
SLA activities in the Northeast on 29 April 2006
Man shot dead in Batticaloa
Four SLA-paramilitary men entered the home of Rasathurai Asokan of 13 Colony in Kadduvasal, on 28 April around noon, and shot and killed him. Asokan was an ex-LTTE member.
SLA Claymore attack in Nedunkerni kills a member of the support force A SLA placed claymore mine, inside the LTTE area of Nedunkerni in Vavuniya, killed a member of the support force, on 29 April morning. Ponnuthurai Mohanathas of 3rd Mile Post in Vadakachchi is the person killed in the attack. Another civilian injured in another SLA claymore attack in LTTE area in Mannar, on 29 April, died later. His name is M Jeevanathan. One man reported disappeared in Mannar Visanthi Alosious (27), a farmer from Nanaddan in Mannar has been reported missing. SLA was conducting large scale search operations at that time of his disappearance. Visanthi went to the Nanaddan market to sell his vegetable produce and was returning home we he disappeared. SLA continues to beats young men at Meesalai junction in Jaffna Young men traveling in motorbikes are stopped and beaten at the Meesalai Junction in Jaffna by SLA. After the beating SLA refuses to hand the motorbikes back to the young men, insisting that they must bring their relatives before SLA will hand over the motorbike. Incident like this happened twice at this junction the last one being on 24 February. Heavy checking by SLA in near tertiary institutions in Jaffna SLA is conducting excessively harsh search operations in front of Jaffna University and the Jafnna Technical College. SLA is standing with their faces covered in black cloth and with their rifles pointed towards travelers. They take young men to by lanes where they are stripped naked and threatened.
30 April 2006
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