |
| 24/01/2006 |
Subramaniam
Sundarajan,
Journalist of Tamil newspaper ‘Sudar Oli’, SUBRAMANIUM SUHIDRARAJAN of ORR’S HILL, LOWER Road, TRINCOMALEE
(an employee of the TRINCOMALEE Port Authority) |
Killed
(Full report in
Island). |
Trincomalee |
| 23/01/2006 |
K.K. KAMALACHANDRAN (34)
dedd and JOSEPH JEGADAS (50) injured, both Tamils |
firing triggered by an unidentified
LTTE gunman |
VAVUNIYA |
| 23/01/2006 |
one Police Constable |
Hand
grenade attack |
ARSADY, BATTICALOA |
| 23/01/2006 |
sri
Lanka Army soldiers; Lance Corporal S. KUMARA, Private T.D. TENNAKOON and Private U.N.UPUL CHANDANA
killed and two (2) injured. The death toll of Army personnel butchered by LTTE terrorists to-date after 1st December 2005 to forty
(40). |
LTTE claymore mine targeting troops on foot patrol
(Read Daily
Mirror for details) |
URANI, BATTICALOA |
| 22/01/2006 |
Kanagasingham Kamalachandra
(35), a prominent tuition master and a reputed civilian in Vavuniya, a father of three
(Tamil) was killed and another person injured (Read
details in Daily Mirror). |
The gunmen had reportedly come on a motorcycle and fired several rounds at them and fled the scene |
Tonikkal off Vavuniya |
| 22/01/2006 |
One
(1) Police Constable injured |
two more LTTE terrorists on a speeding motorbike flung a hand grenade |
KADDAIMUNAI, BATTICALOA |
| 22/01/2006 |
Four Police Constables were admitted to hospital after the incident. |
Fired |
KANATTA AKKARAIPATTU – SAGAMA road |
| 21/01/2006 |
Two
(2) Sri Lanka Army Soldiers |
explosion
detonated by LTTE |
TRINCOMALEE town. |
| 21/01/2006 |
Three
(3) STF Police Officers (Read
details) |
Injured |
Akkaraipattu |
| 20/01/2006 |
Home Guard H.D.N. MADUGALLAA (26) and civilian W.D.M. NAVARATNE (34) |
killed
by LTTE |
SOMAPURA jungle in
SERUNUWARA, TRINCOMALEE |
| 20/01/2006 |
SUNDARALINGAM (48) of THAMBASETTY, POINT PEDRO
(Tamil) |
killed
by LTTE |
THAMBASETTY in POINT PEDRO, JAFFNA |
| 19/01/2006 |
N.RAMESH KUMAR (21), K.SHANMUGARAJA (36) and J.SUNDARAM (40) of ERAKARI Street, MORAKOTTACHENAI |
A few suspected LTTE gunmen have reportedly opened fire at three civilians |
MORAKOTTANCHENAI, BATTICALOA |
| 19/01/2006 |
Sri
Lanka Army soldier |
grenade
attack |
ALAVAI in
JAFFNA. |
| 19/01/2006 |
Reserve Police Constable MOHAMMED ABDUL GAFFOOR, Reserve Police Constable W.M.K. WIJEKOON and Reserve Police Constable W.H.D. PETER DANISTER FERNANDO,
The young teenager died in the same explosion has been identified as K. DIVAKARAN (16) who is also a school-goer. |
claymore mine attack |
THANDAVANVELY in BATTICALOA |
| 19/01/2006 |
Death to three policemen, one civilian and injured thirteen other policemen, seven Army personnel and three civilians. |
“push bicycle-type” claymore mine explosion |
about 500 meters to the north of BATTICALOA centre |
| 19/01/2006 |
Fourteen more Police Constables, seven Army personnel and three civilians sustained injuries in the attack, some of who have already been transferred to COLOMBO for immediate surgeries.
. Three injured civilians have also been identified as KAMALENDRAN (23) of No.177, TRINCOMALEE road,
BATTICALOA, KUJENDRAN (15) of No. 32/1, LOYIDS avenue, BATTICALOA and ROSALIN (38) of No. 36, SELVANAYAGAM road,
BATTICALOA. |
detonation of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), tethered to a stationary bicycle on the roadside by Tamil Tigers in hiding, affected a jeep carrying a combined team of sailors and policemen |
ANURADHAPURA junction in TRINCOMALEE |
| 18/01/2006 |
Police Constable (WPC) returning after traffic duty
and seven others |
hand grenade
attack |
BATTICALOA town |
| 17/01/2006 |
DEVARAJA DHARSHAN (20) of UK motors, No 230, THIRUGNANESHWARAM road, TRINCOMALEE |
explosion
by LTTE |
MARATHADIYA, TRINCOMALEE |
| 17/01/2006 |
Twelve
(12) Sri Lanka Navy Sailors and a civilian (Read
details in SPUR) |
Claymore
mine (Full
report in Island). |
Trincomalee |
| 17/01/2006 |
One
(1) Sri Lanka Army soldier (Read
details in SPUR) |
claymore mine attack. |
SARASALAI, JAFFNA |
|
16/01/06 |
Suppiah
Murugan (31)
(read full
details)
|
The victim, a native of Trincomalee, was
employed in an eating-house in Urumpirai. Shot while eating 'Koththu Roti'
by LTTE
|
JAFFNA |
|
16/01/06 |
Muralitharan
(25) (read
full details)
|
The victim, a native of Nelliady, was shot
dead in Raja Veethy (The King’s Way) on his way to Jaffna with his
brother
|
JAFFNA |
| 16/01/06 |
Navaratnarajah
Jegatheeswaran (26) (read
full details)
|
The
victim, a former member of the EPDP who had left 5 years ago, became a
family man and father of two and worked as a labourer in the Nelliady
market was shot dead by the LTTE at 8.45 AM.
