Incidents involving Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

2006

• December 31: Two LTTE cadres, including a teenager, who managed to escape from LTTE detention, surrender to the security forces at Galkulama in the Welioya area of Moneragala district.

  LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops in the Kilaly area of Jaffna district, injuring four soldiers. It is suspected that security forces killed at least two LTTE cadres in the retaliatory fire.

• December 30: LTTE cadres, hiding inside the IDP’s camp, open fire towards a group of soldiers distributing foodstuff and medicine to the refugees at the Parangiyamadu IDP centre in the Kiren area of Batticaloa district. In the retaliatory fire, troops kill three LTTE cadres.

  One soldier is killed and two others sustain injuries in a LTTE artillery fire towards Kaddu Murivlikulam in the Welikanda region of Polonnaruwa district.

  Troops kill one LTTE cadre at Nagarkovil in the Jaffna district.

• December 29: A LTTE cadre in the Jayapura area of Trincomalee district kills one home guard, identified as Kotikabeddegedara Punchi Banda.

  LTTE cadres attack on an Army camp in the Punani area of Polonnaruwa district, injuring three soldiers.

  Two persons are injured in an explosion inside a van that was proceeding along De Alwis lane in the Wattala area of Gampaha district.

• December 28: Three soldiers are killed and an equal number of them are injured in a LTTE-triggere claymore mine explosion at Chavakachcheri in the Jaffna district.

  One soldier is killed and five others sustain injuries in a LTTE mortar fire directed from un-cleared areas (area not under Government control) of Maduramkuliya in the Welikanda region of Polonnaruwa district.

  A 19-year-old schoolboy is injured when LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards a sentry point of the SFs in the Manthikai area of Jaffna district.

  LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres shot at and injure one Police personnel at Nelukkulama in the Vavuniya district.

  In the Northern Nagar Kovil area of Jaffna district, LTTE cadres open mortar and small arms fire towards SFs, injuring one soldier.

  Troops retaliate when a group of about eight LTTE cadres open small arms fire towards a mobile patrol of the troops at Janakapura area in the Welioya region. Unconfirmed reports said at least three LTTE cadres may have died in the retaliatory fire.

• December 27: Two LTTE cadres are killed in a clash that ensued between SFs and the outfit’s cadres when they attempted to infiltrate the Muhamalai FDL in the Jaffna district.

  One LTTE cadre is killed by troops in a retaliatory fire when LTTE cadres planting a claymore mine on the Ferry road at Kuruppalmadam in the Batticaloa district lob a grenade towards STF troops who rushed to the spot following information received by civilians.

  LTTE cadres detonate a roadside bomb, killing one Police personnel in Vavuniya town.

  Suspected LTTE cadres reportedly abduct two PLOTE office employees, identified as Mama and Karikalan, from their office in the Puttalam town.

  A 17-year old LTTE cadre surrenders to the Palaminmadu Police in the Batticaloa district seeking safety.

• December 26: Troops during a combined search operation in the Navanthurai area of Jaffna district recover the dead body of a LTTE cadre.

  Four civilians, including two female, sustain injuries when LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade at an Army checkpoint in the Kayts junction area of Jaffna district.

  One soldier sustains injuries when LTTE cadres fired mortar shells on the Mahindapura Army Camp in the Trincomalee district.

• December 25: Three soldiers, identified as Lance Corporal P.A.A. Pushpa Kumara, Private H.R. Dayarathna Bandara, and Private A.M.P.K. Ariyarathne are killed when the LTTE cadres trigger a claymore mine targeting an Army patrol in the Kudamiyan north area of Jaffna district.

  Security forces retaliate when LTTE cadres lob two hand grenades towards troops who were conducting a search and clear operation at Nayanyurai, injuring nine soldiers. During subsequent search, troops recover four dead bodies of the outfit cadres.

  LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade at Mannar Church Police Post, killing One Police Constable and injuring three others.

  The LTTE releases the 25-member crew, including 13 Jordanians, 11 Egyptians and an Iraqi captain, of the captured Jordanian ship Farha 111, which was carrying rice from India to South Africa.

• December 24: Two local LTTE cadres, Jegan and Maradijaan, are killed and six others sustain injuries in a retaliatory fire by STF personnel in the Kanchanakuda area of Ampara district.

• December 23: One home guard sustains injuries when LTTE cadres fire small arms at a Police post in the Central camp area of Ampara district.

  Two LTTE child soldiers surrender to the Rideetenna Army camp in Batticaloa district.

• December 22: The LTTE warns that ongoing violence in Eastern Sri Lanka would escalate into a full-scale war.

• December 21: One home guard sustains injuries in a LTTE grenade attack in the Vavuniya district.

  A soldier is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Jaffna district.

  The LTTE abducts six young passengers who were traveling by bus in the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.

• December 20: LTTE cadres attack a military checkpoint in Mannar district, killing a soldier.

  SF personnel retaliate when a Military patrol escaped a LTTE roadside bomb attack in the Vavuniya district, killing one LTTE cadre.

  Troops recover the dead body of a LTTE cadre from the Vavuniya district.

  Two children, including a two year old infant, are injured when LTTE cadres directed mortar and artillery fire towards the SF’s Kiran camp in the Batticaloa district.

  At Kumburumulla in the Batticaloa district, LTTE cadres injure a civilian.

  LTTE cadres detonate a claymore mine targeting an Army tractor in the Thandikulam area of Vavuniya district, injuring one soldier.

• December 19: 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.

  December 18: Five SF personnel on duty are injured when LTTE cadres operating from the un-cleared areas (area not under Government control) directed mortar fire towards the Government-controlled Kadjuwatte area in Batticaloa district.

  LTTE cadres abduct at least 21 girls, three boys and two teachers while they were returning after private tuition classes in the Vinayagapuram area of Ampara district.

• December 15: Seven internally displaced civilians traveling from Kathiraveli to Vaharai in the Batticaloa district in a tractor are killed when an artillery shell fired by the SLA explodes their vehicle.

  Four unidentified assailants shot dead a civilian, identified as Ambikaipahar Manickavasagar, in the Vepankulam area of Vavuniya district.

  Four LTTE child soldiers between 16-17 years of age surrender to troops at Thirikanamadu in the Batticaloa district.

• December 14: The UNICEF officials in the Batticaloa district hand over at least 12 LTTE cadres, including five injured, who had been forcibly recruited, to the Batticaloa Police.

  Anton Balasingham, political adviser of the LTTE, passes away in London after a spell of illness. A close associate of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabakaran, Balasingham had participated as chief negotiator of the LTTE in almost all political negotiations, beginning with the Thimpu talks in 1985.

• December 13: Troops clashed with the LTTE cadres leaving at least five cadres dead at Meeyankulam and Welikanda area in the Batticaloa district. During a subsequent search operation, 11 of the 12 soldiers who went missing after a clash with the LTTE cadres on October 5 were found dead, and one among them, Sergeant K.M.S. Rathnayake, was found injured and abandoned by the LTTE at the incident site.

  Troops shot dead a LTTE cadre at Ulukkulama village in the Vavuniya district.

  Two soldiers are wounded when LTTE cadres fire mortars towards the troop’s station at Arialai in the Jaffna district.

  Troops found bunkers constructed and abandoned by the LTTE cadres using canopies supplied by the UNHCR meant to provide shelter for IDP at Kajuwatte and Panichchankerni in the Batticaloa district.

  December 12: A soldier is shot dead by suspected LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres at a newspaper office in the Jaffna District.

  LTTE cadres trigger a claymore mine explosion leaving one soldier dead and injuring two others at Kallady area in the Mannar district.

  A woman cadre of the LTTE surrenders at Valachchenai in the Batticaloa district.

• December 11: Government troops clashed with the LTTE in the Eastern province leaving at least 24 soldiers dead and 69 injured. Unconfirmed reports quoting civilians who are in the process of leaving LTTE-held areas, adds that as many as 50-60 LTTE cadres also died in the retaliatory fire by the troops and similar numbers sustain injuries.

  An unidentified civilian is shot dead when LTTE cadres open fire on troops withdrawing to their camp after a search operation in Kokuvil area in the Jaffna district.

  A soldier identified as Sisira Kumara is shot dead by the LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres at 1st Lane Eravur in the Batticaloa district.

  One SF personnel, R.M. Abeysinghe, who was injured in a LTTE claymore mine explosion at Mannar, succumbs to his injuries while he was being airlifted to Anuradhapura hospital.

  Five police personnel and a civilian are injured when a claymore mine planted by LTTE cadres explodes prematurely near the Akkaraipattu Hospital and hit a civilian van in the Ampara district.

  At least three soldiers are wounded when LTTE cadres launch an attack, using 60 mm, 81 mm, 82 mm, 122 mm mortars and artillery rounds on Vavunathivu main army camp.

  Two soldiers are injured when LTTE cadres hurl two hand grenades in succession at an Army duty post in Kokuvil in the Jaffna district.

  A soldier is injured when the LTTE cadres fire mortars on Muhamale defence position in the Jaffna district.

  LTTE cadres abduct four girls and three civilians from Kinniyadi and Kaluvankerni under Valaichchenai and Eravur police station areas in the Batticaloa district.

• December 10: At least 19 civilians are killed and 25 others sustain injuries when SLA personnel fire artillery shells at Kandalady Government School in the Vaharai area of Batticaloa district.

  At least 12 soldiers are killed and 51 others sustain injuries when the LTTE cadres directed heavy artillery and mortars towards Kaddimuravikulam, Kadjuwatta, Kirimichchiya and Madurankerni in the Batticaloa district. A Sri Lankan military spokesperson said that a large number of LTTE cadres are also killed and many more are reportedly injured when the troops retaliated.

• December 9: At least 45 people are reported to have died during clashes between Sri Lankan troops and LTTE cadres in the northeastern district of Trincomalee.

  A suspected LTTE cadre shot dead a civilian, Sellaiya Thangarasa, at VadukodaI in the Jaffna district.

  One soldier, Lance Corporal Fernando, who sustained injuries when Sri Lanka Defence Secretary’s convoy was attacked by an LTTE suicide squad on December 1 at Kollupitiya, succumbs to his injuries at the National Hospital in Colombo.

  At least 13 refugees, including a four-year-old child, are wounded when SLA personnel reportedly fired artillery shells at Paalchenai in the Batticaloa district.

  Two soldiers sustain injuries when LTTE cadres trigger a claymore mine explosion targeting troops in the Point Pedro area of Jaffna district.

• December 8: At least three soldiers are wounded when LTTE cadres trigger a claymore mine targeting an Army foot patrol at Asikulam area in the Vavuniya district.

• December 7: Three soldiers are injured when LTTE cadres fire artillery at the Kallar Army camp in Trincomalee.

  One soldier is injured when the LTTE open fire on troops at an unspecified place between Maharambakulam and Punthottam in Vavuniya.

• December 6: Four civilians are killed and another injured when LTTE cadres trigger claymore mine explosions targeting SF personnel and hit civilians instead, at the Telecommunication Department in the Jaffna district.

  At least three civilians, including a teacher, are killed and nine students sustain injuries, when the LTTE cadres fire artillery targeting the Somadevi School and Kallar village in the Trincomalee district.

  Two soldiers are killed when LTTE cadres trigger a claymore mine explosion targeting an army tractor at Putukkulam in the Vavuniya district.

• December 5: Sri Lankan troops kill at least 16 LTTE cadres in the Vaharai region of Batticaloa district. Two soldiers are reported to have died in the incident.

  LTTE cadres shot dead two civilians in the Vavuniya district.A civilian, Sobamali David, is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres at Point Pedro in the Thumpalai area of Jaffna district. Another civilian, John Jegidas, is wounded in the attack.

  The SLA said two of its soldiers, including a woman, are injured in a mortar attack triggered by the LTTE on the Chenkalady-Badula road in Batticaloa district.

• December 4: At least six LTTE cadres are killed in retaliatory fire when the outfit cadres ambush the STF personnel at Sangaman Kanda in the Ampara district. One soldier succumbs to his injuries while four others sustain bullet injuries during the ambush.

• December 3: A soldier, Lance Corporal Ravi Prasanna, who was injured in a grenade attack by the LTTE on December 2, succumbs to his injuries in the Jaffna district.

  Two Sri Lankan Army personnel, while providing security to the Internally Displaced Persons Centre at Vinayagapuram and Valachchenai in the Batticaloa district, are injured when LTTE cadres attack them with hand grenades.

  A soldier is injured when LTTE cadres attack the Vavunathivu Army camp in the Batticaloa district.

• December 2: One soldier, Private A.M.H. Athapaththu, is killed and another sustains injuries when LTTE cadres hurl a hand grenade at an Army foot patrol in Velvettithurai in the Jaffna district.

  One civilian is reportedly killed during the aerial raid.Troops recover the dead body of a LTTE cadre during a search operation at Mavilaru in the Trincomalee district.

• December 1: A suicide attack by the LTTE targeting the Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who is also the brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, at Dharmapala Mawatha in Colombo injure seven army personnel and seven civilians. Two of the injured army personnel subsequently succumb to their injuries. The suicide bomber rammed his three-wheeler into the convoy of the Defence Secretary. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who was en route to the Presidential Palace for an official meeting, escapes unhurt. The headless body of an unidentified person, believed to be the suicide bomber, is recovered from the incident site. At least eight vehicles, including that of the Defence Secretary, are damaged in the attack.

  Two Sri Lanka Police constables are killed in a claymore mine attack by unidentified assailants near the junction of Clock Tower road and Hospital road near Jaffna town.

  A dead body of a civilian, identified as Ahangama Baduge Karunarathne, suspected to be killed by the cadres of LTTE is recovered near the Chinabay railway station in Trincomalee.

  Four SF personnel are injured when LTTE cadres trigger a blast targeting a SF convoy at Colombo 3 near Pittala junction in the Colombo district.

• November 29: Two unidentified LTTE cadres surrender to the Kadjuwatta Army detachment in Batticaloa.

  Troops arrest a LTTE cadre from a lorry of a food convoy returning from Vakare at Manikerni, while attempting to enter Batticaloa. However, two other cadres manage to escape from the incident site.

• November 28: Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as Somasuntharam Inban, and injure two others at sixth mile post in the Trincomalee district.

  LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, Manikka Vasagam, for his refusal to pay ransom at Meeravodai in the Batticaloa district.

  The LTTE kills one SF personnel and injure two others at Kadjuwatta, in the Batticaloa district.

  Lance Corporal A.M. Vipulasena is killed when LTTE cadres step up their attacks on the troops at Miasmal defence positions in Jaffna.

  One SF personnel is injured when the LTTE fire a mortar targeting defence positions in Nagarkovil and Muhamalai.

• November 27: In his annual Heroes’ day statement delivered at an undisclosed location in the northern part of the country, the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran accuses the Sinhala leaders of "duplicity" and said this left the Tamils with no choice but to strive for "political independence." According to copies of his speech made available to the media, Prabhakaran said, "Both our liberation movement and our people never preferred war to a peaceful resolution. We have always preferred a peaceful approach to win the political rights of our people. We have never hesitated to follow the peaceful path to win our political rights. That is why we held peace talks, beginning in Thimpu right through to Geneva, on several occasions, at various times, and in many countries." He asserted that the LTTE will continue the ‘freedom struggle’, and claimed that President Mahinda Rajapakse had rejected his final call in his Heroes’ Day statement last year to find a resolution to the Tamil national question with urgency.

  Sri Lankan Naval troops destroy a LTTE trawler engaged in smuggling weapons and ammunition and claim to have killed six of its cadres on board at Negombo in the Colombo district.

  At least one soldier is killed and several others wounded when Government troops came under heavy shelling from the LTTE in the Batticaloa district.

• November 26: Sri Lankan Army shot dead at least 21 LTTE cadres in separate incidents in the Batticaloa district.

  A sympathiser of the EPDP, Shankarpilla Senasaran, is killed by LTTE in the Northern Province.

  A civilian, identified as Ramesh, is shot dead by LTTE cadres at Kurusa junction in Trincomalee.

  A suspected LTTE cadre shot dead a civilian, Kanapathipille Sanmuganathan, at Pulolyin in Jaffna.

  Sri Lankan troops arrest two LTTE cadres, D. M. Sudaharan and S. Sivarasa, at Vandaramulai.

• November 25: Elite police commandos kill four LTTE cadres in an encounter in the eastern district of Ampara. The outfit, however, claims four soldiers are killed.

  A civilian is killed when LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade and subsequently fire at the troops at Vandaramoolai in the Batticaloa district.

• November 23: Troops kill at least nine LTTE cadres following the killing of two civilians by LTTE in Batticaloa. Four policemen died in the encounter.

  Four SF personnel are killed and five others injure in an LTTE attack at Bakkiella in Ampara.

  Three SF personnel guarding a checkpoint at Kebitigollawa are killed by the LTTE.

  Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, Sabharathnam Rubez, in his residence at Periyanilawan in Kalmunai.

  A civilian belonging to the Muslim community is shot at and injured by the LTTE cadres at Kalmunai.

  Seven soldiers are injured when terrorists fire with artillery and mortar on troops manning a check point at Kajuwatte in the Batticaloa district.

• November 22: Suspected LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead two civilians, identified as Ponnadorai Ramakrisnan and Kannanthambi Sathrarajah, close to the rail tracks at Sangama in the Trincomalee district.
  
  The Sri Lankan Government states that it is willing to immediately resume stalled peace talks with the LTTE, but accused the outfit of not cooperating. The political wing of the LTTE-breakaway faction led by 'Colonel' Karuna, TMVP, announces that it is ready to lay down arms provided the 'repressive acts' of the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran are brought 'under control'.
  
  The LTTE rejects a Government request for a guarantee that a convoy of essential items to be sent to the northern Jaffna peninsula by road would be allowed to pass safely through the LTTE-held territory.
  
  The LTTE ideologue, Anton Balasingham, is reportedly suffering from an advanced stage of cancer and is battling for his life. He was the chief negotiator for the LTTE in all major negotiations until his illness worsened.

• November 21: One Police constable is injured in a LTTE grenade attack at the Nelliady Magistrate Courts in the Point Pedro area of the Jaffna district.
  
  The Co-Chairs of the Tokyo Donors Conference, the U.S., European Union, Japan, and Norway, issuing a joint statement after meeting in Washington in U.S., condemns the systematic ceasefire violations by both the Sri Lanka Government and LTTE and urges both parties to immediately cease hostilities.
  
  Thousands of Tamil civilians stages a protest in Batticaloa and Mankerni demanding the LTTE to allow more than 30,000 civilians forcibly kept by them in Vakarai and Mankerni areas to cross into Cleared areas (area under Government control) in Batticaloa.
  
  According to sources in Batticaloa, hundreds of civilians protested in front of the Batticaloa office of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission demanding the SLMM to exert pressure on the LTTE to allow civilians to move into Government controlled areas.

• November 20: One soldier is killed and three others sustain injuries when the LTTE cadres triggered a claymore mine targeting a security convoy at Nelliady in Jaffna. Troops retaliate as LTTE cadres launched artillery and mortar fire towards troops on duty in the Kadjuwatte area of Batticaloa district, inuring one soldier.

• November 19: The dead bodies of four unidentified civilians are recovered from the Trincomalee district.
  
  Three bodies are recovered from Allesgarden, a suburb in Trincomalee town, and one from Pattithidal in the Muttur division.
  
  Two civilians, Sebasthiyan Moisath Sivakumar and I. M. Rohith Laxman, are shot dead by the LTTE in the Varadayanagar area of Trincomalee district.
  
  A civilian, identified as D. A. Subramaniyam Indan, is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres in the Thorankadu area of Trincomalee district.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, Anura Dissanayake, in the Mathawiththiyalkulam area of Vavuniya district. LTTE cadres at Awarankal in the Jaffna district kill a civilian, Krishnapille Senthilrajah.
  
  Two civilians, Nithyadasa and Chandrasekaran Raveendran, are abducted by the LTTE from the Vinayagapuram area in Batticaloa district.
  
  A civilian, Ganeshan Dayakaram, is reported to have been abducted by the LTTE from the Valachchenai area of the Batticaloa district.
  
  One LTTE cadre who had run away from a weapon-training camp of the outfit surrenders to the troops at Kadjuwatte Army detachment in the Batticaloa district.
  
  The LTTE launches a pre-dawn attack on a Military post in the Batticaloa district, triggering a fierce battle that left two soldiers wounded, said Military sources.

• November 18: At least 23 persons are killed in continuing fighting between the Sri Lanka military and the LTTE in the northern and eastern parts of the country.
  
  The military sources claim to have destroyed three LTTE gunboats, killing at least 15 cadres at Mannar. However, the LTTE claims that its cadres sank two navy boats, leaving 10 sailors dead.
  
  An explosion targeting a military truck killed four soldiers and four students from a nearby agriculture institute in Vavuniya. However, pro-LTTE website Tamil Net maintains that Sri Lanka Army soldiers manning a check-post close to the Thandikulam Agriculture Farm School in Vavuniya entered the school premises, lined up the uniformed hostel students and fired at them, killing four and wounding eight.

• November 17: The LTTE has rejects President Mahinda Rajapakse's offer to lay down their arms and resume talks to pursue peace, democracy and development in the country, calling it "joke."

