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Nivaththaka Chethiya MV Photo Gallery
Visit our photo gallery
to learn more about the LAcNet's "Computers for Schools Project". If you
would like to help fund projects like these, here is
how.
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CompS Project
Learn more about LAcNet's Computers for Schools Project (CompS)
here.
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New Linux Server
LacNet has recently acquired a Gateway server class computer to function as
its web server. Loaded with RAM, this computer carries a SCSI-based disk interface
enabling it to supply LAcNet visitors with fast updates of news and multimedia
files. LAcNet volunteers are currently in the process of bringing up this
computer, nilwala.lacnet.org, on the internet. It will be a sister server to
LAcNet's existing server, walawe.lacnet.org.
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Tigers appoint a new military commander to the eastern province.
LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has named Ramesh as the new Eastern
province military wing leader. He replaces Nagesh who is assisting Balraj
in the offensive code named "unceasing Waves 111 to re-capture Jaffna" in
northern Jaffna peninsula.
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Navy rescue teams mount search for missing colleagues.
Navy frogmen assisted by fishermen in northern Jaffna peninsula mounted a
massive search for missing 23 naval men in the Indian ocean today.
The 23 naval men including four senior officers went missing, after LTTE
Sea Tigers destroyed two Israeli built Super Dvoras at Karainagar on Friday
night.
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Fighting rages in Jaffna.
Government troops provided air cover fought heave hand-to-hand fighting
with the Tigers in the war-ravaged northern province today.
Immediately it was not known as to how many perished in the fighting, but
according to unconfirmed reports, a senior LTTE cadre named Lalith was
killed in the fighing, just north of Nagar Kovil.
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Sri Lankan media minister orders probe.
Media minister, Mangala Samaraweera ordered an immediate probe into the
assault of BBC Sinhala service corespondent, Elmo Fernando who was attacked
by an unidentified men while covering a protest rally at Colombo on Thursday.
Fernando was attacked when he was covering the Buddhist Monks protest
against the Norwegian government's effort to mediate between the government
and the LTTE to bring the on-going conflict to an end.
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State- radio says LTTE camp in Ampara had been destroyed.
The Sri Lanka broadcasting corporation in its news bulletin said that a
major LTTE camp had been destroyed by the Special Task Force at a village
named Kanchikdiaru in Ampara district in an operation on Friday night. But
the radio gave no details.
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