|
NELLIADDY |
| 16/01/2006 |
AHAMED LEBBE WAHID (38)
killed and THARU THAMBA ARDAM (36) injured |
Grenade
attack THARU THAMBA ARDAM of ALAMKULAM, ADDALACHCHENAI, AKKARAIPATTU escaped death only with serious physical injuries and was subsequently admitted to hospital |
AKKARAIPATTU |
| 16/01/2006 |
Private S. SAMANSIRI
(Read
details in SPUR) |
LTTE hand grenade attack.
The injured LTTE suspect, J. SUDASAN KAMALADASAN (25) of AKBAR STREET, ELUTHUR was admitted to hospital for treatment under MANNAR Police custody. |
hospital junction in MANNAR |
| 16/01/2006 |
HAKINI DANESHWARI (51), RENUKA MOJANSVI (30) and SHANUKA MARJAN (23)
- Tamils (Read
details in SPUR) |
LTTE stormed a house during the wee hours on Monday (16) around 1.00 a.m. and assassinated three women who were fast asleep inside the house |
ANIPAY, JAFFNA |
| 16/01/2006 |
GOPAL KRISHNAN SURESH (18) and CHANDRAN SASHIKUMAR (26),(Tamils)
(Read
details in SPUR) |
shot dead |
DEANS Road, AKKARAIPATTU |
| 16/01/2006 |
GISHAN (38),(Tamil)
(Read
details in SPUR) |
shot dead |
NELLIADY, JAFFNA |
| 16/01/2006 |
BALAKUMAR
(Tamil) (Read
details in SPUR) |
|
URUMPIRAI Hindu College in JAFFNA |
| 15/01/2006 |
A
Civilian, RAJAKULASINGHAM (60) (Tamil) (Read
details in SPUR) |
Injured |
VEPPANKULAM, VAVUNIYA o |
| 15/01/2006 |
S. Ganeshalingham
(PLOTE Member, Tamil) |
shot
dead |
Kodigamam |
| 15/01/2006 |
two
(2) Tamil civilians, MADIVADAN KUMAR and M. RAJU (Read
details in SPUR) |
shot
and injured |
PALLATHOTAM |
| 15/01/2006 |
One
Air Force Officer and three civilians, V CHANDRADASAN of No 316, AMBUVELIPURAM, TRINCOMALEE, M VARADAN of No 603, SELVANAYAGAMPURAM, TRINCOMALEE and V VIJEYARASA of No 313, AMBUVELIPURAM
(Tamil) (Read
details in SPUR) |
Injured one airman of the Sri Lanka Air Force and injured three other civilians who were passing |
AMBUVELIPURAM junction in TRINCOMALEE |
| 14/01/2006 |
Private K.S PRASAD KUMARA
(Read
details in SPUR) |
shot
dead |
MALLAKAM, JAFFNA |
| 14/01/2006 |
NAMAN RAJAN (29) of ARIYAMPATHI east,
BATTICALOA - Tamil (Read
details in SPUR) |
shot dead by Wanni tigers on his way home after participating Thai Pongal pooja in Punacholai Kovil at Thirunethikirny, Ariyampathi east, in Batticaloa district |
ARIYAMPATHI area, BATTICALOA |
| 14/01/2006 |
Two
navy soldiers (Details)
(Read
details in SPUR) |
landmine
attack |
Kayts islet in northern Jaffna |
| 13/01/06 |
|
|
|
| 13/01/2006 |
ARUNABALAN
SUNDARALINGAM (36) (Tamil, EPRLF Member) (Read
details in SPUR) |
LTTE
pistolmen shot and killed an Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation
Front (EPRLF) member |
KALLADY
area, BATTICALOA. |
| 13/01/2006 |
A policeman on foot patrol and a civilian
(Tamil) (Read
details in SPUR) |
LTTE cadre lobbed a bomb
(Read details) |
near the Kopay Police Station |
| 12/01/2006 |
Injuring a
Police sergeant and three police constables (Read
details in SPUR) |
grenade
(Read
details) |
Parameshwaran junction in Jaffna |
| 11/01/2006 |
a woman resident at MADUVIL north, JAFFNA (Read
details in SPUR) |
shot dead |
MADUVIL north, JAFFNA |
| 11/01/2006 |
THAMBI NADEESHAN
(Tamil) (Read
details in SPUR) |
shot
and killed |
THIRUPPIDY, JAFFNA |
| 11/01/2006 |
Sri
Lanka Army soldiers (8 killed and injured 9); 7th claymore mine attack within the matter of few weeks. The
following nine (9) Sri Lanka Navy sailors were killed in the blast: K. K. Chandrapala;
A. S. Dhanapala; M. Fernando; S. M. Subasinghe; S. K-Prasath Nilantha; H. Gunatilake;
G. G. Athukorale; W. G. A. Wijeyasooriya and M. M. P. Ajantha. |
claymore mine attack
(Read details).