• November 16: 18 LTTE cadres are killed and three soldiers sustain injuries in three separate clashes between troops and LTTE cadres in the Batticaloa district.
  
  Security forces in a retaliatory action killed nine LTTE cadres when they open fire towards troops' forward defence line at Kadjuwatta in the Batticaloa district.
  
  LTTE cadres lob two hand grenades towards troops on a search and clear operation in the Nanaddan area of Mannar district, injuring one soldier. In the retaliatory fire, troops kill one LTTE cadre. One civilian and a soldier sustain injuries in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion targeting a vehicle transporting soldiers near the Fort City in Jaffna district.
  
  One Police personnel is injured when LTTE cadres opened fire towards the Police bunker at Semmanthivu in the Mannar district. Two LTTE cadres who deserted the outfit and were on their way to cleared areas (area under Government control) in order to seek protection from the Government troops are captured by farmers working in the fields at Seruwila in the Kantale area of Trincomalee district. They were later handed over to the Seruwila police.
  
  President Mahinda Rajapakse urges the LTTE to lay down their arms and resume talks to pursue peace, democracy and development in the country. British peace envoy Paul Murphy, the architect of Irish peace talks, urges parties to keep the lines of communication open and says that there is striking similarity conflicts in Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka. Defence spokesperson and Minister, Keheliya Rambukwella, said at a media briefing that it had been proved that the LTTE harassed Indian fishermen and used their trawlers to transport war material to strengthen its bases.

• November 15: Four LTTE cadres are killed and one is wounded by the SFs at Ethawetunuwewa in the Welioya area of Moneragala district.

• November 14: SLN destroys a large trawler carrying massive quantities of arms, ammunition and explosives and killed eight LTTE cadres on board in the seas off Kalpitiya, West of Kudiramale, in the Puttalam district. Three soldiers are killed in a LTTE-triggered improvised explosive device explosion at Mantottam roadblock in the Mannar district.
  
  One SF personnel, identified as Private D.M.H. Dassanayake, is killed in a LTTE fire towards troops in the Batticaloa district. LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops on Batticaloa-Polonnaruwa main road while they were passing Komanthurai Junction in the Chenkalady area, injuring one soldier.
  
  LTTE cadres detonate a remote controlled claymore mine explosion targeting troops engaged in route clearing foot patrol duties in the Hiruppeddi area of Jaffna district, killing one soldier identified as Private T.S. Sumanasekara. LTTE cadres fire small arms on a sentry point of the SFs in the Batticaloa district close to Badulla junction, injuring two home guards on duty.
  
  The architect of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, which ended the subversive activities of the IRA, Paul Murphy, reportedly arrives in Sri Lanka to assist the peace negotiations between the Sri Lankan Government and LTTE.
  
  A newly released UNICEF report states that as of October 31, 2006, there were 142 outstanding cases of under age recruitment by the LTTE and all of them were boys. According to UNICEF statistics, as of October 31, 2006, there were 1598 outstanding cases of under age recruitment by the LTTE. Of these, 649 are under the age of 18, and 949 were recruited while under 18 but have now passed that age.

• November 13: One soldier, Private L.R M. Sampath Kumara, is killed and two others sustain injuries when LTTE cadres opened mortar fire towards troops at Ponnar in the Kodikamam area of Jaffna district.
  
  A civilian, identified as Siva Subramaniyam, is shot dead by LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres in the Thattaththari area of Jaffna district.
  
  Troops recover the dead body of a civilian butchered by suspected LTTE cadres from the Kopay area in Jaffna district. Three soldiers are injured as suspected cadres of the LTTE fired artillery and mortars from the un-cleared areas of Vakarai and Kadiraveli targeting the Army detachment in Kadjuwatte of Batticaloa.
  
  In two separate incidents in the Batticaloa district, one Army officer and three soldiers are injured in LTTE artillery and mortar fire. Alan Rock, Special Advisor to the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict accuses elements within the SFs of helping the breakaway faction of the LTTE led by 'Colonel' Karuna to abduct children to recruit as child soldiers and said that there is 'credible evidence' that the Government soldiers have forcibly rounded up the children for the Karuna group.

• November 12: Two civilians, identified as Thumb Ayyahjegan and Kangarupan Kelli, are shot dead by the LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres in the Anaipanthy area of Jaffna district.
  
  Four soldiers sustain injuries in a LTTE artillery fire at Kilaly in the Jaffna district. LTTE cadres fired artillery from Uncleared areas of Poonaryn injuring four soldiers at Kilaly in Jaffna district.
  
  A private car moving along Karapola-Sevanapitiya is damaged while it was in the Sevanapitiya area of Puttalam district due to an LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion. LTTE cadres using small arms and mortar attack the Police post near the 27th Mile Post on Vavuniya-Mannar road, injuring two Police personnel.
  
  A suspected LTTE frontal organization, High Security Zone Residents' Liberation Force, vows to kill majority Sinhalese civilians in southern Sri Lanka in retaliation for the alleged Army bombing of a refugee camp in the Batticaloa district on November 8. It claims to represent Tamils displaced by Army high security zones in the Jaffna peninsula.

• November 11: LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead one civilian, Swarna Kumara, and injured other on the Tihppankulam road in the Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead a civilian, Egodawatte Aratchchige Podimahathmaya, at Kantale in the Palauththu area of Trincomalee district.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, Krishnapiallai Mohandas, and injured another in the Kaththankudi area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Three soldiers are wounded due to explosion of a Rocket Propelled Gun round fired by LTTE cadres in the Sittandy area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Four LTTE cadres, including three teenagers, surrendered to the Kadjuwatta Army detachment in the Batticaloa district.

• November 10: Unidentified assailants shot dead Jaffna district TNA parliamentarian, Nadarajah Raviraj, and his personal security officer near his home at Borella in the capital Colombo. TNA is regarded to be a proxy party of the LTTE.
  
  The SLN destroys one weapon laden LTTE suicide craft and captured another that were sailing in the seas off Nilaveli coast in the guise of ordinary fishing boats in the Trincomalee district. At least six Sea-Tigers aboard are killed, according to the SLN. Sources confirm that one of the boats was also carrying the remains of Ariv Charles, a senior military leader attached to the Charles Anthony Brigade of the outfit, who was killed in a security forces’ retaliatory fire in the Batticaloa district few days back. Reports also said that a LTTE cadre aboard the captured boat committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule when he was taken into custody by naval troops.

• November 9: The SLN personnel foil a major LTTE attack on the civilian passenger vessel 'Green Ocean I' with 300 Jaffna bound civilians from Trincomalee in the sea off Nagarkovil destroying a flotilla of Sea-Tiger boats, including three suicide boats. "We believe more than 40 LTTE cadres were killed in the attack," told SLN spokesperson Commander D.K.P. Dasanayaka, adding, two suicide boats rammed into to two Dvora fast Attack Craft escorting ‘Green Ocean I’, destroying one and damaging the other. However, LTTE's military spokesperson, Irasiah Ilanthirayan, claims that a Sea-Tiger flotilla clashed with the SLN, killing 25 SLN soldiers, capturing four alive and destroying two Dvora Fast Attack Crafts when Sea-Tigers engaged in training activities were provoked by the SLN vessels.
  
  LTTE cadres activate a claymore mine targeting an army motorbike in the Anaipathi area of Jaffna district, killing two soldiers, identified as Sergeant G.A.S. Ganepola and Corporal Bandara.
  
  LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres open fire on troops serving in the general area (area under Government control) of Jaffna district, killing one soldier, Corporal M.G.A. Udaya Kumara Gamage.
  
  A soldier is wounded when an LTTE planted anti-personnel mine exploded at Selvanagar in the Trincomalee district.
  
  The SFs deny the LTTE allegations of shelling the Punarin area in Jaffna while the SLMM representatives were touring the area to explore the feasibility of opening an alternative route to A-9 and stressed that they were not informed of any SLMM movements in that area.

• November 8: More than 45 civilians are killed at Vakarai in the Batticaloa district as a welfare centre was allegedly hit by the retaliatory fire of the military. The SLMM spokeswoman Hellen Ollafsdottir said that monitors who visited the incident site had counted 23 bodies at hospitals where also 135 injured were treated. However, the LTTE claimed that 50 to 100 civilians were killed when "indiscriminate fire" by the military hit a school building where the displaced are housed.
  
  One Home Guard is killed and two others sustained injuries when LTTE cadres lobbed a hand grenade and subsequently opened fire towards Thiruvegama Police Post at Madukanda in the Vavuniya district.
  
  A suspected LTTE cadre is killed in an explosion at his parents' residence at Ilayawan Podi Road in the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.
  
  LTTE cadres fired 81 mm mortars on the Mahindapura Army detachment in the Trincomalee district, injuring five soldiers.
  
  Two soldiers are wounded in an anti-personnel mine explosion in the Kilaly area of Jaffna district.
  
  Another soldier posted at Kialay lagoon area of Jaffna district is wounded when LTTE cadres fired a rocket propeller grenade.
  
  One more soldier sustains injuries in a LTTE grenade attack towards an Army detachment at Arasady in the Jaffna district.
  
  The LTTE has reportedly rejected the Government proposal for an "alternate route" to the A-9 highway. The outfit claims it is not fit for travel.

• November 7: Five women are injured when LTTE mortar fire rounds directed towards Morakottanchenai School, Church and Devapuram Railway Station in the Sittandy area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A soldier is injured in a LTTE fire towards an Army route picket at Nelliadi in the Jaffna district.
  
  The CID said that according to information available to them, nearly 1000 people have disappeared throughout the island since the recent upsurge in violence between the LTTE and Government forces.

• November 6: The dead bodies of three civilians, including two identified as Yogarajah Jayalan and Abdul Jabar Mohamed Mansoor, killed by the LTTE are recovered by the Uppuveli Police in Trincomalee district.
  
  A woman, identified as Thavajee Rasenjani, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Neeraveli area of Jaffna district.
  
  Another woman, M.R.S. Kadiragamanthan Lalitha, is shot dead in the Sakkotai area of Jaffna district. LTTE cadres shot dead another unidentified civilian at Alaveddy in the Jaffna district.
  
  Troops retaliate as two LTTE cadres open fire towards them in the Thirunaveli area Jaffna district. Both of them are killed during the encounter.
  
  Two SF personnel are injured when LTTE cadres lobbed two hand grenades in succession towards the troops at Omanthai Entry/Exit point on the Vavuniya A-9 highway.
  
  A suspected LTTE front organisation has threatened to attack civilian targets, including hospitals and water reservoirs, in southern Sri Lanka in retaliation against military strikes on LTTE areas. The High Security Zone Residents’ Liberation Force, which claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on troops in the north earlier this year, said it is giving the military a final warning to halt attacks on LTTE territory.

• November 5: LTTE cadres kill a woman, Nagamani Rajani Devi, employed in the EPDP office at Putur in the Jaffna district.
  
  An EPDP supporter, identified as Raju, is killed by LTTE cadres in the Valaichchenai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  LTTE cadres ambush an Army foot patrol in the Vandarammoolai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Troops retaliated killing one of the outfit’s cadres.
  
  Two soldiers sustain injuries in a LTTE fire towards troops on duty at the Ilankanthai Army detachment in the Trincomalee district.
  
  The SLMM states that Sri Lanka Government has violated the CFA by the closure of A-9 highway and its continued air attacks on the LTTE-held territory. The SLMM also notes that the LTTE has violated the CFA by launching claymore mine attacks against Government troops.
  
  The Sri Lankan Defence Ministry states that 3300 people have died in Sri Lanka since December 2005 due to the escalation of violence as fighting erupted between Government SFs and the LTTE. Between November 17, 2005 and October 25, 2006, 860 SF personnel and 549 civilians have been killed, the Defence Ministry said. The number of LTTE cadres killed by the SFs has been estimated at 1880. Another 1303 are believed to have been injured.

• November 4: One STF soldier, identified as M. Jayawardana, is killed and two others sustain injuries when LTTE cadres trigger a claymore mine explosion and subsequently opened small arms fire targeting a STF jeep near the 12th mile post on Ampara-Pothuvil road in the Ampara district.
  
  LTTE releases 22 underage recruits who lied about their age to join the separatist campaign. The outfit claims that the youths "joined the movement by lying about their age."

• November 3: LTTE cadres abduct a civilian along with his tractor from the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.
  
  The Indonesian Government is to investigate claims that its waters are being used to ship illegal weapons to the LTTE in Sri Lanka.

• November 2: Seven LTTE cadres are killed and ten others sustain injuries during a clash between the SFs and LTTE cadres in the Kiran area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Five civilians are killed when SLAF jets dropped four shells near a hospital around 3-km from the LTTE headquarter in Kilinochchi.
  
  SLAF jets bombed a Sea-Tiger base north of Mannar after intelligence confirmed that several weapon-laden boats were about to leave the base for a major offensive against the SFs. LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as R. G. Nalin Rathnayake, on the Ganesh road in Trincomale.
  
  One soldier, Corporal K.G.N. Nanda Kumara, is killed and two others were injured in a LTTE artillery fire towards the troops at Muhamale in Jaffna district.
  
  A civilian, who sustained injuries in a LTTE claymore mine explosion on the Goodshed road in Vavuniya on November 1, succumbs to his injuries.
  
  Troops arrest five LTTE cadres, including one leader, from Walikamam West.

• November 1: Troops retaliate when four LTTE cadres opened fire towards them in the Vakaneri area of Batticaloa district, killing two of them, while the others managed to escape.
  
  Two soldiers sustain injuries in LTTE mortar fire towards troops in Muhamale area of Jaffna district.
  
  Three persons, including a civilian, are injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion at the Goodshed road in Vavuniya district.
  
  SFs said that the LTTE is preparing a major offensive towards SFs defences in the Batticaloa, following reports they received about a massive military build up in the Vakarai, from LTTE cadres who surrendered to the troops.
  
  Meanwhile, the LTTE said that SLAF bombed the outfit's targets that could be part of a "major offensive" by the Military. News received from LTTE circles confirm that internationally wanted LTTE arms purchaser K. Pathmanathan alias K. P. Nathan alias K.P., has been reengaged to purchase arms for the LTTE.
  
  A family of three, Sivarajah Yathavan, his wife Abirami Yathavan and, P. Senthuran, father-in-law of Yathavan, has taken full control of the LTTE operations in the state of Victoria in Australia.
  
  Government Defence spokesperson, Keheliya Rambukwella, states that the Government will assist LTTE cadres deserting its ranks and surrendering to the SFs by offering them foreign employment after they are provided a few months of rehabilitation and vocational training.
  
  According to Army statistics, more than 500 LTTE cadres have surrendered to the SFs following the signing of the cease-fire agreement in 2002.

• October 31: A member of the EPDP, identified as Ramalingam Thevathurai, is shot dead by cadres of the LTTE in the Point Pedro area of Jaffna district.
  
  STF soldiers kill two LTTE cadres, identified as Pavakkannan and Satha, belonging to the outfit's political wing at Vinayagapuram in the Ampara district. LTTE cadres fire upon STF personnel who were conducting a search operation in the Mandur Kambiaru area of Ampara district, injuring three of them. One of the three wounded STF personnel, identified as S.M. Sisira, later succumbed to his injuries.
  
  LTTE sources claim to have killed a soldier and injured two others belonging to the Mandur Kampikattu Bridge STF in Batticaloa.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres attack a home guard check-post at Neelapola in the Trincomalee district and kill a home. A soldier is injured in a LTTE mortar fire in the Mahindapura area of Trincomlaee district.
  
  One soldier sustains injuries in a LTTE mortar fire directed towards a sentry point of the SFs at Kattiaratan in Jaffna district.
  
  A LTTE cadre surrenders to the troops at Kajuwatta Army detachment in the Batticaloa district.
  
  The Sri Lankan Navy destroys a boat suspected of transporting arms and ammunition for the LTTE near the Talaimannar seas in the Trincomalee district.
  
  Two of the six persons wounded in the bomb blast on October 26-morning in a vegetable field located on Chelvi Cinema Theatre road at Chenkalady in the Batticaloa district have reportedly succumbed to their injuries.

• October 30: A Pradesiya Sabha member (local councilor) of Illangai Tamil Arasu Katchi party, identified as Kopala Sundaram, is shot dead by unidentified assailants near Serunuwara Junction in the Trincomalee district.
  
  LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead a 16-year youth, Navarathnam Mahindan, in the Jaffna town. A civilian, identified as Krishna Kumar, is shot dead by LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres in the Nallur Kovil area of the Jaffna district.
  
  16 LTTE cadres of the Kadiraveli weapon training camp of the outfit surrendered to the Armed Forces in the Mahindapura and Serunuwara areas of Trincomalee district.
  
  A total of 62 LTTE cadres have deserted the outfit and surrendered to the troops between August 1, 2006 and October 30.
  
  The UNCEF in a report has said that the prolonged conflict between the LTTE and Sri Lankan Government has affected nearly six lakh people in the country's Jaffna Peninsula who are now facing food and fuel shortages due to closure of many businesses.

• October 29: Five civilians and a suspected LTTE cadre, carrying the bomb, are killed and two more civilians sustain injuries when a claymore mine fixed to a bicycle exploded in the Uduuppidy area of Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres shot at and injured four members of a family, including an infant, one 11-year old girl and a woman, in the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.
  
  The 11-year old girl, identified as Pathmanathan Vinodini, succumbs to her injuries later.
  
  One LTTE cadre is killed and two others are injured by the outfit when they reportedly attempted to escape the LTEE camp in the Vandaramoolai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A LTTE cadre, pretending to be a pedestrian, lobs a hand grenade at Police Constables on duty at Rambakulam Police roadblock in the Vavuniya district, injuring one constable.
  
  The two-day talks between the Sri Lanka Government and LTTE concludes in Geneva without an agreement on any of the issues or future engagement. The dialogue reportedly collapsed on the subject of the closure of the A9 Highway, which links Jaffna peninsula and the rest of Sri Lanka. The LTTE insisted that the peace process was contingent on re-opening of the highway, while the Government said it was compelled to close the highway for security reasons and that the LTTE was raking up the issue as it was not serious about discussing "core political issues."
  
  Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said the Government has requested an early date for another round of talks and suggested November 16 or 27. But the LTTE did not give its consent for another round of talks and remained intransigent on the A-9 issue. The LTTE claims that it has agreed to fix a date for next round of talks and asked the A-9 high way is opened before that date.
  
  The outfit's military spokesperson, Irasiah Ilanthirayan, told the media in Geneva that any "Sri Lankan aggression, following the provocation, causing implications on the talks at this critical juncture, would have serious consequences."

• October 28: LTTE cadres shot dead two soldiers in the Mirusuvil area of Jaffna district.
  
  A soldier, identified as Bombardier P.G. Wijesinghe, is killed and another sustains injuries in a LTTE firing in the Mavadivembu area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Troops retaliate as LTTE cadres opened fire towards them in the Ampara district. During subsequent search operations, two dead bodies of LTTE cadres and two weapons are recovered.
  
  Three officers of the elite police Special Task Force (STF) are wounded when suspected LTTE cadres triggered a blast targeting a police truck carrying STF officers in the Batticaloa district. Three Army personnel, including an officer, are injured when LTTE cadres fire mortars targeting troops on Forward Defence Line in the Nagarkovil, Muhamale and Elutumaddual areas of Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres detonate a claymore aiming Police route clearing party in the Veppankulam area of Vavuniya district, injuring three Police constables. LTTE cadres shot at and injured a civilian in the Sittandy area of Batticaloa district.
  
  The two-day peace talks between the Sri Lanka Government and LTTE begins in Geneva with a message from Norway that the former faced the danger of losing the goodwill and foreign aid if the situation did not improve. Head of the Sri Lankan delegation Nimal Siripala de Silva issues a 6,600-word statement at the inaugural of the peace talks, blaming the LTTE for the current situation. In his 3,000-word counter, the LTTE political head and leader of the delegation, S. P. Tamilselvan sought to hold the Sri Lankan Government responsible for the ground situation and declared the peace talks were contingent upon implementation of the 2002 CFA.

• October 27: 'Pistol gang' cadres of the LTTE shot dead a civilian, identified as Weerasinghem Chandra Mohan, at Anjisandi in Jaffna town. A soldier sustains injuries in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion targeting troops in Jaffna district.
  
  Seven young LTTE cadres escape outfit's Kadiraveli training camp on October 25 and surrender to the Kallar Police in the Trincomalee district.
  
  LTTE cadres reportedly abduct 11 children from Batticaloa while they were attending a Pooja (worship) at Murugan Hindu Kovil in the Sittandy area of Batticaloa district.
  
  British newspaper The Times, quoting international and local aid workers, reported that the LTTE-breakaway faction led by 'Colonel' Karuna has abducted between 300 to 900 children - some as young as 12 - since March, 2006.

• October 26: Two civilians are shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres in the 3rd Mile Post area of Trincomalee district. Five children and one woman are injured in an accidental explosion of a grenade that was brought home by a toddler presuming it to be a toy in the Chenkalady area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A claymore mine activated by LTTE cadres targeting troops on picket duties between Padukulam and Marrakkarampalaia in the Vavuniya district injure two soldiers.
  
  LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot at and injure a civilian in the Kaththankudy area of Batticaloa district.

