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Nearly three hundreds civilians who sought protection with Jaffna Human Rights Commision (JHRC) and kept in protective custody within Jaffna prison premises are facing danger of being removed against their wishes as a result of the activities of a local judge, sources in Jaffna said. Continued threats from in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) backed paramilitary operatives forced many civilians to surrender to the HRC from various parts of the peninsula during the past two years.

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A 40-year-old Tamil trader was shot dead Monday around 2:00 p.m. at Chivapuri, a suburb of the Trincomalee city by unidentified men, who arrived in a motor bike to his house after he returned from his shop. He had been running a bar along Central Road in the city.

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Cairn India, a subsidiary of Cairn UK Holdings Limited, on Monday signed a Petroleum Resources agreement to explore for oil and natural gas in the Mannaar Basin. The signing took place in front of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees between the Sri Lankan Minister for Petroleum and Petroleum Development Resources A.H.M Fowzie and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Executive Director of the Cairn India, Indrajit Banerjee, who gave USD one million as signature bond to Rajapaksa government, according to informed sources.

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Burnt body of a youth was found at Kaaththanaarku’lam in Makaa Irampaikku’lam in Vavuniyaa Monday morning. The GS officer of the area first noticed the body along the road and informed the Vavuniyaa police. Civil sources suspected that the youth had been murdered elsewhere and his body had been brought and burnt at Kaaththanaarku’lam.

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The ICRC resumed its services at A9 gateway to Vanni after having secured guarantees from the Government of Sri Lanka that attacks such as that took place close to the gateway would not be repeated, informed sources in Vavuniyaa told TamilNet. The ICRC resumed its services from 3:00 p.m. Monday.

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Unidentified armed men arriving in a motor cycle shot and killed Sunday around 12:30 p.m the owner of an
auto-rickshaw at Naayanmaarkaddu within Jaffna Municipal Council limits while he was talking to his friends near his home.

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Let the International Community hold a referendum to get the will of Eezham Tamils for an independent homeland if it is not convinced of their sentiments shown explicitly through the events of Pongku Thamizh all over the world. Australia supported such a referendum in East Timor, said Tamil National Alliance MP, Sivajilingkam to TamilNet, when he came to address the Pongku Thamizh event held at Sydney on Monday.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops are conducting continuous artillery attacks targeting civilian settlements in Illuppakkadavai in Mannaar district since Saturday morning and a number of shells have exploded along roads usually made use of by the general public and as well as in the vicinity of Illuppaikkadavai junction, residents said.

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