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	Batticaloa - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BATTICALOA, the provincial capital of the eastern province of Ceylon, on the E. coast, 69 m.
		Batticaloa is the seat of a government agent and district judge; criminal sessions of the supreme court are also held.
		Rice and cocoanuts are the two staples of the district, and steamers trading round the island call regularly at the port.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Batticaloa (174 words)

	Journey towards Batticaloa — FocusLanka Archive
		Today Batticaloa town is under the custody of the Armed Forces which means a predominantly Tamil population is controlled by a Sinhalese Army.
		Batticaloa is an important centre for Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, better known as Karuna Amman, the former LTTE commander who challenged the Jaffna hegemony of the LTTE and broke away in 2004.
		Civilians in Batticaloa District are extremely vulnerable because of this backdrop of continuing power struggles and relative isolation from the rest of the island.
	www.focuslanka.org /?p=101 (3624 words)

	Batticaloa Online
		Batticaloa is situated 314 Km (195 Miles) from Colombo on the east coast.
		However, Batticaloa is famous for its singing fish - The musical sounds are heard in the lagoon near the Kallady Lady Manning bridge when the night is lit by a near full moon and minimal wind.
		Batticaloa is more interesting than any tourist resort that's hyped to the hilt.
	members.optushome.com.au /pluxmy (604 words)

	UTHR 1995 Report - Batticaloa
		The injured driver was dispatched to Batticaloa hospital at noon the next day, in a vehicle from Batticaloa that had to turn back because the road was closed.
		Puvanendran, a postal worker in Batticaloa, was also travelling in that van with his wife, a teacher, and their little child, who were seated in front of Puvanendran.
		He was returning to Batticaloa from Paduvankarai about early October when he was detained by the air force and beaten up, having been suspected of LTTE involvement.
	www.tamilnation.org /humanrights/uthr/uthr951230.htm (6084 words)

	UNICEF - Press centre - Thirteen children released by LTTE in Batticaloa
		BATTICALOA, 17 October 2003 - UNICEF today witnessed the release of 13 children by the LTTE in the eastern district of Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
		Andrea James, Head of UNICEF Batticaloa, who was present at the release said, “These thirteen children can now go back to their families, back to their schools and back to a normal childhood.
		We still have 383 unresolved reported cases of recruitment in Batticaloa and UNICEF will continue its advocacy on behalf of these children until they are all home with their families,” James emphasized.
	www.unicef.org /media/media_15023.html (247 words)

	TamilNet: Batticaloa turns nightmare for local journalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A journalist in Batticaloa went into hiding Friday, fearing for his life after persons suspected to be members of a paramilitary group working with the Sri Lankan military intelligence threatened him with death, family members told TamilNet.
		Shan Thavarajah, correspondent and political columnist for the Sunday edition of the Tamil daily ‘Thinakkural’ had to leave Batticaloa after he too was threatened by persons suspected to be working with the Sri Lanka army intelligence unit in the eastern town.
		Dharmeratnam who is from Batticaloa was threatened with death in 2000 and 2001 by unidentified armed groups believed to be working clandestinely with the Sri Lankan state and by a Sinhala extremist group.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=79&artid=12288 (1027 words)