• October 25: LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead a Sinhalese civilian, D. M. Padma Kumara, on the Galwalamatha Kovil road in Vavuniya. LTTE cadres detonate a claymore mine targeting troops patrolling in the Rasendrakulam area of Vavuniya district, injuring one soldier.
  
  Troops retaliated as LTTE cadres opened fire at security forces (SFs) providing security to the Vavunathivu Divisional Secretariat and the Army detachment on Vavunathivu bridge in the same district.
  
  A LTTE cadre who was reportedly on a mission to carry out an attack on an important target in the Colombo city surrenders to the Ja-Ela Police station.

• October 24: Troops on route clearing patrol shot dead a LTTE cadre when he attempted to lob a hand grenade towards them in the Velvetithurai area of Jaffna district.
  
  A civilian, identified as Vinayani Thambi Gunaseelan, who is said to be related to one of the supporters of the TMVP, a LTTE breakaway faction led by 'Colonel' Karuna, is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres at Sunnamkerny in the Meeravodai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  LTTE cadres detonate a claymore mine and subsequently open fire towards troops on duty at Naundil in the Jaffna district, injuring one soldier.
  
  A LTTE cadre, conscripted to the outfit some seven months ago, surrenders to the Army camp at Selwanagar in the Trincomalee district.
  
  The Sri Lanka Navy issuing a special announcement totally bans all dinghies and other small boats in the sea along the coastal zone from Wellawatta, south of Colombo to Uswetakeyiyawa, north of Colombo.

• October 23: Suspected LTTE 'pistol group' cadres shot dead a lorry driver and injure another at Poonthodam in the Vavuniya district. 'Pistol gang' cadres of the LTTE shot dead a civilian, Nadarajah Indran, in the Serunuwara area of Trincomalee district.
  
  A civilian, Sewapada Sharma, is shot dead by a LTTE cadre in the Poontottam area of Vavuniya district. A civilian and a police sergeant are injured in a mortar shell explosion near the police sentry point on the Vavunathivu SLA Forward Defence Line in Batticaloa district.
  
  One civilian and a Police personnel are injured when a LTTE-laid anti personnel mine exploded in the Bakmitiyawa area of Ampara district.
  
  LTTE cadres open fire towards troops on duty at a roadblock in the Thirunaweli area of Jaffna district, injuring one civilian and a soldier.
  
  A civilian is shot at and injured by 'pistol gang' cadres of the LTTE in the Thonthottam Kovil area of Jaffna district.

• October 22: The Government guarantees safe passage for the LTTE delegation for the talks in Geneva.
  
  One soldier is injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Chiviyatheru area of Jaffna district.

• October 21: A 17 year-old boy, Suresh Kumar, who was earlier abducted by the LTTE, is killed by its cadres when he attempted to escape in the uncleared areas (area not under Government control) of Batticaloa district.
  
  LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops in the Vandaramoolai area of Batticaloa district, injuring one soldier.
  
  LTTE cadres abduct two civilians from the Chiruppiddy area of Jaffna district.
  
  Two 14 year-old children, Rasamanikkam Selvaraj and Konam Sathyaraju, are reportedly abducted by the LTTE from the Thanganagar area of Trincomalee district.

• October 20: Sri Lankan Navy boats destroy seven vessels of the LTTE in a sea battle off the coast of Jaffna peninsula, killing at least 35 cadres of the outfit.
  
  Two sailors are wounded in the battle.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, Thyagaraja Nillandan, in the Karaveddi West area of Jaffna district.
  
  A civilian, Kandan Udayakumar, is shot dead by LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres in the Nelliady area Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, Thureisingham Thewajuselyam, in the Puttur area of Jaffna district.
  
  A Police constable is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Pandarikulam area of Vavuniya district.

• October 19: Two SF personnel are killed in a LTTE triggered mine attack at Thandikulam in the Vavuniya district.
  
  One soldier is killed and three others sustain injuries in a LTTE mortar firing on Muhamale Forward Defence Line in the Jaffna district.
  
  SFs overpower and kill a LTTE cadre who tried to lob a hand grenade towards troops conducting a cordon and search operation in the Sandilipai area of Jaffna district.
  
  Jaffna Police recovers the dead bodies of two unidentified civilians, suspected to be killed by the LTTE.
  
  An Army officer on duty sustains injuries in a LTTE-triggered anti-personnel mine explosion in the Kilaky area of Jaffna district.
  
  The LTTE administration in Kilinochchci bans the use of mobile phones in uncleared areas (area not under Government control).
  
  The LTTE agrees to attend the peace talks scheduled to be held at Geneva on October 28-29.
  
  The annual publication of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 'Military Balance 2005/2006', refers to emerging links between the LTTE and al Qaeda.

• October 18: Suspected LTTE cadres carry out a suicide mission on the Dakshina Naval Base in Galle. Troops, however, successfully repulse the attack, killing 15 LTTE cadres, while one sailor also died in the incident. Another 15 sailors and 14 civilians are injured in the confrontation.
  
  A civilian, identified as Anthony Pellai Benadic Rathnam, is killed in a LTTE artillery fire at Thausikulam in the Jaffna district.

• October 17: A civilian, M. Mohan, is shot dead by cadres of the LTTE in the Trincomalee town.
  
  LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead a civilian, K. Baskaran, in the Nallur area of Jaffna district. One civilian, identified as Kututhwaran, is killed by LTTE cadres in the Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead one Police personnel in the Kaththankudi area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Two soldiers are injured in two different LTTE firing incidents at Wedukeni and Muhamalai in the Jaffna district.
  
  The Sri Lanka Air Force conducts air raids on two LTTE sea bases in Mullaittivu and an outfit camp in the Mankulam area.
  
  The LTTE claims that Sri Lankan Kfir bombers destroyed a transmission tower of the Voice of Tigers radio located in the Kokkavil area of Mullaithivu district.

• October 16: At least 98 sailors of the Navy are killed and 100 injured as suspected LTTE cadres rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a naval convoy at Digampatana in the Habarana area of Matale district.
  
  The Grama Seva Niladhari (Village State Official), Marakandu Maheshwaran, for Chiviyatheru in the Jaffna district is shot dead by LTTE cadres while he was on duty at his office.
  
  LTTE cadres detonate a claymore mine targeting a combined Police and Army foot patrol in the Uduppidy area of Jaffna district, killing one Police constable and an Army soldier.
  
  Troops recover the dead body of civilian, identified as Sellaiya Nandakumaran, shot dead by LTTE cadres, from the Sittankerni area of the Jaffna district. Two soldiers sustain injuries in a LTTE artillery and mortar fire towards Muhamalai Forward Defense Line in the Jaffna district.

• October 15: The SLN destroys a LTTE trawler transporting weapons, ammunition and explosives, about 35 nautical miles in the seas off Arippu West in the Mannar district, killing six of the outfit cadres.
  
  Three SLN personnel sustained injuries in the incident. Three Sinhalese civilians, P.K. Gunawardane, P.K.Upali and Ranjith, who along with two Muslim civilians were on a van collecting fruits in the Madavaithyakulam area of Vavuniya district are dragged inside a jungle patch and shot dead by LTTE cadres.
  
  The Muslim civilians are set free. LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead a civilian, Sarawanamuttu Pancharatnam, in the Point Pedru area of Jaffna district. LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, Sabaratnam Arunthurai, at Kopai North in the Jaffna district. A soldier dies in a LTTE mortar attack on the Vavunathivu Army camp in the Batticaloa district.
  
  Police retaliates as LTTE cadres opened fire targeting the Wellaweli Police post in Ampara district and during subsequent search operation recovered the dead body of a LTTE cadre.
  
  Four soldiers sustain injuries when LTTE cadres opened fire towards troops in the Palakkadu area of Batticaloa district. Two home guards are injured in a LTTE fire in the Bakkiella area of Ampara district.
  
  One Police personnel is injured in a LTTE grenade attack targeting a Police picket point at Pandarikulam in the Vavuniya district.
  
  LTTE cadres detonate a claymore aiming a route clearing patrol at Kurusa Junction in the Vavuniya district, injuring one soldier.

• October 14: Three civilians, Vaithilingam Mahenthiran, Nadarasa Navarasa and Navaneethan, are killed and another injured by unidentified assailants at Samalankulam in the Vavuniya district.
  
  Two persons are killed and an equal number of them injured when an unidentified assailant opened fire at a group of civilians in the Oluvil area of Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE launches artillery attacks to Muhamale, Nagarkovil and Kilaly areas in the Jaffna district, killing two soldiers and wounding 13 others.
  
  LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot at and injure two Tamil civilians at Kaththankudi in the Batticaloa district.

• October 13: The SLA confirms that it lost 129 soldiers in fighting with the LTTE in Jaffna peninsula on October 11.
  
  It also confirmed that the outfit buried 196 of its cadres in the uncleared areas (area not under Government control) of Sunokkai, Kilinochchi, Mannar, Omanthai and Mullaithivu. 283 soldiers and 312 LTTE cadres are inured in the confrontation. The SLA informs that the LTTE has handed over 74 dead bodies of the soldiers to the Red Cross.
  
  One soldier is killed and three others sustain injuries in LTTE fire towards troops at Omanthai in the Vavuniya district.
  
  The LTTE chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, refuses to meet the Japanese special peace envoy, Yasushi Akashi, who is scheduled to hold talks with the outfit on October 18.

• October 12: The Sri Lankan Military claims that at least 478 persons, including 78 soldiers and 400 cadres of the LTTE, are killed in a five-hour battle in the Jaffna peninsula along the FDLs in the Kilani and Muhamalai sectors on October 11.
  
  The Sri Lanka Air Force Kfir jets launch attacks against several LTTE targets in the Palai area, south of Muhamale, from where LTTE continuously used to launch artillery and mortar attacks on the troops after hiding in prepared positions and elsewhere.
  
  The LTTE continues their intermittent artillery and mortar attacks on the Muhamale and Kilaly FDLs. LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead four civilians, including three EPDP members, on the Electricity Board road in Jaffna town.
  
  Three civilians and two police personnel are killed when a LTTE laid claymore mine on Kachcheri road in the Jaffna district, targeting a vehicle that was carrying EPDP members, hit the victims standing nearby.
  
  Troops recover the dead body of a civilian, identified as Balasubramanium Sudaharan, abducted earlier by LTTE cadres from the Valaichchenai area of the Batticaloa district. SFs kill two LTTE cadres at an Army roadblock in the Thikkam area of Jaffna district.
  
  Two Police constables on duty in the Kattaiparichchan area of Trincomalee district sustain injuries in a LTTE grenade attack. Fighting erupts between SFs and the LTTE in the Ampara district.

• October 11: At least 50 SLA personnel, including seven officers, are killed and another 214 are injured in continued fighting between Government troops and LTTE at the Muhamale and Kilaly FDLs of SFs since morning.
  
  An 81-year old woman, Manniyakka, sustains injuries in a LTTE artillery fire and later succumbed to her injuries in the Kodikamam area of the Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead a civilian and injured another in Jaffna town. A bullet indiscriminately fired by LTTE cadres towards an Army point in the Sittandy area of Batticaloa district kill a schoolteacher, Kadiragamar Podisivagnanam, in a nearby school while he was teaching his class.
  
  One soldier is killed and three others sustain injuries in a LTTE artillery and mortars fire towards Vellampakkaddy defensive area. LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres shot dead a Police constable on duty inside Mallakam court complex in Jaffna.
  
  Troops recover the dead body of a LTTE cadre left behind by fleeing outfit cadres after they failed to attack a sentry point in the Sittandy area of Batticaloa district.
  
  At Madamkulam in Jaffna district, five soldiers suffered injuries when LTTE cadres launched artillery attacks on SFs positions.

• October 10: Three civilians are killed and three others injured when LTTE cadres allegedly detonate a claymore mine fixed inside a van in the Poonthottam area of Vavuniya district.
  
  LTTE cadres detonate a claymore mine and subsequently open fire towards troops in the Vandaramoole area of Batticaloa district.
  
  In retaliatory fire, two LTTE cadres are killed and five others are wounded. Troops after observing a large gathering of LTTE cadres who were poised to attack the Kiran Army camp, pounds artillery and mortars successfully on their movements causing death to two of their cadres and injuring three others.
  
  A Police Constable sustains injuries when Police personnel on foot patrol in the Thirunaveli area of Jaffna district came under LTTE small arms fire.

• October 9: LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as Selvarajah Idayarajan, in the Kokuvil area of Jaffna district. A Samurdhi Niyamaka (Pilot officer of Poverty Alleviation Programme) in the Ampara district shot at and injured by LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres on October 8, succumbs to his injuries. A soldier on duty at Averikadu in the Jaffna district is killed in a LTTE mortar fire. Another soldier, who was injured in a LTTE sniper fire directed on Muhamale FDL on October 8, succumbs to his injuries.Five SLA soldiers are killed and four others sustain injuries when cadres of the LTTE launch an artillery and mortar attack towards troops in the Muhamalai area of Jaffna district.
  
  The LTTE hands over the dead bodies of 11 SLA personnel, who went missing during the continued clashes between SFs and the LTTE in the Batticaloa district which erupted on October 6 when the outfit cadres launched a heavy ground attack using artillery, mortar and small arms on Army detachment at Mankerni and Kajuwatta to the ICRC.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead one Police personnel in the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.
  
  SFs re-capture areas west of Muttur in the Trincomalee district, where LTTE activities were confined to since the military regained control of Sampur last month.

• October 7: A former member of the EPDP, Nagarasa, is shot dead by LTTE cadres at Mallakam in the Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres fire upon troops who were on a route clearing operation in the Thirunaveli junction area of Jaffna district, killing one soldier.
  
  Two soldiers sustain injuries due to LTTE artillery fire at Meesalai-East in the Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards Police personnel on duty at the Kurumankadu Police post in the Anuradhapura district, injuring two police personnel.
  
  A soldier is injured in a LTTE sniper attack at Vavunathivu in the Batticaloa district.

• October 6-7: At least 60 LTTE cadres are killed and an unspecified number of them injured when clashes between SFs and the LTTE in the Batticaloa district erupted on October 6 when the outfit cadres launched a heavy ground attack using artillery, mortar and small arms on Army detachment at Mankerni and Kajuwatta.
  
  2 soldiers area also killed and 15 others sustained injuries, while 12 others are reported missing.
  
  A fleet of five LTTE Sea-Tiger boats transporting additional cadres and weapons to Mankerni are blocked and attacked by the SLN craft in the seas off Kadiraweli in the Trincomalee district destroying two of them completely with LTTE cadres on board.
  
  LTTE cadres blast the Panichchankerni Bridge causing inconvenience nearly to 30,000 civilians.

• October 5: LTTE cadres trigger a claymore mine explosion targeting troops on route clearing duty at Kokkeliya in the Vavuniya district, killing one soldier and injuring two others.
  
  Nine soldiers sustain injuries in LTTE mortar and artillery fire towards troops in the Eluthumadduval, Nagarkovil and Muhamalai areas of Jaffna district.
  
  Four soldiers are injured in a LTTE fire towards troops on duty at Kilaly FDL in Jaffna district.
  
  Peace talks between the Sri Lanka Government and LTTE will be held on October 28-29 in Switzerland.
  
  Government Chief Negotiator, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, said, "We have agreed for talks on October 28 and 29 in Switzerland. If the response is positive we should be able to resume negotiations," adding, that they were waiting for the LTTE's reaction which is to be conveyed within a couple of days. He also demands, "The LTTE must also immediately cease all acts of violence."

• October 4: A civilian is abducted along with his vehicle and subsequently shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Kondavil area of Jaffna district.
  
  Three civilians and two soldiers are injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Nelliadi area of Jaffna district.
  
  At least seven LTTE cadres are injured in a retaliatory fire by troops posted at Vavunathivu Army camp in the Batticaloa district following a LTTE mortar and small arms attack on the camp.
  
  Two soldiers sustain injuries when LTTE cadres attacked the Kilaly FDL in Jaffna district. Federal prosecutors in Baltimore in Indonesia announce that six men, who were charged with attempting to export weapons to Indonesia and to the LTTE, are facing additional charges.
  
  The Sri Lanka Government agrees to hold unconditional peace talks with the LTTE in Geneva on October 28-30.

• October 3: One soldier is injured due to explosion of an anti-personnel mine laid by LTTE cadres at Chiviyatheru west in the Jaffna district.
  
  Police personnel retaliate LTTE firing in the Murunkan area of Mannar district and during subsequent search operation recovers the dead body of one LTTE cadre.
  
  The LTTE states that they have agreed to unconditional peace talks with the Sri Lankan Government but warned that they would pull out of the 2002 cease-fire agreement (CFA) altogether if the Government continues with its Military campaign.

• October 2: Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead a police officer at Pottuvil police station in the Amparai district.

• October 1: Four civilians and a soldier are injured in a LTTE grenade attack targeting troops in the Chunnakam area of Jaffna district.
  
  Troops retaliate as LTTE cadres launched artillery and mortar attack on the Eluthumadduwal Forward Defence Line of SFs in the Jaffna district, injuring four soldiers.

• September 30: Government officials claim that 16 cadres of the LTTE, including its Koaveli leader, Kannan, are killed in an encounter with the STF at the Pillumale Police post in the Amparai district However, the LTTE military spokesperson, Irasiah Ilanthirayan, states that 11 outfit cadres were killed in an ambush carried out by the STF inside outfit-held territory in the Batticaloa district and that the bodies of the dead cadres were transferred in Military vehicles into the STF-controlled area.
  
  Eight LTTE cadres, including a senior cadre identified as Malarvan who led the attack, are killed and 15 others wounded by SFs in a retaliatory fire at the Thamparaveli outfit base following a LTTE attack on the Chenkaladi Army camp in the Batticaloa district.
  
  Three Police personnel are killed when suspected LTTE cadres detonated a claymore fragmentation mine in the Vavuniya district.
  
  SLN personnel kill three LTTE cadres in an encounter at Kannathivu island in the Jaffna district. A former member of the EPDP, Ponnaiya Srikaran, is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres in the Point Pedro area of Jaffna district.
  
  Two civilians are abducted by the LTTE cadres from the Thamparaveli area to an undisclosed destination. The Sri Lanka Government states that any future peace talks with the LTTE would hinge on its chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, agreeing in writing or verbally to three major conditions.
  
  The conditions include a specific time frame to resume and conclude talks, an assurance to the Donor Co-chairs that it will not use sea routes to smuggle in military hardware and a commitment not to resort to any violence during the period of talks.

• September 29: Three soldiers and a civilian were killed as cadres of the LTTE launch a mortar attack on the Black bridge Army camp in the Chenkaladi area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Two more soldiers sustain injuries in the incident. The SLN claims to have destroyed a Sea-Tiger boat killing four cadres and recovered a large cache of armament from the Velanithurai area of Jaffna district.
  
  The bullet riddled dead bodies of three civilians, identified as Sellaiya Navaratnaraja, Chandralingam Devaneshan and Kandasami Sri, are recovered from the Vinayagapuram area in the Batticaloa district.
  
  Police said one of the victims is beheaded and that a group calling itself ‘People's Tamil Organization’ has claimed responsibility for the killings in a note near the bodies. LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, R. Ampalangan, at Irupalai in the Jaffna district.
  
  A Police constable is shot dead and three others are wounded by suspected LTTE cadres in the Vavuniya town.
  
  Three soldiers are injured in LTTE firing towards troops on duty in the Ariyalai area of Jaffna district.
  
  A soldier receives injuries due to LTTE triggered explosion of anti personnel mine at Vempotukerni in the Batticaloa district. According to federal officials, arms brokers for the LTTE and other customers in Indonesia are charged with trying to buy surface-to-air missiles and other weapons through undercover agents in Maryland.
  
  The Government decides to withdraw visas issued to members of four INGOs, which through their alleged clandestine dealings with the LTTE are posing a threat to national security. The committee has recommended withdrawal of the visas issued to MSS France, MSS Spain, MDM France and Doctors of the World USA. September 28: One soldier is killed and two others sustain injuries when LTTE cadres fire artillery towards the SF Forward Defence Line at Muhamalai in the Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres, using mortars, intermittently attack troops deployed in the Ampan area, injuring three soldiers.
  
  A soldier is injured during an APM explosion carried out by the LTTE in the Kattiaran area of Ampara district. One soldier is injured in a LTTE-triggered APM explosion in the Ponnar area of Ampara district.
  
  One civilian is injured in a LTTE mortar fire directed towards the Sangamankanda Special Task Force camp in the Ampara district.

• September 27: A suspected LTTE cadre shot at and wounded a woman in the Uduppidy area of Jaffna district. One LTTE cadre surrenders before the troops at the Kadjuwatta Army camp in the Trincomalee district.

• September 26: One soldier is killed in a LTTE fire in the Eluthumadduval area of Jaffna district.
  
  Two children are injured when suspected LTTE cadres shot at them in the Kalawanchikudi area of Batticaloa district.
  
  One Army officer is injured in an APM explosion carried out by LTTE cadres in the Selvanagar area of Trincomalee district.
  
  One soldier received injuries in an APM explosion, planted by LTTE during a clearing operation in the Muhamalai area of Jaffna district.
  
