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Incidents of violence between the LTTE
and TMVP(founded by Vinayagamoorthy Muraleetharan alias 'Colonel' Karuna
and currently led by Pillayan)since March 2004
 
|
Date
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Place and District
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Description
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Fatalities-LTTE
|
Fatalities-Karuna
faction
|
| 2004 |
|
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April 9, 2004
|
Verugal River, Batticaloa
|
LTTE launches attacks against the
forward positions of ‘Colonel’ Karuna
|
0
|
22
|
|
April 25, 2004
|
Vavunithivu, Batticaloa
|
LTTE cadres are shot dead by the
Karuna faction inside an area under the former’s control
|
4
|
0
|
|
July 5, 2004
|
Batticaloa town
|
LTTE's political wing leader for
Batticaloa town, Senadhi, is shot at and wounded
|
0
|
0
|
|
July 5, 2004
|
Batticaloa town
|
LTTE cadre, Murunkan Mama, is shot
dead by the Karuna group
|
1
|
0
|
|
July 14, 2004
|
Punanai, Batticaloa
|
A Karuna group cadre is killed during
an ambush by one of LTTE's special jungle warfare units
|
0
|
1
|
|
July 15, 2004
|
Batticaloa
|
Two Karuna faction cadres are killed
in an attack by a LTTE cadre inside the Batticaloa prison
|
0
|
2
|
|
July 23, 2004
|
Kandaladi, Batticaloa
|
LTTE cadre, Seenithamby Mahalingam,
is shot dead by the Karuna faction
|
1
|
0
|
|
July 25, 2004
|
Kottawa, Colombo
|
Seven suspected Karuna cadres and
a Sinhalese person are shot dead by the LTTE
|
0
|
7
|
|
August 10, 2004
|
Kaluwaanchikudy, Batticaloa
|
Seniththamby Yogarajan of the Karuna
group is shot dead by the LTTE
|
0
|
1
|
|
August 11, 2004
|
Kiran, Batticaloa
|
Sivrajah Sivaseelan of the Karuna
faction is shot dead by the LTTE
|
0
|
1
|
|
August 20, 2004
|
Valaichchenai, Batticaloa
|
Two LTTE leaders are shot dead and
two cadres sustain injuries during an ambush by the Karuna group
|
2
|
0
|
|
August 24, 2004
|
Akkaraipattu Batticaloa
|
A Karuna group cadre is shot dead
inside the Akkaraipattu court premises
|
0
|
1
|
|
September 23, 2004
|
Illuppadichchenai Batticaloa
|
LTTE cadres kill Reggie, elder brother
of ‘Colonel’ Karuna
|
0
|
3
|
|
September 29, 2004
|
Vakarai sector, Batticaloa
|
Karuna cadres fire rocket propelled
grenades targeting a LTTE sentry point
|
5
|
0
|
|
October 1, 2004
|
Vakaneri, Batticaloa.
|
Ruben, a Karuna cadre, is shot dead
by a LTTE special jungle warfare unit
|
0
|
1
|
|
October 2, 2004
|
Omadiyamadu, Batticaloa
|
LTTE cadres of the Jeyanthan Regiment
attack a group of heavily armed Karuna cadres
|
0
|
2
|
|
October 11, 2004
|
Nagastenne, Batticaloa
|
Two Karuna cadres are killed and
six others sustain injuries during an attack by the LTTE special
forces group
|
0
|
2
|
|
October 19, 2004
|
Iyankerny, Batticaloa
|
LTTE supporter, Kathirgamathamby
Ganeshamoorthy, is killed by cadres of the Karuna faction
|
1
|
0
|
|
October 20, 2004
|
Anpuvallipuram, Trincomalee
|
The LTTE kills a suspected Karuna
faction cadre
|
0
|
1
|
|
October 25, 2004
|
Wellawatte, Colombo
|
A Karuna faction cadre is killed
and two others sustain injuries as suspected LTTE cadres open
indiscriminate fire
|
0
|
1
|
|
November 17, 2004
|
Valaichenai, Batticaloa.
|
A political worker of the LTTE is
shot dead by suspected Karuna faction cadres
|
1
|
0
|
|
November 25, 2004
|
Akkaraipattu Batticaloa.
|
An LTTE political activist, identified
as Umakanth, is killed by suspected Karuna group cadres
|
1
|
0
|
|
December 22, 2004
|
Arasady Junction Batticaloa.
