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		Inside the Vanni: The Shifting Balance(The University Teachers For Human Rights, Jaffna (Uthr(Jaffna)) Sri Lanka Information Bulletin No. 17-10/07/98)
		In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers, who are fighting for a separate homeland, have been employing children in their guerrilla forces for seven years.
		What is needed in Sri Lanka is honest political leadership, which will not blindly pander to minority extremist demands to legitimise an illegal concept and destroy the unitary character of the country, for the sake of remaining in power through the minority vote bank
	www.lankaweb.com /news/opinion.html (1276 words)

	Northern Sri Lanka: the struggle for survival amid the ruins of war
		The main Sri Lankan army base on the Jaffna peninsula is situated at Palaly, in the middle of this area.
		His comments reflect the general suspicion, disgust and hostility felt among Tamils in the north of Sri Lanka toward all parties—those in Colombo that prosecuted the brutal war for nearly two decades against the Tamil minority population, and the LTTE, which has imposed its own arbitrary rule and ruthlessly suppressed basic democratic rights.
		Northern Sri Lanka: the struggle for survival amid the ruins of war
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/oct2002/jaff-o03_prn.shtml (1276 words)

	The Hindu : IAF show main attraction at Sri Lanka Air Force anniversary
		The Sri Lanka Air Force marked its 50th anniversary today with a parade and a sky-show at which a team of sky-divers and paratroopers of the Indian Air Force proved to be the main attraction.
		Sri Lanka has often been criticised for using Israeli- built Kfirs and other bomber jets in its conflict zone in the north- east for the potentially disastrous consequences for civilians living in those areas.
		Chandrika Kumaratunga, said today that the Sri Lanka Air Force had treated the people of the north-east with ``humanity'' and had ably assisted in preserving the unity and territorial integrity of the country.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2001/03/10/stories/03100009.htm (1276 words)

	TamilNet
		Media reports that the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) belonging to Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) that came down in Vanni on 19 October was downed either by radar-guided gun or by an air-borne attack by the Liberation Tigers were mere speculations not backed up by concrete evidence, experts contacted by TamilNet said.
		Tamileelam courts in Kilinochchi Monday rejected bail offer for three Sri Lanka policemen who are being held in custody for entering LTTE controlled areas without prior permission and ordered further investigations into their activities.
		Erik Solheim, 50, the Special Envoy to Sri Lanka is the new Development Minister.
	www.tamilnet.com (1995 words)

	Welcome to UTHRJ, Sri Lanka : Bulletin No.28
		While the Sri Lankan forces are removing check points and allowing the LTTE to move into areas under their control, the LTTE is imposing new barriers to monitor its own people.
		Events indicate that it was working towards a decisive engagement that would place the Sri Lankan government in a highly compromised position.
		Elsewhere in the Vanni (17, 000 registered), those from the LTTE-controlled area were not allowed in, but in Mutur, in the Trincomalee District, the Army allowed the voters in.
	www.uthr.org /bulletins/bul28.htm (11695 words)

	LTTE issues 2 weeks ultimatum for ensuring travel safety
		If LTTE decides to resume its own armed escort, it will also be forced to curtail movements of Sri Lanka Armed forces in areas that are critical to LTTE troop movement, Thamilchelvan told the delegation, according to sources in Kilinochchi.
		The announcement follows the landmine attack in Welikande on the LTTE convoy escorted by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and facilitated by the truce monitors.
		Thamilchelvan told the delegation that the date and time of travel of the LTTE convoy was only made known to the members of the SLMM and through the SLMM to the Sri Lanka Army (SLA).
	www.tamileelamnews.com /news/publish/tns_4496.shtml (445 words)