A BUS CARRYING SAILORS OF SRI LANKA NAVY was blown up at CHEDDIKULAM, 24 km southwest of VAVUNIYA while it was proceeding towards MANNAR by Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in another brutal claymore mine attack this evening (12) around 4.05 p.m |
Cheddikulam-Medawachchiya road |
| 10/01/2006 |
One Policeman was injured |
|
near the 3rd mile post, SELVANAYAGAMPURAM in TRINCOMALEE |
| 10/01/2006 |
A
civilian |
A CIVILIAN WHO WORKED at a shop in the CHAVAKACHCHERI town was shot dead |
CHAVAKACHCHERI |
| 10/01/2006 |
Pavalarani Kanapathipillai
(Tamil) |
kidnapped her from her house in Mattuvil and shot her dead. |
Mattuvil |
| 09/01/2006 |
WEERAVANNAN (25),
A Tamil civilian (Read
details in SPUR) |
shot
and killed |
THIRUNAVELI junction in JAFFNA |
| 09/01/2006 |
RATHNAM KARUNAKARAM (32) of No 03, KOKAVIL, NAWALKUDA, AKKARAIPATTU
(A Tamil civilian) (Read
details in SPUR) |
shot and injured |
AKKARAIPATTU and KALMUNAI road in SINNAPPILI area |
| |
harmasena and Ranatunga
(Army Intelligence Officers) |
Killed
(Read details) |
Skandapuram cemetery at Thawsikulam in
Vavuniya. |
| 08/01/2006 |
Three soldiers in the truck sustained injuries and were admitted to the Navy hospital TRINCOMALEE after they were transferred from MUTTUR
hospital (Read
details in SPUR) |
came under LTTE fire |
KADDAIPARICHCHAN from THOPPUR in TRINCOMALEE |
| 08/01/2006 |
one
soldier killed and another injured (Read
details in SPUR) |
one
soldier killed and another injured |
MALIGATHIVU, PAHALA THOPPUR, about 21 km south of TRINCOMALEE, |
| 08/01/2006 |
Three
(3) sri Lanka Army Soldiers |
Injured
(read
details) |
Muttur |
| 08/01/2006 |
Two
Sri Lanka Army soldiers |
Grenade
attack |
Near the Sub office of Valigamam east Pradeshya sabha building along the Jaffna Point Pedro road in Kopay |
| 08/01/2006 |
One soldier was killed and another injured
(more
details) |
The group of soldiers on patrol had tried to check a van when the wanni tigers who were in the van had attacked the soldiers. When the soldiers retaliated the tigers had fled in the van |
Maligathivu area at Pahalathopur in Trincomalee |
| 08/01/2006 |
Sinnarasa
Rasaiah, 47, from Vinayaga Mudaliyar (VM) Road in Point Pedro
town (Sri Lanka Army Informant) |
shot
dead |
Point Pedro |
| 08/01/2006 |
Adhmaguru
Prasad, hailing from Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh was working as a Radio engineer in the Hyderabad-based private tele-services company's branch at
Colombo (read
details) |
Killed |
shot dead in a close range by an two-member unidentified gang in front of his office. |
| 07/01/2006 |
13
Sri Lanka Navy Sailors; A nearly 4-year-old cease-fire between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels is coming under pressure after at least 13 sailors were killed when an explosives-laden boat rammed into a Sri Lankan navy vessel early Saturday.
(Details in
Sunday Observer). |
Killed.
In one of the worst TAMIL TIGER (LTTE) attacks, LTTE Sea Tigers early this morning (07) around 1.00 a.m. blew up a Naval vessel Fast Attack Craft (FAC) with 15 sailors on board while it was in the seas off FOUL POINT,
TRINCONMALEE. A huge explosion trigged off by Sea Tigers perished two Naval officers and 13 sailors, according to another Naval vessel on duty at sea in close proximity. |
at
the Foul Point, near
the port of Trincomallee |
| 07/01/2006 |
Kennedy (A
PLOTE Member)- Tamil (See
details in SPUR) |
shot
by LTTE pistol gang |
in front of Jaffna Teaching Hospital |
| 06/01/2006 |
Several
injured (See
details in SPUR) |
LTTE grenade attack |
KOPAY Police station in JAFFNA |
| 06/01/2006 |
No
one injured (See
details in SPUR) |
attacked by LTTE Tamil Tigers with a hand grenade |
SIVAN KOVIL in the general area of ANAIPANTHI |
| 05/01/2006 |
Sergeant
A.K.W.S. JAYANTHIKARA (39) of WELANTHALAWA, ARANAYAKA (See
details in SPUR): another soldier injured. |
injured
(Later died on 08 January 2006) |
EECHCHANKULAM, VAVUNIYA around 9.15 a.m.. |
| 03/01/2006 |
Nadaraja Balendran alias ‘Atlas
Bala’ |
shot
dead |
Wellawatte |
| 03/01/2006 |
Sellathamby
Visagaratnam, 55
(Chief priest at the Santhively Kannagi Amman temple). (See
details in SPUR) |
shot
dead (Full
report in Colombo Page). |
Alaiyadychcholai in Kiran Valaichenai |
| 03/01/2006 |
two soldiers, B.G.A.K. Nandasiri and R.M.P. Dilina Kumara |
injured
in a grenade attack |
Tsunami refugee camp located at Kalmunai road,
Batticaloa. |
| 31/12/2005 |
Krishnaswamy Thirunawakarusu
(Vavunia PLOTE Leader) (See details
in SPUR) (Full
report in Daily Mirror). |
abducted
and later killed |
Veppankulam in Vavuniya |
| 30/12/2005 |
Six
Army Soldiers |
grenade attack |