	The missing boys of Batticaloa
		BATTICALOA, also known as the `Land of the Singing Fish', has for long remained important for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
		The taking of the Elephant Pass military garrison in April 2000 was a signal contribution to the organisation by the `boys from Batticaloa' led by Karuna a.k.a V. Muralitharan, the LTTE's military commander for Batticaloa and Amparai.
		This September, in a rare show of defiance, 22 schoolchildren staged a two-day protest against the LTTE and stayed away from classes demanding the release of three of their friends who had been reportedly abducted by the Tigers.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl2022/stories/20031107001605500.htm (812 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Tsunami unites Sri Lanka Burghers
		The Batticaloa Burghers for centuries were mostly manual labourers - carpenters, mechanics and masons - and were at the bottom of the Burgher social ladder.
		This is the story of the destruction caused by the tsunami of December 26 on a small community called the Batticaloa Burghers living in the eastern coast and their gallant attempt to rehabilitate themselves.
		As in any society, the Batticaloa Burghers of the day belong to different classes, for there are the educated among them who are doctors, academics, bank managers, clerical workers and such other, most of whom move out of Batticaloa.
	www.lankalibrary.com /cul/burghers5.htm (1677 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Kattankudi, a 100 per cent Muslim town in Batticaloa, the hartal of March 8 was not observed.
		On International Women's Day, the Batticaloa LTTE function to mark this event, reiterated through speeches and slogans that Pirabakaran was the leader of Tamil Eelam, but that Karuna was the leader in Batticaloa.
		A source in the Batticaloa Catholic church said that local people as well as local LTTE cadres were confused as to how to respond to this situation and were perplexed and disappointed at Pirabakaran's silence.
	www.sundayobserver.lk /2004/03/14/fea11.html (1168 words)

	TW news-features » Journey towards Batticaloa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are between 5 to 10 ten checkpoints on the road to Batticaloa depending on the security situation where civilians are checked.
		People in Batticaloa want to listen to local poets like Thimilai Thumilan or enjoy village performances like Villupattu without worrying about their children and staying out after dark.
		They struggle to manage as the price of basic foods goes up due to lack of transport and they need to have access to their paddy fields many of which are in uncleared areas.
	tamilweek.com /news-features/archives/551 (3378 words)

	Batticaloa responding to changing needs
		Sewalanka Foundation Batticaloa is responsible for the provision of transitional shelters for families in four villages (see table), supported by our partner DanChurch Aid (DCA).
		“Before, in Palamunai a Muslim village 10 km south of Batticaloa town, it was not possible for the men and women to all live together in one tent; so men were separated from their families.
		Sewalanka Foundation Batticaloa is complying with the guidelines for transitional shelters established by the National Housing Development Authority.
	www.sewalanka.org /newsletter9/batticaloa_respond_needs.htm (804 words)

	The Hindu : Third killing in Batticaloa this month
		A Tamil National Alliance (TNA) candidate, Rajan Sathiyamoorthy, was shot dead this morning in the eastern Batticaloa town, bringing the month-long election campaign for Sri Lanka's April 2 Parliamentary election to a bloody end.
		If people are committed to peace they must choose the path to democracy and peace, and they must reject the use of violence and indeed use their energies to ensure that violence plays no part, not only during the course of the elections but indeed, after that as well,'' he said.
		Cushnahan, who arrived in Batticaloa an hour after the killing, visited the Batticaloa hospital and called on the family of the bereaved.
	www.hindu.com /2004/03/31/stories/2004033103111400.htm (533 words)

	Welcome to UTHRJ, Sri Lanka : Bulletin No.6
		The latter was hung by the arms and ankles, according to a Batticaloa Peace Committee spokesman, and was beaten in the abdomen resulting in his vomiting blood.
		Iruthayapuram, Jayanthipuram: The area is a northern suburb of Batticaloa between Trincomalee Road, and the railway tracks going north, the latter lying east of the road and the sea further to the east.
		According to a Batticaloa Peace Committee spokesman, for some time after 19th April, the Army was forcing civilians to walk ahead of route clearing patrols along the railway track.
	www.uthr.org /bulletins/bul6.htm (6045 words)

	Civilians and the Armed Forces in the Batticaloa District
		Owing to the bankruptcy of the Government media and spokesmen, the latter version would be largely believed by those in Batticaloa itself, who were not immediately concerned with the incident.
		According to citizen's groups in Batticaloa, arrests are now far fewer, and in town at least the methods of interrogation and treatment of prisoners by the Military Intelligence unit is far more professional and enlightened.
		The situation in Batticaloa gives us some idea of the extent to which this laudable aim could be translated into practice.
	infolanka.com /org/srilanka/issues/ut1.html (5963 words)

