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	Batticaloa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Batticaloa (මඩකළපුව in Sinhala, மட்டக்களப்பு in Tamil) was the provincial capital of the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
		Batticaloa is on the east coast, 314 Km from Colombo.
		Batticaloa is the primary focus of attention of Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, better known as Karuna Amman, a former LTTE commander who broke away from the main organization in 2004 and currently operates his own political and military group, the Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal which is strongly opposed to the "Tamil Tiger" LTTE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batticaloa (896 words)

	Sri Lanka Timeline - Year 2005
		According to the Sri Lankan Army, the Jaffna district Superintendent of Police, W. Charles Wijewardene, was abducted and hacked to death by a mob allegedly instigated by the LTTE at Jaffna-KKS road in the Paalaveddi area.
		A LTTE symathiser, suspected to be an informer of the outfit, is shot dead in the Valachchenai area of Batticaloa district.
		A civilian, identified as Sinnathrai Muratheelan, suspected to be a former police informant, is shot dead by alleged ‘pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE in the Trincomalee district.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/shrilanka/timeline/Year2005.html (9793 words)

	Tamil MP on Human Rights Violations in Batticaloa, August 97
		Colony in the border of the Batticoloa-Amparai districts.
		In many villages in the Batticaloa district it has become a routine practice for the civilian population to move from their homes almost every evening and seek shelter in the nearest temple or church, for fear of shelling and mortar firing from army and police camps, and in the mornings go back to their houses.
		Besides, every Tamil household in the district has to exhibit a notice in the entrance door of the house indicating the names of the occupants of the house, giving their National Identity Card number, etc. This is not required for Muslims or Sinhalese.
	www.tamilnation.org /indictment/genocide95/gen9552.htm (4648 words)

	Civilians and the Armed Forces in the Batticaloa District
		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.
		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.
	infolanka.com /org/srilanka/issues/ut1.html (5963 words)

	Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business
		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.
		The notice on the closed gate of the LTTE district court, announced in Tamil that it was shut until further notice.
		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)

	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.
		It may also be remarked that neither the STF nor the SFB in the Batticaloa District have the kind of civilian contact, such as with the BPC, that has helped to maintain some semblance of order and sanity around Batticaloa town.
	www.uthr.org /bulletins/bul6.htm (6045 words)

	Home - Help for Batticaloa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka is among the worst hit regions in Sri Lanka.
		The objectives of the project "help for batticaloa" range from immediate assistance to communities and local governments to restart functioning as speedily as they can and to assist communities rebuild their infrastructure and housing to begin a normal life as soon as possible.
		UN-Habitat and Batticaloa determine the tasks to be done during the Phase II
	batticaloa.geo.ar.tum.de (337 words)

	Situation Report
		Batticaloa North - Reggie, brother of renegade eastern leader “ Col. Karuna” (left) who is in charge of Vakarai and Verugal areas with his deputy.
		The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has fielded eight candidates in the Batticaloa district out of which seven are solidly behind "Col. Karuna." The only exception is Joseph Pararagasingham who has refused to toe the line and is staunchly backing LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
		Pararajasingham said TNA candidates for Batticaloa district were summoned by Karuna's men for a meeting at their base in Thennaham.
	www.sundaytimes.lk /040328/columns/sitrep.html (2771 words)

	MENCAFEP Sri Lanka
		The hamlet of Navalady, which is part of Batticaloa Town, facing out into the Bay of Bengal, on the East Coast of Sri Lanka was engaged in the usual Sunday morning activities.
		As the palm trees swayed in the breeze, Children were playing cricket on the white sand beach, mothers and girls doing the weekly washing and cleaning the compounds of their small dwellings.
		Batticaloa is hit by the worst natural Disaster in living memory, like pouring oil on to a fire.
	www.mencafepsrilanka.com /bati.html (981 words)

	GlobalEcho - Alternative Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A spate of killings in the Batticaloa district of eastern Sri Lanka over the past month is threatening the ceasefire signed between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in February 2002.
		He said those in the district had a responsibility to adhere to the CFA and it was the task of the senior officers to ensure that it was enforced."
		Whoever carried them out, the killings in the Batticaloa district will inevitably be exploited to whip up a climate of fear and communalism, which in turn carries the real danger of a slide back to war.
	www.globalecho.org /view_article.php?aid=415 (1292 words)

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		Torture in the form of beatings by the armed forces is prevalent, as are cases of arbitrary arrest.In the Batticaloa District, reprisal shelling has cost more civilian lives, though the extent of casualties is less than that which was occurring during the final months of 1995.
		The hardest hit were Muslims in the Batticaloa district who had lost the use of their fields in areas under LTTE control.
		The Batticaloa Station Master who was on his way to the market received three blows from flying objects, rolled away upon seeing the flying booth descending upon him, and crept to safety under a fence to avoid being shot at by mistake.
	www.glue.umd.edu /~pkd/sl/archive/uthr_b11 (9586 words)

