spring to life: catching fish in the waves

By markus.spring@gmail.com (Markus Spring)
since my first official visit to batticaloa and kalmunai, fishermen were
the subject of numerous shots, from beach overviews up to portraits,
details of their catch and their tools. this time i brought two small
albums as tokens of my ...
<http://spring2life.blogspot.com/2009/02/catching-fish-in-waves.html>

A new pattern of development

Ceylon Daily News - Ceylon,Sri Lanka
Ampara and Batticaloa districts also experienced good harvests. Such
results would give a good income to the people in those remote districts.
...
<http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/02/09/fea01.asp>

Over 24000 houses, for people fleeing Vanni
Ceylon Daily News - Ceylon,Sri Lanka
... for the Ministry to resettle them in a proper manner as per the
accepted norms of the UN organisation like UNHCR as done in the Batticaloa
district.
<http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/02/09/news50.asp>

Prawn culture in Vakarai

Ceylon Daily News - Ceylon,Sri Lanka
... farmers through the proposed project. In addition, a model prawn farm
will be established in Batticaloa to train youth in prawn farming, sources
revealed.
<http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/02/09/news51.asp>

* Peace walk held in Eastern Sri Lanka

Colombo Page - Colombo,Sri Lanka
Feb 08, Batticaloa: The Catholic community of the Batticaloa city in
Eastern Sri Lanka today staged a peace walk to bless for the lasting peace
in the ...
<http://www.colombopage.com/archive_09/February8163658RA.html>

Police security tightened at Kalmunai hospital

TamilNet: 03.02.05 Police security tightened at Kalmunai hospital
Judge M.P.Mohideen has ordered the Kalmunai Police to tighten the security
provided to Baby 81 at the Kalmunai Base Hospital after Wednesdays
incident. ...
<http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=14153>

LTTE Sea Tiger Leader Soosai launched another attack under Ramesh, one of

Military Matters
Nation on Sunday - Sri Lanka
LTTE Sea Tiger Leader Soosai launched another attack under Ramesh, one of
the LTTE military wing leaders in Batticaloa on February 4. ...
<http://www.nation.lk/2009/02/08/militarym.htm>

Ampara Success story in Pluralism?

Nation on Sunday - Sri Lanka
The huge yellow and green vehicles are seen everywhere, from Ampara to
Kalmunai, where tens of thousands of acres of paddy lands are found. ...
<http://www.nation.lk/2009/02/08/newsfe1.htm>

It's back to Batticaloa, but not to school

Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri Lanka

By Maura O'Connor Although a large number of the war displaced have

returned to Batticaloa district , thousands of children are not getting

back to school ...

<http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090208/News/sundaytimesnews_07.html>

Bumper paddy harvest expected in East

Sunday Observer - Columbo,Sri Lanka
Harvesting has already begun in the Ampara, Batticaloa and Trincomalee
districts, said MLAM Hisbullah, Provincial Minister of Social Service, ...
<http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2009/02/08/new19.asp>

Google Alert - Batticaloa

SriLankaNews.com - Sri Lanka: SLA hands over body of Tamil farmer ...
By cron
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in Paduvaankarai in Batticaloa district
handed the body of a Tamil farmer Friday morning to Vaazhaichcheanai
hospital cl...
<http://www.srilankanews.com/story.php?title=sri-lanka-sla-hands-over-body-of-tamil-farmer-to-vaazhaichcheanai-hospital-tamilnet>

Sri Lanka: SLA hands over body of Tamil farmer to Vaazhaichcheanai ...

By TamilNet Newswire
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers in Paduvaankarai in Batticaloa district
handed the body of a Tamil farmer Friday morning to Vaazhaichcheanai
hospital claiming that he had committed suicide by taking poison, ...
<http://australiantamil.com/?p=3758>

Defeated, not out

The Week - Kochi,India
We live in fear," says Karunakaran, an engineer in Batticaloa. Kumar David,
a leader of the Democratic Left Front in Sri Lanka, says another "quisling
would ...
<http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?sectionName=Current+Events&contentId=5111451&programId=1073754900&pageTypeId=1073754893&contentType=EDITORIAL

Sri Lanka Relief Work

By webmaster@halifax.ca
The first mission occurred in June 2007 when Catherine joined a team of two
other volunteers to assist with the computerization and modernization of
the finance departments at the local governments of Galle and Kalmunai. ...
<http://www.halifax.ca/mediaroom/pressrelease/pr2009/090206SriLankaReliefWork.html>

Tamil youth recovered dead in Batticaloa

Ka'luvaangchchikkudi police recovered the body of a Tamil youth with

gunshot wounds Friday in Onthaachchimadam area in Batticaloa district. The

youth had gone missing since 29 January after going to Erivil area with his

...