	22 injured in Batticaloa blast- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		batticaloa: more than 20 people were injured when a bomb exploded at the office of the eelam's peoples democratic party (epdp) in the eastern town of batticaloa on saturday.
		twenty-two of the injured were in critical condition and were rushed to the batticaloa hospital while four others received minor injuries.
		on friday, a general strike was observed in batticaloa in protest against an alleged epdp attack on tna supporters and leaders that killed one person and injured 14 others.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=1965005974 (245 words)

	Batticaloa Buddhist priest on fast to death campaign
		Ampitiya Sumanarathna Thero, the chief priest of the Batticaloa Sri Mangalaramaya Buddhist Vihara, has begun a fast unto death campaign Monday at 9.30 am, protesting against lack of interest by authorities in resolving hardships faced by Batticaloa residents and for not providing adequate security to his temple, sources in Batticaloa said.
		He also said, that when he went to lodge a complaint at the Batticaloa police head office, he was attacked by the senior officer there, and that had made him to resort to this campaign.
		The Batticaloa Police Commissioner Sri Jeyathilaka visited in person to request the priest to give up his fast and that he will convey his demands to the higher officials.
	www.tamileelamnews.com /news/publish/tns_5011.shtml (292 words)

	The tsunami and the Batticaloa lagoon system - TamilCanadian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Batticaloa lagoon, Panichankerni lagoon and the Valaichchenai lagoon are the three lagoon subsystems that contribute to the lagoon super-system of the locality.
		The civil disturbances over the past three decades saw a general mass movement of the population to the narrow strip of land that is bordered by the Batticaloa lagoon and the Indian Ocean.
		As explained earlier, the Batticaloa Lagoon sub-system functions as a recharging facility that is the principle contributor to the local freshwater table.
	www.tamilcanadian.com /pageview.php?ID=3012&SID=503 (1081 words)

	3-Step Relief Plan for Batticaloa Refugees \| GlobalGiving
		Large refugee settlements in Batticaloa and nearby Manresa in the countryside are currently each assisting over 2000 people displaced by the tsunami.
		There are other such centers at all the Batticaloa schools as well as temples, mosques and churches.
		Batticaloa has been hard hit by the tsunami...these larger settlements have been created for giving shelter, food and medical support to the displaced.
	www.globalgiving.com /pr/900/proj859p.html (304 words)

	Batticaloa Disaster Health Response Team (BDHeaRT)
		In regard to that, the medical teams operating and planning to provide services in the Batticaloa district are asked to contact Dr. Sathurmugham, DPDHS and get accredited before initiating their activity.
		The immediate objective of BDHeaRT is to provide urgent medical assistance to people in the Batticaloa District of Eastern Sri Lanka affected by the tsunami of 26th December and its aftermath.
		The visits are being held at the temporary camps/shelters/ resettlement areas in the Batticaloa district.
	bdheart.blogspot.com (985 words)

	SiberNews - Tamil civilian shot dead in Batticaloa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ranjan is a resident of Aaraiyampathy Batticaloa and cme to celebrate Pongal with his relatives in Karuwappankerny when he was killed.
		Batticaloa Police is conducting investigations into the killing.
		Karuwappankerny is locaked 2 km north of Batticaloa town.
	www.sibernews.com /the-news/tamileelam/tamil-civilian-shot-dead-in-batticaloa-200601143393 (316 words)

	LankaWeb News
		According to reports from Batticaloa, the LTTE political division head for Batticaloa town, Senathy and a senior cadre of the LTTE, Ravi were killed in these separate incidents related to the Black Tiger Day the rebel group commemorated, July 5, all over Sri Lanka’s Eastern and Northern Provinces.
		But this time political sources in Batticaloa said it was the LTTE’s own faction headed by their renegade leader Karuna who were suspected of giving a dose of LTTE’s own medicine to them.
		The Batticaloa political head Senathy was also shot at and received serious injuries on the head while riding a motorbike with another, the rebel website said.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items04/060704-1.html (430 words)