	Welcome to UTHR, Sri Lanka
		The SLMM Batticaloa would now inform its headquarters in Colombo about the matter so that it could be taken up with the LTTE's High Command in the Wanni,the release said.
		Lars Tibeck, who heads the monitoring committee for the district, said in a statement released in Batticaloa town yesterday, that he had met local LTTE political wing leaders to seek assurances that the people would be allowed to live in peace.
		The district panel said it had requested the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) in Colombo to convey its deep concern to the LTTE leadership.
	www.uthr.org /Statements/press.htm (3155 words)

	Split in LTTE: The Clash of the Tamil Warlords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	Terrorism Update
		At least twelve soldiers and four Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres were killed in Batticaloa district on July 14.
		Separately, security forces destroyed a hide-out of the militants at Sardhar forest in the Rajouri district on July 14 and recovered a cache of explosives and ammunition including four kg RDX, four Chinese grenades, four time devices, one RPG rocket launcher, six rockets, six boosters and six meters fuse.
		In Morang district, business community and other civilians of Indrapur VDC on July 14 closed a local market and disrupted vehicular movement for two hours along the Mahendra highway in protest against the Maoists' excesses.
	www.satp.org /satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=7/15/2006 (2228 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : Batticaloa LTTE leader killed
		Kousalyan, political wing leader for the Batticaloa-Amparai district, was travelling towards the eastern Batticaloa district in a van when he was killed in the ambush at 7.45 p.m., eastern police sources said.
		The ambush occurred at Welikanda in the Sinhalese-majority Polonnaruwa district, adjoining Batticaloa.
		Kousalyan was "one of the few persons from Batticaloa to continue with the LTTE after `Col.' Karuna's rebellion".
	www.hindu.com /2005/02/08/stories/2005020814080100.htm (268 words)

	TamilWeek: Benign Parliamentarian from Batticaloa III
		Amparai district was gang raped by some cops who later killed
		Batticaloa to find he was safe and sound.
		Among the prominent politicians of Batticaloa it was Joseph
	tamilweek.com /Benign_parliamentarian_from_Batticaloa_0115.html (1673 words)

	The Eastern warlord
		In 1987, the LTTE began appointing members from a particular district as the respective district leaders.
		Since the pioneering LTTE men from the East, Ramalingam Paramadeva alias Rajan and Ranjan Kanagaratnam alias Simon, had been killed earlier at Kaluwanchikudy and Kokkilaai respectively, Karuna was now the "son of the eastern soil" next in seniority.
		He assumed command of Batticaloa district shortly before the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of July 29, 1987.
	flonnet.com /fl2107/stories/20040409006000800.htm (1253 words)

	'More ruthless than Prabhakaran'
		On July 28, 2003, Tamilselvan visited Batticaloa and addressed over 5,000 LTTE fighters from the east at a function held at the 'Meenaham' military base to mark the eighth death anniversary of Anparasi, an LTTE woman commander who was killed when the Tigers overran a Sri Lanka army camp at Pondugal Chenai, near Tharavai on July 27 1995.
		Inaugurating a memorial for Anparasi, he spoke at length on the vital role played by cadres from the Batticaloa-Amparai district in the war to safeguard the Wanni heartland and in the major offensives against the Sri Lanka army in the north which led to the fall of the Elephant Pass and other key garrisons.
		Others who spoke at the event included Karuna, who was described as the special commander of the LTTE's Southern Front Forces, T Ramesh, described as the special commander for the Batticaloa-Amparai District, and Nilavini, described as the commander of the LTTE's women's unit in the district.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/mar/11spec3.htm (1401 words)

	LankaWeb News
		One person died and nearly one hundred people were injured with some being admitted to critical care unit of a hospital as Tamils and Muslims clashed in renewed ethnic rioting which spread to Valachchenai area in the Batticaloa district of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.
		As the riots, which originally started with LTTE organized Tamils and Muslim youth in Muttur spread further South in the province, rows of shops in Valachchenai were set on fire by rioting arsonists and more than 20 were reported injured and admitted to hospitals from that place alone.
		Kathankudi in Batticaloa District was another area where arson was reported.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items02/290602-1.html (902 words)

