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  • Mankulam Maha Vidyalaya Students Receive Free School Items

     
    The ‘Jana Jaya Sathuta Foundation’ with the objective of supporting students in Mankulam Maha Vidyalaya recently  gave away a large stock of school accessories and educational items to children learning in Grade 1 – 13. The gesture provided 208 students with school bags, instrumental boxes, exercise books, pens and pencils and other accessories. The donation of the ‘Jana Jaya Sathuta Foundation’ was coordinated by the Army.
     
  • Flood-Affected Students in Batti & Polonnaruwa Given School Accessories

     
    The 'Vishwa Parami Foundation' in response to a request made by the 23 Division in Punani recently distributed school accessories among 800 school children in 23 schools in Polonnaruwa and Batticaloa districts. Children of families affected by recent floods were given priority in the distribution of those school accessories since their parents found it difficult to re-buy those school books once again for their school going children.
     
  • Allow Civilians to Move to Safe Areas; UN Refugee Agency Tells Tigers

    RON REDMOND, spokesman for the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR yesterday called on the Tamil Tigers to 'immediately allow' civilians to move to safe areas. Redmond said more than 63,000 people have fled since the fighting began, and that his agency was stepping up its emergency response to meet the needs of the displaced. The United Nations yesterday renewed its call for a pause in fighting between Tigers and troops in order to allow civilians trapped by the conflict to flee.

  • Govt not Giving into International Pressure

    THE GOVERNMENT is not prepared to give into International and domestic pressures and abandon the on going operations to free thousands of innocent civilians taken hostage by the ruthless terrorist Prabhakaran, Defence Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said yesterday in Kandy. He said the Government has the biggest responsibility to free these civilians than any other Government or State and the best effort is currently being made to fulfil this responsibility by the Government. “No one will be allowed to breath life into the dying LTTE and no amount of pressure could deviate the Government from its current stance,” Rambukwella assured commenting ....

  • LTTE Actively Prevented People Leaving During Pause - John Holmes

    THERE SEEMS to be less civilians getting out during the [New Year] pause than before. So it is clear that LTTE did not allow those who wished to leave even if they wished to leave the area during this pause to do so, they seemed to be actively prevented from doing so, perhaps more actively prevented from doing so during this pause, so that is a matter for great regret,” said UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Sir John Holmes, at a briefing on the situation in Sri Lanka at the UN, New York, April 15. “We believe they should be allowing people, encouraging people to leave the no fire zone.

  • Troops Recover Decomposed LTTE Dead Body as more Arms Emerge

    MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS on search and clear operations in the general area of KOKKUTHUDUWAI, MULLAITTIVU Friday (17) evening recovered a decomposed dead LTTE terrorist, one LTTE motor bike and fifty rounds of Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) ammunitions. Meanwhile, Army troops in PUTHUMATHALAN and KARIYALWAL also recovered eight claymore mines,...

  • More Civilians Brought for Treatment as Hundreds Flee

    MULLAITTIVU: ONE more batch of four hundred and sixty-six civilians including the injured, feeble adults and patients were ferried to PULMODDAI on Friday (17) late evening on the “Green Ocean” vessel, operated by the ICRC in coordination with government authorities. Meanwhile, one hundred and thirty more people from the “No Fire Zone” escaped LTTE grip and reached north of PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU safely for their lives Friday (17) evening. The group included thirty-two men, thirty-eight women and sixty children.

  • Commander Evaluates the Ground Situation

    COMMANDER of the Army Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, along with a few senior officers of the Army Headquarters, flew to Vavuniya to review the status quo in the ongoing operations against terrorists. Army Commander after being received by Commander Security Forces Headquarters Wanni (SFHQ-W) Major General Jagath Jayasuriya, was conducted to the SFHQ auditorium where he met senior ground Commanders and discussed the present security situation in remaining Tiger controlled areas.... 

  • Record 2838 Civilians Escape into Government Held Area

    MULLAITTIVU: A RECORD two thousand eight hundred and thirty eight besieged civilians in the PUTHUMATHALAN “No Fire Zone” exited from the grip of LTTE terrorism and escaped into troop-held areas in PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU Saturday (18) by about 7.30 in the evening as this report was pasted. Ground troops in PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU confirmed a huge exodus of people is on the way as the day was coming to an end on Saturday (18).... 

  • Over Three Thousand IDPs Enter Cleared Areas

    MULLAITTIVU: TOTAL number of IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) reached the cleared areas north of PUTHUMATTALAN Saturday (18) rose to three thousand two hundred and eighteen by evening.