a short distance away from 52-4 Brigade Headquarters at Varani in Thennamaratchchi |
| 30/12/2005 |
SEBASTIAN PILLAI of Unit 01,
AWARANTULAWA, VAVUNIYA |
Injured |
AWARANTULAWA, VAVUNIYA |
| 30/12/2005 |
two unarmed Police Constables
(Full report in
SPUR). |
Attacked
by LTTE pistol gang. Four pistol shots injured one of the Police Constables seriously but the other one escaped unhurt. LTTE pistol men after firing mingled with the public in the area and fled the scene. |
BATTICALOA |
| 29/12/2005 |
Police Constables, SENANAYAKE (29094), DHARMASIRI (095), ANURA (31746) and WIJERATHNE (38271)
(Full report in
SPUR). |
injured in the attack were evacuated to the hospital. |
PETALAI, KALKUDA on the SIVAM KOVIL road |
| 29/12/2005 |
Private
K.C.R. KODIKARA (Full report in
SPUR). |
Tamil Tiger opened fire on a night patrol of the troops and Policemen |
|
| 27/12/2005 |
The soldier Private W.M.G. RUWAN CHAMEERA
(Details
in SPUR) |
received injuries when a group of LTTE cadres from the opposite side opened fire |
VANNARAPANNAI in JAFFNA |
| 27/12/2005 |
A soldier
(W D Sunil) was killed and several civilians injured. Private W.B. SUNIL (50), a resident in the area was at home with his wife, L.K.GNANAWATHI (54) and his brother-in-law, K.K.PREMADASA when those intruders fired a couple of T-56 rounds and simultaneously threw two hand grenades at the house causing a huge fire
ball (Details in
SPUR) |
LTTE cadres hurled a grenade accompanied by shooting at the house of the soldier at the 4th mile post in Trincomalee around 8.35 p.m. |
Trincomallee |
| 27/12/2005 |
Twelve
(12) Sri Lanka Army Soldiers. Those killed were Sergeant K. PREMASIRI (S/276008), Corporal W. DANAPRIYAWANSA (S/275024), Corporal B.L.U NANDANA (S/278172), Lance Corporal K.M.A PUSHPA KUMARA (S/276203), Lance Corporal D.M. DISSANAYAKE (S/278035), Signalman B.M. LIYANAGE (S/278065), Recruit K.R. FERNANDO (S/154805), Private WEGANTHALE (S/650863), Private J. GAMINI (S/00894), Private J.M.C. SANDANAYAKE (S/02609), Private L.A. YASARATHNE (S/04983) and Private R.M.G. RATHNAYAKE (S/776389).
Those injured in the attack 2nd Lieutenant M.A.T. SAMPATH (O/66152), Signalman R.P. PREMADASA (S/279419) and Lance Corporal D.M. DISSANAYAKE (S/01102) are receiving treatment at the hospital.
(Details
in SPUR) (Details
in SPUR) |
Mine
blast |
Jaffna-Point Pedro road in Jaffna around 12.50 p.m. |
| 27/12/2005 |
Police
Constable Abeykoon (10156) (Details
in SPUR) |
Police sources said two men were passing the area where the Army and the Police were conducting the operation when the constable stopped the two men passing. One of them had pulled out a pistol, shot the police constable and fled. The other man was however arrested and detained for questioning. |
Park Road inVavuniya |
| 27/12/2005 |
Constable Niyas
(killed) and the constable Navaratnam Injured) (Details
in SPUR) |
LTTE
had shot them from behind the Mariamman Kovil. While tension prevailed in the area. |
Pandirippu near Kalmunai |
| 27/12/2005 |
Private RUWAN SAMEERA
(Details in SPUR) |
A pre-dawn Tamil Tiger (LTTE) fire attack |
COLOMBUTHURAI in
JAFFNA |
| 26/12/2005 |
Police Constable J. M KARUNARATHNA |
shot
and injured; escaped with injuries |
PUTTUR, BATTICALOA |
| 26/12/2005 |
MANIKYAWADUGE MAYURA KUMARA
(27) (Details
in SPUR) |
shot and injured by an unidentified
LTTE gunman. |
LINGANAGAR,
TRINCOMALEE |
| 26/12/2005 |
Thirupan Master alias Veerappan Thirupan
(PLOTE Vauniya political wing leader) (Details
in SPUR) |
An LTTE pistol group member arrived at the tea boutique where the PLOTE leader was having a cup of tea and had shot at Thirupan Master around 5.15 pm |
Rambakulam Road in Vauniya |
| 26/12/2005 |
KURUKKAL SUBRAMANIYAM SADEESH KUMAR (23) of the KALI KOVIL at KOLAVIL, AKKARAIPATTU;
A Tamil Hindu priest (Details
in SPUR) |
shot and injured
(Details in SPUR) |
AKKARAIPATTU |
| 25/12/2005 |
Ramanan
(Muslim); A Three-Wheeler Driver (Details
in SPUR) |
shot dead;
the body of Ramanan was recovered near fourth milepost along Trincomalee-Kandy highway with gunshot
injuries. |
Trincomallee |
| 25/12/2005 |
Wijeseelan to death
(Tamil); A Three-Wheeler Driver (Details
in SPUR) |
knifed
to death; The body of Wijeseelan was recovered from the Kanniya-Wilgam Vihare
junction; |
Trincomallee |
| 25/12/2005 |
Three
(3) Sri Lanka army soldiers (names not released) |
Three more soldiers on routine duties had to seek admission to the PALALY Military hospital after Tamil Tigers around 10.30 a.m. on Sunday (25)
as LTTE threw a hand grenade and caused injuries to the troops |
VELVATITHURAI, JAFFNA |
| 25/12/2005 |
Hon
Joseph Pararajasingham, Tamil Mp in Batticalo (Read
the Press Release issued by Sri Lanka Joint Operations Headquaters).
