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Point Pedro police recovered a male corpse in highly decomposed state Tuesday at Pont Pedro Munai coast on information given by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) sentries on the coast.

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Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) commandos at Kalmunai in Ampaa’rai opened fire on five Tamil youths who were at a liquor shop and attempted to create a story through police that the victims were Karuna cadres, TNA MP K. Pathmanathan said, citing the relatives of the victims. Later, the STF attempted to place the blame on Muslims, but some Tamil Muslim youths who had witnessed the killings had helped to avert confrontation between the Tamil, Muslim communities, the MP said.

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Sri Lanka Special Task Force (STF) commandos opened fire Sunday on five Tamil youths spending their evening in a lodge on Beach Road in Kurunthaiyadi, Kalmunai in Batticaloa district, killing all of them, according to Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Thikaamadu parliamentarian, K. Pathmanathan. The STF commandos tried to place the blame on Muslims but some Tamil Muslim youths who had witnessed the killings had helped to avert confrontation between the Tamil, Muslim communities, the MP said. Tension prevails in the area.

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Sri Lanka’s parliament Tuesday extended the State of Emergency for another month by a majority of seventy five votes. Eighty five parliamentarians
voted for the motion and ten against. Parliamentarians of the Jathika Hela
Urumaya (JHU), Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and National Freedom Front
(NLF), a splinter group of the JVP voted with the government, parliamentary
sources said.

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Sri Lanka police arrested a Tamil youth Monday evening at Ukkuwala in Matale division in central province on a report that he has close links with the LTTE, police sources said.

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The body of a Tamil civilian was recovered from an abandoned well located close to a petrol station in Munthal in Chilaapam (Chilaw) division Sunday evening. The body has been identified as V.Rajagopal, 39, of Karikattai area in Mathurankuli, according to complaints lodged with the Munthal Police by his relatives.

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Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) commandos and police conducted a joint cordon and search Tuesday from 5:30 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. in Kannagkudaa in Vavu’natheevu police division in Batticaloa district arresting 25 men, sources in Batticaloa said. The arrested men are held in Vavu’natheevu police station for further inquiries, residents of Vavu’natheevu said.

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A Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) commando was killed and three wounded in a mine ambush at Ayiththiyamalai in Ma’nmunai division of Batticaloa district Monday evening around 3:00 p.m., LTTE said in a news release issued from Batticaloa on Tuesday.

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Unknown armed persons attacked a camp of TMVP Karuna faction in Ampaa’rai, killing two paramilitary personnel Monday around 11:20 p.m. at Akkaraippattu in Ampaa’rai, Police said. Two Karuna’s men were wounded in the attack, which has come after Pillayan faction’s Pradeep Master was targeted by suspected Karuna personnel.

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Pattali Makkal Katchi founder-leader Dr. S. Ramadoss condemned Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi for changing his stand on the Eelam Tamils issue in a press release Monday. “All Tamil people will easily understand that there is an immense divide between the Karunanidhi of October 14’s All Party Meeting who demanded a ceasefire, and the Karunanidhi of today who justifies the Union Government’s inaction by saying that India has limitations on how far it can interfere in another country’s affairs,” he said.

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