  A LTTE cadre surrenders before the troops at the Kallar Army detachment in the Batticaloa district.
  
  A LTTE suspect, identified as Piratheepan Nadarajah, who faces extradition to the U.S. on terrorism charges is granted bail in Canada. Nadarajah is alleged in U.S. court documents, as a scientist and technical expert who intentionally conspired to provide material support to the LTTE.

• September 25: A civilian, identified as Mohammed Musur, is shot dead by a suspected LTTE cadre in the Trincomalee town.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres detonate a roadside bomb in Vavuniya, killing a SLAF personnel and injured another.
  
  One soldier is injured in a LTTE fire in the Kalladichchenai area of Trincomalee district.
  
  Six LTTE cadres surrender at the Home Guards point at Rideetenna in the Welikanda area of Pollonaruwa district, after escaping from the LTTE’s military stations in Vakarai.

• September 24: At least 70 LTTE cadres are killed by the SLN as they attacked a flotilla of 24 boats of the LTTE and sunk eight of them loaded with outfit’s cadres and weapons in a fierce sea- battle that started on late September 24-night and lasted for five hours. The battle occurred off the coast of the eastern town of Pulmoddai in the sea 50-miles north of the Trincomalee harbour. Police chief Percy Perera said that a top LTTE commander is believed to be killed or injured during the clash, adding, the boats were bringing in reinforcements.
  
  At least 15 LTTE cadres are killed as SFs launched artillery fire on a group of LTTE cadres who had opened fire towards troops in the Pulipanchikal area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Troops retaliate LTTE fire in the Iluppkulam area of Trincomalee district and recovered the dead bodies of two outfit cadres from the incident site during the subsequent search operation. Four civilians abducted by LTTE cadres from Hiralugama in the Anuradhapura district return home safely.
  
  According to reports, thousands of Muslims are fleeing their homes in Muttur after a previously unknown suspected rebel front, Tamileela Thayaga Meedpu Padai, distributed leaflets in the town warning residents to leave immediately. "The final preparations have begun to recapture Mutur," the leaflet said, adding, "Do not remain in Mutur. You will only face destruction." Meanwhile, the LTTE denies any involvement in the distribution of leaflets warning residents to leave immediately.

• September 23: Three home guards sustain injuries in a LTTE fire on the Police post at Bakmitiyawa Kovil junction in the Damana area of Ampara district.
  
  A home guard is injured when LTTE cadres open fire towards the Pillumalai Special Task Force camp in the Ampara district.

• September 22: Two LTTE suspects are killed when they detonated a hand grenade while the Police were trying to arrest them in the Udappuwa area of Puttalam district.
  
  Police arrests a suspected LTTE cadre at a checkpoint in the Medawachchiya town of Vavuniya district along with two suicide explosive belts, a claymore mine, detonators, remote controls and timers while on the way to the capital Colombo in an alleged plot to attack high-ranking Army or Government officials, the military said.

• September 21: The dead bodies of three civilians, identified as Ilambaram Lewd Kumara, Selvadorei Kadeeshwaran and Kumar, are recovered by troops from the Illavali area in Jaffna district.
  
  A woman, identified as Rajendran Yaso, is shot dead by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres while she was in the general area (area under Government control) of Petale-Valaichchenai in the Batticaloa district.
  
  Another woman, identified as Ilayathambi Appuda Malar, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A civilian, identified as Thambirajah Kandanadan, is shot dead by the LTTE in the Wilpattu sanctuary area close to Andimunai in the Puttalam district.
  
  Elsewhere, the same group of LTTE cadres lobbed a hand grenade towards civilians in the Chilaw area, injuring two of them.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a postman, Navarasa Thavarsa, attached to the Thelippalai Post Office in the Chankani area of Jaffna district. A civilian, K. Amirthalingam, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Velvetithurai area of Jaffna district.
  
  One soldier is injured in an exchange of fire between troops and LTTE cadres in the Kodikamam area of Jaffna district.
  
  During subsequent search operations, troops recover the dead body of one LTTE cadre from the incident site. Three Sinhala civilians, employed as labourers for a Tsunami reconstruction site in the Komari area of Ampara district, sustain injuries in a LTTE grenade attack.
  
  One soldier is injured in an LTTE attack at Iruppukulam in the Vavuniya district.
  
  According to reports, a cluster of LTTE boats trying to reach the shores off Nagarkovil area are chased away by the troops after firing towards them.

• September 20: September 20: A civilian, Mailvanam Kohulan, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Valaichchenai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A civilian, Subramaniyam Gurukal Siwanadan, is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres in the Karanavai area of Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres launch small arms fire attacks towards the troops on duty at Muhamalai in Jaffna district, killing one soldier.
  
  Troops open fire after spotting a group of LTTE cadres moving ahead of them in the Eluthumadduval area of Jaffna district. During the subsequent search operation, they recovered the dead body of an LTTE cadre along with two T-56 weapons and three hand grenades from the incident site.
  
  Secretary of the Miravodai Pradeshiya Sabha (local council), S.M. Siyabdeen, narrowly escapes death when LTTE cadres fired at him.
  
  Three LTTE cadres are killed by the police in an encounter that lasted for five hours at Isamalai in the Murunkan area of Mannar district.
  
  The only survivor of the Pottuvil massacre, who is now at the Ampara hospital, claims that the LTTE killed his colleagues at the anicut.

• September 19:September 19: One civilian is shot and injured by two suspected LTTE cadres in the Jaffna district.
  
  A group of journalists escape unhurt but four soldiers are killed when the LTTE fired mortars at a vehicle convoy carrying journalists in the Muhamalai area of Jaffna district.
  
  The Sri Lankan Air Force attack LTTE positions in the Batticaloa district, where soldiers escaped injury from a roadside bomb explosion. One LTTE cadre involved in the blast is later arrested.
  
  The Sri Lankan Government states that the LTTE ship that was destroyed by the Navy on September 17 in the sea off Kalmunai in the Batticaloa district originated in Indonesia.

• September 18: At least 11 civilians, belonging to the Muslim community, are killed at Pottuvil town in the Amparai district. Both the LTTE and Sri Lankan Army accuse each other of being involved in the killing.

• September 17: The Sri Lankan Navy and Air Force in a coordinated attack on September 17 sank a suspected LTTE ship carrying weapons in the sea off Kalmunai in the Batticaloa district. Unconfirmed reports suggest that 12 to 15 LTTE cadres were on board the ship, when it sank.
  
  Two civilians, including a child, are killed and three others, including a woman, are injured when unidentified assailants opened fire at them in a house located along Ambal Road in the Anpuvallipuram area of Trincomalee district.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres detonate a roadside bomb targeting SFs on foot patrol in the Trincomalee district, wounding four persons. The injured includes three civilians and a soldier.
  
  The Sri Lankan authorities exhume the bodies of three aid workers for a French charity - Action Against Hunger - who were among 17 killed in Muttur in August.

• September 16: One civilian is killed and two others sustain injuries when unidentified assailants attacked a pick-up truck carrying Ceylon Electricity Board workers near Chunnakam power station in Jaffna district.
  
  One LTTE cadre is killed by troops in a retaliatory fire in the Valachchenai area of Batticaloa district.

• September 15: A Naval personnel was killed by LTTE cadres in the Trincomalee town.
  
  Troops attack LTTE targets in the Trincomalee district.
  
  The newly appointed chief of the SLMM, Larse Solveberg, visits the LTTE administrative headquarters at Kilinochchi and hold discussions with the head of the outfit’s political wing leader, S.P. Tamilselvan.
  
  The Army releases a CD containing photographs of the aerial attacks carried out by the Air Force on identified LTTE targets in the north and east. It contains a list of 11 locations.

• September 14: Three civilians are shot dead by suspected LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the Mathawathakulam area of Vavuniya district.
  
  A civilian, identified as Arunasalam Satkunarajah, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Trincomalee town.
  
  One SLA officer and a soldier are injured in a LTTE artillery fire towards the SFs in the Muhamale area of Jaffna district.
  
  Four LTTE cadres, including two minors, surrender to the Mankerni Army detachment in the Punani area of Batticaloa district.

• September 13: One Police constable is killed as police retaliated an LTTE attack on a Police post in the Murunkan area of Mannar district. A soldier is killed as he got trapped in a LTTE booby trap in the Kilaly area of Jaffna district.
  
  The dead bodies of two of the three home guards, who went missing since September 11-afternoon after LTTE terrorists opened fire at them while they were on duty in the Kuriniyankulam area of Trincomalee district, are recovered. Another missing Home Guard is found lying injured beside the two dead bodies.
  
  One soldier is killed and four others are wounded when LTTE fire artillery shells and mortar bombs at the SFs defense line in the Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres attack SFs foot patrol in the Nagarkovil area close to Muhamale in Jaffna district, killing two soldiers.
  
  Three soldiers are injured in an attack by the LTTE cadres towards Muhamale Army camp in the Jaffna district.
  
  One of them later succumbs to his injuries. One soldier is killed in a LTTE mortar bomb attack in the Trincomalee district.
  
  SFs kill two LTTE cadres when they attacked a military camp in the Vavuniya town Two police personnel who are shot at and wounded by two LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres who boarded a bus on its way from Kalawanchikudy in the Batticaloa district, disguised as passengers, on September 12, succumbs to their injuries today.
  
  One LTTE cadre swallows cyanide capsule and commit suicide when troops tried to overpower him as he attempted to lob a hand grenade towards them in the Valachchenai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  At least 13 civilians, including three women, were injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Vavuniya town.
  
  Two soldiers are injured when LTTE cadres detonated a claymore mine using remote control device targeting troops in an area between Nelukkulam and Raasedrakulum of the Vavuniya district.
  
  Troops retaliate two separate LTTE attacks near the Mavil Aru defense line and a bunker in the same area of Trincomalee district, injuring at least three outfit cadres. One SF personnel is also injured in the incident.
  
  One soldier is injured in a LTTE fire towards the Kilaly Forward Defence Line of SFs in the Jaffna district. LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade at the political office of TMVP, a breakaway faction of the outfit led by ‘Colonel’ Karuna, in the Chenkalady area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A LTTE area leader and his two bodyguards who accompanied the bodies of five LTTE child soldiers killed in recent Jaffna battles to be handed over to their parents in Adampan in the Mannar district are assaulted by villagers.

• September 12: September 12: An infant and her father were shot dead by LTTE cadres at their home in the Adikovil area of Jaffna district.
  
  A civilian, Sellaiyana Nadaraj, is stabbed to death by LTTE cadres in the Nelliady area of Jaffna district.
  
  A LTTE cadre who tried to lob a hand grenade towards troops in the Ganeshapuram area of Vavuniya district is overpowered and killed by troops.
  
  Three civilians and an equal number of police personnel were injured when LTTE cadres detonated a claymore mine targeting a police vehicle, close to a school that has housed displaced people in the Trincomalee town.
  
  Two police personnel are shot at and wounded by two LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres who boarded a bus on its way from Kalawanchikudy in the Batticaloa district, disguised as passengers.
  
  Three home guards out of a group of four on duty in the Kuriniyankulam, area of Trincomalee are missing since September 11-afternoon after LTTE terrorists opened fire at them while they were on duty in the area.
  
  LTTE cadres abduct a 15-year-old boy, A. Subhaschandra, from the Karuwankerny area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A Government official stated that 185 combatants are killed over the past six days of battle between SFs and LTTE in the Jaffna district. Military spokesperson Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said that SFs and LTTE cadres traded artillery fire across their front lines at Muhamalai on Jaffna Peninsula since September 7 and sporadic exchanges of fire continued on September 12. He added that the 35 soldiers and 150 cadres were killed in the fighting. However, the LTTE peace secretariat leader, Seevanatnam Puleedevan, claims that only 12 of the outfit’s cadres were killed and said the military's toll was 78.

• September 11: Two soldiers are killed in LTTE artillery fire towards Army detachments in and around Muhamalai, Kilaly, Kodikamam in the Vidattapalai area of Jaffna district.
  
  A civilian, identified as Nahaman Shanmugan, who reportedly refused to plant an LTTE bomb targeting troops is shot dead by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the Chenkalady area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Two female cadres of the LTTE, arrested from Nelliady in the Jaffna district, swallowed cyanide capsules and tried to commit suicide while in Police custody. One of them died later.
  
  The Sri Lankan Army said that at least 163 persons, including 130 LTTE cadres and 33 soldiers, are killed in the confrontations in Jaffna since September 8. Reports added that 130 LTTE cadres are among the 260 wounded.
  
  Unidentified assailants in the Trincomalee district kill an aid worker, identified as Ragunathan Ramalingam, for the Seattle-based non-profit group, World Concern.

• September 10: Three soldiers are killed in a LTTE triggered-pressure mine explosion in the Asikkulama area of Vavuniya district.
  
  A civilian is shot at and injured by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the Chundikuli area Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres detonate a claymore mine targeting troops on foot patrol near the Jaffna Hindu College, injuring one civilian.
  
  The dead bodies of at least 11 LTTE cadres are recovered from the newly captured Forward Defence Lines, and are handed over to the ICRC.

• September 9-10: At least 150 LTTE cadres are killed in the continuing battle between SFs and the outfit at Muhamalai, the northern gateway to the Jaffna peninsula on the A-9 main supply route, and its surroundings areas. 28 soldiers are killed while 120 others sustain injuries in the incident.

• September 9: Two soldiers are killed and 15 sustain injuries when SFs launch an attack on LTTE artillery and mortar positions near the de facto border between Government and the outfit-held areas in the Jaffna peninsula.
  
  A civilian, Nandaraja Jagadeeswaran, is shot dead by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the general area (area under Government control) of Jaffna district.
  
  Two LTTE cadres, Sutha and Viji. P. Thayamohan, are killed by SFs in the Valaichenai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres shot at and injured a civilian in the Potankadu area of Trincomalee district.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres shot at and injured a civilian in the Potankadu area of Trincomalee district.

• September 8: One civilian and a soldier are killed and three other civilians, including a woman and a child, sustain injuries when LTTE cadres activated an explosive device using a remote control in the Chenkalady town area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Six civilians, including two schoolgirls, and one police personnel are injured in a claymore mine explosion in the general area (area under Government control) of Vavuniya district.
  
  The dead body of a civilian, abducted a day earlier by LTTE cadres, is recovered from the incident site.
  
  One soldier is injured in a LTTE grenade attack at troops in the Velvetithurai area of Jaffna district.
  
  Another soldier is injured in a LTTE mortar fire on the SFs Forward Defence Line in the Muhamalai Entry/Exit point area of Jaffna district.
  
  One soldier s injured in a LTTE attack towards troops on duty at Vavunathivu Divisional Secretariat building in the Jaffna district.

• September 7: One soldier is killed and six others, including three officers, are wounded in a LTTE mortar and artillery fire in the Muhamalai, Kilaly and Neravilkulam areas of Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres fire artillery towards the SFs FDL in the Kilali area of Jaffna district, killing one soldier.
  
  Two soldiers are injured in a LTTE anti-personnel mine explosion in the Navatkuli area of Jaffna district.

• September 6: At least three civilians are killed and 10 others injured in artillery fire by SLA troops towards the LTTE held territories in the Kathiraveli town of Batticaloa district.
  
  LTTE cadres, hiding in jungles of Kadiravely area in the Trincomalee district, south of Mavilaru, open artillery fire towards troops near the Mavilaru sluice gate, killing two soldiers and injuring 16 others.
  
  A civilian, identified as Sivarasa Sivasekaran, is shot dead by LTTE cadres at Kokuvil in the Jaffna district. One woman is also injured in the incident.
  
  Another civilian, Sathgunarasa Rusanthan, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Thirunelveli area of Jaffna district.
  
  One soldier is killed and three others sustain injuries in a LTTE artillery and mortar fire on SFs Forward Defence Line at Nagarkovil in the Jaffna district.
  
  Troops kill one LTTE cadre in the Eathawetunawewa area of Trincomalee district. One civilian is injured in a LTTE fire in the Meesalai Perumkulam area of Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres fire mortars towards the SFs FDL in the Muhamalei area of Jaffna district, injuring two soldiers. One police constable attached to the Mannar Police station is shot and injured by LTTE cadres on Pallaimunnai road.
  
  Another police personnel is injured in a LTTE grenade attack towards Police personnel providing security to the S L M M office in Vavuniya.

• September 5: An active member of the EPDP, Nallathambi Punarathnam, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Valaichchenai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A civilian is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Vinayagapuram area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A civilian, identified as Vishwalingam, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Trincomalee district as he refused to pay extortion money to the outfit cadres.
  
  LTTE cadres open fire from the Pallukudiyaruppu area towards troops on clearing operation at Sampur in the Trincomalee district, killing one soldier and injuring 31 others.
  
  LTTE open fire towards the Selvanagar Army camp in the Sampur area of Trincomalee district killing one soldier and injuring four others.
  
  LTTE cadres open fire on troops in the Mavilaru area of Trincomaleee district, injuring a soldier.
  
  A suspected LTTE cadre lobs a hand grenade targeting a strong point of the SFs in Kokuvil area of Jaffna district, injuring a civilian, as the grenade missed its intended target.
  
  LTTE detain at least 15 trucks out of a total of 127 that entered into the Kilinochchi and Mullaittivu districts with consignments of essential food items during 26th August - 1st September 2006.

• September 4: The Sri Lankan military claims that it had taken control of the strategically crucial town of Sampur in the Trincomalee district. The military backed by air support had launched an offensive to take control of Sampur over a week ago to halt attacks by the LTTE on the strategic port of Trincomalee harbour and the naval base.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as Loganadan, in the Avarankal area of Jaffna district.
  
  A civilian along with his wife and daughter is slain by a LTTE cadre in the Inuvil area. The victim, Muththuthambi Jeganadan, dies on admission to the hospital, but his wife and daughter escaped with minor injuries.

• September 3: A suspected LTTE cadre short dead a civilian, identified as Sellaiya Sevaraja, near the Kalaimagar School in the Trincomalee town.
  
  A soldier is killed in LTTE artillery fire towards the Selweanagar Army detachment in Trincomalee district.
  
  Two soldiers are injured in a LTTE mortar attack towards the troops at Eluthumaduval FDL in Jaffna district.
  
  The Sri Lanka Government freezes bank accounts of TRO, a non-government organisation and a registered charity with the Government with its head office at Kilinochchi that operates mainly in the northeast and is believed to be a front organisation of the LTTE. The Financial Intelligence Unit of the Central Bank has begun investigating the TRO financial transactions under the recently introduced Financing of Terrorism Law.
  
  The Australian police has launched investigations into several Tamil organisations in the country after the United States FBI accused the Tamil community here of supporting LTTE in Sri Lanka.

• September 2: One soldier is killed and two others sustain injuries in a LTTE artillery fire targeting troops at Nagarkovil Forward Defence line. Troops confirm that at least 15 LTTE cadres, including two area leaders, are injured during retaliation.
  
  One LTTE cadre surrenders to the troops on route clearing patrol at LB 2 in the Kanthale area of Trincomalee district.

• September 1-2: The Sri Lankan military said it has sunk 12 boats of the LTTE and killed 80 of its cadres in a sea battle off the northern Jaffna peninsula in a retaliatory action as 20 LTTE boats, including five suicide boats laden with explosives, had attacked a patrol near the Kankesanturai harbour. Two Government boats are slightly damaged and two sailors are wounded.
  
  Four civilians are killed in the Jaffna peninsula by the LTTE.

• September 1: SFs find a heap of Tsunami relief items at the Kattaparichchan mortar location of the LTTE in the Trincomalee district. Defence spokesperson Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said, "Those relief items have been pilfered by the LTTE from the areas affected by Tsunami waves in the North and East in December 2004."

• August 31: 119 LTTE cadres and 14 soldiers are killed in the continued fighting between SFs and the outfit since August 28 in Trincomalee district.
  
  Two police personnel are injured when a LTTE cadre lobbed a hand grenade at the police roadblock in the Chenkalady area of Batticaloa district. The cadre is arrested later.
  
  LTTE cadres shot at and injured a police personnel in the Eravul area of Batticaloa district.

• August 30: LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres shot dead a woman home guard, identified as Jayasooriya Arachchige Sujeewa Damayanthi in the Mamaduwa area of Vavuniya district.
  
  Five LTTE cadres, including two child soldiers, surrender to the ICRC office in Batticaloa town.
  
  The Indonesian police claim that it has arrested 13 LTTE suspects during a recent raid in the southern Java coast.
  
  The suspects were reportedly moving to Australia, the report added.
  
  Two more Sri Lankan men - bringing the total charged to seven – are arrested by the Toronto Police in connection with a massive fraud scam.
  
  Detectives are probing the trail of stolen cash to determine whether loot was sent to Sri Lanka for the LTTE.

• August 29: At least 66 cadres of the LTTE and 13 SF personnel are killed in continued fighting between troops and the LTTE cadres in the Trincomalee district till last reports came in.
  
  Troops on duty at FDL in the Poovarasankulam area of Vavuniya district confronted more than 20 LTTE cadres who tried to infiltrate the FDL. During the subsequent search operation in the area in the area, SFs recover 16 dead bodies of LTTE cadres and one weapon.
  
