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Unidentified armed men on motor cycles abducted three persons including two school students Friday and Saturday in three different places in Jaffna peninsula. Meanwhile, a family man living in Ka?ranavaay in Vadamaraadchi is reported missing since 12 November after leaving home, according to the complaint lodged by his wife to Human Rights Commission (HRC) Jaffna office.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired around 100 artillery shells on IDP settlements of Uduththu’rai, Vaththiraayan, Kaddaikkaadu and Vettilaikkea’ni in Vadamaraadchi East in Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) controlled territory in Jaffna district Monday from 1:00 p.m. till 6:40 p.m.

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a Paris-based media watchdog, in a press release issued Monday, urged Colombo to release the manager of a
Tamil radio A. R. V. Loshan who was arrested Saturday, pointing out that
the “allegations against him of having “links
with terrorists” and “aiding terrorist
activities” should be based on evidence and not
on simple conjecture.”

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Agricultural lands and the houses of farmers in Canals 5 to 8 along Karadippoakku - Uruththirapuram road in Ki’linochchi came under intense artillery fire by the Sri Lanka Army in the early hours of Monday from 2:00 a.m. till 5:30. The barrage has caused damage to the agricultural lands and destroyed several coconut palms, eyewitnesses told TamilNet.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) launched an intensive artillery barrage targeting all the roads from Paranthan junctions from 2:35 p.m. on Monday, killing one civilian and causing injuries to six. Two of the wounded were rushed to Ki’linochchi hospital with serious injuries. Many houses and shops were destroyed in the barrage that also hit the grounds of the Paranthan Hindu College. Students attendance was below 15% in the school, according to the teachers in the morning and they were forced to flee the college premises following the barrage in the evening. The SLA has intensified artillery attacks on the suburbs of Paranthan town during the last 3 days.

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Armed men in civil arrived in a white van and abducted a 26-year-old Tamil youth from the hotel located along Hamden Lane in Wellawatte Saturday evening, according to complaints lodged with the Bambalapitya Police and human rights groups.
The victim was an employee at the hotel.

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Two Tamil farmers were critically injured when unidentified persons waiting in ambush at a point along Chaaththirikoozhangku’lam - Kalmadu road fired at them while they were returning from their paddy fields Saturday evening in Eechchangku’lam area in Vavuniyaa police division, sources said.

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Unidentified armed person Sunday night shot dead a 22-year-old Tamil youth residing in Ganesh Lane in Aa’ndaangku’lam, a suburb in Trincomalee city, located along Trincomalee-Kandy road, according to complaints lodged with the Trincomalee police by his relatives. The victim was identified as Pulendran, police said.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) launched another offensive push for the third consecutive day from Jaffna Monday morning. 8 SLA soldiers were killed and 29 wounded when the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) put up stiff resistance from 5:00 a.m. till 11:00 a.m., thwarting a three frontal attack by the SLA on LTTE Forward Defence Line (FDL) in Mukamaalai, Ka’ndal and Ki’laai, the Tigers said. Meanwhile, the SLA which claimed its forces entered Kumizhamunai near Naayaa’ru lagoon south of A’lampil in Mullaiththeevu district, on Monday said its forces from Vannivi’laangkulam were attempting to occupy Maangku’lam on A9.

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Sri Lankan Police was making arrangements to provide security to the Sinhala doctors at the Batticaloa hospital as medical staff of the hospital took to the streets Monday morning protesting against the killing of a doctor, a Sinhalese, at Naavatkudaa in Vavu’natheevu. Initial reports said 65 Sinhala doctors, including trainees at the Teaching hospital and those who were deployed in RDHS hospitals in recently resettled areas, would be provided security. Meanwhile, all the Sinhala medical staff working in recently resettled remote areas of Batticaloa district, were moving to Batticaloa Teaching hospital until their safety is secured, medical authorities said.

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