Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on Saturday around 6:00 p.m. opened fire and injured six civilians including two women and three children in Cheddikulam camp, according to reports reaching from Vavuniya. One 8-year-old child, seriously wounded in the episode, was transferred to Anuradhapura hospital from Vavuniya hospital, medical sources in Vavuniya said.
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Tamil political prisoners on hunger strike
Tamil political prisoners arrested on suspicion under Emergency Regulations (ER) and Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), languishing in Magazine Prison and Colombo Remand Prison (CPR) for many years without being produced in the courts, launched a hunger strike yesterday (Thursday).
26 civilians arrested by TID in Mannaar in August 2009 alone
Terrorist Intelligence Division (TID) operating from Colombo had arrested twenty-six civilians, including young family men, in Mannaar in the month of August alone, sourc...
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Tamil principal killed in Vavuniya
An unidentified gunman has shot dead the principal of the Baharatheepuram Maha Vidyalaya in Vavuniya Saturday evening.
Three Tamil civilians arrested in Colombo
Sri Lanka Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) in Colombo took into custody Wednesday three Tamil civilians staying in a lodge located in Kotahena, sources in Colombo s...
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Read more...SLRC volunteer woman killed in Point Pedro
Point Pedro police in Vadamaradchi recovered Friday the body of a 33-year-old woman volunteer of Sri Lanka Red Cross (SLRC) who had been killed Thursday in her house in P...
Eighteen Tamil youths arrested in Amparai
Special Task Force (STF) commandos and police took into custody Friday eighteen Tamil youths in search operations conducted in Thirukkoayil and Akkaraippattu areas in Amp...
Police arrest 17 Tamils in Wellawatte
Seventeen Tamil civilians including two women were arrested in a cordon and search operation conducted in Wellawatte in Colombo police division from 8:00 p.m. until 12:00...
Seven Tamil youths arrested in Colombo
Police took into custody Tuesday seven Tamil youths as they failed to prove their identity on being checked at the road check posts in Dehiwala, Kollupity, Kelaniya, the ...
SL Police shoot three persons dead in Vavuniya
A special team of the Sri Lankan Police in Vavuniya shot and killed three persons at Nelukkulam cemetery area in Vavuniya division in the early hours of Thursday around 2...
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- SLA forcibly removes youths from its detention centres in Jaffna
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- 197 killed and 228 injured in SLA attack today (Friday)
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