|
A LTTE cadre is killed by suspected
Karuna faction gunmen at Pioneer Road
|
1
|
0
|
| 2005 |
|
|
|
|
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February 7, 2005
|
Poonani, Batticaloa
|
LTTE’s Eastern Political wing leader,
Kaushalyan, his deputy Nedimaran and three other LTTE cadres are
killed in an ambush by the rival Karuna faction
|
5
|
0
|
|
February 12, 2005
|
Mannar
|
One civilian is killed and two persons,
including an LTTE activist, are wounded when suspected Karuna
faction cadres lobbed a grenade targeting the LTTE’s office
|
0
|
0
|
|
February 20, 2005
|
Muththukkal, Polannaruwa
|
Suspected LTTE cadres kill a Karuna
faction cadre and injure another in an ambush
|
0
|
1
|
|
March 5, 2005
|
Welikanda, Polonnaruwa
|
Six persons are shot dead by the
LTTE. Among the dead is a suspected cadre of the Karuna faction
and four Muslims
|
0
|
1
|
|
March 5, 2005
|
Vanthaarumoolai, Batticaloa
|
A Karuna group cadre, identified
as Mylvaganam Pulenthiran, is shot dead by the LTTE
|
0
|
1
|
|
March 5, 2005
|
Batticaloa district
|
A LTTE cadre, ‘Major' Pushparaj,
is shot dead by cadres of the Karuna faction. Two others were
injured in the attack
|
1
|
0
|
|
March 14, 2005
|
Karapola, Polannaruwa
|
Two LTTE cadres, Sinnaturai Selvanaathen
and Subramanium Gunesekaram, are shot dead by suspected Karuna
faction cadres
|
2
|
0
|
|
March 21, 2005
|
Welikanda, Polonnaruwa
|
Two LTTE cadres are killed during
a factional clash
|
2
|
0
|
|
March 26, 2005
|
Tharavai, Batticaloa
|
Five LTTE cadres are killed by the
rival Karuna faction
|
5
|
0
|
|
March 28, 2005
|
Vavuniya
|
Suspected Karuna group cadres throw
grenades targeting a LTTE office, wounding at least three people
|
0
|
0
|
|
April 8, 2005
|
Poonagar, Trincomalee
|
Two LTTE cadres are killed in an
attack at a LTTE checkpoint by cadres of the Karuna faction
|
2
|
0
|
|
April 14, 2005
|
Welikanda, Polonnaruwa
|
Nine Karuna faction cadres are killed
in an attack on their camp by the LTTE
|
0
|
9
|
|
April 21, 2005
|
Kanjikudichcha Aaru, Ampara
|
Five LTTE cadres are killed and
seven others sustain injuries in a pre-dawn attack by the Karuna
faction
|
5
|
0
|
|
April 21, 2005
|
Valaichenai, Batticaloa.
|
LTTE cadres kill a suspected Karuna
group cadre
|
0
|
1
|
|
April 25,2005
|
Karapola, Polannaruwa
|
One Karuna faction cadre is killed
while one of his colleagues is abducted
|
0
|
1
|
|
May 6, 2005
|
Welikanda, Polonnaruwa
|
Two LTTE cadres, believed to be
‘intelligence operatives’, are killed during a clash with the
Karuna faction
|
2
|
0
|
|
May 23, 2005
|
Manampitiya, Polonnaruwa
|
A LTTE cadre is shot dead by suspected
gunmen of the Karuna faction
|
1
|
0
|
|
June 5, 2005
|
Aalankulam, Batticaloa
|
A Karuna group cadre is killed by
rival LTTE cadres
|
0
|
1
|
|
June 8, 2005
|
Sangamankandy, Batticaloa
|
Two LTTE cadres are killed in an
explosion triggered by the Karuna faction
|
2
|
0
|
|
June 21, 2005
|
Muttur, Trincomalee
|
A Karuna faction cadre is shot dead
by suspected LTTE cadres.
|
0
|
1
|
|
July 6, 2005
|
Batticaloa
|
Suspected LTTE cadres kill, Selvaraja,
a 'Colonel' Karuna group cadre
|
0
|
1
|
|
July 10, 2005
|
Trincomalee
|
Four LTTE cadres, including two top
leaders Dikkan and Sinnavan, are killed by rival 'Colonel' Karuna
faction.
