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 | | Jaffna is located in the nothern part of the Sri lanka. | | | Sempaha Perumal, called Sapumal Kumaraya by the Sinhalese, son of Pannikkan (a Tamil), was raised by Parakrama Bahu IV. | | | Prince Singai Aryan arrives in Jaffna in 1200 (circa). |
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http://www.tamil.net/people/george/jaffna.html
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| | Oh Jaffna! My Jaffna! |
| | This was significantly illustrated by the worship proffered at the Murigandy Pillaiar temple. | | | Jaffna emerged as a separate and independent kingdom in the 11th century. | | | Since the greater part of Jaffna was under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam then, only about 10,000 most of them in the islands were able to vote. |
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http://www.news.tamilcanadian.com/news/2000/05/20000524_1.shtml
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Diocese of Jaffna |
| | In 1857 the Jaffna vicariate was handed over to the Oblates, and on the death of Bishop Bettachini, Bishop Semeria, O.M.I., was appointed vicar Apostolic. | | | Jaffna convent, conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Bordeaux, follows the same junior and senior courses, for the education of girls, as St. Patrick's. | | | In 1548 St. Francis visited Manaar and came to Jaffna to persuade the king to cease his persecutions against the Christians. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08269a.htm
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| | It is first mentioned in the Pali chronicles of Ceylon in connection with the story of the Buddha's second visit to Sri Lanka in the 6th century B.C. According to the Mahavamsa (ch.1.vv 44-70) the Buddha during this visit pacified two Naga kings of Nagadipa who were arrayed in battle over a gem-set throne. | | | King Senarat is referred to as the Emperor of Sri Lanka, The king of Kandy, Sitavaka, Trincomalee, and Jaffna etc., in the preamble of this proclamation. | | | It also shows that the Jaffna peninsula was populated even at that time by a large community of Sinhalese who were Buddhists. |
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http://www.spur.asn.au/naga.htm
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| | Jaffna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jaffna also functions as the capital of Northern Province and the cultural capital of Sri Lankan Tamils. | | | It is also a so-called 'stronghold' of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), a militant organization seeking the establishment of an independent state for Ceylon Tamils. | | | History of the Jaffna in 11 - 15 Centuries |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna
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| | In the fifteenth century, however, there was a brief Sinhalese revival and the Kingdom of Jaffna was under Sinhalese rule for about seventeen years till the defeated Tamil King reconquered his kingdom with the help of the Tamil military chiefs from South India. | | | It may be appropriate to mention in this connection that whereas the settlers in Jaffna before the eleventh century are said to have come mostly from Kerala (Malabar), the immigrants of the Chola and Vijaya Nagara periods seem to have come from the eastern part of South India. | | | In the fourth place, there was an influx of immigrants from South India to the only Tamil Kingdom in existence at the time, namely the Kingdom of Jaffna. |
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http://www.eelavar.com/jaffna/files/history5x.shtml
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| | The battle for Jaffna |
| | The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is now focussing it energies and attention on Jaffna, which is described by its political adviser in London, Anton Balasingham, as "the cultural capital of the Sri Lankan Tamils". | | | This is what has led to conflicting claims: the government says these areas are in its possession, while the LTTE says it moved along the coast and took these places. | | | The Sri Lanka Army was not constrained in this manner when it took Jaffna during "Operation Riviresa" in 1995. |
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| | The Rediff On The NeT Special: Saisuresh Sivaswamy on Jaffna, a city waiting for deliverance |
| | Another interesting aspect of Jaffna life is the significant number of Roman Catholics. | | | Years of living under the gun, either friendly or inimical, has also taught the locals to infer the truth to be somewhere between the army's and the Tigers' claims. | | | But that there is an enormous groundswell of sympathy for the Tigers, who were running a parallel administration in Jaffna till they were pushed back, is evident. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/aug/07sai.htm
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| | Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business |
| | A large number of books have been donated and it may only be a matter of time when the library is restored to its former glory. | | | The next day is as eventful for we proceed by ferry to the island of Nainativu better known to Buddhists as Nagadipa. | | | We also visit Jaffna's premier place of Hindu worship, the Nallur Kandasamy Kovil. |
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http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2002/11/17/fea11.html
