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Sentence Examples In 1897, when Swami Vivekananda visited Jaffna, Yogar swami participated in the religious procession. Tamil separatists in northern areas around Jaffna are engaged in armed rebellion against the government, which is controlled by the Sinhalese. In Sri Lanka, war rages again on the Jaffna Peninsula while international peace-making efforts to unite Tamils and Sinhalese are spurned. The housewife of Jaffna, being thrifty, makes minimum use of ingredients to turn out simple, wholesome fare. Before the Sri Lankan army captured Jaffna in 1995, the Air Force indiscriminately bombed civilian areas in the city. In Sri Lanka, Sinhalese women went to Jaffna to meet with Tamil women to work together to seek an end to the conflict. As a Tamil from the affected area of Jaffna, my hometown of Vasavilan was badly affected due to these civil war conditions in Sri Lanka. We flew by helicopter to Jaffna, saw the villages that had been destroyed, and demonstrations by the people who wanted to go home. On July 5, 2007, 'Captain' Miler detonated an explosion in his lorry on the military base of Jaffna, causing the death of 40 soldiers. The ICRC, which has set up a security zone around the Jaffna hospital, also provides the vital link between the two parts of the island. This aid follows up previous European Commission grants to victims of civil conflict in the north of the island, in Jaffna. Food Security in Jaffna is at a satisfactory level and there are ample stocks of essential items. Another wildlife biologist, Wijeyamohan of the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, designed a system to produce biogas from elephant waste for use as a cooking fuel. Douglas Devananda, who is a Tamil cabinet minister who looks after Jaffna, was a terrorist who was fighting Prabhakaran. Following the killing of 14 soldiers between December 4 and 6 in Jaffna, Fonseka ordered the army to reconsolidate its control in the north and east. The Jaffna office of the HRC handled the case and then passed it on to Colombo. The Government is committed to send pesticides, seed paddy and fertiliser in time to the farmers in Jaffna. These funds have been directed towards the construction of a new vocational training centre in Jaffna. When I was in Jaffna, I was successful in gaining an interview with the archbishop. In July 1983, anti-Tamil riots in Colombo followed the discovery of the bodies of thirteen Sri Lanka soldiers in the Jaffna Peninsula. Show More Sentences The assassination of Foreign Minister Kadirgamar, the electoral boycott enforced by the LTTE in the north and east, and the numerous killings in the east and in Jaffna have put the ceasefire in jeopardy. In 1619, succumbing to attacks by the Portuguese, the independent existence of Jaffna kingdom came to an end. We moved to Jaffna, and even from there we could not hold on. But when we talk about Tamils in Sri Lanka, we need to talk about Jaffna Tamils, east coast Tamils, Plantation Tamils, and Tamils in Colombo that have lived there for generations. I'm asking our honourable members to send a parliamentary delegation to Jaffna, Vavuniya, and these war zones to report first-hand. We want our honourable members in the free media to go. One, I think, is that there were tensions within the LTTE movement that people from the outside could not readily observe, tensions between the Tamils of Jaffna and the Tamils of the east. Also, in Vithyatharan's case, just yesterday, for I think the fifth time in three years, a hand grenade was thrown into the building of the sister paper of Vithyatharan, which is printed in Jaffna. It's called Uthayan. The skeletal remains of an Early Iron Age chief were excavated in Anaikoddai, Jaffna. This example of switching from French to Tamil comes from ethnographer Sonia Das's work with immigrants from Jaffna, Sri Lanka, to Quebec. Now they're making the most of reconnection with the world: colourfully dressed men, women and children pour off the free ferry at Pungudutivu's Karaikattuvan jetty, ready to hit Jaffna. The 47km causeway across the 10-island archipelago west of Jaffna is still partly ruined, so catching an early ferry to the remotest of these sunny islands means an early start. The European Union is to fund a medical aid project to help several thousand people blockaded on the island of Jaffna as a result of the fighting. Sri Lanka's iconic A9 road closed in 1984, and was finally demined, rebuilt and reopened in 2013, linking Jaffna in the north with Kandy and all parts south. There is no shortage of food or other commodities in Jaffna as the Government has taken every possible step to send essential items to normalise food storage. Back in town we fancy a cold beer, but as conservative Jaffna doesn't really do bars, we're looking forward to a more relaxed, westernised feel on the next stage of our tour. Morrison is currently in Sri Lanka for the commissioning of two Australian-donated patrol boats and according to the ABC, has also made a secret visit to the war-torn Sri Lankan region of Jaffna. Hotels in Jaffna are few – no one came for decades. Today, following the destruction of the education system in the Jaffna region owing to separatist violence, Jaffna students are benefiting from this very standardization scheme. It equally affected students in the city schools located in the predominantly Tamil Jaffna peninsula and other southern cities such as Colombo, Galle, and Kandy. Two ships are carrying petrol, diesel and kerosene to Jaffna. Show More Sentences I heard that where, as I say, it was dangerous to be hearing it, and from a newspaper editor in Jaffna, and recently here in the streets, and in a boardroom in Ottawa. At the same time about 140 000 displaced persons have returned to Jaffna, while others have made their way to the southern regions of Vavuniya and Mannar. The north, in the meanwhile, eventually evolved into the Jaffna kingdom. In Sri Lanka, the standard is based on the dialect of Jaffna. The party sailed to the port of Singapore, travelled north to Sumatra, and sailed west to the Point Pedro port of Jaffna under Savakanmaindan and to Pandyan of Tamilakkam. In AD 1215, Kalinga Magha, a South Indian with uncertain origins, identified as the founder of the Jaffna kingdom, invaded and captured the Kingdom of Polonnaruwa. Examples from Classical Literature There are at least forty thousand people living in and immediately around Jaffna. The Jaffna peninsula has been peopled by the Tamil race for two thousand years or more. The soil throughout the Jaffna peninsula is very light, requiring much careful culture in order to produce satisfactory results. All the forests around Batticaloa and Trincomalie, and as far north as Jaffna, are thickly set with this valuable tree. At Jaffna, on Sundays, about a thousand or twelve hundred people attend church and on feast days three thousand and upward. These came from the northern part of the island, on the peninsula of Jaffna, where they are raised in small quantities. In any instance, it does not seem so repulsive as the serpent worship still in existence near Jaffna. There was no tradition of a tiger having been in Jaffna before. In this Jaffna district, goats' milk is made into excellent cheese. Find more words! 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