TamilNet briefs 10/28/97 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source:news@tamilnet.com Tue Oct 28 16:19:33 1997 TamilNet's Newsdesk has filed following recently: For full story please visit URL: http://www.tamilnet.com/ GMT:17:45 SLA denies local Tamils access to water [TamilNet, October 28, 1997] The people of Suppar Madam in Pt. Pedro are faced severe hardships in finding fresh water for drinking after the SLA recently prohibited them from drawing water from the well in the Hartley College compound. GMT:17:28 40 year old woman raped [TamilNet, October 28, 1997] A forty year old woman who had been abducted and raped allegedly by soldiers of the SLA, was admitted to the Manthikai hospital yesterday with injuries and multiple lesions. GMT:16:50 Tigers probe Omanthai FDLs [TamilNet, October 28, 1997] The Liberation Tigers attacked the SLA's forward defence localities in Omanthai last evening. GMT:16:44 Mixed signals from UNP on package [TamilNet, October 28, 1997] Sources in the UNP said today that the party is largely in agreement with the PA package which was submitted to Parliament last Friday with the suggestions of the other parties in the PSC as 'riders' except on the question of the unit of devolution. GMT:14:58 Canadian Immigration Law 'undemocratic' [TamilNet, October 28, 1997] On 18 October 1995, Mr. Suresh Manickavasagam was detained by the Canadian Immigration authorities, following the issuance of a security certificate against him. Mr. Manickavasagam, a Tamil refugee, was deemed a person inadmissible into Canada, under the Immigration Law. This controversial law has been criticized as 'undemocratic' and 'draconian' by international human rights and refugee organizations, including Amnesty International and the Canadian council for Refugees. GMT:13:04 Paris assassinations remain unsolved [TamilNet, October 28, 1997] Last Sunday was the first anniversary of the killings of two Eelam activists in Paris. Mr. Kandiah Perinpanathan, head of the LTTE's financial section and Mr. Kandiah Gajendran, the editor of the Tamil weekly "Eelamurasu" were gunned down in cold blood by an unknown assailant on a busy Paris sidewalk. To date, the investigations have not yielded any publicly known results. ------------------------------------------------------------------- [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-10.31.97-12:06:48-6678