	Welcome to Tamil Guardian online
		Seven Tamil voters, from areas in Batticaloa and the Vanni held by the LTTE, have filed fundamental rights applications in the Sri Lankan Supreme Court seeking declarations that the December 5 polls in their districts are invalid as they were denied an opportunity to vote by the Sri Lankan military forces.
		Twenty-three MPs of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the primary constituent of the opposition People's Alliance (PA) are prepared to support the ruling United National Front (UNF) to form a National Government, the state-owned Daily News reported Monday.
		A Norwegian delegation which met the LTTE's chief negotiator and political advisor, Mr Anton Balasingham, on Friday is expected to shortly visit Sri Lanka to meet the new government, taking the proposals, the sources said.
	www.tamilguardian.com /tg143 (445 words)

	Elephant Pass Fall fifth anniversary celebrated
		Fifth anniversary of the fall of Sri Lanka Army's (SLA's) Elephant Pass garrison is being celebrated from the 22nd to 25th April in Vanni with long distance running competitions among different military divisions of Liberation Tigers followed by a day of cultural events, sources from Vanni said.
		On Friday 10 kilometer race was held for women cadres of Malathy Brigade, Sothiya Brigade and Kutti Sri Moto Brigade from Puthukadu junction to Muhamalai LTTE checkpoint.
		The fall of Elephant Pass, described as "impregnable" by a US army officer who visited the garrison months before the fall, established the Tigers as the only non-state military force in the world today capable of complex manoeuvre war fighting.
	www.tamileelamnews.com /news/publish/tns_4205.shtml (445 words)

	The LTTE
		The LTTE operates mainly in the North and Eastern reigion of Sri Lanka, but since they lost their main base in the coastal city of Jaffna to the Government forces they have moved to the Vanni jungle in the interior of the country.
		This comes as a serious blow to the LTTE as it is faced with the prospect of fighting both a conventional war against the Sri Lankan Government and the a "hearts and minds" battle against the rest of the world.
		The Sri Lankan force of the LTTE comprises of about 10,000 armed members of which about 3,000-6,000 are trained hard core fighters.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/7666/theltte.html (1035 words)

	Sri Lanka WORLD:: LTTE launches village-level civil force in Trincomalee
		Sornam, in his keynote address said that the LTTE was able to defeat the Sri Lanka Army when the latter launched Jayasikuru military operation in the Vanni region with the support of the militarily trained civil force in Vanni.
		Sri Lanka WORLD:: LTTE launches village-level civil force in Trincomalee
		Deputy Head of the Tamileelam Police for the Trincomalee district, Semmanan, who presided the event said that training is being given to five thousand villagers in the district.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2005/9/3388.html (631 words)

	Welcome to UTHRJ, Sri Lanka : Bulletin No.12
		Very little has been written about the Vanni, aside from recent reports following the battles at Mullaitivu and Killinochchi.
		In the southeast of the Vanni area is situated the controversial Weli Oya settlement (UTHR(J) Special Report No.5) from where the army used inhuman methods to displace Tamil civilians and establish a settlement of Sinhalese who regard themselves no better off than prisoners(UTHR(J)Information Bulletin No.4).
		Following the army's thrust into Killinochchi in late July, Major General Saliya Kulatunge and Mr.Somapala Gunadeera, the Rehabilitation Coordinator for the North, decided that anyone coming into Vavuniya town will be allowed to stay for a maximum of one week.
	www.uthr.org /bulletins/bul12.htm (631 words)

	Australian Unions launch TSUNAMI APPEAL : Melbourne Indymedia
		"There is now a consortium of Norwegian Peoples Aid, which has 650 de-mining staff in eastern Sri Lanka, as well as Workers Aid from Switzerland and Germany, and MPDL from Spain that is sending staff and supplies to affected areas," Union Aid Abroad executive officer Peter Jennings said.
		(Photo: Norwegian People's Aid immediately started relief effort when the tsunami hit the shores of North-Eastern Sri Lanka.
		Most of the uncleared minefields in the Vanni region are located on higher grounds and are believed to be intact in their known positions.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2005/01/85676.php (567 words)