<http://srilankanatrocities.com/blog/?p=421>

spring to life: kalmunai beach boys

By markus.spring@gmail.com (Markus Spring)
kalmunai beach boys. click image to enlarge. no dessert for me after a
working dinner, instead 10 min. break and a very short walk on the beach.
the colors here were wonderful, the beach certainly attractive for ...
<http://spring2life.blogspot.com/2009/02/kalmunai-beach-boys.html>
spring to life
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Batticaloa District had a close 55 points to 53 win over Gampaha District

Daily Mirror - Colombo,Western,Sri Lanka

Batticaloa District had a close 55 points to 53 win over Gampaha District

in their 'B' group fixture of the 50th SLSBA Anniversary basketball

tournament at ...

<http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=39912>

SLSBA to celebrate 50th Anniversary today

Daily Mirror - Colombo,Western,Sri Lanka

'B' Gampaha, Batticaloa and Kandy. 'C' Galle and Matara. 'D'

Colombo North and Kurunegala. The boy's matches will be played at St.

Joseph's College, ...

<http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=39772>

Rs. 8.7bn spent on developing hospitals and healthcare

The Island (subscription) - Columbo,Sri Lanka
Establishment of Nephrology Unit at Maligawatta, Laundry Building at
Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, Out Patient Department Building at Kalmunai
North ...
<http://www.island.lk/2009/02/06/business3.html>

LTTE shelling towards delegation in Batticaloa on 27th of February 2007

LTTE shelling towards delegation in Batticaloa on 27th of ... 08:36 - (2 ratings) LTTE shelling towards delegation in Batticaloa on 27th of February 2007 - this was the time when the LTTE welcoming fireworks were mistaken for ... http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DKq9LTr4-Wjw&source=video&vgc=rss&usg=AFQjCNEyZn4aQJGDtMLGqJ_iDZWkgCyvmw

spring to life: tube well, batticaloa

By markus.spring@gmail.com (Markus Spring)
tube well beneficiary, batticaloa iii. click image to enlarge. this is what
i am in sri lanka for: bringing locally adapted low cost technology to
improve drinking water supply of the people in need, mainly the poor, ...
<http://spring2life.blogspot.com/2009/02/tube-well-batticaloa.html>

what British GAs would have first inhabited in the Eastern Province in Batticaloa or Trinco.

Ceylon Daily News - Ceylon,Sri Lanka
A kind of long ago revival of what British GAs would have first inhabited
in the Eastern Province in Batticaloa or Trinco. Jay Dino (JD): The East
coast ...
<http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/02/05/fea04.asp>

about the rape of two teenage girls in Kalmunai

The story in the Daily Mirror of 14 May 2008 (page A7) about the rape of

two teenage girls in Kalmunai and subsequent abduction of one of them

shocked me to the core, as it must have many others. At the same time I

felt that this story ...

<http://kirihodiya4.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post.html>

Karuna to join SLFP

Daily Mirror - Colombo,Western,Sri Lanka
Asked whether he would be made SLFP organizer for Batticaloa, he replied
that those issues could be discussed later.
<http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=39712>

Future of ethnic Tamilians in Lanka

Future of ethnic Tamilians in Lanka
Central Chronicle - Bhopal,India
... traumatized people of not just the recently-liberated Northern Province
but also in the breakaway eastern province of which Batticaloa is the main
city. ...
<http://www.centralchronicle.com/20090205/0502302.htm>

Sri Lanka: Tamil labourer shot killed in Batticaloa

By TamilNet Newswire
Unidentified armed men abducted a Tamil labourer Tuesday around 7:30 p.m
from the dairy farm where he worked and later shot and killed him, in
Akkaraanai in Punaanai police division in Batticaloa district, sources in
Batticaloa said. ...
<http://australiantamil.com/?p=3719>

