Tense eased in Kattankudy

For a week in Kattankudy, a religious riot erupted between the two archrivals it has solved by the All Ceylon Jameathul Ulama on Saturday. The minority hypothetic group suddenly made a counter attack to the majority of the believers of holiness on 31.09.2006. Consequently, the quarrel started between the both sides. Tens of thousands youths, elder and clergy were gathered at the grand jummah mosque for demanding the theoreticians ought to be converted to holy islam or given up theirs faithless against to the Islamic fundamentals. All commercial traders had given a great support to save the Islamic ground rules. The All Ceylon Jameathul Ulama called the minority group for discussion on Saturday. Theirs theoretical leader of the minority group refused to participate on discussion, the police officers warned to the leader and said, if you refused to join the discussion we would have to take a severe action against to you. Finally, the leader joined the discussion.

We have no news from the reliable source what had happen in the discussion, however someone says, minority leader made his apologies at the meeting.

Now the tense is eased and the commercial traders have been enjoying by the festival rush hour business.

Civilians flee after Sri Lanka police fire heavy arms into Tamil Tiger area: rebels

Associated Press, Sun October 8, 2006 08:50 EDT . COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Police commandos directed heavy arms fire into Tamil Tiger areas in eastern Sri Lanka - on Sunday, forcing civilians to flee, as separate attacks by the guerrillas left one policeman and a soldier dead, rebel and military officials said. Meanwhile, suspected rebels opened fire on three policemen at a checkpoint outside Eravur town in Sri Lanka - 's east on Sunday, triggering a gunbattle that left one officer dead, said a defense ministry official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to the media.

He said the attackers fled the scene after the police started firing.

District senior police officer Maxi Procter said he believed the attackers suffered some wounds because blood stains were found in the area where they launched the assault. One civilian was also wounded, he said.

On the northern Jaffna Peninsula, one soldier was killed Sunday when rebels fired artillery and mortars into a military defense line in Muhamalai, said an officer at the Media Center for National Security, speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with policy.

He said the army retaliated with artillery fire, causing damage to the rebels.

There was no immediate comment from the rebels on the attacks.

Fighting across eastern and northeastern Sri Lanka - has left dozens of army personnel and rebels dead in recent days, with each side blaming the other for initiating the attacks. The continuing violence comes despite a planned resumption of peace talks between the government and the Tamil Tigers in Switzerland at the end of the month.

About 1,500 people have died in increasingly heavy fighting since the last round of talks in February.

Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross brought the bodies of 11 soldiers from a Tamil Tiger-held area in the east and handed them over them to army on Sunday, Samarasinghe said.

The military earlier said that 12 soldiers went missing last week when the Tigers attacked an army camp in Mankerni. The rebels accused the army of starting the offensive in a bid to grab rebel-held territory.

The rebels earlier said they had also captured another soldier alive.