Situation Report 03^rd July 2009

GENERAL

• Local newspapers were set on fire at kannathiddy and Aanaipanthi.
• The Municipal council election in Jaffna and Vavuniya is on the 8^th of August 09.
• The bishop of Jaffna emphasizes that the solution to the conflict should be acceptable to everyone and dignified.

  FOOD AND NON-FOOD ITEMS

• Local produce has been sent to the South in the heavy vehicles.
• The prices of sea food in the Islands are decreasing.
• The price of an egg increases up to Rs.20.

EDUCATION

• There is a change in the calendar of dates of schools.

HEALTH

• There is a special unit for the consultation regarding swine flu at Jaffna teaching hospital. The public are requested to be cautious about swine flu.
• There are risks of cancer because of the excessive usage of chemicals in Jaffna.

MISSING AND ARREST

• The fishermen arrested by the security forces have been released.

• A young girl, an employee of ICRC, has been murdered at Point Pedro.
• 120 Tamil political prisoners have requested the president to release them.

• An infant has been found dead wrapped inside a gunny bag.
• The 3 LTTE cadres detained at Vakarai have been produced to the court.
• 2 LTTE cadres are said to have been arrested at Chettikulam.
• The media person Krishni Kandasamy Irfam has been abducted and released.
• A religious preacher who has gone to Colombo for a conference goes missing.
• TULF parliamentarian Sathasivam Kanagaratnam is still detained.
• 3 persons who came to Colombo from Vavuniya IDP camps have been arrested. 
• 17 Tamils have been arrested in Wellawatte in suspicion.

INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE

• The Bishop of Jaffna has requested not to postpone the resettlement of the IDPs.
• A Children’s home is declared open for the orphans among the IDPs at Vavuniya.
• The children at transitional camps are malnourished.
• It is reported there are no enough financial facilities to look after the IDPs at Vavuniya.Even provision of food is very difficult next month.
• 129 lasses at Vavuniya welfare camps have been handed over to “Arulaham” children’s home.

HUDEC-Cartias Jaffna
3rd July 2009