(read details in SPUR). |
Killed
by LTTE gunmen |
Batticaloa |
| 24/12/2005 |
THAMBILEBBE ABDUL MANAP
(35) killed and S.G.T DUDAR ATHIF (38) injured - Muslin (Details
in SPUR) |
one
killed and another injured |
Batticaloa |
| 24/12/2005 |
A.H. SHAIBU (45) of No 335, KUDAPOKUNA, WELIKANDA
(Muslim) (Details
in SPUR) |
shot
dead |
KUDAPOKUNA in POLNNARUWA |
| 24/12/2005 |
MOHAN RAVI (50), ARIYARATHNAM KANAKARASA (50) and MARIYAPPAM WIJERASA (24)
(Details
in SPUR). |
shot and killed |
SELVANAYAGAMPURA and ACHCHUVELI |
| 24/12/2005 |
WEERAKKODY ALBERT HENRY (64) of TRINCOMALEE |
shot dead by suspected Tamil Tigers pistol group while victim was driving his lorry with his own son their way home |
ORR’S Hill, TRINCOMALEE |
| 24/12/2005 |
Three civilians of
PATTIYAKULAM, TRINCOMALEE |
who went to collect firewood, have been abducted by
LTTE |
PATTIYANOOR, TRINCOMALEE |
| 24/12/2005 |
Sri
Lanka army soldier (name not released) |
one soldier received serious injuries when suspected Tamil Tigers threw a hand grenade at a sentry point. |
VELVATITHURAI, JAFFNA |
| 23/12/2005 |
Names
not released (Tamil woman)
(Visit SPUR for details) |
Explosion of an LTTE hand grenade and simultaneous firing |
CHAVAKACHCHERI |
| 23/12/2005 |
15
Sri Lanka Sailors killed and many more injured. Master Chief Petty Officer M.A.T.Mallikarachchi of Hataraliyadda, Chief Petty Officer W.C Pushpakumara of Kahatuduwa, Petty Officers C.N Perera of Katugastota, K.S.R. Vithana of Embilipitiya, B.L. Wasantha of Balapitiya, Leading Seaman K.A.U.C. Kuruppuarachchi, Leading Transport Assistant D.N.N.R. Dissanayake of Teldeniya, Leading Seaman N.D.K. Dassanayake of Poddala, Leading Patrolman R.K. Dayananda of Hidogama Anuradhapura, Transport Assistant R.M.G.S. Rathnayake of Seepukulama Kahatagasdigiliya, Engineering Mechanic N.R.C.S. Niroshan of Passara, Able Seaman K.G.S.L. Kumarasinghe of Matale and Able Patrolman R.H.A. Amarasinghe of Katupota.
(Visit SPUR for details) - A NAVAL CONVOY proceeding to THALAIMANNAR from MANNAR around 2.25 p.m. on Friday (23) afternoon with thirty sailors aboard a bus and a Navy truck was blown up in at least two explosions, triggered off by Tamil Tiger (LTTE) terrorists in the general area of NADUKUDHA in
MANNAR.
This is the first Tamil Tiger (LTTE) attack of this magnitude, in which so many were killed and injured after the Cease-fire Agreement (CFA) was signed between the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and Tamil Tigers
(LTTE). |
killing at least 12 sailors and wounding 18.
It is suspected that LTTE Tamil Tiger
Terrorists have used Thermobaric weapons for this attack (see
details)
|
Claymore mine at Pesalai, in the district of Mannar |
| 23/12/2005 |
D.
Sajan Dhanapala (Sinhalese)
(Visit SPUR for details) |
Tamil
Tiger rebels shot and killed an army intelligence agent Friday, in the
first known attack in the tea-growing central part of Sri Lanka |
Nuwara
Eliya |
| 22/12/2005 |
Sri
Lanka Army Soldier (Name not yet released)
(Visit SPUR for details) |
One soldier received injuries when two motorbike riding Tamil Tigers lobbed a hand grenade at troops on duty at a piquet point in the IRUPALAI area Thursday (22) around 4.20 p.m. |
IRUPALAI |
| 22/12/2005 |
Private
K.K.S.P. ARIYARATNE
(Visit SPUR for details) |
Tamil Tigers directed fire towards troops at an Army point in THIRUNELVELY west, the same day around 6.30 p.m.
