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Tamil Guardian
April 17, 2018
A Tamil man has been hospitalised after being beaten by police in Mullaitivu, causing tension between police and locals in the Keppapulavu-Kalliyadi area. 30-year-old Kamalathas Mariyanayagam was handcuffed and beaten by police on the street in Puthukudiyiruppu. He was reportedly kept in handcuffsÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
April 14, 2018
A Tamil man has drowned after being chased by police in Mullaitivu. 29-year-old Maheswaran Ramakrishnan and two others were chased by police who had tried to apprehend the three for allegedly drinking alcohol next to a tank (kulam) in Udaiyarkattu. When the chase reached the water, one of the menÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
April 12, 2018
The families of the disappeared protest in Mullaitivu was attacked by a knife-wielding individual on Thursday on its 400th day. The attacker entered the protest's shelter on Thursday evening bearing a knife and shouting death threats at the protestors. The protestors in the makeshift avoided injury, runningÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
April 7, 2018
A section of coastal land in Mullaitivu rightfully belongs to Tamil fishermen, a Mullaitivu court has ruled, defeating a case brought against the Tamils by the Fisheries and Aquatics Department on behalf of Sinhalese fishermen who contested the land rights. The land in Kokkulai was granted to local TamilÃâà...
Colombo Page
April 1, 2018
Apr 01, Mullaitivu: Minister of Finance and Mass Media Mangala Samaraweera today met with the mothers of the disappeared and missing in Mullaitivu, who are staging a roadside protest opposite Mullaitivu District Secretariat for the past 390 days demanding to know the whereabouts of their missingÃâà...
Sunday Observer
March 31, 2018
On a three-day visit to the Northern Province, the Finance Minister made a stop in Puthukudiyirippu, where the civil war came to its brutal close in May 2009. Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera visited Puthukudiyirippu in the Mullaitivu District yesterday, where the LTTE and Government forces wagedÃâà...
Hiru News
March 21, 2018
The security forces have excavated Mullivaikkal in Mullaitivu to find gold and weapons hidden by the LTTE during the last stages of the conflict. The area was excavated last afternoon for about three hours and it will be continued during tomorrow (Mar. 22) as well. The excavation was carried out following aÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
March 21, 2018
A Tamil journalist was detained by the Sri Lankan army and subject to threatening and abusive language by an army official while reporting on the army's plans to appropriate land in Mullaitivu. The journalist who had been working in Alampil, were residents have reported that the Sri Lankan Army isÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
December 31, 1999
The families of the disappeared protest in Mullaitivu was attacked by a knife-wielding individual on Thursday on its 400th day. The attacker entered the protest's shelter on Thursday evening bearing a knife and shouting death threats at the protestors. The protestors in the makeshift avoided injury, runningÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
December 31, 1999
Sinhalese fishermen are openly engaging in illegal and pollutive methods of fishing in Mullaitivu with no fear of legal censure. During a research trip to document the extent of Sinhalisation and land appropriation in Mullaitivu's border villages, members of the Northern Provincial Council came acrossÃâà...
Tamil Guardian
December 31, 1999
Members of the NPC members held a protest outside the Mullaitivu DS office, calling on the Sri Lankan President to intervene against Sinhalese settlements in the district. The NPC “unanimously decided to express the Council's deep concern over the settlements in the Mullaitivu and Vanni districts byÃâà...
Colombo Page
December 31, 1999
Apr 11, Colombo: Mullaitivu District Government Agent Rupawthi Ketheeswaran has said that the district has received Rs. 68 million as an initial step to initiate 156 development projects in the district. The officials said 65 percent of the projects are agricultural projects while 18 percent of the remaining areÃâà...