  Two dead bodies with gun shot injuries were recovered near Kandaswamy temple in Vavuniya district. 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. A woman who was shot at and injured by LTTE cadres in the Batticaloa district on August 27 when she opposed to their attempt to abduct and conscript her son to the outfit reportedly succumbs to her injuries later.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a former cadre of the outfit, Periyathambi Velupillai, for his refusal to re-join the organization in the Valaichchena area of the Batticaloa district. Three SF personnel are injured when LTTE cadres directed mortar fire at Army detachments in the Sittandy and Sandiveli areas of the Batticaloa district.
  
  Five accused Sri Lankan gang members are behind bars in Canada in connection with a massive fraud scam that police suspect may have milked thousands of Mississauga residents.
  
  Detectives are probing the trail of stolen cash to determine whether loot was sent to Sri Lanka for the LTTE.

• August 28: At least 31 persons are killed and 105 are wounded, when troops backed by multi-barrel rocket launchers and artillery guns, retaliate a LTTE attack at Sampur in the Trincomalee district.
  
  Six soldiers are killed and 28 others injured due to LTTE artillery and mortar attacks as fighting continued.
  
  One soldier is killed and another sustain injuries at Susaipullaiyarakulam in the Vavuniya district when LTTE cadres shot at the troops.
  
  Four soldiers are injured in a LTTE mortar fire directed towards troops in the Kilaly area of Jaffna district. Three soldiers are injured an LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion while they were on foot patrol in the Sarasalai area of Jaffna district. One sailor is injured when LTTE using explosion of a claymore mine ambushed a Navy route clearing patrol at Pesalai in the Mannar district.
  
  A British doctor, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy alias Dr Moorthy, a senior LTTE intermediary is arrested in New York, for aiding the LTTE by facilitating the purchase of American rockets and British submarine technology.

• August 27: The death toll of soldiers in the LTTE-triggered Improvised Explosive Device blast at Muhamalai in Jaffna rose to nine.
  
  LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres shot dead a Muslim civilian, identified as Mohomad Jefthri Abdul, in the Linganagar area of Trincomalee district.
  
  Seven soldiers are injured when LTTE cadres fired mortars and artillery towards troops attached to the Selvenagar Army Detachment in the Trincomalee district.
  
  In retaliation, troops launched direct and indirect fire on identified LTTE positions in the Sampoor area.
  
  LTTE cadres shot at and injure a woman who refused to hand over her young son to the outfit at Vandaramoolai in the Batticaloa district.
  
  The LTTE hands over the Sri Lankan Police personnel, B.W.Bopetigoda, who was detained by the outfit since October 11, 2005 to the outgoing SLMM chief Major General Ulf Henricsson.

• August 26: Troops kill 12 cadres of the LTTE in a retaliatory fire following LTTE mortar fire targeting the Chenkalady Army detachment in the Batticaloa district, in which five civilians are injured as the mortars missed their intended target and fell on a nearby village.
  
  Six soldiers are killed and four others sustain injuries when an IED planted by the LTTE exploded in the Muhamalai area of Jaffna district.
  
  Troops were conducting clearing operation in the area. LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as Sinnaraja, and his sister Wimalakumari Komalan inside their home at Mavadiwembu in Batticaloa district. Troops damage one LTTE boat in a retaliatory fire on a flotilla of LTTE boats in the seas off Elephant Point in the Batticaloa district. One civilian is injured in the LTTE fire.
  
  One soldier is injured in a LTTE fire towards an Army picket point at Meesalai in the Jaffna district. A home guard is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres in the Deegawapiya area of Ampara district

• August 25: One LTTE cadre is killed when police personnel retaliated LTTE fire in the Thirukkovil area of Ampara district.
  
  The dead body of a civilian with gun shot injuries is recovered at Welikanda on the Polonnaruwa-Batticaloa main road.
  
  One women home guard is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres in the Vavuniya town.
  
  The SLAF jets attack a LTTE base east of Iranamadu in the Kilinochchi district and destroyed several camps there.

• August 24: Five cadres of the LTTE and a STF personnel are killed in the Urani area of Batticaloa district.
  
  An attack launched by LTTE cadres towards the Mahakachchakodiya Forward Defence Line in the Vavuniya district killed one soldier.
  
  Troops killed one cadre of the outfit in the retaliatory fire. The dead bodies of a civilian and an off-duty soldier killed by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres are recovered from railway track near the Vavuniya railway station.
  
  An aid worker attached to the United Office Project Firm, which is a New Zealand-funded aid agency working for Tsunami-affected civilians, identified as P. Lesly, is abducted and subsequently killed by the LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the Thirukkovil area of Ampara district.
  
  A civilian, identified as D.A. Lenin Perera, is killed by LTTE cadres in the Thorankadu area of Trincomalee district. Troops retaliate LTTE fire at Nawakkulam Forward Defence Line in the Omanthai area of Vavuniya district, killing one LTTE cadre. The SLAF destroys a LTTE sea base in the Mullaitivu district as SLAF planes launched two air strikes on August 24-morning. The office of TRO, a LTTE front organization, in the Jaffna district is torched with documents burnt.
  
  The Sri Lankan Government has stated that it would consider a new CFA with the LTTE only if it is offered by their chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran.
  
  A LTTE operative in Canada, identified as "Waterloo Suresh" Sriskandarajah, allegedly used student couriers to smuggle war-related items to the outfit. The FBI documents claim that he told the students to hide the contraband with "teddies and chocolates."

• August 23: One police personnel is killed and another one sustained injuries when LTTE cadres carried out a claymore mine attack and subsequently opened fire at a police foot patrol in the Ottamavady area of Batticaloa district.
  
  One civilian and a police personnel are injured in a LTTE fire in the Salambaikulam area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Two more Tamil Canadians, Ramanan Mylvaganam and Piratheepan Nadarajah, are arrested in an alleged conspiracy to buy weapons for the LTTE in Sri Lanka on August 22 and 23 respectively.
  
  One soldier is injured in a LTTE fire targeting troops on foot patrol in the Vandaramoolai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Chicago Tribune quoting law enforcement officials reports that the money for a trip to Sri Lanka in 2005 of a U.S. congressman, Danny Davis, and an aide allegedly came from the LTTE.

• August 22: LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade at a sentry point of the security forces at Achchuveli in the Jaffna district, killing one soldier and injuring three others.
  
  One soldier is injured when LTTE cadres fire mortar shells on Vavunathivu Army camp in the Batticaloa district.
  
  The Colombo Police foils a suspected LTTE attack targeting a legislator after defusing a 15-kilogram claymore mine rigged to a vegetable seller's bike in a busy market area. The SLA claims that it destroyed an ammunition dump of the LTTE close to the frontline of fighting in the Jaffna district. The head of the LTTE’s Political Wing, S. P. Thamilchelvan states that it was the Colombo Government, which launched a major military offensive in Trincomalee against the outfit and thereby triggered defensive measures by the LTTE resulting in an escalation of hostilities.

• August 20: Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead former Tamil Parliamentarian of the TULF, Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah, at his temporary residence in Tellippalai in the Jaffna district.
  
  One police personnel is injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion targeting police personnel on duty at Salambakulam in the Vavuniya district.
  
  Another soldier is injured in an exchange of fire between troops and LTTE cadres in the Kinniady area of Batticaloa district.

• August 19: Military sources said that more than 80 LTTE cadres are killed during two days of intermittent artillery fire near security forces Forward Defence Line in the Muhammalai area of Jaffna peninsula.
  
  At least 10 soldiers are killed and more than a dozen are wounded by LTTE cadres when the troops were in the process of recovering the dead cadres, sources said.
  
  The SLAF jets destroy a LTTE sea base in the Jaffna district in an overnight air strike, killing an unspecified number of outfit cadres. A civilian, identified as Suriyapalan Mauran, is shot by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the Nallur area of Jaffna district.
  
  Thirteen suspects with close links to the LTTE have been charged in the US for plotting to buy surface-to-air missiles, according to US federal prosecutors.
  
  The LTTE Peace Secretariat claims that at least 141 ethnic Tamil civilians have been killed in SLAF air attacks and Army shelling since August 8.
  
  The total do not include the killing of 17 workers for the international aid group, Action Against Hunger, in the Trincomalee district on August 5.

• August 18: One police personnel is shot dead by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the Pompaimadu area of Vavuniya district.
  
  SFs foil an attempt by the LTTE to abduct 50 child inmates from the Revatha Children’s Home in Trincomalee. Three SF personnel and a home guard sustain injuries in the exchange of fire. The Sri Lanka Air Force bomb a previously well-identified Sea-Tiger boat yard at Thalayadi in the Trincomalee district causing destruction to many cadres of the outfit and damaging an unspecified number of their boats.
  
  Five civilians are injured when LTTE-artillery fire targeting troops fell in populated areas of Kodikamam and Maseri in the Jaffna district.
  
  The Eravur Police in the Batticaloa district receives complaints that the LTTE have abducted three youths from the area on August 14.
  
  Three LTTE cadres surrender to the SFs in the Welikanda area of Batticaloa district.

• August 17: The dead body of a police personnel, abducted and subsequently killed by the LTTE, is recovered from the Thirukkovil area of Ampara district.
  
  Four SF personnel and two civilians sustain injuries in a LTTE grenade attack on an Army checkpoint in the Trincomalee town.
  
  One soldier is injured during confrontations with the LTTE when the outfit cadres reportedly attempted to reach the Forward Defence Line across the lagoon area in the Poonarin region of Jaffna district.
  
  One LTTE cadre surrenders before the SFs in the Kadjuwatta area of Batticaloa district.
  
  One LTTE deserter surrenders to the Vavuniya Police.

• August 16: Troops kill at least 98 LTTE cadres in retaliation when the latter attacked the FDL in Kilaly area of Jaffna district.
  
  The SLA has reported that three soldiers are also killed and 15 others wounded in the incident.
  
  An elite Police unit kills three LTTE cadres who had attacked a Police patrol in the Akkaraipattu area of Ampara district.
  
  A one and a half year-old infant, identified as Nilushan, the son of a former LTTE cadre Nimalan, is killed in LTTE firing in the Sittandi area of Batticaloa district. Nimalan and his wife are also injured in the incident.
  
  Two civilians are killed and another sustained injuries when LTTE cadres open fire at a tractor carrying civilians in the Morawewa area of Ampara district.
  
  Two Sri Lanka Navy personnel who sustained injuries due to LTTE firing at Salliya Sambalathivu in the Trincomalee district succumbed to their injuries today.
  
  Two youths are reportedly abducted by LTTE cadres from the Ampara district.
  
  LTTE cadres abduct a Grama Seva Niladhari (local village official) from the Kalmunai area of Ampara district.
  
  LTTE cadres assault a civilian in the Henanigala area of Polonnaruwa district.
  
  SLAF jets took two more identified LTTE targets in the Iranamadu area of Kilinochchi district as troops held their defences in Muhamalai and Kilaly area of Jaffna district.
  
  The SLAF jets target LTTE-controlled area in the Jaffna district.

• August 15: The Sri Lankan Military said that at least 250 LTTE cadres are killed and another 300 injured in continued fighting in the Jaffna peninsula during the past 72 hours.
  
  During search operations at the Velanithurai village in the Kayts area of Jaffna district, SLN personnel kill five LTTE cadres hiding in the Grama Sevaka (local village official) office of the village and subsequently recovered a cache of weapons, including T 56 weapons, GPS, ammunition and communication equipment and some maps.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian at Marathady junction in the Jaffna district.
  
  One soldier is killed by LTTE cadres in the Inuvil area of Jaffna district.
  
  A 12-year old boy is among nine Muslim civilians injured in a LTTE grenade attack at the public market in the Ottamavadi area of Batticaloa district.

• August 14: At least seven persons, including four soldiers of the SLA, are killed and 17 others sustain injuries in a suicide attack carried out by the LTTE targeting Pakistan High Commissioner Bashir Wali Mohammad in the capital Colombo.
  
  The envoy, returning from the Pakistan Independence day function at the mission, escapes unhurt though his vehicle suffered minor damage.
  
  The LTTE alleges that at least 61 school children were killed and 150 injured in an aerial attack by the SLAF in the outfit-controlled Mullaittivu district.
  
  However, the Government claims that the SLAF attacked a LTTE training camp in Puthukudirippu and killed more than 50 LTTE cadres.

• August 13: Twenty-five more LTTE cadres are killed raising the death tally of the outfit cadres to 125, while Army has lost four of its troopers raising the tally to 32 during the continued between troops and the LTTE in the Jaffna district. SLN personnel foils a LTTE attempt to over run Allapiddy village in the Kayts area as a flotilla of about 50-60 LTTE Sea-Tiger boats attempted to over run the village.
  
  A LTTE cadre commits suicide as Wattala Police in the Jaffna district arrested two LTTE suspects. Later, on the information revealed by the surviving cadre, Police recovers a cache of arms and ammunition packed inside a lorry.
  
  The LTTE alleges that 15 civilians are killed as rockets and artillery shells fired by SFs hit a church in the Allaipiddy area of Jaffna district.
  
  It also alleges that seven more civilians are killed in a separate artillery fire by the SFs.
  
  One soldier is killed and four soldiers are injured in a LTTE attack in the Vettukadu and Kalmunai areas of Jaffna district.

• August 12: Troops kill a LTTE cadre in a retaliatory fire in the Thempitiya area and subsequently recover one T-56 weapon.
  
  LTTE cadres open artillery fire on the naval base in Trincomalee district, killing one civilian and a sailor.
  
  Three civilians and three sailors are injured in the incident.
  
  Another civilian, identified as H.K. Ranjith Hetti Kankanam, is killed in LTTE artillery fire in the same region.
  
  One LTTE cadre commits suicide and another one is killed by troops after they failed to proceed to Jaffna defying the curfew enforced by SFs in the Kaithadi area of Jaffna district.
  
  Troops retaliate to LTTE fire and kill one cadre in the Mahaoya area of Ampara district.
  
  Two soldiers are injured in LTTE firing in the Kumburmoolai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  One civilian is wounded in a cross fire between troops and LTTE cadres in the Murunkan area of Vavuniya district.

• August 11: At least 128 people, including 28 army and navy personnel, are killed in the battle between the SLA and the LTTE in the east and north. Clashes occur when the LTTE attempted to overrun the army's FDL in the Jaffna peninsula.
  
  Five soldiers who were injured in a clash between troops and the LTTE on August 10 in the Mawilaru area of Trincomalee district today succumbs to their injuries.
  
  The LTTE claims many of their cadres are killed as the Sri Lanka military opened a new front against them bombarding their camp in the Tharavai area of Batticaloa district, while heavy fighting is continuing in the Trincomalee district around the disputed Mawilaru waterway.
  
  Confirming the air strikes the SLAF spokesperson, Group Captain Ajantha Silva, said that the SLAF took two LTTE targets in Batticaloa, which were considered as a threat to the ground troops, engaged in the Mawilaru operation. SFs retaliate to LTTE artillery and mortar fire on Muhamalai and Nagarkovil FDLs in the Jaffna district.
  
  SLAF jets destroyed clusters of weapons-carrying LTTE cadres and one of their jungle hideouts, as they were moving out to replenish their lost cadre in Trincomalee. The LTTE warns the people from Puloli, Eluthumadduval, Kilali, Manthuvil, Varani, Kachchai, Kodikamam and Meesali areas to flee from their villages close to the FDLs in Jaffna, sources said.

• August 10: At least 30 LTTE cadres are killed as troops retaliated LTTE mortar fire in and around Mawilaru in the Trincomalee district.
  
  Four soldiers are also killed and 31 others sustain injuries in the incident.
  
  However, the pro-LTTE Website Tamil Net claims that the Army advancing into the LTTE-controlled areas has lost 41 soldiers and also alleges that Sri Lanka Air Force pounded civilian populated areas killing more than 40 civilians and injuring a large number of them. A soldier is killed and two others sustain injures in a LTTE-triggered improvised explosive device blast in the Kokuvil area of Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres shot at and injured a police constable in the Kattankudy area of Batticaloa district.

• August 9: Five civilians, including a doctor and two nurses, are killed when the LTTE explodes a claymore mine targeting an ambulance near Nedunkerny in the Vavuniya district.
  
  A civilian, identified as Silvaraja Rathnakumar, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Sandilipai area of Jaffna district.
  
  A Police personnel is wounded in a suspected LTTE attack in the Mannar district, the army said. The LTTE are insisting that cease-fire monitors to leave the SLMM by the original deadline of September 1 amidst the Norwegian efforts to drop the outfit’s demand.

• August 8: Three persons, including a two-year old child, are killed and eight others, including former EPDP Parliamentarian S. Sivadasan, are injured when a bomb planted by suspected LTTE cadres exploded, targeting the vehicle transporting Sivadasan at Milagiriya in the capital Colombo. LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres kills a civilian, identified as Sudasivan Adarjun, in the Kondavil area of Jaffna district.
  
  Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross lodges a complaint against a group of LTTE cadres who hijacked their vehicle while they were proceeding from Arippu to Murunkan in the Mannar district.
  
  The LTTE unilaterally lifts the waterway blockade in the east even as the Army continued to target the outfit’s positions in and around the waterway.

• August 7: Suspected LTTE cadres ambush and kill a top elite Police Commando, Senior Superintendent of Police Upul Seneviratne, in a claymore mine explosion in the Kandy region of Jaffna district.
  
  His driver is wounded in the incident.
  
  A LTTE cadre, Kaaththamuththu Jeyananthan, is shot dead by the SF personnel at Santhiveli near Batticaloa Town.

• August 6: A civilian, identified as Kandiah Sudhakaran, is shot dead by LTTE cadres at Kopay junction on Jaffna - Point Pedro road.
  
  Troops arrest two LTTE suspects along with two pistols and a magazine with ammunition from the Ambuwelipuram area in the Trincomalee district.

• August 5: A civilian is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Maradanamadam area of Jaffna district. The dead body of a civilian, identified as Arumugam Udayasooriyan, killed by suspected LTTE cadres is recovered from Thambisetti area in Jaffna district.
  
  Intercepted LTTE radio transmissions have confirmed that the LTTE has lost 330 cadres during fierce fighting that erupted during the past four days. Trincomalee LTTE military leader Soornam had been heard desperately calling for more reinforcements from Batticaloa, the transmissions have revealed.
  
  Security forces kill five LTTE cadres who infiltrated the security forces forward defence lines at Kothweli in Kilali in Jaffna district.

• August 4: The LTTE massacres over hundred civilians in the Trincomalee district who were fleeing fighting from the Muttur town.
  
  Troops foil a major LTTE attack on a strategic jetty in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district, killing 152 outfit cadres.
  
  The Karandeniya Police in the Galle district seizes a huge cache of weapons and explosives transported from the Northeast to the South following intelligence information about the LTTE preparing to transport weapons to the region. One Army personnel is killed when LTTE cadres open fire at troops in the Parappakandal area of Mannar district.
  
  The dead body of a Police Sergeant who is believed to have died during confrontation with the LTTE is recovered from the general area (area under Government control) of Muttur town in the Trincomalee district.

• August 3: Fifteen civilians taking refuge at the Al-Nuriya Muslim School in Thoppur and Arabic School in Muttur are killed and more than 30 injured when LTTE cadres indiscriminately fire artillery at two different times.

• August 2: Troops repulse LTTE firing in the Kattaparichchan, Selvanagar and Mahindapura areas of Sampoor region in the Trincomalee district, killing 40 LTTE cadres and injuring 50 others.
  
  Four soldiers are also killed and 38 others sustain injuries in the clashes. Sri Lanka Navy foils a LTTE suicide attack in the seas off Pulmudai in the Welioya region of Moneragala district. However, no casualties were reported.
  
  Two civilians, S. Thavaruban and T. Ravichandran, are killed by suspected LTTE cadres in the Achchuveli and Kadirippai regions of Jaffna district. One soldier is killed and another injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Uylankulam area of Mannar district.
  
  A Police personnel is injured in a LTTE fire in the Murunkan area of the Mannar district. LTTE robs the People’s Bank in Muttur town in Trincomalee district.

• August 1: At least five SLN personnel are killed and 30 others sustain injuries when LTTE cadres fired artillery at the Trincomalee naval base and in the subsequent air strike the Government in the outfit-held Sampoor area targeting Mavilaru, Verugalaru and Kathirveli claims to have killed 50 LTTE cadres. The SLN reportedly repulsed a LTTE attempt to destroy a troop carrier transporting 854 unarmed military personnel when it was returning from Kankesanthurai harbour and entering the mouth of Trincomalee harbour.
  
  The SLN boats blocked a fleet of Sea-Tiger boats approaching the troop carrier, destroying three and damaging another. However, the LTTE claims that it destroyed a SLN boat, killing eight sailors on board.
  
  One civilian is killed and 13 others wounded when LTTE mortar shells fell in a civilian area in the Muttur region of Trincomalee district.

• July 31: In a fierce fighting between the LTTE and SLA close to the disputed Mavil Aru sluice gates in the Kallar area of Trincomalee district, 40 LTTE cadres and seven SLA personnel are killed.
  
  Sri Lanka Air Force jets destroy a Sea-Tiger base in the Vakarai area of Batticaloa district, killing at least 30 LTTE cadres.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres ambush an army bus with a claymore fragmentation mine in the Trincomalee district, killing 18 soldiers.
  