|
4
|
0
|
|
July 26, 2005
|
Colombo
|
A suspected LTTE cadre, identified
as Krishnapillai Kiribarathnam, is shot dead by a member of a
rival 'Colonel' Karuna faction.
|
1
|
0
|
|
August 15, 2005
|
Polannaruwa
|
Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead,
Mahathevarajah, a 'Colonel' Karuna group cadre.
|
0
|
1
|
|
September 2, 2005
|
Wennappuwa, Puttalam
|
Suspected LTTE cadres
shot dead a former member of the 'Colonel' Karuna group.
|
0
|
1
|
|
September 4, 2005
|
Kaluwanchikudy, Batticaloa
|
Cadres of the 'Colonel'
Karuna group lob a hand grenade towards the LTTE political office
and subsequently shot dead a LTTE cadre, identified as K. Arulnesan.
|
1
|
0
|
|
October 26, 2005
|
Polonnaruwa
|
Two cadres of the
LTTE are killed by the ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction.
|
2
|
0
|
|
November 14, 2005
|
Akkaraipattu, Ampara
|
Cadres of the ‘Colonel’
Karuna faction abduct and subsequently kill two top leaders of
the LTTE, including Amparai district ‘military commander’ of the
outfit, identified as Suresh.
|
2
|
0
|
|
December 5, 2005
|
Siyambalanduwa, Ampara
|
Four cadres of the ‘Colonel’ Karuna
faction, including a senior commander identified as Iniyabarathy
alias Barathy, are killed by the LTTE.
|
0
|
4
|
|
December 15, 2005
|
Kudapokuna, Polonnaruwa
|
Suspected cadres of the LTTE shot
dead a cadre of the breakaway ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction, identified
as Sivapulandu Passirasa alias Thran.
|
0
|
1
|
| 2006 |
|
|
|
|
|
January 26, 2006
|
Vadamunai, Batticaloa
|
At least 10 LTTE cadres are killed
and an unspecified number are injured when ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction
cadres attacked a vehicle carrying LTTE cadres.
|
10
|
0
|
|
January 26, 2006
|
Vadamunai, Batticaloa
|
A senior LTTE cadre, ‘Major’ Kavilan,
is allegedly killed by cadres affiliated to ‘Colonel’ Karuna.
|
1
|
0
|
|
February 22, 2006
|
Pulipaynthakal, Batticaloa
|
Six suspected ‘Colonel’ Karuna cadres
shot dead a LTTE 'National Auxiliary Force' cadre, identified
as Shanthakumar Narayanapillai.
|
1
|
0
|
| April 5,
2006 |
Panichchankerni,
Batticaloa |
Two 'Colonel' Karuna faction cadres,
including a key operative Chooty, are injured in a counter-attack
by the LTTE.
|
0 |
0 |
|
April 13, 2006
|
Vakaneri, Batticaloa
|
Two LTTE cadres are killed and four
others wounded in an ambush by cadres belonging to the 'Colonel'
Karuna faction.
|
2
|
0
|
|
April 18, 2006
|
Kiran,
Batticaloa
|
The LTTE announces that they had
killed three paramilitary cadres and captured another in the LTTE-controlled
area.
|
0
|
3
|
|
April 30. 2006
|
Welikanda, Polannaruwa
|
The LTTE raided three camps of 'Colonel'
Karuna faction.
|
0
|
20
|
| May 2, 2006 |
Batticaloa |
Cadres of the 'Colonel' Karuna faction
attack the LTTE camp, killing eight of the outfit's cadres.
|
8 |
0 |
| May 7, 2006 |
Sampoor and Ravulkulee, Trincomalee
|
'Colonel' Karuna faction cadres
kill 12 cadres of the LTTE in an attack at the outfit's camp.
|
12 |
0 |
| May 19, 2006 |
Sampur, Trincomalee
|
Cadres of the 'Colonel' Karuna group
in the district kill five LTTE cadres.
|
5 |
0 |
| May 21, 2006 |
Batticaloa and Trincomalee
|
Cadres of the breakaway 'Colonel'
Karuna faction in the Batticaloa district kill a top 'commander'
of the LTTE, identified as Ramanan. A spokesperson for the Karuna
group, T. Thuyavan, claims they killed Ramanan who was deputy
head of the LTTE 'Military wing' of the Batticaloa district. He
also claimed that their cadres attacked an LTTE camp near Trincomalee,
killing at least 10 cadres of the outfit.
