In a letter to President Kumaratunge, Batticaloa MP K Thurairajasingham says that the Army shelled Puthukudyiruppu on 2 June following a LTTE attack in Karuvakerni, killing a woman, injuring 18 others and damaging 50 houses.
Two days later Army shells killed Thambimuthu Annapackiyam at Nasivantivu. A shell exploded inside a school injuring six students. Kayankerni student Thayanithi Kuganesan, 7, was killed by a shell on 11 June.
EPDP leader Douglas Devananda says that Akkaraipatru police fired indiscriminately without provocation injuring a woman and damaging houses. Two young shepherds were killed by a shell at Thirukovil in late June.
Army camps and police stations in Valaichenai, north of Batticaloa town are continually targeted by the LTTE, as security forces and the Tigers struggle for supremacy. The Chenkalady camp of Tamil group PLOTE which is fighting on the side of the Army, was attacked by the LTTE on 9 June. Three PLOTE cadre were killed and three others injured. The Tigers intercepted a police Special Task Force (STF) patrol on the Batticaloa-Amparai border on 15 June killing 14.
According to statistics compiled by Batticaloa government secretariat, over 2,680 women have been widowed in the district as a result of the war, 1,560 youths have disappeared, 6,400 civilians have been killed and 4,100 wounded. Over 109,000 families have been affected by violence and 92,000 houses damaged. Only 20,000 families have received full or partial compensation. Colombo bureaucrats are delaying repairs to irrigation tanks in the region despite approval by the President.
In Trincomalee District, the Tigers killed 24 soldiers at Pulmoddai on 18 June. Following the attack the Army shelled populated areas killing a civilian and injuring many others. Over 20 houses and two shops were damaged.
Residents say the Tigers have intensified attacks in the district. The LTTE shot dead two policemen praying at the Salliamman temple on 4 June. A soldier was killed on 19 June at the Muthur bus stand. In late June four electricity transformers were damaged by the LTTE.
Kantalai hospital employee Mahendran was killed when unidentified persons fired on an ambulance on 6 June. Two other hospital employees were injured. Police took four Muslims and two Tamils into custody on 22 June alleging that they supplied medicines and spares for vehicles to the LTTE.
The LTTE abducted 34 Muslims and four Sinhalese on 2 July at Irakkandy, north of Trincomalee town. The Tigers say the Army arrested five of their colleagues on information provided by the villagers.