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GMT:19:28 Police sabotage rape trial, threaten MP
[TamilNet, November 11, 1997]
The Koneswary rape and murder case was postponed again today at the
Kalmunai courts this afternoon as an Assistant superintendent of Police
failed to turn up due to "unavoidable circumstances".



GMT:15:06 Jaffna Tigers destroy SLA bunkers
[TamilNet, November 11, 1997]
Fighting broke out between the Liberation Tigers and the Sri Lankan army at
Varani in Jaffna in the early hours of the morning today around 4.30 a.m.



GMT:15:02 SLA to control urea supplies
[TamilNet, November 11, 1997]
Jaffna farmers will be able to buy urea now after a gap of seven years. The
army told the Jaffna GA today to send lorries to collect 500 metric tons of
urea which have been lying at the KKS harbour since June this year.



GMT:14:59 Tamil civilians assaulted
[TamilNet, November 11, 1997]
All civilians who went past the Muththirai junction in Jaffna after 7 p.m.
last night were severely assaulted by the SL army.



GMT:14:55 SLA stops bus stand expansion
[TamilNet, November 11, 1997]
The officer in charge of the Jaffna main bus stand met the town commander
Brig. Susantha Mendis today to request permission to expand the perimeter
of the place to accommodate the growing number of buses in service and to
ease the congestion in parking space created by some buildings that have
expanded in the vicinity.



GMT:13:02 Jaffna university students riot over newspaper
[TamilNet, November 11, 1997]
A large group of about three hundred students from the University of Jaffna
demonstrated in front of the Uthayan newspaper office in Kasturiyar road
this morning around 11 a.m.

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