TamilNet Briefs 11/6/97 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit news@tamilnet.com (TamilNet mailing list) TamilNet's Newsdesk has filed following recently: For full story please visit URL: http://www.tamilnet.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GMT:18:34 Five SLA troops killed in Jaffna [TamilNet, November 06, 1997] There was a fire-fight between the Liberation Tigers and the Sri Lankan Army at Navalady in Koddikamam in the Jaffna peninsula at around 7.30 p.m last night. GMT:18:31 Grenade explodes near EPDP office [TamilNet, November 06, 1997] There was a grenade blast near the EPDP office which is situated close to the Sreethar theater in Jaffna. GMT:13:50 Jaffna reconstruction projects cancelled [TamilNet, November 06, 1997] The Jaffna GA turned down a request by the NGO Consortium of Jaffna for large reconstruction project in Waligaman north saying that he had no funds from the government for such work. GMT:11:41 Ratwatte takes umbrage at criticism [TamilNet, November 06, 1997] Gen. Anuruddha Ratwatte Sri Lanka's Deputy Minister for Defence attacked sections of the press for criticising the government's war effort while opening the debate on the extension of the Emergency in Parliament today. GMT:11:30 Tigers lose seven fighters - radio [TamilNet, November 06, 1997] The Voice of Tigers (VOT) announced in the Vanni today that another member of the LTTE called Capt. Mathan also died in the attack on the organisation's ship in the Mullaithivu sea on sunday. GMT:10:08 SLA facing cas-evac problems [TamilNet, November 06, 1997] Reports from Vavuniya revealed today that the Sri Lankan Army is faced with serious casualty evacuation problems in the forward areas of Operation Jayasikurui in the Vanni due to concentrated LTTE mortar fire and stormy monsoon weather. GMT:08:43 Tigers intended ship as bait - paper [TamilNet, November 06, 1997] The Thinamurasu, the Tamil weekly with the largest circulation in Sri Lanka, said in this week's issue which hit the news stands in Colombo this morning, that the LTTE ship that was bombed and sunk by the Sri Lankan airforce on Sunday appears to be the vessel that went missing with the cargo of 81mm mortar shells meant for the Sri Lankan army from the Zimbabwe Defence Industries. ------------------------------------------------------------------- [Reproduction of these news items is allowed when used without any alterations to the contents and source, TamilNet, is indicated.] ------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytas-11.07.97-08:49:29-12756