	Split in LTTE: The Clash of the Tamil Warlords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He pointed out that 4,550 fighters from Batticaloa and Amparai had so far sacrificed their lives in the struggle for Tamil Eelam and 2,248 were serving in the North.Despite this, according to him, not a single cadre from these districts figured in a list of 30 divisional commanders recently appointed by Prabhakaran.
		He was referring to the assassinations of the UNF candidate in a Batticaloa Hospital and an election worker of the EPDP in Valachchenai during the last few days.
		On July 28, 2003, Tamilselvan visited Batticaloa and addressed over 5,000 fighters of the LTTE from the East at a function held at the 'Meenaham' military base to mark the eighth death anniversary of Lt. Col.
	www.observerindia.com /analysis/A130.htm (4038 words)

	1990 Batticaloa massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		refugees including infants from 3 villages close to Batticaloa by the Sri Lankan Army personnel on September 9, 1990.
		Batticaloa 1990-Chencholai orphanage-Eastern University-Mannar 1984-Mannar 2006-Mylanthanai-Jaffna hospital- Jaffna lagoon-Jaffna library-Valvettiturai 1989-Iruthayapuram-Kokkadicholai-Kumarapuram-Kumudini boat-Nachikuda-Prison massacres-Tampalakamam - Trincomalee 2006-Nagerkovil school-Navaly church-Naguleswaram temple-Nelliady-Vaharai
		Within the Batticaloa district alone, during the late 1980s and early 1990s a total of 1,100 Tamil civilians were disappeared and assumed killed by the Sri Lankan Army and Special Task Force personnel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1990_Batticaloa_massacre (376 words)

	Continuity and Change: Skanda-Murukan cult in Batticaloa, Eastern Sri Lanka
		Tamil speaking Hindus are the majority group in Batticaloa; their social formation is based on a rigid kuţi (matrilineal clan) system.
		Although Batticaloa district in Eastern Sri Lanka is rich in such ritual traditions, few studies have been carried out in this regard.
		This cult spread rapidly in certain pockets of Batticaloa, but now some of them are leaving from this group because the Munivar condemned temple worship, wearing of holy ash etc. Hence his cult is now confined to Tantāmalai where it was initially started and in a few other pockets in the Batticaloa town area.
	kataragama.org /research/shanmugalingam_dia.htm (5446 words)

	Pigs are Flying in Batticaloa! - Sachi Sri Kantha
		In the fictious imagination of Jeyaraj, pigs are indeed flying in Batticaloa, and he had seen it from Canada – of all the locations.
		Since Batticaloa town is under the control of Sri Lankan forces, all the anti LTTE paramilitaries (PLOTE,EPRLF,Razeek group, ENDLF etc) have their bases and camps in the town area, especially in Puliyam Tivu, an island surrounded by the lagoon with only three access bridges, which are well guarded by the police and army.
		Also, people supportive of these anti Tamil groups and their families had moved into Batticaloa town area as it is a safe heaven for them.
	www.tamilnation.org /forum/sachisrikantha/pigs.htm (2259 words)

	Welcome to UTHR, Sri Lanka
		According to leading persons in Batticaloa, Karuna’s deputies did mention informally in meetings with civilians during March that they were closing children’s camps and had sent several children away with Rs.100/- to find their way home.
		Parents of two boys in rural Batticaloa hid their eldest son by moving him from place to place thinking the younger son of about 15 would be safe.
		Two years ago, LTTE cadres abducted a girl of twelve from rural Batticaloa. When the girl refused to leave, her parents, grandparents and five brothers and sisters were beaten in her presence.
	www.uthr.org /bulletins/Bul36.htm (12489 words)

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