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Police won't staff Tamil event after raid
[ Toronto Star ] [ 00:09 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
When the Mounties swooped down on the World Tamil Movement's Toronto headquarters last week, it had repercussions well beyond the group that has been accused of links to the controversial Tamil Tigers. The RCMP also searched at least one Tamil-owned shop and removed about 50 DVDs and CDs, on the same warrant. The Mounties shut down Ambal Trading, a prominent shop in the Little Jaffna neighbourhood near Parliament and Wellesley Sts., for three hours last Sunday, the day after the raids at the WTM offices. The shop specializes in imported household goods. "We don't want to say much because we're scared," said the store owner, who was not willing to give his name. "If we talk to you, they (RCMP) may come again," he said.
European monitors accuse Sri Lankan government of violating truce
[ AP ] [ 00:59 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
European peace monitors said the Sri Lankan government has violated a cease-fire by launching deadly airstrikes in Tamil Tiger rebel territory, and that security forces may also have conducted extra-judicial killings in the country's Tamil-majority north and east. "We ... fear that government security forces have, in the north and the east, been involved in extra-judicial killings of civilians. This conviction is based on our observation and inquiries on the ground," the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission said Saturday, without elaborating. The monitoring mission also criticized the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels for continuing to attack government forces with anti-personnel mines, and said they were putting civilians at risk by placing political and military targets near the general population.
LTTE Commandos attack paramilitary camp
[ TamilNet ] [ 08:13 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
Around 15 paramilitary operatives of Karuna group were killed in an attack launched by an Elite Commando unit of the Liberation Tigers on paramilitary camps in Kasankulam, located 7 km east of Welikande in Batticaloa - Polannaruwa border Sunday. All the weapons at Kasankulam paramilitary camp were destroyed by the LTTE commandos in the surprise attack, planned and supervised by Special Commander Col. Bhanu, an LTTE official from Kokkaddicholai in Batticaloa district told TamilNet. Meanwhile, Welikande police sources reported distant gunfire, at 9:00 a.m. Sunday.
Lanka Tigers say raid army-backed paramilitaries
[ Reuters ] [ 08:23 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
Tamil Tiger rebels said they raided camps belonging to renegade ex-rebels the Karuna group in army territory on Sunday, killing 20 as war fears remain high after a suicide bombing and military air strikes. The rebels say the government uses fighters led by former Tiger eastern commander Karuna Amman as "army-backed paramilitaries" to attack the mainstream LTTE -- a charge the government denies. "It is a very severe blow for the paramilitary groups and for the Sri Lankan army," head of the Tiger peace secretariat S. Puleedevan told Reuters by satellite phone from rebel territory. The attacks took place near the eastern town of Welikanda, where the Tigers say Karuna fighters kidnapped several aid workers from the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO). Puleedevan said the rebels had found two seized TRO vehicles inside the three Karuna camps raided, but no sign of the seven aid staff still missing. Analysts say that with war still seen as very possible, the military would be unlikely to disarm Karuna despite promising at a first round of talks in February to stop armed groups operating from their territory.
Tamil rebels shell army positions, overrun breakaway group's camps
[ AP ] [ 15:44 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
Tamil Tiger rebels shelled army positions and launched a deadly raid on a breakaway faction they say is backed by the Sri Lankan government, while a Tamil civilian was shot dead, officials said Sunday, heightening fears of a return to civil war. European cease-monitors are scrambling to get the government and rebels to resume peace talks, but almost daily violence - including a suicide attack by a suspected rebel on Sri Lanka's top military general last week - could push relations between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to the point of collapse. The monitors on Saturday accused both sides of violating the four-year-old cease-fire and said they feared security forces may have been involved in extra-judicial killings of civilians in Tamil-majority areas. The government denied the charge.
[ Toronto Star ] [ 00:09 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
When the Mounties swooped down on the World Tamil Movement's Toronto headquarters last week, it had repercussions well beyond the group that has been accused of links to the controversial Tamil Tigers. The RCMP also searched at least one Tamil-owned shop and removed about 50 DVDs and CDs, on the same warrant. The Mounties shut down Ambal Trading, a prominent shop in the Little Jaffna neighbourhood near Parliament and Wellesley Sts., for three hours last Sunday, the day after the raids at the WTM offices. The shop specializes in imported household goods. "We don't want to say much because we're scared," said the store owner, who was not willing to give his name. "If we talk to you, they (RCMP) may come again," he said.
European monitors accuse Sri Lankan government of violating truce
[ AP ] [ 00:59 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
European peace monitors said the Sri Lankan government has violated a cease-fire by launching deadly airstrikes in Tamil Tiger rebel territory, and that security forces may also have conducted extra-judicial killings in the country's Tamil-majority north and east. "We ... fear that government security forces have, in the north and the east, been involved in extra-judicial killings of civilians. This conviction is based on our observation and inquiries on the ground," the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission said Saturday, without elaborating. The monitoring mission also criticized the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels for continuing to attack government forces with anti-personnel mines, and said they were putting civilians at risk by placing political and military targets near the general population.
LTTE Commandos attack paramilitary camp
[ TamilNet ] [ 08:13 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
Around 15 paramilitary operatives of Karuna group were killed in an attack launched by an Elite Commando unit of the Liberation Tigers on paramilitary camps in Kasankulam, located 7 km east of Welikande in Batticaloa - Polannaruwa border Sunday. All the weapons at Kasankulam paramilitary camp were destroyed by the LTTE commandos in the surprise attack, planned and supervised by Special Commander Col. Bhanu, an LTTE official from Kokkaddicholai in Batticaloa district told TamilNet. Meanwhile, Welikande police sources reported distant gunfire, at 9:00 a.m. Sunday.
Lanka Tigers say raid army-backed paramilitaries
[ Reuters ] [ 08:23 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
Tamil Tiger rebels said they raided camps belonging to renegade ex-rebels the Karuna group in army territory on Sunday, killing 20 as war fears remain high after a suicide bombing and military air strikes. The rebels say the government uses fighters led by former Tiger eastern commander Karuna Amman as "army-backed paramilitaries" to attack the mainstream LTTE -- a charge the government denies. "It is a very severe blow for the paramilitary groups and for the Sri Lankan army," head of the Tiger peace secretariat S. Puleedevan told Reuters by satellite phone from rebel territory. The attacks took place near the eastern town of Welikanda, where the Tigers say Karuna fighters kidnapped several aid workers from the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO). Puleedevan said the rebels had found two seized TRO vehicles inside the three Karuna camps raided, but no sign of the seven aid staff still missing. Analysts say that with war still seen as very possible, the military would be unlikely to disarm Karuna despite promising at a first round of talks in February to stop armed groups operating from their territory.
Tamil rebels shell army positions, overrun breakaway group's camps
[ AP ] [ 15:44 GMT, Apr. 30, 2006 ]
Tamil Tiger rebels shelled army positions and launched a deadly raid on a breakaway faction they say is backed by the Sri Lankan government, while a Tamil civilian was shot dead, officials said Sunday, heightening fears of a return to civil war. European cease-monitors are scrambling to get the government and rebels to resume peace talks, but almost daily violence - including a suicide attack by a suspected rebel on Sri Lanka's top military general last week - could push relations between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to the point of collapse. The monitors on Saturday accused both sides of violating the four-year-old cease-fire and said they feared security forces may have been involved in extra-judicial killings of civilians in Tamil-majority areas. The government denied the charge.