  Four LTTE cadres were reportedly killed in Jaffna district.
  
  Troops kill a LTTE cadre who tried to escape after lobbing a hand grenade towards them at the Duraiappa Stadium in Jaffna town. One soldier is injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Kankesanthurai– Point Pedro area of Jaffna district.
  
  Another LTTE-trigger claymore mine explosion in the Chandiankulam area of Mannar district injured one SLA officer.
  
  Defying the United States ban on the LTTE as a terrorist group, one of its fronts reportedly held a sports festival in New York last week and the event was marked by the hoisting of the official LTTE flag (Tamileelam National flag).

• July 30: One civilian is injured when LTTE cadres opened fire when he along with another civilian tried to escape outfit’s detention in the Trincomalee district. They later surrendered before the troops. One soldier was injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Galwala area of Vavuniya district.
  
  One police personnel is injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion and subsequent fire attack in the Putukulam area of Vavuniya district.

• July 29: Eight LTTE cadres are killed and 12 others sustain injuries in an air strike by the Sri Lanka Air Force at the outfit’s Thenaham conference centre in the Karadiyanaru area of Batticaloa district. One police personnel was injured in an improvised explosive device explosion in the Kudumalu junction area.

• July 28: 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 in the Vavunathivu area of Batticaloa district. Three home guards are killed in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Kebethigollewa area of Anuradhapura district.
  
  The ‘pistol gang’ cadres of LTTE shot dead two police personnel in the Palauttur area of Trincomalee district.
  
  A LTTE extortionist, identified as Vimaladasan Devaruban, who used to threaten and harass the public in Batticaloa town area collecting money for the outfit is found shot dead at Thandanveli junction in the Trincomalee district. One civilian and a soldier are injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Thattatthiri area of Jaffna district.

• July 27: Sri Lanka Air Force fighter crafts struck selected LTTE targets in the east of Mullaittivu district, where the LTTE was reportedly constructing an illegal airstrip, killing six cadres and injuring five civilians.
  
  A woman, identified as Sundaralingam Puneshwaram, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Bharathipurama area of Trincomalee district The President of the Fishermen’s Association at Point Pedro, Kandaiah Chithra Vadivel, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Puloly area of Jaffna district. A civilian, identified as Mariyadas Manojan Raj, is killed and another injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Achchuveli area of the Jaffna district.
  
  Two civilians and a soldier are injured in a LTTE claymore mine attack in the Manoraj junction area of Jaffna district.
  
  A woman and Police personnel are injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Mannar town. One police personnel is shot at and wounded by LTTE cadres in the Ulupaikulam area of Mannar district.

• July 26: A soldier is shot dead and another wounded by the LTTE in the Omanthai Entry/Exit point area of the Vavuniya district. A police personnel is wounded in LTTE firing in the Murunkan area of Mannar district.

• July 25: SFs in a retaliatory fire kill two LTTE cadres who lobbed hand grenade towards troops near Urumpirai junction in the Jaffna district. Two police personnel are injured in a LTTE grenade attack near Vavuniya railway station. Two more Police personnel are injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Kopay area of Jaffna district.
  
  A soldier is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres in the Welioya area of Moneragala district. A person identified as Niranjan Claude Fabian, a member of the VVT, a Tamil gang active in the Toronto area, and described by Toronto Police in Canada as a gang leader and a "trained assassin" of the LTTE outfit was secretly deported to his native Sri Lanka after an eight-year court battle to stay in Canada.

• July 24: LTTE cadres shot dead a person belonging to the Tamil community, Nagarasa Sundaralingam, at an unspecified place between Serunuwara and Arippu junction in the Trincomalee district.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres trigger a bomb blast killing one soldier and injuring two others in the Vavuniya district.
  
  Two LTTE cadres are killed when a group of ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction cadres attacked them at a rebel-held village in the Ampara district.

• July 23: Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, Sivaprakasham Thirunakarashu, in the Malakkam area of Jaffna district. Another civilian, identified as Thavachelvam, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Palaly area of the Jaffna district. ‘Pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE shot dead one more civilian, identified as Sivamani at Ottumadam in Jaffna district.
  
  Another soldier is wounded in a LTTE grenade attack in the Kayts area of Jaffna district. LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops in the Maruthanamadam area of Jaffna district, which failed to cause injuries. During the subsequent search operation troops arrest a LTTE cadre.

• July 22: Security forces shot dead a suspected LTTE cadre, who reportedly tried to snatch the weapon of a home guard on duty in the Kinniya area of Trincomalee district. One soldier sustains injuries in a LTTE fire in the Welioya area of Moneragala district.

• July 21: A civilian, Walli Kidnam, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Urani area of the Jaffna district. LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as Sinnamam Dharmarajah, in the Kopai area of the Jaffna district.
  
  A soldier is injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Chekkadipilam area of Vavuniya district.

• July 20: Five LTTE cadres are killed and three NGO officials are injured in a claymore mine explosion in the uncleared area (area not under Government control) of Silavathura in the Mannar district. A civilian is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres in the Kokuvil area of the Jaffna district.
  
  A civilian, Nadarasa Ravenndran Kumar, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Chunnakam area of Jaffna district. Cadres of the LTTE lob a hand grenade towards troops at the Arasadi junction, injuring five civilians in Jaffna district.

• July 19: Three Sri Lankan Army personnel are killed after their bus was hit by a claymore mine in Jaffna. 11 others, including two police constables, are injured. One soldier is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Urumpirai area of the Jaffna district.
  
  Government authorities arrest four women suspected to be suicide bombers at Tissamaharama. The four are trained LTTE operatives, who were intending to carry out attacks in the south of the country.
  
  The LTTE is entrenched in Canada and uses a Toronto-based "front organization" called the World Tamil Movement (WTM) to raise money for arms, says a summary of an ongoing Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP) investigation. The RCMP 58-page document refers the WTM as "the Canadian arm" of the LTTE.

• July 18: A civilian is killed and two others sustained injuries at Kodikamam in the Jaffna district in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion.
  
  Four soldiers are also injured in the attack. LTTE cadres detain 11 tractors and eight trucks of civilians against ransom money in the Kirichchikulam area of Batticaloa district.

• July 16: One civilian and a soldier are injured when LTTE cadres opened fire targeting troops at the Selvanagar Army camp in Trincomalee district.
  
  Two Special Task Force personnel are injured in a LTTE claymore mine attack in the Thirukkovil area of Ampara district. A Police personnel is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Vavuniya town.

• July 14: At least 12 soldiers and four LTTE cadres are killed in the Vakaneri area of Batticaloa district. Separately, LTTE cadres shot dead one Sri Lanka Navy personnel and injured another in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district. One LTTE cadre is killed and five civilians are allegedly injured by SLA personnel in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district.
  
  Another LTTE cadre is shot dead and a civilian injured by unidentified assailants in the Sinna Urnai Gandhi Village area of Batticaloa district.

• July 13: Two soldiers are killed and another wounded by the LTTE at Katkulem in Vavuniya. LTTE cadres abduct and subsequently shot dead a leader of the PLOTE, R.S.S. Bavan, at Kappachchi in Vavuniya. In an accidental explosion of an anti personnel mine, allegedly planted by the LTTE, three soldiers are injured in Trincomalee.

• July 12: Two police personnel are killed and seven persons, including six others, are wounded in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine blast at Nallur in Jaffna district. In Trincomalee district, LTTE cadres fired at an Army patrol at Palampattar, Monkey Bridge and in the Army retaliatory fire, two LTTE cadres are killed. A PLOTE leader, Sebastian Irudarajan, is shot dead by the LTTE near Wembadi Girls School in Jaffna. A LTTE sniper at Nagarkovil Forward Defence Line in Jaffna district kills one soldier, W.R. Weerasinghe. A soldier sustains minor injuries when a claymore mine was exploded by the LTTE at Uduppili near Velvettithurai in Jaffna.

• July 11: Sri Lankan Navy personnel in a retaliatory fire destroyed a Sea Tiger boat in the Kilaly lagoon area of Batticaloa district, killing four Sea Tigers on board. Suspected LTTE cadres kill a Sri Lankan soldier in a landmine ambush at the Settipuram Kovil in Jaffna district.
  
  A LTTE cadre is shot dead by another LTTE member for failing to follow orders at Akkaraipattu in Batticaloa district.

• July 10: LTTE cadres open fire and hurl hand grenade on troops who retaliated killing two terrorists near Suriyakattadu Lake in Mannar district.
  
  A civilian, Sinharyar Christopher, employed at PLOTE office, was shot dead by a LTTE cadre in the Jaffna district.

• July 9: A police personnel is shot dead by the LTTE cadres at Samanthurai in Ampara district.

• July 8: LTTE cadres shot at and wounded a civilian near St Xaviers’ College in the Mannar town.

• July 6: A fisherman belonging to the Malay Muslim community, Thuwan Vahid Ali, is shot dead by the LTTE along Ganesh road in the Trincomalee district.
  
  A chief petty officer of the Sri Lankan Navy is shot dead by LTTE cadres at Ponnalai in the Jaffna district. Four police personnel, while providing security to the office of the EPDP, are wounded in a LTTE-triggered hand grenade explosion at Chunnahunnakam in the Jaffna district.

• July 3: Seven persons, including five SF personnel, are killed in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion at Anuradhapura junction in the Trincomalee district.
  
  At least 14 persons are wounded in the blast. LTTE cadres shot dead a political activist of the EPRLF, identified as Linton Ariyaratnam, in the Jaffna district. Soldiers arrest two Tamil women at Veppankulam near Vavuniya sentry point for their alleged linkage to the LTTE. Separately, the LTTE has set September 1 as the deadline for cease-fire monitors from Denmark, Finland and Sweden to leave the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission.

• July 2: Army personnel kill a LTTE cadre inside Thandikulam High Security Zone in the Vavuniya town.

• July 1: Troops fire mortars and artillery at suspected LTTE positions in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district.

• June 30: One SLN personnel and a LTTE cadre are killed in an exchange of fire near the Jumma Mosque in Mannar town. A civilian, Kandasamy Jayanthakumar, is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres in the Kalmunai area of Ampara district.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a soldier in the Alaveddy area of Jaffna district. SLN personnel shot dead a LTTE cadre in the Nilaveli area of Trincomalee district Two Police personnel are injured in a LTTE attack in the Kattaparichchan area of Trincomalee district.
  
  One soldier is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Mannar town The SLN destroys a LTTE boat that tried to approach the main northern harbour of Kankesanthurai in the Jaffna district.

• June 29: LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, D. Vijerajah, in the Arali-Wadukotte area of Jaffna district. A civilian is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres in the Manipay area of Jaffna district.

• June 28: At least 12 LTTE cadres and five SLN personnel are killed in the sea off Kalpitiya in Puttalam district. One soldier is killed and three others wounded in a LTTE fire in the Welioya area of Monergala district.
  
  Three civilians are injured in a LTTE attack targeting a navy boat in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district. One home guard sustains injuries in a LTTE fire targeting police personnel in the Padaviya area of Anuradhapura district. A soldier is injured in a LTTE attack in the Omanthai area of Vavuniya district. Another soldier is injured when LTTE cadres open fire upon troops in the Kali Kovil area of Batticaloa district.

• June 27: Four LTTE cadres are killed in an attack by the breakaway faction of ‘Colonel’ Karuna in the Vakarai area of Batticaloa district. A soldier is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres in the Trincomalee district. Another LTTE cadre is allegedly killed by the SLA personnel in the outfit-controlled area of Kirimichchai area of Batticaloa district. Two civilians and an equal number of Police personnel are injured in a LTTE grenade attack towards troops in the Mannar town. LTTE cadres shot at and injured a member of the PLOTE in the Rambekulam area of Vavuniya district.

• June 26: A civilian, identified as Kandiyah Yogeswaran, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Kayts area of Jaffna district. One soldier is killed and another wounded in a LTTE fire in the Kantale area of Trincomalee district. A member of the EPDP is shot and injured by LTTE cadres at Point Pedro in Jaffna district.

• June 25: An expatriate Tamil civilian from Switzerland, who was on a short visit to the country, is shot dead by unidentified cadres of the LTTE in the Valaichchenai area of Batticaloa district.
  According to reports, the outfit cadres had forced the victim to contribute in their fundraising activities in Switzerland but he had not complied with their demand.
  ‘Pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE shot dead a member of the PLOTE, identified as Jayahulabdeen Mohamad Wazeer, near the Jaffna Hospital. A civilian is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Anuradhapura area of Trincomalee district.

• June 23: Police arrests five suspected LTTE cadres from the Jayapura area of Trincomalee district. Police also arrests a LTTE suspect from the Jayanthipura area of Batticaloa district .

• June 22: Two police personnel are injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Arukku area of Jaffna district. A soldier is injured when LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops in the Kallady area of Batticaloa district.

• June 20: Eight LTTE cadres are killed during an overnight clash with the ‘Colonel’ Karuna group cadres in the Trincomalee district.
  
  The dead body of a civilian, identified as Nirmala Mumara, reportedly shot dead by ‘pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE as he refused to pay ransom to the outfit, is recovered from the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.
  Former secretary of the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam is shot at and injured by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the Urani area of Batticaloa district. Another civilian is injured in a LTTE attack in the Kattaparichchan area of Trincomalee district.
  One soldier is injured when LTTE cadres lobbed a hand grenade and subsequently opened fire towards troops in the Kiliwetti area of Trincomalee district.
  
  The SLN sources said that it repulsed a LTTE attack on a navy base in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district.

• June 19: An unidentified civilian is shot dead by a LTTE 'pistol gang' cadre in the Arunagiri-Llyod Avenue Road junction area of Batticaloa district.
  
  LTTE cadres open fire at the Somawathie Buddhist temple in the Pollonaruwa district from three sides and later escaped as troops retaliated.
  
  The LTTE is planning to attack the Colombo Harbor, or the ships that travel close to the Colombo harbor, causing huge damage. This information was discovered from an LTTE cadre who was arrested in Pamunugama.

• June 18: Three police personnel are killed in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion targeting a bowser carrying water to Dutuwewa Police station on the Vavuniya- Kebithigollewa road.
  
  Two soldiers are killed by the LTTE in the Welioya area of Batticaloa district.
  
  One soldier is injured when LTTE cadres open fire-targeting SFs in the Poonthottam IDP centre in Vavuniya district.
  
  LTTE cadres open fire when stopped by SFs for routine check-up in the Kurumankadu area of Vavuniya district. Troops subsequently arrest four outfit cadres from the same area.
  
  Police chief, Chandra Fernando, said they are investigating a new type of improvised sea mine developed by the LTTE to target naval crafts.
  
  The LTTE issues handouts threatening people returning to Allaipiddi, at a time when the displaced are sheltered in two churches in Jaffna and are getting ready to return to their homes on the assurance given by Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare, Douglas Devananda.
  

• June 17: At least 30 Sea Tigers, six sailors and six civilians are killed in the Talaimannar islet of Mannar district as heavy fighting broke out between security forces and the LTTE. Eight sailors are missing in action. One civilian among those who sought refuge in a church in the aftermath of the sudden flare-up is also killed and several others are injured. The LTTE, however, claims that 12 sailors and two of its cadres are killed in the offensive.
  
  Troops kill one LTTE cadre who lobbed a hand grenade targeting them in the Santhiveli area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Five LTTE Sea Tigers are arrested on the outskirts of Colombo following a tip-off by civilians when they were planning to attack naval patrol craft with "magnetic sea mines."

• June 15: At least 64 civilians, including 15 children, are killed and eighty-six others are injured when a state-run passenger bus carrying 150 passengers was destroyed in a twin side-charger claymore mine explosion in the Anuradhapura district. The Government's spokesperson on security issues, Keheliya Rambukwella, blames the LTTE for the attack saying, "There is no iota of doubt that it is the LTTE." Meanwhile, the LTTE denies its involvement and blamed the Government for the attack.
  
  The LTTE cadres kill a civilian in the Bakkiela area of Ampara district and escapes with the deceased's one and a half-year-old child, who was found abandoned with wounds on the neck during subsequent search operation.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a Police Constable who was providing security to the Udayan News paper office on the Kasthuriya road in Jaffna district.
  
  Troops kill a LTTE cadre in a retaliatory fire in the Pachchanoor area of Trincomalee district and recover a claymore mine from the incident site.
  
  Three Police personnel are injured in a LTTE attack in the Pesalai area of Mannar district.
  
  A soldier is injured in a LTTE fire on the Jaffna-KKS road.

• June 14: LTTE cadres reportedly abduct eight youths from their homes in the Kiran area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A civilian, identified as Philip Mariyanayagam, was shot dead by 'pistol gang' cadres of the LTTE in the Jaffna town.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a soldier, Lance Corporal R.A. Victor at Kalliyankadu in Jaffna district.
  
  A home guard, Wasantha Seneviratne, is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Mamaduwa area of Vavuniya district.
  
  A civilian is shot at and injured by suspected LTTE cadres in the Vavuniya district.
  
  A police personnel is injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine at Elaveli in Jaffna district.
  
  Air Force authorities detain the LTTE delegation that went to Oslo at the Colombo airport as undeclared items were found in their possession.

• June 13: Two cadres of the LTTE and a soldier are killed in an encounter between the outfit's cadres and the SLA personnel, who were allegedly planting claymore mine in the outfit's-controlled Nedunkerni area of Jaffna district.
  
  Two Police personnel are injured in a LTTE-grenade attack in the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.

• June 12: One soldier is killed and a civilian sustains injuries in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine attack in the Nelumkulam area of Vavuniya district.
  
  Five civilians, including a Government official, are injured in a LTTE claymore mine attack in the in the Nedunkerni area of Mullaittivu district.
  
  One home guard is injured in an LTTE attack in the Serunuwara area of Trincomalee district. Another home guard is injured by the outfit in the Tempitiya area of Ampara district.
  
  A soldier is injured in a LTTE attack targeting SFs in the Urumpira area of Jaffna District.

• June 11: Two civilians are killed in a claymore mine attack allegedly carried out by the Sri Lanka Army inside LTTE-controlled territory at Palaipani in the Vavuniya district.
  
  LTTE cadres shot dead a soldier, Lance Corporal H.B.S. Kumararathne, in the Vavunathivu area of Batticaloa district.
  
  Troops kill a LTTE cadre in retaliatory fire at Bandarikulam in the Vavuniya district.
  
  At least eight civilians and a soldier are injured when a LTTE grenade attack towards SFs missed its intended target in the Thirunaveli area of Jaffna district.
  
  A suspected LTTE cadre is arrested by troops along with a claymore mine from the Kodikama area of Jaffna district.
  
  LTTE cadres rob office equipment belonging to GTZ, a German Non-Governmental Organization engaged in Tsunami construction works in the Valachchenai area of Batticaloa district.

• June 10: A top 'commander' of the LTTE, 'Lt Col' Mahenthi, and three of his associates are killed in a anti-personnel mine blast in the Mannar district.

• June 9: Three civilians are injured in a LTTE grenade attack targeting civilians who were inside a boutique at Bazaar Road in the Vavuniya town.

  The Grama Niladhari (a local Government official) of the Kopay area in Jaffna district is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres inside his residence.

  Two soldiers are injured when LTTE cadres opened fire towards troops in the Sooriyakattakadu area of Mannar district.

• June 8: An entire family of four persons, including a nine-year old girl and a seven-year old boy, are hacked to death in the Vankalai area of Mannar district. The Government accuses the LTTE for the killing as the family was helping Government forces. However, the outfit's spokesperson, Daya Master, denies the allegation and accused the military for the killing.

  Two civilians are killed in a claymore mine attack allegedly carried out by the SLA personnel in the Periayamadu-Pallamadu area of Mannar district. The LTTE said that that the Army targeted its Mannar 'area commander' who was following the vehicle of the water supply project that was caught in the blast.
  
  A SLA officer, Lieutenant J.D.S.N. Siriwardene, is killed and another wounded in an LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Parappakandan area of the Mannar district.

• June 7: At least 15 LTTE cadres are killed in an attack by the breakaway faction of 'Colonel' Karuna in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district.

  At least six civilians and a LTTE cadre are killed in an explosion of a pressure mine at Vadumunai in Batticaloa district.

• June 6: Two police personnel and a civilian are killed in a LTTE-triggered remote controlled claymore mine attack in the Bandarikulam area of Vavuniya district. A 12-year old boy and two police personnel were injured in the attack.

  'Pistol gang' cadres of the LTTE kill two civilians in the Serunuwara area of Trincomalee district.

  A civilian is injured in a mine blast carried out by the LTTE near a SLN camp at Welisara, around 10 miles north of capital Colombo.

  LTTE cadres open fire targeting police personnel providing security to the SLMM district office in the Vavuniya town, injuring one Constable.

  Another soldier is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Puttur area of Jaffna district.

• June 5: A former member of the EPDP, identified as Keshaman Anandan, and his female cousin, Rathnasingham Podini, are shot dead by 'pistol gang' cadres of the LTTE in the Kayts area of Jaffna district.

  LTTE cadres triggered an IED explosion targeting troops in the Batticaloa district. In the retaliatory fire, troops killed two LTTE cadres.
  One soldier is killed when LTTE cadres opened fire targeting the troops in the Nanattan area of Mannar district.

