No relief for Trincomalee

EPDP MP M Chandrakumar has accused the Trincomalee GA of delaying relief to Tamil refugees for the last two months. Speaking in Parliament on 5 September, Mr Chandrakumar said that the GA has brought Tamil refugee relief under his personal supervision and is using an outdated electoral register to deny relief for many recently displaced people.

The ferry service from Trincomalee, suspended in July resumed with the ship Tharaki carrying 270 passengers to Jaffna on 1 September. Over 1,000 people are awaiting at Trincomalee and reports say police are delaying travel permits to many of them.

District Land Officer TD Peiris, 52, was shot dead at his home in Trincomalee town on 17 September by suspected LTTE gunmen. Following the assassination security has been tightened and people have been ordered to remain indoors after 8pm.

Security sources say the Navy damaged two Sea Tiger vessels near Foul Point at the Trincomalee harbour entrance. Two sailors were killed and six others injured. Eleven Home Guards and two policemen died in a LTTE attack in Kantalai on 29 September.

Further north in Mullaitivu District, a soldier was killed in a LTTE landmine attack at Kahatagollewa in Veli Oya area on 10 September. The Tigers and the Army clashed at Sinhapura in the same area on 17 September. Security sources say a civilian was abducted by the LTTE after the incident.

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