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Situation report – 7 November 2006

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Behind the closed A9 highway: Uthayan, the Tamil daily published in Jaffna in its editorial takes issue with the view expressed in government circles that the closure of the A9 only denies food to the Jaffna people. Uthayan refers to the A9 as the lifeline of the people of Jaffna, essential to the economic and social life of the people. Uthayan says the A9 is also the social life line because many families live on either side of the closed A9. It is this that the LTTE referred to as the “Berlin Wall” dividing the Tamil home land in its press release from Geneva immediately after the Latest Geneva talks.

Killing, disappearance, abductions and arrests in Jaffna is continuing. A 45 year old mother of seven children was shot and killed in Alvai in Jaffna on 6 November by paramilitary group. A school student was shot and killed by the Sri Lankan Navy, on 5 November, when the student went to the shop on Chunnakam, Sapapathy road in Jaffna. A young man was arrested by the Sri Lankan military in Kerniyadi in Kokuvil, Jaffna on 6 November. His whereabouts is unknown.

Jaffna Students Union, in its latest report demanded the removal of all military posts that are setup too close to schools. The report says that the education of students is badly affected by the Sri Lankan military activities carried out in the name of security. These activities involve extra judicial killing and disappearance that has disturbed the school students deeply. In this context the presence military posts too close to the schools are totally inappropriate says the report by the Jaffna Students Union.

Behind the closed A9, the Sri Lankan military is also threatening families who have lost members to the Sri Lankan military excesses. The threats are aimed at preventing the families lodging complaints with human rights bodies. In particular members of the Society for the Disappeared have received threats warning them not to speak to any media or outside human rights bodies about the disappearances caused by the Sri Lankan military.

Vaharai another blocked out region: The Vaharai area has been blocked out for more than a month and it has been bombed and shelled intensely over the last few days.

Two fishermen fishing in the seas off Vaharai In Batticaloa came under Sri Lankan Navy attack on 6 November. One of the fishermen escaped to the shore and the other fishermen, 21 year old Vigneswaran has disappeared.

07 November 2006

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