West should listen to the government or get out | Syberviduliya
By ISNissanka
Some insights into the problem can be gained by reading Monograph of the
Batticaloa district of the eastern province, Ceylon, 1921 by Mudliyar S. O.
Kanagaratnam that has been translated recently into Sinhala by Mr. Y. W.
Gunawardhana, ...
<http://www.syberviduliya.com/node/749>

Tamil labourer shot killed in Batticaloa

TamilNet - Sri Lanka
... dairy farm where he worked and later shot and killed him, in Akkaraanai
in Punaanai police division in Batticaloa district, sources in Batticaloa
said. ...
<http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=28294>

Punithaseelan Piratheepan, a Tamil language journalist from

Media Freedom In Sri Lanka releases damning report ...
By sunandadeshapriya
On January 7, Punithaseelan Piratheepan, a Tamil language journalist from
Batticaloa complained of being under grave threat while President of the
Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), Sanath Balasooriya ...
<http://sunandadeshapriya.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/media-freedom-in-sri-lanka-releases-damning-report/>

Astonishing Fact Behind the 1000 SL Rupees Note

Astonishing Fact Behind the 1000 SL Rupees Note
Lankaweb - Sri Lanka
The man is Umar Lebbai Panicker from Eravur in the Batticaloa district and
the tusker in the note was caught in 1925 in the Eravur forest and reared
by him. ...
<http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items09/040209-5.html>

Facelift for agro-based business in East

Ceylon Daily News - Ceylon,Sri Lanka
UNIDO has provided agricultural equipment and tools worth over Rs. 20
million to villagers of Batticaloa and Trincomalee districts. ...
<http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/02/04/news54.asp>

The youth of the Eastern Province re-awakened
Ceylon Daily News - Ceylon,Sri Lanka
... Batticoloa Mayor Shivageetha Prabagaran said at an awards ceremony
organised by the National Youth Awards Authority held at Batticaloa
recently. ...
<http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/02/04/news16.asp>

Open Letter to Mauril Belanger,MP Liberal Member of Parliament for ...
Lankaweb - Sri Lanka
... bused up north to their homes in Vavuniya, Batticaloa, Jaffna and
Trincomalee, as suspicious elements of Tamil Tigers who put together
claymore mines, ...
<http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items09/030209-6.html>

Transcript: Sri Lanka's Pillayan

Wall Street Journal - USA
I was stationed in Batticaloa. WSJ: What is a political wing? What are its
activities? Pillayan: The Tigers have several units such as political wing,
...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123333480794533919.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>

Montage | KILLINOCHCHI - What Next?

Further, it is likely that de-stabilisation of threatened villages
bordering the Wanni such as Anuradhapura, Weli-Oya, Trincomalee and the
traditional flashpoints in Polonnaruwa, Batticaloa and Ampara may figure in
the LTTE combat ...
<http://www.montagelanka.com/?p=1227>

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வீரகேசரி இணையம் 2/2/2009 12:14:35 PM - மட்டக்களப்பு செங்கலடிப் பிரதேசத்தில் இன்று காலை 8.30 மணியளவில் தமிழ் மக்கள் விடுதலை புலி உறுப்பினர் ஒருவர் வீதியில் வைத்து இனந்தெரியாத ஆயுததாரிகளால் சுட்டுக்கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளார்.கொல்லப்பட்டவர் மோகன் என அடையாளம் காணப்பட்டுள்ளார். செங்கல்லடியிலிருக்கும் தமிழ் மக்கள் விடுதலை புலிகள் காரியாலயத்தில் இருந்து மோட்டார் சைக்கிளில் ஐயன்கேணிக்கு குறித்த நபர் தனது தேவையின் நிமித்தம் சென்று போது அங்கு இச்சம்பம் இடம்பெற்றதாக ஏறாவூர் பொலிஸார் தெரிவிக்கின்றனர். E-mail to a friend

Sri Lanka Co-Opts Rebels in Peace Bid
Wall Street Journal - USA
By PETER WONACOTT BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka -- One of this island nation's best
hopes for ending its long civil war is a former Tamil Tiger child soldier,
...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123352301226437183.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>