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AMPARA: TWO ARMED LTTE TERRORISTS at about 3.30 - 4.00 a.m. on Tuesday (20) held a pistol to the head of one of the two doctors who were Sinhalese working at the THIRUKKOVIL hospital and threatened to kill them unless they left the hospital immediately. The SLMM was informed. Muslim Grama Niladhari Shot By LTTE AMPARA: GRAMA NILADHARI MOHIDEEN BAWA NURDEEN attached to the SAMANTHURAI Police was abducted from his house at No. 2, MOHIDEEN Mawatha, KALATCHCHAL at about 8.00 p.m. on Monday (19) by a LTTE terrorist armed with a T-56. He was later shot about 50 yards away from his home. Investigations are proceeding.

“Washington Times” of 25th August 2006, in its second editorial titled “Nabbing Tigers within a week” while hailing Tamil Tiger (LTTE) arrests in Canada and USA as an essential crackdown to bring the terrorists back to a negotiating table, wants money supplies to LTTE be cut off if peace was to return to Sri Lanka.

The ninth Officer Instructor course on International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (IHL & HR), initiated by the Army's Directorate of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law for members of the Armed Forces began at Panagoda Army Cantonment on Tuesday (31) morning attended by a host of distinguished guests.

VAVUNIYA: SIX DEAD BODIES of female LTTE terrorists were taken to un-cleared areas by ICRC officials this morning (03).