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| | Jaffna on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Tigers Claw Back: Once dismissed as a spent force, Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels, led by the ruthless tactician Velupillai Prabhakaran, stand on the verge of a stunning victory on the Jaffna peninsula. | | | A collection of Jaffna Tamil riddles from oral tradition. | | | World Watch/JAFFNA.(alcaldesa de Jaffna, Sri Lanka, fue asesinada) (TA: woman mayor of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, gunned down) |
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| | Remembering the Jaffna Public Library in 2001 |
| | June 1981, the splendid Jaffna public library, housing 97,000 rare books and manuscripts, was burned to the ground. | | | These two Sinhala Cabinet Ministers, who watched the library burn from the verandah of the nearby Jaffna Rest House, subsequently claimed that it was an ‘unfortunate incident’, where a ‘few’ policemen ‘got drunk’ and went on a ‘looting spree’, all on their own. | | | And, more importantly, they were under the direct supervision of two Sinhala cabinet ministers of the Sri Lanka government, who had traveled all the way from Colombo to be there. |
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http://www.sangam.org/ANALYSIS/Library_6_01.htm
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| | Welcome to UTHRJ, Sri Lanka : Bulletin No.8 |
| | Messages had been received for the Government to be informed that a number of people are remaining in schools and places of worship. | | | A government administration report on 6th Novermber placed the number of peninsular refugees in Killinochchi at 110 000 of whom 70 000 were new arrivals. | | | That is the state of mind among the people. |
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http://www.uthr.org/bulletins/bul8.htm
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| | JAFFNA |
| | For 17-years one of the world's most vicious conflicts has been raging in those areas where a guerrilla force known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has been fighting the Sri Lankan government. | | | In May The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cut off the strategic Elephant Pass that links the Jaffna Peninsula to the rest of Sri Lanka. | | | Sitting in a quiet garden just next to his war-damaged cathedral, Bishop Savundaranayagam says anybody who could has left Jaffna. |
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2000/10/war-001010-salka1.htm
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| | BBC News SOUTH ASIA Tigers move on Jaffna |
| | But the BBC correspondent in Sri Lanka says the Tigers - who are fighting for a separate homeland for the minority Tamils in the north and east - now appear to be within striking distance of their goal. | | | We advise people in Jaffna to move to safe places so that they can avoid the fighting," the Voice of Tigers radio is reported to have said. | | | As the Tigers pounded government positions, residents in Jaffna said they could hear the sound of machine-gun fire. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_744000/744011.stm
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| | HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN February 2003 Report Dateline Jaffna |
| | Sivaneswari says she hopes for peace mainly so that her children get a chance to study beyond class seven, which is the upper limit of their present school. | | | The LTTE has approved an NGO proposal to bring southern university students north to teach the Sinhala language to Tamil youngsters, even guaranteeing the safety of the visitors, who are to be based in Jaffna for a periods of six months. | | | The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader, Rauf Hakeem, who met Vellupillai Prabakaran last year and who has been a regular participant at the four rounds of peace talks, has appealed to Tamil Muslims to consider resettling in the north and east. |
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| | Historic exodus and military occupation of Jaffna! |
| | In the Jaffna peninsula, schools, hospitals and government buildings are overflowing with refugees. | | | The Sri Lankan government of President Chandrika Kumaratunga has insisted that it be the entity to distribute international humanitarian aid, complaining that nongovernmental organizations have permitted relief supplies to benefit the secessionist Tamil movement known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. | | | "A mass exodus of civilians was reported from Jaffna town today with thousands of people fleeing to the eastern Tenamarachchi section of the embattled peninsula even as the Sri Lankan security forces continued their onward march. |
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http://www.tamilcanadian.com/eelam/hrights/html/article/SU980517091447N104.html
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| | rediff.com: PM consults Karunanidhi as Jaffna's position becomes precarious |
| | As the fighting between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the Jaffna peninsula escalates and the military situation changes rapidly, there is a flurry of activity in the southern Indian cities of Madras and Bangalore. | | | While India is yet to finalise the mode of assistance it will extend to Sri Lanka to retain Jaffna and repulse the LTTE onslaught, key Sri Lankan military and political officials have concluded what officials say were "emergency trips" to Madras and Bangalore. | | | It could most possibly be the evacuation of the trapped Sri Lankan forces in Jaffna," K V Sathyanarayan, a Madras-based Lanka expert, told rediff.com |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/may/22iype.htm