|
11 |
0 |
|
May 26, 2006
|
Pattiaddy, Trincomalee
|
A counter-ambush commando unit of
the LTTE killed three 'Colonel' Karuna faction cadres and captured
two others, when it allegedly launched an attack on the infiltrating
five-member Karuna group from the Sri Lanka Army camp.
|
0
|
3
|
|
June 7, 2006
|
Muttur,
Trincomalee
|
At least 15 cadres of the LTTE are
killed in an attack by the breakaway faction of 'Colonel' Karuna.
|
15
|
0
|
|
June 20 ,2006
|
Trincomalee
|
Eight LTTE cadres are killed during
an overnight clash with the ‘Colonel’ Karuna group cadres in the
Trincomalee district.
|
8
|
0
|
|
June 27 ,2006
|
Vakarai, Batticaloa
|
Four LTTE cadres are killed in an
attack by the breakaway faction of ‘Colonel’ Karuna in the Vakarai
area of Batticaloa district.
|
4
|
0
|
|
July 24 ,2006
|
Ampara
|
Two LTTE cadres are killed when a
group of ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction cadres attacked them at an outfit-held
village.
|
2
|
0
|
|
July 28 ,2006
|
Vavunathivu, Batticaloa
|
The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation
reports that 30 LTTE cadres are killed in a suicide attack launched
by the breakaway faction led by ‘Colonel’ Karuna.
|
Unconfirmed
|
0
|
| August 29, 2006 |
Sittandy, Batticaloa
|
A woman, allegedly
with the 'Colonel' Karuna faction, is shot dead by cadres of the
LTTE near Murugan Kovil in the Sittandy area of Batticaloa district.
|
0 |
1 |
|
September 5-6, 2006
|
Kanchankudi, Ampara
|
Heavy fighting erupts between LTTE and its breakaway
faction led by ‘Colonel’ Karuna in the jungles in the Kanchankudi
area of Ampara district in which six LTTE camps, including the
Kanchikudichchuaru, Pavata and 73 Camp, are overrun by hundreds
of Karuna cadres.
|
0
|
0
|
|
October 26, 2006
|
Chenkalady-Badulla road, Batticaloa
|
Three cadres of the TMVP, a LTTE breakaway faction
led by 'Colonel' Karuna, are killed and eight others sustain injuries
in a LTTE attack on the TMVP political office on the Chenkalady-Badulla
road in Batticaloa.
|
0
|
3
|
|
December 19, 2006
|
Ampara
|
LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade at the Kalmunai
political office of the TMVP in the Ampara district, the political
wing of the outfit's breakaway faction led by 'Colonel' Karuna,
killing two of the TMVP cadres and injuring another.
|
0
|
2
|
|
December 20, 2006
|
Vavuniya
|
At least three cadres of the LTTE breakaway faction
led by 'Colonel' Karuna are killed in a clash with the LTTE in
Vavuniya district.
|
0
|
3
|
| 2007 |
|
|
January 9
|
Valaichenai/Batticaloa
|
Armed men ambushed two camps belonging to the
breakaway faction of the LTTE led by 'Colonel' Karuna, killing
several cadres of the Karuna faction. The LTTE claimed that unidentified
assailants killed at least 10 members of the breakaway Karuna
faction and wounded four more in the ambush. An official at the
Defence Ministry in Colombo confirmed the attacks, but said only
two Karuna faction members died and that two were wounded.
|
0
|
2
|
|
February 5
|
Kaluthavalai, Batticaloa
|
At least two civilians were killed and another
wounded in an encounter between the LTTE cadres and the Karuna
faction in Kaluthavalai in the Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
0
|
|
March 4
|
Batticaloa
|
At least four civilians received injuries when
LTTE cadres triggered a claymore mine and destroyed TMVP political
office of LTTE (Karuna faction) in Batticaloa. The claymore explosion
completely destroyed the office injuring one of the party supporters
inside the office.
|
0
|
0
|
|
April 14
|
Chenkaladi/Batticaloa district.