causing injuries |
THIRUNELVELY
west |
| 22/12/2005 |
Ms
T.P.W. LEENAYATHI (18) of WELLA street, Boundary road, ERAVUR; The deceased’s father T. KANDARASA (45) who was an eyewitness to the murder also received injuries in Tamil Tiger firing before those terrorists abducted MAHENDRAN (17) and
P.K.S. PAKYANADAN (19) after firing two shots towards
them (Visit
SPUR for details) |
when she attempted to prevent abduction of her beloved younger brother, MAHENDRAN (17), and her cousin P.K.S PAKYANADAN(19) for LTTE conscription who were at home when four armed Tamil Tiger terrorists stormed her house in the
dark |
ERAVUR |
| 21/12/2005 |
Sri
Lanka Navy Sailors, Petty Officer P. PARANAWITHANA, Leading Patrolman S.R. GUNAPALA and Able Patrolman
R.A.T. BANDARA abducted and killed. Engineering Mechanic S.G.T. SANJEEWA who received serious injuries has now been admitted to ANURADHAPURA hospital for surgery and treatment. |
Captured
and killed (see
details in SPUR)
|
PALLIMUNAI, MANNAR |
| 21/12/2005 |
Eleven
(11) soldiers of Sri Lanka Army |
killed two Sri Lankan soldiers and wounded nine others
(see details in SPUR) |
in the government-held north, |
| 21/12/2005 |
causing death to Corporal K.A.VIPULA SHANTHA of 14th Battalion Sri Lanka Light Infantry (14
SLLI) and injuries to Major M.W.M.B. CHANDRASEKARA, Major M.P.
RAMANAYAKE, Corporal M.G. GUNARATHNE, Lance Corporal K.M. JAYASOORIYA BANDA and Lance Corporal
K.M. KARUNARATHNE, |
urled three grenades and simultaneously fired on a passing military vehicle with soldiers
(see details in SPUR) |
KACHCHAI,
JAFFNA |
| 21/12/2005 |
four policemen and two civilians |
lobbed a hand grenade
(see details in SPUR) |
Nallur |
| 20/12/2005 |
RAJASINGHAM alias BABUJI
(EPDP member) (Details
in SPUR) |
abducted
by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists |
Kayts |
| 16/12/2005 |
SIVAPULANDU
PASSIRASA alias THRAN (28) of No 19, SAMAGI MAWATHA, KUDAPOKUNA, |
killed
by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists at close range using a pistol while he
was watching television at his home. |
KUDAPOKUNA,
WELIKANDA |
| 14/12/2005 |
URESH
ANTHONEY of 9/8 VELAKKANNI Road, PALUUTHTHUWA |
Killed
by LTTE gunmen |
PALUUTHTHUWA,
TRINCOMALEE |
| 14/12/2005 |
Italian
Deputy Foreign Minister Margherita Boniver |
tried
to assassinate by shooting her helicopter |
Arumugam
Bay |
| 12/12/2005 |
KANDASAMY
KANDIRAM (19) and THAMBIMUTTU THAMBIRASA (22) |
Killed
by LTTE |
PARANIKYAMADU, BATTICALOA
|
| 12/12/2005 |
TWENTY
POLICE CONSTABLES, one Sub Inspector and three Sergeants narrowly
escaped death with injuries. |
LTTE
threw two hand grenades |
PESALAI,
MANNAR.
|
| 12/12/2005 |
Mr. Sinnathamby Ganeshalingam alias Farook by the LTTE |
abducted on 12.12.2005 by a gang of ten armed men at Asikulam in
Vavuniya. (see
details) (see
details in SPUR) |
Asikulam in
Vavuniya. |
| 12/12/2005 |
Two
soldiers |
Seriously
injured when they trod on a claymore mine during a routine patrol |
Wandaramulla
in Eravur |
| 12/12/2005 |
Injured
18 policemen and critically injuring two soldiers |
Tamil
Tigers continued its acts of provocation against the Security Forces and
Policemen in the North and East exploding claymore mines and carrying
out hand grenade attacks. |
Pesalai
and Batticaloa |
| 11/12/2005 |
MOHAMMED
RAJABDEEN (52) of GOPALAPURAM, NILAWELI
(Muslim) |
Killed |
GOPALAPURAM,
NILAVELI |
| 11/12/2005 |
MOHAMMED
RAFEEK (38) No 6, ALLANAGAR, THOPPUR
(Muslim) |
Killed |
LLANAGAR,
THOPPUR |
| 11/12/2005 |
DAVID
MICHAEL COLLIN alias MURALI (35) of No 58, MECCA Road, TRINCOMALEE.
This was the 35th EPDP activist/supporter to lay
his life in the face of Tamil Tiger terrorism and violence. |
Killed |
near
ALLERS GARDEN Refugee camp in UPPUVELI
on TRINCOMALEE – NILAVELI main
road |
| 11/12/2005 |
Police
Constable MAHESH RANASINGHE (PC 38716 |
Tamil
Tiger gunmen kill PC and escape with their women cadre |
VAVUNAYA
Hospital this afternoon (11) around 2.40 p.m.. |
| 09/12/2005 |
C.
JEEVANADAN (28) Kali Kovil road, KIRAN- Tamil |
shot
him dead near 27th km post |
VALACHCHANAI
– BATTICALOA main road |
| 09/12/2005 |
K.
P. SHASHIKUMAR of Vishnu Kovil road, KIRIAN |
unknown
gunmen of the LTTE |
at
his home in KIRAN, BATTICALO |
| 09/12/2005 |
MOHOMMED SELLADU LEBBE (52) of
ERAVUR |
Killed |
.K. Saw Mill on the PUNNAKUDAH road,
ERAVUR |
| 08/12/2005 |
Five
civilians
|
Injured
in LTTE hand grenade attack
|
AKKARAIPATTU
in AMPARA |
| 08/12/2005 |
STF
constables, PC INDIKA (PC 39344), PC WANNINAYAKE (PC 22301) and PC
RANJITH (PC 30996), attached to the KANCHANAKUDA STF camp |
Injured
in LTTE hand grenade attack
|
AKKARAIPATTU
in AMPARA |
| 08/12/2005 |
SURERASA
YOGESHWARI (27) and SURERASA LINGAM KUTTI (16) |
The
assassination has been committed by SURERASA SIVALINGAM (15) of LTTE,
the victims’ brother who lobbed a hand grenade at them subsequent to
firing using a T-56 weapon |
MAVADIVEMBU,
about 19 km northwest of BATTICALOA |
| 07/12/2005 |
one
killed and seven injured |
Terror
tactics of suspected Tamil Tigers (LTTE) struck once again this
afternoon (07) around 3.55 p.m. in VAVUNIYA town centre claiming the
life of a civilian and inflicting injuries on eight others, including a
soldier |
VAVUNIYA |
| 06/12/2005 |
Lieutenant
T.R. Mutugalage,
Corporal B.E. Samarasinghe, Corporal Ajith Kumara, Private K.M.P.