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| | Jaffna |
| | The Jaffna Library as a Symbol of Spiritual and Intellectual Reconciliation | | | Protest march in Jaffna against Kantharodai Buddhist Vihare construction | | | Jaffna like Ethiopia, people in kennels says Minister |
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| | Ancient Jaffna by Mudaliyar C.Rasanayagam |
| | It is a Court chronicle containing the annals of the Ceylon kings, and its writers who most probarly regarded the Tamils as a horde of cruel marauders pass over both them and their efforts in silence, except when they made themselves too unpleasant to go unnoticed | | | What feelings of just pride and patriotism would swell in the heart of every true son of Jaffna, if he could but have a peep into the glories of her past ! | | | But how long are we to remain in this listless if not disgraceful state of ignorance ? |
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| | Jaffna News - Headlines |
| | Three fishermen who went to Mannar seas for fishing last Thursday and four other persons who were arrested by the Sri Lanka Army in various parts of Jaffna have been reported missing in Jaffna. | | | Two soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) were injured when unidentified men lobbed a grenade at the army sentry located close to the Jaffna Kandarmadam junction and Jaffna Hindu Ladies College Friday around 2.30 p.m, sources said. |
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| | THE UNIVERSITY TEACHERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, JAFFNA (UTHR(Jaffna)) Sri Lanka |
| | Earlier movement within Vadamaratchy was unhampered by check-points compared with the rest of Jaffna. | | | THE UNIVERSITY TEACHERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, JAFFNA (UTHR(Jaffna)) Sri Lanka | | | Then even small boys started signalling the LTTE on the Indian Army's movements, making life difficult for them. |
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| | Asia Times: Jaffna's young show war scars |
| | JAFFNA, Sri Lanka - The northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna, the seat of a Tamil revolt for an independent state, once produced the best students seeking entry into universities. | | | More than 60,000 people have died since 1983, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) stepped up its campaign for a separate homeland in the north and east of the island for their minority Tamil community. | | | "Education is the only hope for children in Jaffna," she said. |
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| | BBC NEWS World South Asia Jaffna looks to future |
| | Life is changing in Sri Lanka as the trappings of modern life intrude after years of war. | | | Nearly 100,000 priceless books and Tamil palm leaf manuscripts were destroyed when the old library went up in flames in 1981 - allegedly torched by government-backed thugs. | | | But, in Jaffna, people will continue to pick up the pieces and get on with their lives. |
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| | Jaffna -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The three divisions were subdivided into dissavanies and districts (korales) in the traditional manner. | | | Jaffna -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! | | | From the 12th century the Tamils made increasingly permanent inroads into the northern part of Ceylon and by the 14th century were solidly established there. |
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| | Jaffna Hindu College- Leading National School in Sri Lanka |
| | "Jaffna Hindu College is a well reputed National School in Sri Lanka. | | | Jaffna Hindu College- Leading National School in Sri Lanka | | | Jaffna Hindu College Association Canada deposited 15000 Canadian Dollars at the rate of 88.20 Rs (1323000.00 LKR–Thirteen Lacks and twenty three thousand Rupees) to Jaffna OBA’s account for College usage.On behalf of JHC Community we will thank them |
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| | Online edition of Daily News - News |
| | He said some psychiatrists serving in outstations are willing to come to Jaffna and serve the people. | | | He said that when ministers come to Jaffna they promise to do everything we ask for. | | | Daya Somasundaram Psychiatrist Jaffna Teaching hospital said that there is a shortage of psychiatrists at Tellipallai and Manthikai hospitals. |
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| | A Prime Minister in Jaffna |
| | Without a doubt, the visit has earned Wickremasinghe the respect of the Tamil minority as a leader who was prepared to take the personal risk of travelling to the war-ravaged peninsula in order to enquire after their well-being. | | | This isolation that the Tamil people feel now from the rest of Sri Lanka would not have grown," commented V. Anandasangaree, vice-president of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and a Member of Parliament from Jaffna representing the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). | | | The message was clear: Jaffna belongs within a united Sri Lanka, and as the Prime Minister, Wickremasinghe can meet a visiting dignitary in any part of the country. |
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| | Tigers start recruitment drive in Jaffna -DAWN - International; September 22, 2005 |
