Terrorist Incidents in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

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Event ID Date State Event
62851-126509-320778 4/18/2013 Batticaloa He had been arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in November 2011 and jailed at the Batticaloa Prison of Batticaloa District.
61895-124222-314965 2/18/2013 Batticaloa Meanwhile, a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) spokesman on February 17 said that they had received complaints from the family members of three rehabilitated cadres of the former rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Batticaloa District of Eastern Province that they have been arrested by the Police again.
57261-113247-286892 8/22/2012 Batticaloa An office of the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students (EROS) was attacked by a group of unidentified persons on August 19 in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province at Batticaloa city in the run up to the provincial council elections scheduled for next month, reports Colombo Page.
56620-111670-282323 7/19/2012 Batticaloa Sri Lanka Police on July 17 arrested Sinnatambi Pathmanathan, a former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader for the Batticaloa area in the Eastern province, at the Colombo airport upon his return to Sri Lanka, Colombo Page reported.
46404-90189-226495 10/12/2010 Batticaloa The Thai immigration officials with the aid of the Crime Suppression Division of Thai Police raided several apartments in Bangkok and arrested 155 illegal Sri Lankan immigrants on October 10, reports Colombo Page.
46404-90189-226495 10/12/2010 Batticaloa The Thai immigration officials with the aid of the Crime Suppression Division of Thai Police raided several apartments in Bangkok and arrested 155 illegal Sri Lankan immigrants on October 10, reports Colombo Page.

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District Number of Events
Batticaloa 530

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.