  LTTE cadres open fire and subsequently lob a hand grenade towards troops, killing one soldier in the Achchankulam area of Mannar district.

• June 4: Eight suspected LTTE cadres escape from the Batticaloa prison threatening the prison guards with a grenade when they were taken for a wash in the morning.

• June 3: Two civilians, identified as E. Sittaravel and Nalliah Wimalendran, are shot dead by LTTE cadres, for their refusal to pay ransom in the outfit's controlled area at Kaluwankerni in the Batticaloa district.

  LTTE cadres shot dead a private security guard, Vaidyalingam Mujeewaran, and wounded another civilian in the Valaichchenai area of the same district.

  One soldier is killed and three others sustain injuries in a LTTE claymore mine attack in the Mannar district.

  Another soldier is killed in an LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Jaffna district.

  Police recovered the dead body of an Indian trader from the Valaichchenai area of the Batticaloa district, who was reportedly killed by suspected LTTE cadres on an unspecified date. Two other traders are reported missing.

• June 2: A soldier is killed in an LTTE-triggered remote controlled landmine explosion in the Vandaramulla area of Batticaloa district.

  A member of the LTTE auxiliary force, Varothayan Sritharan, is killed and another one wounded in a claymore attack allegedly carried out by the SFs in the outfit-controlled Nedunkerny area in Vavuniya district.

  Another LTTE cadre is allegedly killed in an attack by the SFs on the Forward Defence Line at Kaakaiyan Kulam in the Vavuniya district.

  Two soldiers are injured when LTTE cadres opened fire towards troops in the Uvarakkulam army sentry point area of Vavuniya district.
  

• June 1: 'Pistol gang' cadres of the LTTE shot dead two members of the EPDP, Sebastian Irayappan and Arumugam Loganathan, in the Pandarikulam area of Vavuniya district.

  An EPDP cadre is injured when LTTE cadres activated an improvised explosive device targeting the EPDP political office in Batticaloa.

  Two soldiers are injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Kalmunai area of Ampara district.

• May 31: LTTE cadres kill a soldier and wounded two others in the Point-Pedro area of Jaffna district.
  
  In a separate incident, LTTE cadres in the Mahaoya-Mangalagama border area of Batticaloa district kill a home guard.

  LTTE cadres shot at and wounded a 14-year old boy at Urani in the Batticaloa district.

  The European Union (EU) officially adds the LTTE to its terrorist blacklist, effectively freezing the outfit's assets across the 25-nation bloc and hindering its ability to raise money for its armed movement.

  The Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera stated that the LTTE funnel contributions through Malaysia and Singapore to buy weapons in Thailand and Cambodia.

• May 30: The LTTE cadres kill 12 Sinhalese villagers working at an irrigation canal construction site in Omadiyamadu, close to the uncleared areas of Welikanda in Pollonaruwa district.

• May 29: One SF personnel is killed and two others sustain injuries in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion at Kalviyankadu in the Batticaloa district.

  Another soldier was killed and one more wounded when LTTE cadres opened fire towards troops in the Pethalai area of Batticaloa district.

  In a similar incident, LTTE cadres open fire towards troops, killing one SF personnel in the Kovil Puliyankulam Army point area of Vavuniya district.

  The Makkal Eela Viduthalai Munnawar (Eelam People's Liberation Alliance-EPLA), a front organization of the LTTE, threatens the entire Muslim population in Muttur to leave the area within 72 hours or face death.

• May 28: A civilian, identified as K. Sawikaran, is shot dead by cadres of the LTTE in the Dimbulagala area of Polonnaruwa district.

• May 27: Six local tourists and their guide are killed in a suspected LTTE landmine explosion near the Wilpattu National Wild Park, 200-kilometers north of capital Colombo.

  Two soldiers are injured in a LTTE grenade attack at Thachchanthoppu Army point in the Jaffna district.

  Two soldiers are injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Thanankilappu area of Jaffna district.

  One soldier is injured when SFs foil a LTTE attempt to infiltrate into Singhalese villages in the Welikanda area of Polonnaruwa district.

• May 26: The Deputy Director of Irrigation in Batticaloa district, Nava Rathnarajah, is shot dead and his driver wounded by cadres of the LTTE in the Kalliyankadu area.

  A counter-ambush commando unit of the LTTE kill 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 located in the Pattiaddy area of Trincomalee district.

  A soldier is injured when LTTE cadres launch a mortar attack on troops in the Ponthivukandal area of Mannar district.
  
  LTTE cadres open fire towards troops in the Kopay area of Jaffna district, injuring one soldier. In retaliatory action, the troops reportedly killed two LTTE cadres.

• May 25: Four police personnel are killed in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine attack in the Kattankudy area of Batticaloa district. One civilian and a soldier are killed in a LTTE claymore mine attack in the Kovukil area of Jaffna district.

  LTTE cadres shot dead a police personnel, Constable Aroggiyam Prasanna, in the Kallady area of Batticaloa district.

  A LTTE top leader, identified as Veeramani, the former 'commander' of the 'Charles Anthony Brigade', is killed in an accidental explosion near the Nagarkovil Forward Defence Line of the outfit in the Jaffna district.

  Three soldiers are injured in a LTTE-triggered explosion in the Cettikulam area of Vavuniya district.

  A civilian is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres in the Anuradhapura area of Trincomalee district.

  One police personnel is injured during an LTTE attack on the Murunkan Police Post in the Mannar district.

  Another police personnel is shot at and injured by 'pistol gang' cadres of the LTTE in the Batticaloa district.

  Three youths who were abducted on May 23 escapes from an LTTE camp in the un-cleared areas (area not under Government control) of Trincomalee district and surrender before the troops at Pachchanoor in the Muttur area.

• May 24: Three security SF personnel are killed in an LTTE-triggered claymore mine attack in the Thandikulam area of Vavuniya district.

  Another LTTE cadre, Oppilamany Sankaran, is killed when SF personnel allegedly launched an artillery attack in the Upparu area of Vavuniya district.

  One soldier is injured when LTTE cadres triggered a claymore mine attack in the Nallur area of Jaffna district.

  Troops retaliate as LTTE cadres open fire towards troops in the Vavunathivu area of Batticaloa district. In a similar incident, troops retaliate LTTE fire in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district. Troops also repulse LTTE fire at Uralkalattuwadi in the Vavuniya district. However, no casualties are reported in theses incidents.

• May 23: The LTTE kills a soldier on duty near the FDL at Iramperiyakulam in the Vavuniya district.

  SFs shot dead a LTTE cadre at Thoppur in the Trincomalee district as he tried to escape after hurling a grenade towards troops.

  Troops retaliate LTTE cadres' gunfire in the Thandikulam area of Vavuniya district.

  LTTE cadres open fire-targeting troops in the Nagarkovil area of Jaffna district.

  LTTE cadres abduct three civilians and subsequently released them in the Pethalai area of Batticaloa district.

• May 22: SLA soldiers shot dead a suspected LTTE cadre, identified as Arunachalam Suresh Gunapalan, at Vidathalpallai.
  
  The Colombo bound Batticaloa train came under LTTE fire at Wandaramulla. However, no casualties were reported in the incident.
  

• May 21: Cadres of the breakaway ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction in the Batticaloa district killed 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 claims that their cadres attacked an LTTE camp near Trincomalee, killing at least 10 cadres of the outfit. However, pro-LTTE website Tamil Net accuses the Sri Lankan army for the death of Ramanan and the camp attack.
  
  A soldier is killed and another sustains injuries in an LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Iranaiirruppaikulam area of Vavuniya district.

  In a similar incident, another soldier is killed when LTTE cadres detonated a claymore mine explosion in the Dehiwatta area of Trincomalee district.

  Troops shot dead a LTTE cadre who attempted to run away after lobbing a hand grenade towards them in the Vidatalpalai area of Jaffna district.

  Three international non-governmental organizations based in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district came under suspected LTTE grenade attacks, causing injuries to one foreigner and two Muslims.

• May 20: LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres shot dead a 12-year old boy, S. Sathyam, in the Mavadiodai area of Batticaloa district as he rejected the outfit’s demand to join the organization as a child soldier.
  
  Troops retaliate as LTTE cadres opened fire towards troops in the Thoppur area of Trincomalee district.
  
  A local newspaper has reported that defence intelligence authorities have arrested an Army Lance Corporal who had been passing vital information to the LTTE. The soldier has admitted that he obtained a monthly salary of Rupees 20,000 from the outfit, according to reports.

  The London-based Times newspaper reports that despite the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (LTTE), warning that a possible European Union (EU) proscription will lead to war, the EU has agreed to designate the outfit as a terrorist group on May 29.

  Six more countries are to join the 25 EU countries to ban the LTTE. These countries include Japan and several countries, which are expecting EU membership. The European countries that are to ban the outfit are Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and Turkey. Sweden, Denmark and Finland are the other countries to ban the LTTE. The UK, United States, Canada and India have already outlawed the outfit.

• May 19: Five LTTE cadres are killed by cadres of the ‘Colonel’ Karuna group in the Sampur area of Trincomalee district.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres in the Vavuniya district kill two soldiers.

• May 17: LTTE snipers shot dead a Sri Lankan soldier at Muhamalai in Jaffna district.
  

• May 16: LTTE cadres detonate two claymore mines in the Thambalagamuwa area of Trincomalee district, killing one home guard and injuring two others.
  
  A woman cadre of the LTTE, identified as Yalisai, is killed when SFs who allegedly moved beyond the no-man zone at Palamodai, north of Vavuniya, attacked an LTTE forward defence line.

  Two LTTE cadres are wounded and four SFs sustained injuries in Jaffna district when SF personnel attacked the FDL of the LTTE at Kandalkadu, located near Eluthumadduval between Nagarkovil and Muhamalai.

  Two soldiers are injured in an LTTE anti-personnel mine explosion near Allers Garden on Trincomalee-Nilaveli road.

  Two soldiers are injured in a LTTE claymore mine attack at Pompemadu on Vavuniya -Mannar road in the Vavuniya district.

  The US has encouraged the EU to list the LTTE as a proscribed organisation.
  

• May 15: A civilian, identified as Aham Razul, is hacked to death by suspected LTTE cadres in the Thopur area of Trincomalee district.
  
  ‘Pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE shot dead a civilian, identified as Geetha Ponkalan Selvakumar, inside a hospital in the Batticaloa town.

  Suspected LTTE cadres shot at and injured a civilian at Nugelanda in the Ampara district.

  A soldier is injured in a LTTE grenade attack at Uduvil in Jaffna district.

  Cadres of the LTTE open fire targeting a tractor-bowser carrying water to the Komari STF camp at Pothuvil in the Ampara district, injuring one STF personnel

  A senior LTTE leader, K.V. Balakumaran, accuses the Government of waging an undeclared war on ethnic Tamils.

• May 14: LTTE cadres lob two hand grenades towards troops in the Kopai area of Jaffna district, injuring one soldier. Troops subsequently killed one LTTE cadre in retaliatory fire and also arrested three others.

• May 13: At least 13 civilians, including a four-month and a four-year old child, are killed by suspected LTTE cadres in two incidents in the Kayts Island of Jaffna district.
  
  Two soldiers, identified as Corporal N.A.C. Deshapriya and Lance Corporal W.A.S. Thusitha Kumara, are ambushed and killed by the LTTE in the Nochchimodai area of Vavuniya district.

  Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead a civilian, identified as Adambawa Saheel, and injured two others in the Kaththankudi area of Batticaloa district.

  LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops in the Kalladdy area of Jaffna district, injuring two soldiers and a civilian.

• May 11: At least 17 Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) sailors and 50 LTTE cadres are killed as the SLN successfully repulsed an attempt by a cluster of the outfit’s suicide boats to destroy a heavy troop-carrying vessel - the 'Pearl Cruiser' - with 710 troops on board off the coast of Vettilaikerni. In the firefight, Navy ensured the safety of the passenger craft and suffered the loss of one Dvora (P 418) with two officers and 15 sailors onboard. The Navy in a retaliatory attack with the assistance of the Air Force destroyed five LTTE boats completely and disabled four others, killing 50 ‘Sea Tigers’ and forcing the fleet to withdraw.
  
  Cadres of the LTTE lob a hand grenade and subsequently open fire towards troops in the Kalliyankadu area of Jaffna district, killing one civilian and injuring a soldier.
  LTTE cadres shot dead a home guard, identified as W. Rohitha, and injured another one in the Dadayanthawala area of Ampara district.
  
  One soldier was injured in a LTTE grenade attack at an army checkpoint in Jaffna. One LTTE cadre was injured in retaliatory fire by the troops. Elsewhere, in another grenade attack by the LTTE, a soldier was injured in the Velvetithurai area.

  Suspected LTTE cadres open fire towards civilians in the Abhayapura border village of Trincomalee district. Similarly, LTTE cadres open fire towards Police personnel in the Kalkuda area of Batticaloa district. However, no casualties are reported in these incidents.

  The LTTE also launched a mortar fire attack at the navy camp at Muttur jetty in the Trincomalee district. However, no casualties were reported in the incident.

• May 10: Two Sri Lanka Navy personnel are injured in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion at Vellani junction in the Kayts area of Jaffna district.
  
  Troops observe LTTE cadres constructing a new bunker line close to the Forward Defence Line at Nagarkovil in Jaffna district.
  

• May 9: A suspected LTTE cadre shot at and injured a civilian in the Valaichchenai area of Batticaloa district.

  The Sri Lankan troops recovered a stock of claymore mines, explosives and weapons belonging to the LTTE from Sarasalai in Jaffna. The cache included seven claymore mines, each weighing 10 kg, three charges (bags) of explosives, each weighing 15 kg, two T-56 weapons with two T-56 magazines containing 60 rounds of ammunition, three hand grenades and a remote controller.

  Troops observe large-scale LTTE bunker construction work, about 400-500 metres ahead of the Forward Defence Line at Vavunathivu in the Batticaloa district.

• May 8: LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops in the Valaichchenai area of Batticaloa district, injuring one soldier.
  

  Troops retaliated as LTTE cadres open fire targeting them in the Vembady area of Jaffna district.

• May 7: The ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction cadres kill 12 cadres of the LTTE in an attack at the outfit’s camp in the Sampoor and Ravulkulee areas of Trincomalee district.
  

  Seven police personnel and a civilian are injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Batticaloa district.

  Six security force personnel sustain injuries in a LTTE claymore mine attack in the Suriyakattakadu area of Mannar district.

  Another SF personnel is injured when cadres of the LTTE opened fire towards troops on duty at an Army point in the Agbopura area of Vavuniya district.

  Troops retaliated as LTTE cadres opened fire at them at Vavunathivu in the Batticaloa district.

  Troops observe a suspicious movement of four LTTE attack craft and two boats in the seas off Palamattalan in the Mullaittivu district.

• May 6: Troops on duty at the Naundil detachment in the Jaffna district came under LTTE fire.
  

  LTTE cadres fire upon troops at Kokkuthuduvai in the Mulaitivu district. However, no casualties are reported.

• May 5: One police personnel is killed and four others sustain injuries in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion at Mandan in the Nelliady area of Jaffna district.
  

  Cadres of the LTTE shot dead a soldier and injured other one at Adikovil in the same district.

  Three police personnel are injured in a LTTE claymore mine attack at the railway station road in the Pandarakulam area of Vavuniya district.

  The SLN craft on patrol off Kudiramalai Sea in the Kalpitiya area of Puttalam district destroys one LTTE craft laden with arms and ammunition, when a few outfit boats, mingling with fishermen, opened fire at naval vessel as they approached for investigation.

  Troops arrest five LTTE cadres along with an unspecified quantity of weapons, ammunition and explosives from the Kyts area of the same district. They also arrest two LTTE cadres along with two T-56 weapons, few magazines and two hand grenades from the Kalviyankadu area.

• May 4: Troops kill seven cadres of the LTTE in a retaliatory fire when the outfit cadres attacked security forces with hand grenades at Nelliady in the Jaffna town, injuring two soldiers.
  

  Two home guards are killed and two others sustained injuries in a LTTE claymore mine attack at Avaranthulawa on Vavuniya Settikulam road in the Vavuniya district.

  A soldier is killed and another sustained injuries in a LTTE grenade attack at Eechchankulam of the same district.

  Ten civilians and two SF personnel are wounded when cadres of the LTTE lobbed a hand grenade targeting SFs in the Clock Tower area.

  A cadre of the LTTE open fire towards the troops in the Inuvil area of Jaffna district, injuring a soldier. Another soldier is injured in a LTTE firing at Thirunaveli.

  Troops retaliated as cadres of the LTTE open fire and subsequently hurled two hand grenades targeting the troops at Irupalai Army detachment. In a similar incident, at Sandamal Eliya, troops retaliated as suspected LTTE cadres fired towards troops. However, no casualties are reported in these incidents.

  ‘Ravana Force’, an LTTE front outfit, have warned Tamil media personnel working at the State print and electronic media institutions to refrain from supporting the Government's propaganda against the LTTE.

• May 3: Cadres of the LTTE open fire-targeting SFs at Chankani in the Jaffna district, injuring two soldiers.
  

  LTTE cadres lobbed a hand grenade attack, injuring one civilian and a police personnel in the Kanatta area of Vavuniya district.

  A police personnel is injured in a LTTE grenade explosion at Nadavanveli in the Batticaloa district.

  Troops retaliated LTTE fire in the Nallur area of Jaffna district and subsequently recovered six T-56 empty rounds from the incident site.

  LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops at the Vairavapuliyankulam roadblock in Vavuniya district. However, no casualties are reported.

  Troops also retaliated as cadres of the LTTE opened fire on troops on roadblock duties at Thalayalai of the Jaffna district.

• May 2: Cadres of the ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction attack the LTTE camp in Batticaloa, killing eight of the outfit’s cadres.
  

  A civilian, identified as Arumugam Rasa Devendran, is shot dead and another wounded by LTTE cadres in the Thirunaveli junction area.

  A soldier, Private G.L.C.U.K. Liyanage, is shot dead by ‘pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE in the Murukkantale area of Vavuniya district.

• May 1: A soldier is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Nelliady area of Jaffna district.
  

  In the Arasady area LTTE cadres lob a hand grenade towards troops on picket duties.

  Troops retaliate as LTTE cadres open fire targeting them in the Kokkuvil area. However, no casualties are reported in both these incidents.

  The LTTE triggers an improvised explosive device blast targeting SLN personnel near Shanmugam Vidyalaya in the Trincomlaee town. However, the blast missed its intended target, killing four civilians and one SLN personnel. One more SLN personnel sustained injuries in the blast
  
  Two civilians were killed and three others are injured by the LTTE in the Welioya area of Batticaloa district. Five more civilians have reportedly gone missing from the area.
  
  The LTTE’s commando unit that returned to its FDL on April 30 after completing the attack on three paramilitary camps in the Welikanda area of Pollonaruwa district, has claimed that five SF personnel, including a Captain rank officer, who took part in a paramilitary rescue operation, were killed in confrontation with the outfit.
  
  The SLN spokesperson, D.K.P. Dassanayake, stated that the navy came under attack from the LTTE sea-wing, in which five sailors were wounded.

• April 30: The LTTE raids camps belonging to ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction in the Welikanda area of Polannaruwa district, killing 20 of its cadres.
  
  The LTTE cadres carried out simultaneous artillery and mortar attacks towards the FDL Army camps at Kokkuthuduvai and Kokilai in the Welioya area of Batticaloa district, killing one civilian and injuring three others.
  
  Two civilians are shot at and wounded by the LTTE cadres in the Rajagalatenna area of Ampara district.
  
  A soldier is injured in a LTTE grenade attack in the Batticaloa town.

• April 29: A civilian, identified as Jayam Prakash, is shot dead by LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres in the Jaffna district. Another civilian, Fariez, is shot dead by a suspected LTTE cadre in the Morawewa area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A police personnel is shot dead by ‘pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE at the Sanasa roadblock in Vavuniya town.
  
  Two LTTE ‘auxiliary force’ cadres are killed in a claymore mine attack allegedly carried out by the Sri Lankan Army in the LTTE-held area of Manalaru in the Mullaitivu district.
  
  Two Sri Lanka navy sailors are injured in a claymore mine attack by the LTTE in the Kayts area of Jaffna district.
  
  The Sri Lankan Government said that it is prepared to travel to Switzerland any time to resume peace talks with the LTTE.

• April 28: A former cadre of the LTTE, Sellathurai Asokan alias Asok, is shot dead by SFs in the Wellaveli area of Batticaloa district.

• April 27: Three SF personnel are killed and three others sustain injuries in a LTTE triggered remote controlled claymore mine attack at Naravilkulam in the Mannar district.

  Two sailors of Sri Lanka navy are killed in another claymore mine attack by the LTTE in the Kayts area of Jaffna district.

  Two soldiers sustain injuries in a LTTE hand grenade attack in the Tathtaththari area of Jaffna district.

  Two Special Task Force personnel are injured when LTTE cadres detonated a claymore mine in the Uyilankulam area of Mannar district.

• April 26: At least four civilians are killed and 12 others, including two sailors, are injured when the LTTE directed mortar fire towards the naval jetty in Muttur.

