On 11th, the army fired shells and took away 25 persons, including the postmaster and a technical assistant. Some buildings were burnt. Many people fled into the Eravur North. As the army began moving...

Mailanthanai is an isolated village in Mattakalappu (Batticaloa), where paddy cultivators and cattle farmers managed to make a meagre living, surviving at the mercy of the elements. They live in ramsh...

Between 23.08.1990 and 25.09.1990, the Sri Lankan military detained hundreds of young Eelamtamil men from the neighbouring villages of Mandaitivu, Allaipiddy, and Mankumban (M-A-M). At least seventy o...

The Claymore is a “directional mine,” a curved plastic pack of Composition C-3 explosive (later C-4) into which numerous steel cubes were embedded. When detonated, the mine would blast out its fragmen...

On 12.10.2003, Human remains were found in a pit near the Periyathambiran Temple in Thiraikeni, 57km south of Mattkalappu (Batticaloa) town in the Mattakalappu-Pottuvil road when Thiraikeni residents ...

The IPKF, which arrived in the northeast province in 1987 following the signing of Indo-Sri Lanka peace agreement in a bid to resolve the ethnic conflict with a political solution, launched a military...

Killing of a young journalist shakes Yalppanam. Sahathevan Nilakshan, 22, a young media student at Yalppanam University Media Research and Training Center and a part time journalist was shot dead ...

Poththuvil is the Eastern end of Tamileelam which is located in Ampal Éri (Amparai) district. Agriculture is generally seen as the basic economic route of Poththuvil. In addition, the Village´se inter...

In speeches from the dock, the two men announced that they would donate their eyes in the hope that they would be grafted on to Eelam Tamils who would see the birth of Tamileelam, the independent stat...

Siththandy (Cittānti) village is situated 8 Kms north of the Mattakalappu (Batticaloa) town. The village has an ancient and famous Saivaite Koyil (Temple). Worship at Siththandi Murukan Koyil (Temple)...