	The Tiger's Leap On Mullaitivu
		The Indian navy's collaboration with the Sri Lankan military to track and sink LTTE vessels bringing arms to Tiger territory was a major blessing for the Sinhala government's effort to crush the Tamil struggle.
		The massive Mullaitivu defeat suffered by the Sri Lankan military in late July, where over 1200 soldiers were killed by the Tamil Tiger forces in a conventional-type attack capturing the base with relative ease, could turn out to be the decisive turning point in the LTTE's 13-year war with the Sinhala-dominated government of Sri Lanka.
		On their part, the Tigers had made a tactical withdrawal mainly to the jungle terrain of Vanni while leaving pockets of guerrillas to continue hit-and-run attacks within the military-controlled areas.
	www.eelamweb.com /mullai.html (2758 words)

	TamilNet: 14.08.99 Bishop wants demilitarized zone for feast
		He wrote to the commander of the Sri Lankan security forces in the Vanni, Maj.General Lionel Balagalle and the leader of the LTTE's political wing, Thamil Chelvan, last evening asking them to declare a demilitarized zone with the radius of one kilometer around the church.
		Rayappu Joseph called on the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers to declare Madhu church and its precincts as a demilitarized zone for holding the annual feast.
		The bishop states in his letter that both parties should desist from using the precincts and the wells in the environs of the church.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=3772 (2758 words)

	Tamil Eelam Nany, the Sea Tigers, A decade on the ocean wave, Special Report - InfoLanka Forum
		The Sea Tigers have their origins in the boatmen who, in the early days of the armed struggle, sped in motorised fishing boats between northern Sri Lanka and southern India, moving weapons, ammunition and other supplies into the island and shuttling new LTTE volunteers to training camps on the mainland.
		Sea Tiger divers, another elite unit, have infiltrate Sri Lankan naval harbours to lay mines and conduct reconnaissance and recovered material from sunken SLN craft.
		Many of the vessels are designed and built at extensive, camouflaged boatyards located along the Vanni coastline.
	www.infolanka.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/008298.html (2142 words)

	LankaWeb news
		Nagalingam Ethirveerasingham, who is based in Los Angles, USA was next and his topic was The Effects of War on the Education of Tamil Children in the War and Conflict Zones in Sri Lanka.
		Ethirveerasinghams' son, Ethirveerasingham Arjunan made a presentation titled "through the eyes of an American student: An impression about the life of young Tamils in the North-Eastern Province." He stated that he had travelled with his father in 1998 from February to July throughout Jaffna and the Vanni.
		As usual with great emotion Ethirveerasingham showed us pictures of destruction of the war, and confirmed that the pictures were taken by his son, presumably when compiling the report commissioned by the Governor of the North Eastern Province at that time, Gamini Fonseka.
	www.lankaweb.com /news/items/040699-3.html (2142 words)

	The LTTE
		The LTTE operates mainly in the North and Eastern reigion of Sri Lanka, but since they lost their main base in the coastal city of Jaffna to the Government forces they have moved to the Vanni jungle in the interior of the country.
		The arms procurement section is known to have purchased TNT and RDX explosives (from the Ukraine), Soviet SA-7 Surface to Air Missiles (probably from Cambodia), the Chinese Type 56 and Type 81 and the Soviet AK 47 assault rifles (from the the international arms market).
		The LTTE's weapon of choice seems to be the ever reliable Chinese Type 56 and Type 81 and the Soviet AK47 assault rifles.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/7666/theltte.html (2142 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Security Leadpage
		Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Chief Tryggve Tellefsen is to emphasise the fact that the LTTE should abide by the rulings of the SLMM when he meets LTTE Political Wing Leader S. Thamilselvan during his two day visit to Vanni.
		The SLMM Chief's effort to have a settlement over the Wan-Ela camp after fixing a meeting between the Security Forces and the LTTE Trincomalee leadership failed on Wednesday as the LTTE refused to abide by with the SLMM ruling claiming the area came under their territory.
		The prime objective of SLMM Chief's visit to Killinochchi is to recommence stalled talks over the sea incident as the SLMM Chief is of the opinion that they should have 'simple and clear' mechanism to monitor sea incidents.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/07/11/securitylead.html (2142 words)

