The Tigers killed a policeman at Thallady on 12 November. The Army shot dead a LTTE cadre on 21 November at Uyirtharasankulam. Two more Tigers were killed at Marunkan on 30 November.
Reports say the Army has assured government officers that there will be no interference in rice cultivation. Farmers plan to plant over 22,400 acres of land in the Yala cultivation season, but say no permission has been granted for water supply to 5,300 acres in Adaikalamoddai between Army-held and LTTE-controlled areas. Cultivation is allowed only beyond two miles south of military defences on the Mannar-Vavuniya road.
Around 1,200 families from the Vanni are currently waiting at Pesalai refugee camp to return to Jaffna. Reports say that the Thandikulam route to the Vanni from Vavuniya will be permanently closed for civilians and a new route has been opened through Poovarasankulam on the Mannar-Vavuniya road.
Further south in Puttalam and Kalpitty the police arrested 11 Sinhalese youths on allegations of assisting the LTTE.