Attanayake, Private K.G. Dayawansha, Private W.P.I.W. Wijetunga and
H.A.S. Udayasiri |
claymore mine
attack |
Kopay, Jaffna |
| 05/12/2005 |
MOHAMMED
FAROOK alias MOHOMMED RIZVAN (30) and MOHOMMED ABU UBEDHA |
gunned
down by |
MARADAMUNAI
beach, about 25 km. north east of AMPARA |
| 05/12/2005 |
Kalwunkerni Post Mistress Komathi Veerapathiran (35) of School Road,
Kaluwunkerni (Tamil) |
kidnapped and hacked to death by the LTTE
cadres |
Kaluwunkerni |
| 05/12/2005 |
Balasingam
Premanathan, known as ‘Appan,’
age 30 of Pandiyankulam (Tamil) |
hacked
to death |
8th ward,
Mallavi, formerly of Kopay |
| 05/12/2005 |
Another
soldier |
killed by
LTTE's claymore blast |
Kondavil on
the Palaly-Jaffna Road |
| 04/12/2005 |
Six
soldiers of Sri Lanka Army |
killed by
LTTE's claymore blast |
Kondavil on
the Palaly-Jaffna Road |
| 02/12/2005 |
Corporal T.S
WITHANAWASAM, Private K RAJARATHNE and Private K.A.S. DISSANAYAKE |
Tamil Tigers
(LTTE) in hiding threw two more hand grenades at an Army bunker |
CHAVAKACHCHERI
at the KODIKAMAM road, JAFFNA |
| 02/12/2005 |
Mr
Wimalawansa (56) - Sinhalese |
shot and
killed by Sellakumar of LTTE |
Trincomalee |
| 02/12/2005 |
A.L.M.Faleel
(The Divisional Secretary, Kaththankudi in the Batticaloa District) -
Muslim |
He
was shot by two members of the LTTE who had come on motor cycle to the
Divisional Secretary’s Office |
Kaththankudi
in the Batticaloa District |
| 18/11/2005 |
Police Sergeant WICKRAMASINGHE (10847) |
Fired upon by a
lone Tamil Tiger pistol man received injuries to his left hand and the body |
While providing security to Eelam People’s
Democratic Party (EPDP) office at POINT PEDRO |
| 18/11/2005 |
OHAMMED ABUBAKAR (52)
, MOHOMMAD IBRAHIM , M.A NURDEEN
(54) and M.I. MUSTHAFA |
The pre-dawn grenade attack inside a Mosque
on Friday (18) killed four Muslim devotees and
injured twenty-one Muslim prayers, including a little child |
An
AKKARAIPATTU suburb |
| 16/11/2005 |
Police Constable
G.D.C.
JAYARATNE (PC 30769) and Private M.M. SAMAN NALINDA |
Grenade
attack causing severe injuries |
KULAWADIKOLANI,
BATTICALOA |
| 16/11/2005 |
Private W.G.C.K
CHANDRASENA, Private
P.S.P.PATHIRANA and Private H.K. MANOJ RANDIK |
Grenade
attack |
IRIDIYAPURAM, BATTICALOA
|
| 16/11/2005 |
H.M. PREMATHILAKA (HG
26800) of No. 154, MAHA ULPOTHA, ARALAGANWILA |
Injured |
HANDAPANWILA, about 25 km southeast of POLONNARUWA
|
| 16/11/2005 |
Home Guard, H.M. SUSANTHA PATHMA KUMARA (HG 47372) of No 349,
PELETIYAWA, ARALAGANWILA |
Killed |
HANDAPANWILA, about 25 km southeast of POLONNARUWA
|
| 12/11/2005 |
Private G.G.J
KUMARATUNGA |
Stabbed the
soldier on the head and back.
|
GANESHAPURAM
about 06 km northwest of VAVUNIYA town. |
| 07/11/2005 |
VELAYUDAN GNANENDRAN
(40) of No 01, GABADAPITIYA, SAGAMA Road, KANNAGIPURAM, AKKARAIPATTU
(Tamil civilian). |
Shot and killed
|
KANNAGIPURAM,
about 15 km west of AKKARAIPATTU
|
| 07/11/2005 |
ABU SALLY
MOHAMMED ISMATH (20) of No. 277/2, MAJEED Road, KANTALE (Muslim) |
Injured |
ABHAYAPURA, TRINCOMALEE |
| 06/11/2005 |
Wife of
RASAPUTHRAM SASAKUMAR (33) of No 123, ALAIADIWEMBU,
AKKARAIPATTU (Tamil) |
shot and
killed |
ALAIADIWEMBU,
about 3 km away from AKKARAIPATTU
town.