  A civilian is shot dead by LTTE cadres in the Urumpirai east area of Vavuniya district.
  
  LTTE cadres carried out two grenade attacks targeting SF personnel in the Inuvil and Palaly areas of Jaffna district, injuring two soldiers.

• April 25: Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka is critically injured while at least eight persons are killed when a female suicide cadre of the LTTE, disguised as a pregnant woman, blew herself up in front of the military hospital inside the Colombo Army headquarters. Twenty-seven persons are injured in the explosion.

• April 24: The LTTE cadres kill a three-year-old infant while he was with his mother at Muslim Colony in the Kaduruwela area of Polonnaruwa district.
  
  A woman is hacked to death by the LTTE at her home in the Block C area of Serunuwara in the Trincomalee district.
  
  Two home guards are shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres while they were proceeding from their duty post towards the Dutuwewa base in the Vavuniya district.
  
  Three civilians and two soldiers are injured when LTTE cadres lobbed a grenade at a Police guard point near the oil filling station in the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.

• April 23: LTTE cadres shot dead six Sinhalese farmers, including a home guard, who were in their paddy fields at Kallanpattu in the Gomarankadawala area of Trincomalee district.

  The LTTE cadres lob a grenade targeting SFs at Peratuweli in the Kanthalai area of the Trincomalee district, injuring a home guard. In the retaliatory firing, troops killed two cadres of the outfit and also recovered 500 grams of explosives, four hand grenades, two magazines of 9mm pistol, Nokia and Motorola camera phones, a multimeter, 49 rounds of ammunition for a T-56 rifle, 18 rounds of ammunition for 9 mm pistol and a 15-metre wire from the incident site.

  An LTTE cadre is killed when troops retaliated after coming under a grenade attack during a routine patrol in the Trincomalee district.

• April 22: Two soldiers are killed and four others sustained injuries in a claymore mine attack by the LTTE between the Thandikulam and Kidacholei areas of Vavuniya district.

  Two soldiers attached to the Wadumunai entry/exit point at Welikanda in the Pollonaruwa district sustain injuries in an LTTE claymore mine explosion.

  A civilian is injured in a LTTE grenade attack near the 5th Mile Post in Trincomalee district.

  At Anuradapura junction in the Trincomalee district, LTTE cadres lobbed a hand grenade at a Police post, injuring police personnel.

  The head office of the World Tamil Movement at Toronto in Canada, allegedly a front organisation of the LTTE, is raided and subsequently sealed by the Police.

• April 21: Two SF personnel are killed and another sustains injuries when LTTE cadres blew up their vehicle with a claymore mine in the Thanganagar area of Trincomalee district.
  

  At Dehiwatte in Trincomalee district, LTTE cadres detonated a claymore mine and subsequently opened fire towards SF personnel, killing one home guard. Troops retaliated the fire and recovered the body of a civilian killed in the crossfire.
  
  LTTE cadres trigger a remote-controlled claymore mine targeting a state bus carrying passengers towards Kanniya in the Trincomalee district, injuring the bus driver.

• April 20: A civilian, identified as Mumomad Nisar, is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres in the Manipuram area of Vavuniya district.

  LTTE ‘pistol gang’ cadres shot dead a member of the Eelam People’s Democratic Party, identified as Selladorai Sivakumar, in the Batticaloa district.

  The LTTE cadres lob hand grenades and subsequently open fire targeting SF personnel in the Kanniya area of Trincomalee district. Troops killed a cadre of the outfit in the retaliatory fire and also recovered a hand grenade and a magazine with live ammunition from the incident site.

  LTTE cadres using fishing dingy detonated a claymore mine targeting an Army truck in the Urani area of Batticaloa district, injuring a soldier.

  LTTE ‘Sea Tigers’ reportedly opened fire at a Sri Lanka Navy vessel with a cease-fire monitor on board off the Mullaitivu Sea.

  The LTTE announces that it will not attend the Geneva peace talks scheduled to be held on April 24-25.
  

• April 19: Three civilians, including a South Korean businessman, are injured in a LTTE triggered claymore mine explosion in the Mahakachchikuda area.
  
  Two sailors are injured when a water browser of the SLN came under a LTTE claymore mine attack in the Wankalaipadu area of Mannar district.

• April 18: The LTTE announces that they have killed three paramilitary cadres and captured another in the LTTE-controlled area of Pendukalsenai, west of Kiran in the Batticaloa district.
  
  A civilian, Balachandran Reginald Roshan, is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres in the Colombuthurai area of Jaffna district.
  
  One of the two LTTE child soldiers who were injured in an accidental claymore mine explosion on April 17 succumbs to his injuries.

  Troops retaliated LTTE fire in the Sinhakanda Army point area of Trincomalee district. However, no casualties are reported.

  Two LTTE cadres enter a civilian's house in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district and took away his vehicle and also lobbed a hand grenade while escaping.
  

• April 17: Five SF personnel are killed and seven others sustain injuries in a LTTE triggered claymore mine explosion in the Veppankulam area of Vavuniya district.

  A cadre of the LTTE is killed and two others are wounded when a claymore mine they were carrying exploded accidentally in the Chavakachcheri area of Jaffna district.

  Five SLAF personnel are injured when LTTE cadres detonated a claymore mine and subsequently opened fire targeting a SLAF convoy in the Kiran area of Batticaloa district. Troops latter recovered an unexploded claymore mine from the incident site.

• April 16: Three Sri Lankan Air Force personnel are killed in a LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion in the Kappalthurai area of Trincomalee district.

  A civilian, Sulaiman Netthiwella Thambi Lathif, is shot dead by suspected LTTE 'pistol gang' cadres in the Oddamavadi area of Batticaloa district.

  A member of the Eelam People's Democratic Party is shot dead by suspected LTTE cadres.

  Two soldiers are injured in a claymore mine attack by the LTTE near the Pasmang junction in Jaffna district.

  A member of the Vavuniya Sinhala Organisation is shot at and injured by 'pistol gang ' cadres of the LTTE in Vavuniya town.

  A soldier is shot at and injured by LTTE cadres in the Vavuniya district.

  Special Task Force personnel repulses a major LTTE attack in the Ampara district at 12.30 pm. The troops recovered a T-56 rifle, 6 magazines with 128 rounds of ammunition, two claymore mines with remote control devises and 20 rounds of empty ammunition from the incident site.

• April 13: At least 13 persons are killed and 40 others injured in a series of bomb blasts and arson in the Trincomalee district. In the first incident, LTTE cadres triggered a claymore mine explosion targeting a police bus in the Kumburupitiya area, killing two police personnel and injuring two other.
  
  Elsewhere in the district, LTTE cadres set off an IED outside a vegetable market, killing at least five people. Six more persons were killed in the subsequent mob violence in which shops, including those belonging to Tamils and Muslims, were set ablaze. 38 persons were injured in the two incidents.

  ‘Pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE shot at and injured two SF personnel in the Miravodai area of Batticaloa district.

• April 11: Ten Sri Lankan Navy sailors and a civilian driver are killed, while nine others injured when a Navy convoy was targeted by a LTTE triggered claymore mine explosion, at Thampalagamuwa on the Trincomalee-Habarana road.
  

• April 10: Five soldiers and two civilians are killed and two other civilians are injured in a claymore mine explosion triggered by suspected cadres of the LTTE in the Mirusuvil area of Jaffna district.
  

• April 9: Two ‘pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE shot at and injured two civilians, including a schoolboy, in the Valaichchenai area of Batticaloa district.
  

• April 8: Suspected cadres of the LTTE kill one soldier and injure other.
  
  Another soldier and civilian are wounded in a fragmentation mine attack on an army lorry in the north by the LTTE.

• April 7: Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead two Muslim home guards, identified as B.A. Bawa and V. Tahibu, in the Welikanda area of Pollonnaruwa district.
  

• April 5: Two ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction cadres, including a key operative Chooty, are injured in a counter-attack by the LTTE, when the former was trying to venture into the LTTE-controlled area of Panichchankerni in the Batticaloa district.

• April 3: Police arrests two teenage schoolboys, suspected to be cadres of the LTTE ‘pistol group’, along with a Chinese made 9-mm pistol from the Anandapuri area of Trincomalee district.
  

• April 2: Troops recover one T-56 weapon, 281 rounds of ammunition, three magazines, 75 posters of the LTTE and 500 anti-Government posters hidden inside a house in the Point Pedro area of Jaffna district.

• April 13: At least 13 persons are killed and 40 others injured in a series of bomb blasts and arson in the Trincomalee district. In the first incident, LTTE cadres triggered a claymore mine explosion targeting a police bus in the Kumburupitiya area, killing two police personnel and injuring two other.
  
  Elsewhere in the district, LTTE cadres set off an IED outside a vegetable market, killing at least five people. Six more persons were killed in the subsequent mob violence in which shops, including those belonging to Tamils and Muslims, were set ablaze. 38 persons were injured in the two incidents.

  ‘Pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE shot at and injured two SF personnel in the Miravodai area of Batticaloa district.
  

• April 11: Ten Sri Lankan Navy sailors and a civilian driver are killed, while nine others injured when a Navy convoy was targeted by a LTTE triggered claymore mine explosion, at Thampalagamuwa on the Trincomalee-Habarana road.
  

• April 10: Five soldiers and two civilians are killed and two other civilians are injured in a claymore mine explosion triggered by suspected cadres of the LTTE in the Mirusuvil area of Jaffna district.

• April 9: Two ‘pistol gang’ cadres of the LTTE shot at and injured two civilians, including a schoolboy, in the Valaichchenai area of Batticaloa district.
  

• April 8: Suspected cadres of the LTTE kill one soldier and injure other.
  
  Another soldier and civilian are wounded in a fragmentation mine attack on an army lorry in the north by the LTTE.

• April 7: Suspected LTTE cadres shot dead two Muslim home guards, identified as B.A. Bawa and V. Tahibu, in the Welikanda area of Pollonnaruwa district.
  

• April 5: Two ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction cadres, including a key operative Chooty, are injured in a counter-attack by the LTTE, when the former was trying to venture into the LTTE-controlled area of Panichchankerni in the Batticaloa district.
  

• April 3: Police arrests two teenage schoolboys, suspected to be cadres of the LTTE ‘pistol group’, along with a Chinese made 9-mm pistol from the Anandapuri area of Trincomalee district.
  

• April 2: Troops recover one T-56 weapon, 281 rounds of ammunition, three magazines, 75 posters of the LTTE and 500 anti-Government posters hidden inside a house in the Point Pedro area of Jaffna district.
  

• March 30: LTTE cadres, onboard a dinghy in the seas off Muttur in the Trincomalee district, open fire targeting a naval detachment at Norway Point forcing the naval troops to retaliate. No casualties are reported.

• March 27: A suspected LTTE front, Upsurging Peoples Brigade, has claimed responsibility for attacks on the military that killed dozens of SF personnel in December 2005 and January 2006 and also threatened that they would resume attacks.
  
  The SLN has reimposed fishing restrictions in the sea "around the Jaffna peninsula up to a distance of 12 nautical miles from land up to International Maritime Boundary between India and Sri Lanka” to stop the LTTE from smuggling weapons in the guise of fishermen.
  

• March 26: Cadres of the LTTE open fire towards civilians in the Toppur area of Trincomalee district. No casualties are reported in the incident.

• March 26: The LTTE cadres open fire targeting SF personnel in the Mahindapura area of Trincomalee district.
  
  The Kotahena Police arrest a suspected LTTE cadre along with 750 grams of heroin in the Colombo district.

• March 25: Six LTTE cadres and eight sailors are feared killed, when a boat heading to northern Sri Lanka and carrying LTTE cadres exploded off the northwest coast near a naval craft. The boat, believed to be carrying explosives, was approached by a Naval Fast Attack Craft to carry out an inspection when it exploded in the Kalpititya region in of Puttalam district, 200 km north of capital Colombo. The navy blamed LTTE for the attack, while the outfit refuted the charges.
  
  A civilian lodged a complaint with the Police in the Shanthipuram area of Mannar district that his son was abducted on February 21 by the LTTE.
  
  25 civilians, including eight girls and five boys, below ten years of age, escape from their village and complained to the Batticaloa Police of the intensified LTTE harassment, including abduction and conscription.
  

• March 23: A LTTE cadre is killed and two others are injured in an attack on the outfit’s ‘Forward Defense Line sentry point’ located in the Poonagar area of Trincomalee district.
  
  The LTTE cadres abduct three young female students of the Ilavalai Convent School in the Vavuniya district.
  
  Police arrest two LTTE-trained ‘home Guards’, disguised as businessmen, who allegedly tried to recruit some men from the central hill country areas of Norwood in the Nuwara Eliya district

• March 22: Cadres of the LTTE open fire towards SFs in the Manalkadu area of Jaffna district. The SFs retaliated and subsequently recovered one T-56 weapon from the incident site and also arrested one of the assailants.

• March 21: Cadres of the LTTE open fire targeting a naval craft in Sampoor sea near the Trincomalee harbour, when it attempted to reach two suspicious boats moving in restricted areas. The naval boat retaliated the fire. The outfit claimed that two of their cadres and five civilians were wounded in the incident.
  
  LTTE cadres abduct a civilian from the Batticaloa district.

• March 19: LTTE cadres open fire targeting SFs posted at the Eluthumadduval Forward Defence Line in the Jaffna district. However, no casualties were reported.

• March 18: LTTE cadres under training in the seas off the Norway point in Trincomalee district opened fire on SF personnel.
  
  Cadres of the LTTE enter village Vakneri in the Batticaloa district and threatened the civilians forcing them to join the outfit.

• March 16: A 16-year-old schoolboy, abducted at Mallikaitivu and conscripted to the LTTE, escapes from the LTTE camp and sought protection with the army in the Trincomalee district.

• March 15: LTTE cadres set ablaze two state-owned buses in an attempt to distract attention from schoolchildren protesting over the outfit’s continuing abduction of their classmates at Valachchenai.

• March 10: LTTE promulgates a "Tamil Eelam Lands Act" covering land administration in the areas under its control in the northeast.

• March 7: Two school children abducted earlier by cadres of the LTTE escape from the outfit’s Sampoor camp in the Trincomalee district.
  
  A 15-year old boy kidnapped and conscripted to the LTTE escapes the outfit’s Kokadicholai camp and surrenders before the Police in Batticaloa district.
  
  Customs officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo detains some LTTE delegates, including its Peace Secretariat head Pulidevan, who returned from Oslo, along with several catalogues containing weapons and number of powerful searchlights.

• March 6: A Muslim businessman, identified as M. Jawfar, is shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Eravur area of Batticaloa district.

• March 4: LTTE cadres kidnap a 15-year old boy from the Ampara district.

• March 1: The LTTE releases 20 cadres who had lied about their ages in order to join the insurgency.

• February 28: A suspected LTTE cadre entered the Chavakachcheri Hindu College and forcibly took away 40 students along with two teachers into uncleared areas (areas not under Government control) of Kilinochchi district for an alleged ‘educational programme’. Reports added that they were released later.

• February 24: A cadre of the LTTE surrenders before the troops at Kiran Army detachment in the Batticaloa district along with a hand grenade.

• February 23: Peace talks between the Government and LTTE ends in Geneva with both sides agreeing to meet again on April 19-21 at the same venue for another round.

• February 22: Six unidentified assailants shot dead a LTTE 'National Auxiliary Force' cadre, Shanthakumar Narayanapillai, in the Pulipaynthakal area of Batticaloa district. The ‘Colonel’ Karuna faction claimed responsibility for the killing.
  A former cadre of the LTTE, identified as Navarasan, is shot dead in the Valaichenai area of Batticaloa district by suspected members of a paramilitary group.
  The Sri Lanka Government and LTTE commence their two-day direct talks on implementation issues of the four-year old CFA in Geneva.

• February 20: Suspected LTTE cadres shot at and injured a civilian, identified as Kailasapillai Raveendran, in the Vantharomoolai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  The LTTE has issued a death warning to Rajan Sivarajah, leader of the Liberal Democratic Tamils in Norway, and has threatened to kill him unless he stopped his "anti-LTTE activities immediately. Rajan is one of the two Tamil leaders who addressed the first Conference of the World Alliance for Peace in Sri Lanka held in Oslo in 2004.

• · February 18: LTTE cadres storm Irandal village in the Puttur area of Jaffna district and assaulted an unspecified number of villagers.

• February 17: Three persons are arrested along with two T-56 weapons, one micro pistol and 87 rounds of ammunition, allegedly sold to them by the LTTE, during separate search operations in the Weeragula area of Gampaha district.
  
  Government releases four ‘naval wing’ cadres of the LTTE, also known as ‘Sea Tigers’, who were arrested in October 2005 for videotaping the Trincomalee Harbour, as a goodwill gesture ahead of Geneva talks.

• February 15: At least three LTTE cadres are arrested by the Qatar Police in connection with the assassination of a 26-year-old Tamil youth in Qatar. The victim was a member of the 'Colonel' Karuna faction and was killed by members of the LTTE’s intelligence group, police said.
  
  Suspected LTTE cadres abduct and subsequently release 12 fishermen along with their four fishing trawlers from the Gurunagar Jetty of Jaffna district.

• February 13: Suspected LTTE cadres lob five hand grenades targeting the TELO district office at Batticaloa, injuring a TELO member.

• February 11: One of four suspected LTTE Sea Tigers aboard on a speeding trawler blew himself up in mid-sea off Talaimannar in the Mannar district after SLN personnel intercepted the trawler. The suspected LTTE suicide bomber completely destroyed the trawler and killed all four sea Tigers on board and wounded a SLN personnel, who succumbed to his injuries later. SF personnel recovered a LTTE travel document during a search operation in the area following the explosion.
  
  Troops arrest a 15-year old LTTE cadre from the Urani area of Batticaloa district along with a weapon. The arrested LTTE cadre, who had earlier taken part in a number of attacks against the SFs, was sent into the area by the outfit’s intelligence leader for the East to execute attacks on the troops.

• February 9: Suspected LTTE cadres shot at and injured a farmer, U.L. Najeeb Deen, in the Akkaraipattu area of Amparai district.
  The Sri Lanka Information Minister, Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, reveals that there had been 5,464 cases of cease-fire violations committed by the LTTE from February 22, 2002 to February 4, 2006.

• February 8: A civilian, identified as Nagendram Gnanaselvam, is injured when LTTE cadres attacked him with a sword in the Chunnakam area of Jaffna district.

• February 7: The LTTE confirms its participation in peace talks scheduled to be held in Geneva on February 22-23.
  

• February 6: Peace facilitator Norway announces that the Government and LTTE will meet in Geneva on February 22 and 23 for a dialogue.

• February 3: A cadre of the LTTE surrenders before Naval troops in the Muttur area of Trincomalee district.
  

• February 2: A civilian, identified as Murugesu Thavarasa, who was the Principal of the Valachchenai Hindu College, is allegedly abducted by suspected LTTE cadres from the Hindu Kovil area of Batticaloa district.
  

• January 26: At least 10 LTTE cadres were killed and an unspecified number were injured when 'Colonel' Karuna faction cadres attacked a vehicle carrying LTTE cadres in the Vadamunai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  A senior cadre of the LTTE, identified as 'Major' Kavilan, is killed in the Vadamunai area of Batticaloa district.
  
  At least 10 LTTE cadres are killed and an unspecified number are injured when 'Colonel' Karuna faction cadres attacked a vehicle carrying LTTE cadres in the Vadamunai area of Batticaloa district.
  

• January 23: Suspected LTTE cadres attack an army patrol near the Batticaloa town, detonating a claymore mine, killing three soldiers and wounding two others.

• January 21: Twenty-seven LTTE cadres are killed in an explosion that occurred in the Adampan area of Mannar district.

• January 19: Three police personnel and a civilian are killed in a suspected LTTE triggered claymore mine blast in the Thandavanveli area of Batticaloa district. Seven army personnel, 13 police personnel and three civilians are injured in the blast.

• January 17: Suspected LTTE cadres trigger a claymore mine explosion on the Nilaveli-Trincomalee road, injuring 12 sailors travelling by bus to Trincomalee. Two unidentified civilians are killed and another injured in the crossfire, which ensued after the blast, when the LTTE cadres opened fire at the bus and retaliated by naval troops.

• January 15: Three women relatives of a LTTE cadre are shot dead by unidentified assailants in Manipay, close to the Manipay Hindu College in Jaffna district.

• January 12: Nine Sri Lankan Navy personnel are killed and eight others sustain injuries in a suspected LTTE triggered claymore mine blast in Chettikulam on the Mannar-Medawachchiya road.

• January 9: A soldier and two LTTE cadres were killed following a gun battle between the LTTE and a military patrol in Muttur near Trincomalee.

• January 7: 15 Sri Lankan Navy personnel are killed in a suspected suicide attack by the LTTE on a navy gunboat outside the Trincomalee naval harbor in Trincomalee district.

• January 3: Vavuniya West Area political head of the LTTE, 'Major' Jeyanthan, and a civilian, Vinotharan Thevarasa, are killed in a claymore mine explosion in LTTE controlled area of Valaiyankattu in Mannar town.

• January 2: Five people are killed and two others sustain injuries in a bomb blast in Trincomalee.