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FIRES OF ANGER: Tiger activists set fire to a effigy of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha at the LTTE’s May Day rally in the East held at Karaitiue Vipulananda Maha Vidyalaya grounds last Wednesday. Speakers at the rally criticised the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister for her recent call for the extradition to India of LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran. Photo: Vasantha Chandrapala, Digamabulla Special Corr.

by S. SELVAKUMAR

The Chief of the Ceasefire Monitoring Mission Major Gen. Trond Furuhovde has called for a detailed report from the Missions' monitoring units in the East regarding Wednesday night's incident at sea off Vakarai in which the Navy claims that an LTTE arms shipment had been intercepted. Navy officials are understood to have provided sufficient evidence to the Monitoring Mission in the form of crates of mortar shell recovered from the sea, after a large fishing vessel blew up under Naval fire.
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Azwer seeks Gulf help

Help from the oil-rich Persian Gulf countries has been sought for rehabilitation of the war-torn North-East region by Parliamentary Affairs Minister A.H.M. Azwer.
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