|
| 06/11/2005 |
SINNATHURAI
MURATHEELAN KANNAN (30) of 50/50, DOCKYARD Road, TRINCOMALEE
(Tamil) |
shot and
killed |
TRINCOMALEE |
| 05/11/2005 |
VELUPILLAI
ARUL (Tamil) |
Injured |
PULIPANCHIKAL,
VALAICHCHENAI |
| 04/11/2005 |
K.S. NALINDA
PRIYANKARA (22) of No. 35, ABEYAPURA, UPPUWELI (This is the second
attack on Sinhala three-wheeler drivers in the area after Tamil Tigers
killed one several days ago while he was in the area of ORRS HILLS in
TRINCOMALEE) |
Shot and
injured |
SELVANAYAGAMPURAM,
TRINCOMALEE |
| 02/11/2005 |
SELLATHAMBI
PUNYAMOORTHI (25) - Tamil |
Killed |
VINAYAGAPURAM,
VALAICHCHENAI |
| 01/11/2005 |
LYYADORAI
GANESHAN (31) of WIMALAVEEDI, VIATHU road, KOMMATHURAI, BATTICALOA
- Tamil |
Shot dead |
BLACK BRIDGE,
BATTICALOA |
| 01/11/2005 |
RAJENDRA
REJINIKANTH (24) - Tamil |
Shot dead |
NELLIADY, JAFFNA |
| 31/10/2005 |
Reserve
Police Constable G.R.LALITH BANDARA (RPC 38155) - Sinhalese |
Seriously
injured |
KANDARMADAM
Junction, about 2.5 km of JAFFNA center |
| 31/10/2005 |
Reserve
Police Constable M.ARIYARATHNE (RPC 28909), Reserve Police Constable D.
GUNAWARDENE (RPC 34506) and Reserve Police Constable P. KRISHANTHA (RPC
31305) (All Sinhalese) |
Granade
attack |
KANDARMADAM
Junction, about 2.5 km of JAFFNA center |
| 29/10/2005 |
Lieutenant
Colonel T.R. MEEDIN (39) of the
Military Intelligence Corps in COLOMBO - Muslim |
Shot
dead by LTTE |
Colombo |
| 29/10/2005 |
N. H. M.
ABEYRATNE (38) of Refugee camp, KANNADIPURAM (Suinhalese) |
Tamil Tigers
shot him at point blank range |
AKKARAIPATTU |
| 27/10/2005
|
A.W.P
ANURA (28) of No 358/4, TRINCOMALEE
road, MARATHADY (Sinhalese) - A Member of the North & East Sinhala
Organization (NESO) 0- Sinhalese
|
shot
dead |
Trincomallee |
| 24/10/2005
|
A
constable attached to the Batticaloa police
|
Critically
injured |
Jayanthipura |
| 19/10/2005
|
P.WEERASINGHAM
(53) - Tamil - Village State Official (Gramasewa Niladhari)
|
shot
and killed |
THADDANKULAM,
about 20 km west of VAVUNIYA
town |
| 19/10/2005
|
a
Muslim civilian was killed
|
killed |
Akkaraipattu, |
| 16/10/2005
|
Two
female civilians who received injuries during the incident have been
admitted to the VALAICHCHENAI
hospital
|
by
firing thirty T-56 rounds at Sri Lanka troops when they were returning
to KINNIYADI camp |
MEERAVODAI,
KINNIYADI |
| 14/10/2005
|
Police
Constable is W.A. AJITH PRIYANKARA (PC 32667) of UDAGAHAWATTA,
WEKANDAWALA, WEERAKETIYA
|
Shot
and killed |
around
8.50 p.m. in the general area of NELLIADY,
JAFFNA |
| 14/10/2005
|
Police
Constable A.K.A HEMAPALA (PC 2768) of No.171/70, RANWALAWALA, TANGALLE
|
Shot
and injured |
around
8.50 p.m. in the general area of NELLIADY,
JAFFNA |
| 13/10/2005
|
Dilanga
Dissanayake (S/14Q01554) - 25 Years (Sinhalese)
|
Killed
- LTTE had launched this attack from the direction of LTTE controlled
area across the Santhiveli lagoon. |
SANTHIVELI,
about 20 km northwest of BATTICALOA |
| 12/10/2005
|
K.
Rajadorai (53), The Principal of Jaffna Central College (Tamil)
|
gunned
down by LTTE around 4 pm yesterday, when he was about to attend a
cultural show at the Weerasingham Hall as the Chief Guest. |
Jaffna |
| 12/10/2005
|
N
Sivakadasam (59), The Principal of Kopay Christian College (Tamil)
|
Who
had risen against continuing child conscription by the LTTE, was shot
dead on Tuesday night by a LTTE pistol gang member. |
Kopay |
| 10/10/2005
|
MOHAMMED
ABUBAKAR SAHABDEEN (43),chief organizer for POTTUVIL.
This is the 27th EPDP political activist/member to fall victim to Tamil
Tiger violence after the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) was signed.
|
Killed
by LTTE members age range of 12-15 years of age |
as
he stepped out of a teashop in the general town area of POTTUVIL.
|
| 10/10/2005
|
EPDP
member, SIVALINGAM VILVARASA (35)
|
shot
dead by LTTE Pistol gang |
6th
Post, ADIMOTAI junction at UPPUVELI, TRINCOMALEE.
|
| 10/10/2005
|
Army
Officer Lieutenant V.P. MITHRAPALA
|
Injured |