	Centre for Policy Alternatives
		The Government Agent (GA) of Batticaloa Mr R. Maunagurusamy was shot in the head around 1815 hrs on Saturday 27th March 2004 in Pillaiyaradi, Batticaloa, when returning home from work.
		Chief Inspector Bandara of the Batticaloa Police told CMEV that he suspected LTTE cadre from the Vanni as being the responsible for the act of Attempted Murder.
		Former UNF Hindu Affairs Minister and UNF MP from the Jaffna District, was shot and wounded by unidentified gunmen on Saturday 27th March 2004 at around 2000 hrs.
	www.cpalanka.org /cmev_28th_March_2004.html (399 words)

	1990 Batticaloa massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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
		Batticaloa district forms part of the former Eastern Province.
		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)

	SPLIT IN LTTE---THE CLASH OF THE TAMIL WARLORDS
		Before staging his revolt, Karuna wrote a letter to Prabhakaran complaining of discrimination against LTTE cadres from the East by the leadership and alleging ill-treatment of Eastern cadres when they were posted in the North by the northern leadership.
		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.
		Speaking on the occasion, he dwelt at length on the vital role played by cadres from the Batticaloa-Amparai District in the war to safeguard the Wanni heartland and in the major offensives against the Sri Lanka Army in the north that led to the fall of the Elephant Pass and other key garrisons.
	www.saag.org /papers10/paper942.html (4718 words)

	Untitled Document
		The table below provides a summary of Sewalanka Foundation Batticaloa’s District Development Programmes, indicating the main activities, DS and GN Divisions and the number of CBOs with which we are working.
		Delivery of emergency rehabilitation and livelihood reconstruction assistance to 2,500 tsunami affected families in the eastern districts of Batticaloa and Batticaloa Emergency Relief.
		A summary of the tsunami affected-and-not-affected DS and GN Divisions in which Sewalanka Foundation Batticaloa is currently working is able to be downloaded as a PDF here.
	www.sewalanka.org /batticaloa.htm (381 words)

	Situation Reports: South Asia: Earthquake and Tsunami - Dec 2004, IOM Sri Lanka: Tsunami response program update 14 Mar ...
		In addition, IOM transported and distributed 618 family tents in Ampara (320), Trincomalee (200) and Batticaloa (98) on behalf of the Centre for National Operations (CNO) in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami.
		Construction of 348 temporary shelters is in the final stages in Ampara (280), Batticaloa (28) and Kalutara (40) districts.
		IOM in Matara district is working on a project to help 100 families, including single headed households, involved in the sewing industry.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6AHGZ7?OpenDocument (1411 words)

	CARE.ca - 'Getting Aid to the People' Trincomalee and Batticaloa District (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However, procuring and delivering essentials to those most in need in the immediate aftermath of a disaster and ensuing confusion is a daunting task -- it requires an amazing level of perseverance and commitment on the part of aid workers and good will on the part of ordinary people.
		Visiting the CARE Batticaloa office, I was heartened to see the office crowded with young men and women who were working around the clock, sleeping on the floor of the office and skipping meals to get the job done.
		On the way to Vaharai welfare centre in Batticaloa, one of the drivers lost his concentration for a split second -- the next moment, the lorry slid off the muddy road and overturned along with the carefully packed parcels.
	www.care.ca /work/emergency/tsunami/aid_e.shtm (987 words)

	UTHR 1995 Report - Batticaloa
		Batticaloa town itself had several new road-blocks and barriers.
		Her corpse, possibly together with those of two others, was found in the bus the following day.
		These were stopped shortly after the Batticaloa Peace Committee and MPs protested.
	www.tamilnation.org /humanrights/uthr/uthr951230.htm (6084 words)

	AID DELIVERED TO THE BATTICALOA DISTRICT OF SRI LANKA ON 5 JANUARY
		of January, our partners in Sri Lanka travelled from Colombo to Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka with goods to the value of £2862 to provide immediate relief to the families who had lost their homes due to the Tsunami.
		Delivery of aid to the families of Batticaloa was organized by Inthikahb Wazeer, who, together with his team,
		Batticaloa was particularly badly affected by the tsunami:
	homepage.ntlworld.com /cliff.bradley/srilankadirect/Background.htm (305 words)

	Sri Lanka
		This report highlights support to villages affected by the tsunami and rehabilitation work that on-going in villages in which livelihood studies are being undertaken in the tsunami affected provinces of Hambantota, Ampara and Batticaloa.
		The Second Workshop on Livelihoods Approaches and Analysis enabled each of the three district teams to present their reports of the livelihoods study they had recently piloted in three villages, followed by feedback from the facilitators and other teams.
		The purpose of the workshop was to begin to train teams in livelihoods approaches and analysis to build capacity to conduct livelihoods studies in the tsunami-affected districts of Hambantota, Ampara and Batticaloa.
	www.streaminitiative.org /Library/SriLanka/index.html (411 words)

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