TamilNet LTTE Report 10/17/97 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit ----------------------------------------------------------------- Following Press Release is sent for distribution through TamilNet , by the LTTE international secretariat, 211 Katherine Road, London E6 1BU, United Kingdom, Tel/fax: 0181-470 8593. ----------------------------------------------------------------- LTTE Headquarters, Tamil Eelam. 17. October 1997 LTTE PRESS RELEASE NEWS FROM TAMIL EELAM LTTE STORMS PERIAMADU ARMY CAMPS AND TROOPS AT KARAPATAMURIPPU LTTE forces attacked a chain of Sinhalese army checkpoints and mini army camps in occupied Periamadu on Monday night, causing heavy losses to Sinhalese troops. Simultaneously, the LTTE launched an attack on the Karapatamurippu military distribution centre (on the Mankulam-Mullaitivu road). Here too troops incurred heavy losses (exact figures are not known). 84 LTTE fighters - inclusive of Lt. Col. Santhirakanthan - died in these two battles. WOMEN'S SAVINGS SCHEME INAUGURATED IN VANNI The offices of a new savings scheme for women in Tamil Eelam have been set up in the buildings of the Tamil Eelam Women's Rehabilitation Organisation. Representatives of the Welfare Organisation, various women's groups and members of the Tamil Eelam Savings Bank attended the opening of the offices in large numbers. A leading women's rights activist said that the new scheme was an important component of Tamil women's liberation struggle. TAMIL CIVILIAN SLICED TO DEATH BY SINHALESE ARMY The severely mutilated dead body of Tamil man has been found on a Chavakachcheri roadside in Sinhalese army occupied Jaffna. Kandiah Subramaniam's body was covered with knife-wounds, believed to have been inflicted by the occupying army. Political Committee, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (English translation of the LTTE statement released by LTTE International Secretariat, 211 Katherine Road, London E6 1BU, United Kingdom. Tel:0181- 503 4294) ================================================================= 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-10.19.97-22:42:23-6036