| | The people are being promised a declaration of Tamil Elam,” the source said. | | | “Every single house is being visited by Tiger cadres requesting participation and support for the Jaffna resurgence. | | | There is a clamour by moderate Tamils to leave the area for Colombo fearing an outbreak of war,” a frightened civilian in Jaffna said. |
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| | The Jaffna Civilian: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea |
| | The Tamil civilian has been caught in the pincer between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Army. | | | Sources from Doctors without Borders report that many people have moved into churches, temples and mosques with little food and the cold cement floor for bedding. | | | As a result, 70,000 people are believed to be stranded in a battle-zone. |
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| | _/\_NALLUR KANDASWAMY TEMPLE, JAFFNA, SRI LANKA_/\_ |
| | This span of 25 days, revered by all Hindus and devotees of Lord Murugan, is one of the highlights of the social, cultural and spiritual millieu of Jaffna society. | | | This continues for a span of 25 days in total. |
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| | University of Jaffna Home Page |
| | The University of Jaffna was first established in 1974, as the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka, offering courses in science and humanities. | | | Images of the buildings of the University of Jaffna. | | | Professir Mohanadas became the fifth Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna, when he assumed his duties on the 19th of March 2003. |
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| | Welcome to UTHR, Sri Lanka |
| | Published by University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna), Sri Lanka. | | | Although written for the general reader wanting to probe below official and partisan obfuscation, the student of contemporary Sri Lanka will find the book compulsory reading.] 500p. | | | Wider Significance of the Incidents in Pesalai and the University of Jaffna |
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| | City of jaffna |
| | The flat Jaffna Peninsula is made of limestone, unlike most other parts of Sri Lanka. | | | Jaffna District, the northernmost region of the Island of Sri Lanka, is one of the oldest habitation sites in Lower South Asia, populated by Tamil speaking people. | | | With just under 900,000 inhabitants, the district of Jaffna is one of the most densely populated areas of Sri Lanka, second only to Greater Colombo. |
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| | Jaffna Youth Radicalism - the 1920s and 30s |
| | Nationalism in Asia and Africa from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the third quarter of the twentieth century culminating with the liberation and unification of Vietnam in 1975 was primarily anti-imperial. | | | Politically, the left movement from the 1930s to the 60s found their most consistent and loyal supporters in Jaffna from several one-time members of the JYC. | | | Out of the JYC came a whole generation of eminent teachers, principals and administrators of schools that made it possible for Jaffna to enjoy a pre-eminent position in the sphere of education. |
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| | Asia Times: Jaffna: Have war, can't travel |
| | The worst-hit city in a conflict triggered by Tamil rebels' demand for a separate state called Eelam for the country's minority Tamil community, Jaffna has at different times in nearly two decades been ruled by the Sri Lankan government, Indian peacekeeping forces and Tamil rebels. | | | JAFFNA - Armed soldiers and police patrol the streets of this war-torn city in northern Sri Lanka, checking the identities of children and older residents after threats by university students to disrupt schools. | | | The agony will only worsen when Tamil political parties and their stooges come to the city to canvass for or against next month's referendum called by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. |
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| | Online edition of Sunday Observer - Business |
| | Families who have attempted to evade the request by giving the excuse that they have girls in the family and therefore could not house male cadres have been assured that, for families with girls, female Tiger members will be allocated. | | | Information from Jaffna reveals that LTTE supporters allegedly following orders from the LTTE has embarked on a house to house campaign announcing that families living in war unaffected homes in the Jaffna peninsula should provide food and lodging to at least two LTTE members per house. | | | This welcome is organized by the Tamil expatriate funded Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO), the Jaffna NGO consortium and the Jaffna Students Union. |
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http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2002/04/07/new03.html
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| | Picture Page 1 |
| | I am sure that those who are abroad, will definitely miss seeing Palmyrah. | | | I must mention that, when we went to Jaffna it was the monsoon season and some of us went with with great hope for a bottle of toddy. | | | This is a picture you could only see in Jaffna, where lorries are converted into buses for the purpose of transporting people. |
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| | TamilNet: 30.12.04 Irate Tsunami refugees jeer PM, JVP in Jaffna |
