The military also began search operations for Tiger infiltrators. On 28 May, seven shops near the civil administration office in Chavakachcheri were declared as a security threat and ordered to be closed. After a policewoman was injured by a landmine in Kondavil on 4 May, 13 people were arrested. Two soldiers died in an attack on an Army patrol at Nunavil in Chavakachcheri, the next day.
The Tigers launched an assault on an Army post in Gurunagar in Jaffna town on 30 May, killing two soldiers. Four civilians were wounded in the attack. A woman later died in hospital. Tamil party EPDP says that following the attack soldiers ran amok assaulting civilians.
In early May, development NGO, Sarvodaya leader and Human Rights Commission (HRC) member AT Ariyaratne visited Jaffna to assess the situation and submitted a report to President Chandrika Kumaratunge. Jaffna people say that there has been no response from the HRC to complaints made several months ago on disappearances. President Chandrika appointed a three-member national commission into disappearances in early May, headed by Manori Muttetuwegama. The new commission will replace the three regional commissions, appointed in November 1994, which enquired into 16,642 disappearances and submitted reports last year.
Speaking in Parliament in early May, Tamil MP P Selvarajah demanded the publication of the north-east disappearance commission report. Apart from the Presidential commission, a Defence Ministry Task Force, a committee composed of military officers and the HRC have probed disappearances in Jaffna.