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The International Press Freedom Mission, a group of five international media watchdogs, which visited Sri Lanka between 25th to 29th October, said in a statement released Thursday that the mission is ?alarmed at the use of an anti-terrorism law for the first time in the democratic world, to punish journalists purely for what they have written,? and added that the mission ?found a deterioration in the press freedom situation since its last visit in June 2007, marked by a continuation in murders, attacks, abductions, intimidation and harassment of the media.?

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers attached to Palatupana army camp Thursday night allegedly ‘abducted’ three Sinhalese cattle herders while they were consuming liquor with two soldiers at Doserwewa in Kataragama (Kathikaamam) according to the villagers. The incident took place around 10:30 p.m.

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A youth died by swallowing cyanide while another was killed in a clash with the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) at a coastal marsh and shrub land in Mu’l'li in Ariyaalai, a suburb of Jaffna city, Saturday afternoon around 3:00 p.m., Sri Lankan Police said.

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Unidentified persons arriving on a motorbike Saturday around 1:30 a.m. hurled a hand grenade at the house of Asad Moulana, the media coordinator secretary to the Eastern Province Chief Minister, in Kalmunai police division in Ampaa’rai district, and escaped from the site. Moulana was not in the house and no one was injured in the blast, Kalmunai police said.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Jaffna district Commander Major Gen. G. A. Chandrasiri said, during a Special Essential Services meeting held Friday in Palaali SLA Head quarters, that his service in Jaffna will terminate on 31 December, attendees to the meeting said. He thanked the government officials for their cooperation in running the affairs in the peninsula smoothly and requested them to offer same to his successor.

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Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) detonated a Claymore mine targeting a road patrol of the Sri Lankan Special Task Force from the 6th Mile Post camp, 200 meters away from the camp, Saturday around 8:30 a.m., the Tigers said.

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Unidentified gunmen shot and injured Saturday around 12:30 a.m a Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) paramilitary-cum-political party person in Vaazhaichcheanai police division in Batticaloa district. The seriously injured victim was first rushed to Vaazhaichcheanai hospital and then transferred to Batticaloa Teaching Hospital around 2:00 a.m, Vaazhaichcheanai police said.

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Naval flotillas of the Sea Tigers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) engaged in a major clash with the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) gunships in the seas off Naakarkoayil in Vadamaraadchi East Saturday morning from 5:15 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., sinking an SLN Dvora Fast Attack Craft (FAC) and a hovercraft. Sea Tiger officials told TamilNet that 20 of their attack crafts took part in the mission and seven Black Sea Tigers laid down their lives in the operation.

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Naval flotillas of the Sea Tigers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) engaged in a major clash with the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) gunships in the seas off Naakarkoayil in Vadamaraadchi East Saturday morning from 5:15 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., sinking an SLN Dvora Fast Attack Craft (FAC) and a hoover craft, and causing damage to another vessel. Sea Tiger officials told TamilNet that 20 attack crafts took part in the mission and seven Black Sea Tigers laid down their lives in the operation.

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Velupillai Pirapaharan, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE), on Friday conferred Awards of Valour for Tiger commandos who excelled in their performance in the LTTE operation against the Sri Lankan Forces Vanni Headquarters (Vanni SF HQ) and the Tamileelam Air Force pilots and operators who took part in consecutive and successful flight operations of attack against the targets in the South and the bases of the Sri Lankan armed forces.

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