| | The PM’s entourage then went to the Sri Lanka army’s 52 Division Headquarters in Varani where their tour was disrupted again by Tsunami refugees in the area who blocked the road from the garrison, protesting against Colombo for not coming to their aid since tidal waves washed away their villages on Jaffna’s southern coast. | | | Altercations and tussles erupted between the PM’s group and the refugees when Sri Lanka army troops providing security to the visitors attempted to force their way into the premises. | | | Mahinda Rajapaksha did not visit the Jaffna District Secretariat as scheduled after people gathered there to protest against Colombo for starting rescue and releif operations in the northeast since the Tsunami. |
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| | Jaffna tense after army vehicle kills Tamil girl - Deccan Herald |
| | An official of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) when contacted confirmed that Jaffna town was tense, “But we are trying to hold a meeting between the LTTE and the army in Jaffna itself to sort out the clash.” | | | According to reports from Jaffna, an angry mob also tried to set fire to a passing Sri Lankan Air Force vehicle in the town and set fire to a military check point near Jaffna University. | | | Meanwhile, a website said that one civilian had been killed and another was wounded when the Sri Lankan army opened fire on students and civilians who were protesting near Jaffna University. |
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| | University of Jaffna Alumni Registry |
| | World > Asia > Sri Lanka > University of Jaffna | | | The availability of the registry service to the alumni does not constitute an official endorsement of Alumni.NET, its staff or services, by University of Jaffna. | | | Search, Browse, and Signup to Reunite with your old friends! |
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| | JAFFNA - Online Information article about JAFFNA |
| | Jaffna is the seat of a See also: | | | call it, Yalpannan, was occupied by the Tamils about 204 B.C., and there continued to be Tamil rajahs of Jaffna till 1617, when the Portuguese took See also: | | | England Missionary Societysbegan its work in Jaffna in 1818, and the See also: |
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| | Jaffna from LiveJournal |
| | 10:52 27.12.2005 'Soldiers die' in Jaffna attack At least six soldiers are killed in northern Sri Lanka in a landmine attack, military officials say. | | | Tinsel has even been put up inside commercial aircraft that fly from mainly Buddhist Colombo to predominantly Hindu Jaffna. | | | People really do focus on what they have rather than what they've lost. |
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| | This resulted in the birth of the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority of the North RRAN in January 1996, which would be responsible for all such work not only in Jaffna but also in the Wanni.. | | | But as people trickle back to where they belong, the management of the hospital are eager to restore this place so that it could once again provide the medical needs of the people. | | | Ground water being the only water potential for drinking water in the peninsula, the destruction of most existing wells have left the rural Jaffna population in a desperate situation for this vital resource. |
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| | Operation Pawan {The Battle for Jaffna} |
| | Unfortunately many of the LTTE had ex-filtrated out of Jaffna. | | | The Indian Army's plan was to cripple the LTTE guerrilla network by capturing its headquarters in Jaffna City, a task the Sri Lankan Army had tried this for many years but had not succeeded. | | | To compound the IPKF's problems, it was impossible to distinguish between the Tigers and civilians. |
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| | Jaffna - a photoset on Flickr |
| | Jaffna aka Yarl is a town, a district and a peninsula at the northern tip of Sri Lanka. | | | I spent an unforgettable year there with a humanitarian agency. | | | It has seen much hardship through twenty years of conflict. |
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| | News from Jaffna |
| | Amnesty International in its 2001 annual report on Sri Lanka noted that: “circumstantial evidence puts the blame for killing journalist Nimalranjan, Jaffna correspondence for various newspapers and international agencies, on members of the EPDP party working with the security forces”. | | | EPDP is the only Tamil party in the government coalition and its leader Douglas Devenanda hold the ministerial position for Rehabilitation of the Tamil areas. | | | Uthayan newspaper received the “Brave journalism” award from the Editors guild of Sri Lanka in 2000. |
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| | Online edition of Daily News - News |
| | "In fact, rain water is the most uncontaminated water source in Jaffna, because there is almost no air-polluting industry on the peninsula and the main cloud masses reach Jaffna having passed over the sea", he explained. | | | Kraft, who had spent many months conducting a study on "water supply, rain water harvesting, waste water and solid waste management in the Jaffna peninsula", revealed alarming information which indicated the gravity of the groundwater situation in Jaffna and the islands. | | | The Jaffna topography is such, that the thin cover of soil over the groundwater table, which consists mainly of sandy soil with an infiltration capacity of 50 m/d, provides no protection against pollutants from entering the groundwater from the surface. |
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