|
The LTTE cadres shot dead a member of the TMVP,
political wing of the LTTE breakaway faction led by 'Colonel'
Karuna, at the TMVP Chenkaladi office in the Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
1
|
|
June 10
|
Mawadivembu/ Batticaloa
|
LTTE cadres shot dead a cadre of its breakaway
faction led by 'Colonel' Karuna, identified as Manoraj, while
he was in his residence at Mawadivembu in the Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
1
|
|
August 29
|
Ambivelipuram, Trincomalee
|
Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead a Tamil youth,
identified as Nadarasa Kumanan alias Murali, at Ambivelipuram
in the Trincomalee district. He was a supporter of the TMVP, the
political wing of the LTTE breakaway faction led by 'Colonel'
Karuna.
|
0
|
1
|
|
September 22
|
Alliadiwembu, Ampara
|
Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead a supporter of
the TMVP and injured two others at Alliadiwembu in the Ampara
district.
|
0
|
1
|
|
September 22
|
Wellaweli,Batticaloa
|
One youth, identified as Ariyarathnam Selvakumar,
a relative of a TMVP supporter was shot dead by LTTE cadres at
Wellaweli in the Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
1
|
|
October 25
|
Mavadivembu, Batticaloa
|
A 19-year-old youth, Sivalingam Chandrakumar,
working at the TMVP, the political wing of the LTTE breakaway
faction led by ‘Colonel’ Karuna, political office in Chenkaladi
was shot dead by ‘pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE in the Mavadivembu
area of Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
1
|
|
October 29
|
Kaththankudi, Batticaloa
|
Two ‘pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE shot dead
a cadre of the TMVP, identified as Vettivel Sudhakar, at Kaththankudi
in the Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
1
|
|
December 25
|
Sandiveli Batticaloa
|
A cadre of the TMVP, identified as Karunakaran
Udayakumar, was shot dead by LTTE gunmen at Sandiveli in the Batticaloa
district.
|
0
|
1
|
| 2008 |
|
|
February 24
|
Kalawanchikudi Batticaloa
|
Two TMVP cadres were killed as a LTTE suicide
cadre blew himself opposite the Kali Kovil (Temple). The suicide
cadre had apparently jumped onto the motor bike on which the two
persons were travelling near Satyavilan road, some 17- kilometres
from Batticaloa town. The police spokesman Senior Deputy Inspector
General of Police N.K. Ilangakone said that police confirmed the
persons have been killed due to a suicide blast. "A woman
passing by was also admitted to the hospital after sustaining
injuries in the incident," said military spokesman Brigadier
Udaya Nanayakkara said.
|
1
|
2
|
|
June 2
|
Eravur,
Batticaloa
|
The TMVP Eravurpattu Pradeshiya Sabha Deputy Chairman,
Aiyathurai Pushpanadan alias Kattan, and his bodyguard, Arsakoon
Pullai Mohandas alias Amburaj, were shot dead by suspected ‘pistol
gang’ militants of the LTTE at Eravur in the Kalawanchikudi area
of Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
2
|
|
September 28
|
Batticaloa
|
The LTTE militants attacked a
TMVP camp in the Batticaloa district killing one person while
injuring at least four others.
|
0
|
1
|
|
October 2
|
Thannamunei/Batticaloa
|
One TMVP member was shot dead
and another injured by suspected LTTE militants in the Thannamunei
area of Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
1
|
|
October 2
|
Vandaramulla/Batticaloa
|
At least one person was injured
in a land mine explosion near the TMVP office in the Vandaramulla
area of Batticaloa district.
|
0
|
1
|
|
October 28
|
Chenkaladi/Batticaloa
|
At least four TMVP members were
killed when its political office was attacked by the suspected
LTTE cadres at Chenkaladi in the Batticaloa district.
|
4
|
0
|
|
2009
|
|
|
January 10
|
Killiveddi/ Trincomalee
|
A group of LTTE militants stormed
the TMVP office at Killiveddi in the Trincomalee District and
opened fire at the TMVP members inside the office killing one
of them and injuring two others. In the ensuing exchange of fire
between the LTTE cadres and TMVP members providing security to
the office, two militants were killed. Dead bodies of two LTTE
militants along with one T-56 weapon, three hand grenades, one
cyanide capsule, and mobile phone were recovered from the incident
site.
|
2
|
1
|
| March 26 |
Annamalai/Ampara |
Two TMVP members were killed as a local office
of the party at Annamalai in the Ampara District was attacked,
parts officials said. An unnamed TMVP spokesman blamed the attack
on the LTTE
|
0 |
2 |
|
