04-15-2005, 07:49 AM
Nine said killed in attack on paramilitary camp
[TamilNet, April 15, 2005 02:22 GMT]
At least nine were killed in an attack on the camp of a paramilitary group in Sorivil in the Welikanda area, 80 kilometres northwest of Batticaloa Thursday morning, civilians in the area said. We can neither confirm nor deny the reports of the attack, a senior military officer in the east said. The bodies of nine paramilitary cadres who were killed in the assault are lying near a river in Sorivil (Soruwila in Sinhala), an interior village in the Polannaruwa district, according to villagers in the area. Nordic truce monitors said last week that a paramilitary group accused of gunning down LTTE activists operates from this area with the backing of Sri Lankan armed forces.
One of the main camps of this paramilitary group was located in Soruvil, according to civilians in the area.
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Meanwhile, the popular Sinhala daily Lankadeepa reported on Tuesday that the paramilitary group had fined some families in Soruwila, Maliyadevapura, Namal Pokuna, Tamil and Sinhala interior villages in the eastern sector of the Polannaruwa district who had not attended a meeting it had called on 11 April.
The paramilitary group had organized the meeting for villagers in these remote hamlets near the Polannaruwa-Batticaloa district border to to instruct them about what should be done in the future, according to Lankadeepa.</span>
[TamilNet, April 15, 2005 02:22 GMT]
At least nine were killed in an attack on the camp of a paramilitary group in Sorivil in the Welikanda area, 80 kilometres northwest of Batticaloa Thursday morning, civilians in the area said. We can neither confirm nor deny the reports of the attack, a senior military officer in the east said. The bodies of nine paramilitary cadres who were killed in the assault are lying near a river in Sorivil (Soruwila in Sinhala), an interior village in the Polannaruwa district, according to villagers in the area. Nordic truce monitors said last week that a paramilitary group accused of gunning down LTTE activists operates from this area with the backing of Sri Lankan armed forces.
One of the main camps of this paramilitary group was located in Soruvil, according to civilians in the area.
<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Meanwhile, the popular Sinhala daily Lankadeepa reported on Tuesday that the paramilitary group had fined some families in Soruwila, Maliyadevapura, Namal Pokuna, Tamil and Sinhala interior villages in the eastern sector of the Polannaruwa district who had not attended a meeting it had called on 11 April.
The paramilitary group had organized the meeting for villagers in these remote hamlets near the Polannaruwa-Batticaloa district border to to instruct them about what should be done in the future, according to Lankadeepa.</span>
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