	TamilNet: 20.11.04 Book on Yogaswamy released in Kilinochchi
		Yogaswamy was born as Sadasivan on 21 May 1872 to Ambalavanar and Sinnachi Amma not far from the Kandaswamy temple in Maviddapuram, Sri Lanka.
		A book titled "Yogaswamy and Kilinochchi: A Spiritual Journey" describing the spiritual association of the popular Columbuthurai, Jaffna, sage Yogaswamy with Kilinochchi district was released Friday at the Kilinochchi Cultural Center by Srimath Aathma Ganananthaji swamy from Colombo Ramakrishna Mission, sources in Vanni said.
		He was a disciple of Chellapaswamy, and after his guru' death, sat on the roots of a huge olive ("Iluppai") tree in Colombuthurai for the next few years.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=13437 (259 words)

	Abooda - Progressive and leftist parties support SLFP JVP alliance (Dinamina - S), Sri Lanka
		Nearly 300 Tiger commandos belonging to the Tiger special commando brigade called, Sirantha Puli, have given their letters of resignation from the LTTE, according to Vanni sources.
		It is also learnt that they had given these letters of resignation last December and Tiger leader Prabhakaran had called Tiger chiefs and asked them to reconstitute this force.
		Such resignations are attributed to the Commandos being disappointed due to many Tiger leaders preferring to lead more luxurious lives.
	www.abooda.com /News/Snippets160104.asp (259 words)

	Sri Lanka Monitor
		The Jaffna magistrate ordered the military to produce in court, five people arrested following the killing of an Army officer on 25 May. Five refugees who returned from the Vanni were arrested at the Gurunagar refugee camp on 10 June.
		The Army detained seven suspects in Valvettithurai on 22 June in connection with the killing of a policeman.
		A delegation of Jaffna’s Women Development Centre, led by Saroja Sivachandran told visiting North-East Province Governor, Maj. Gen.
	www.refugeecouncil.org.uk /infocentre/country/srilanka_archive/1999/jun99/camp.html (259 words)

	Sri Lanka WORLD:: LTTE hook up with Euro sat Propaganda broadcasts to SAARC region Though illegal, Govt. to play deaf and blind
		The government will not challenge the LTTE`s decision to launch satellite broadcasts to South East Asia, covering the entire SAARC region, from a secret location in the Vanni, The Island learns.
		I hope this provides a brief theoretical background for understanding the future of the 'NTT Effect' in Sri Lank's evolving strategic equation.
		The LTTE launched satellite broadcasts to Europe on 26 March 2005.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2005/8/2934.html (2275 words)

	Human Rights Bulletin on Sri Lanka
		Even though a "disappearance" as such does not constitute a crime under Sri Lankan law, prosecutions may initiated on the basis of acts which form the constituent elements of a "disappearance" and for which persons can be held criminally liable, such as arbitrary arrest, unlawful detention and failure to produce before a court.
		The latter include, for instance, complaints of "disappearances" alleged to have occurred in areas which were difficult to access, such as the "Vanni", a part of the northern province where the fighting between the security forces and the LTTE has been intense.
		Furthermore, it cannot be excluded that in some of the cases of "disappearances" reported during 1988 which may be brought to court as a result of the investigations of the three Presidential commissions of inquiry, one or more of the accused may invoke the provisions of the Indemnity (Amendment) Act when charged.
	www.derechos.org /saran/lanka/des.html (2275 words)

	TamilNet: 22.05.01 More SLA mine fields destroyed in Vanni
		A large number of anti-personnel landmine fields left behind by the Sri Lanka army were located and de-mined in twelve villages in the southern sector of the Vanni Western aid agency sources said Tuesday.
		The campaign is specifically directed at school children because the SLA was camped in almost all the schools in the southern sector of the Vanni, which hence may still contain mines and explosives undetected by de-mining teams, agency, the sources said.
		They said that caches of mortar and artillery shells and explosives were also located and destroyed from these villages to ensure the safety of civilians who have begun to gradually resettle in this sector.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&rid=2001052201 (328 words)

	Tamil masses in the north of Sri Lanka protest cuts in food rations
		The Tamil masses, trapped in the racist war in the Mulaithivu and Killinochchi districts of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, are protesting against cuts in food rations imposed by the government in Colombo.
		The June issue of Sri Lanka Monitor, an organ of the British Refugee Council, reported that the decision to cut dry rations to refugees was taken following a meeting between the president and the Essential Services commissioner.
		Tamil masses in the north of Sri Lanka protest cuts in food rations
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/sep1998/sri-s25.shtml (328 words)

	CONSORTIUM OF HUMANITARIAN AGENCIES
		MARC’s contribution for the advocacy campaign to ban land mines in Sri Lanka was marked with a media campaign in June and July 2003 using Television, Radio and the Print media in all three languages.
		As an initiative MARC contributed Mosquito nets and Tents to be used by people involved in mapping activities to the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation and a load of mine tape to Norwegian Peoples Aid to be used in Vanni area.
		This campaign with a message to educate people on safety in the affected areas also aims to educate the people in the southern parts of the country on land mines.
	www.humanitarian-srilanka.org /Pages/Mine_Action_Resource_Centre.htm (328 words)

	TamilNet: 13.03.04 Karuna embezzled funds, feared disciplinary action before split - Karikalan
		Karikalan said that certain segments of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) also appear to be collaborating with Karuna.
		Karuna, in an interview with the Australian Tamil Broadcasting Corporation (ATBC) Friday disclosed for the first time that the Batticaloa crisis was precipitated when LTTE leadership summoned Karuna to Vanni after discovering financial irregularities and receiving allegations of questionable conduct.
		Karikalan also said that significant resources are needed to maintain the cadres and military equipment.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=11452 (328 words)

	The Hindu : LTTE replaces regional heads
		Sri Lanka's sensitive eastern region is back in the spotlight with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) replacing its top regional political leaders.
		Karikalan, the special political leader for the east, Visu, the political leader for Batticaloa-Amparai and Thurai, the political leader for Batticaloa, have been summoned to the LTTE headquarters in Vanni.
		Karikalan's post of special political leader, a position that was created this April.
	www.hindu.com /2002/08/02/stories/2002080204191200.htm (328 words)

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		Karikalan, "only recently'' did `Col.' Karuna start complaining of "step-motherly treatment'' that the two districts under his control — Batticaloa and Amparai in eastern Sri Lanka — were receiving.
		According to a report in the TamilNet news site, the LTTE leadership had `summoned' `Col.' Karuna to the Vanni — where LTTE's headquarters is located — "after discovering financial irregularities and receiving allegations of questionable conduct''.
		Karikalan, a former eastern LTTE political wing leader, was quoted as saying that Mr.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004031401781200.htm&date=2004/03/14/&prd=th& (328 words)

	Catholic Church in Sri Lanka - A History in Outline by W.L.A.Don Peter
		It was in the early Part of this period that a church in the forest-covered Vanni region, the pastor of which was the Indian missionary Pedro Ferrão, began to draw devotees and eventually became a shrine, the church at Silena-Madhu.
		The Oblates, coming in bigger numbers later, would eventually be the leading missionaries and pastors in the island and the chief architects of the Lankan Church in the British period.
		The Catholic Church took advantage of this system and opened schools very extensively, in both urban and rural areas, so that by and by it had a network of Catholic schools throughout the country, which, though meant primarily for Catholic children, admitted also pupils of other faiths if they chose to come.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /alperera/british.html (328 words)

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