Two Sri Lankan soldiers were caught breaking into a home in Kilinochchi in the early hours of Thursday morning.

A suspected gang member who was reportedly shot by a homeowner in self-defence died at Anuradhapura hospital today, Thursday.

The deceased, 24-year-old Thiruchelvam Kapilan was one of six suspected gang members who allegedly broke into a home in Mullaitivu on Tuesday and attacked the residents with swords.

The homeowner shot at the attackers with an allegedly locally made firearm, injuring Kapilan who died of his injuries two days later.

Three of the residents of the home in Kaiveli, Puthukudiyiruppu were admitted to Mullaitivu hospital with injuries sustained in the sword attack.

Sri Lankan government officials attempting to measure Tamil-owned lands for appropriation were confronted by local residents in Mullaitivu last week and prevented from completing the surveying.

Tamils in Kanakarayankulam gathered to protest on Tuesday after two Tamil schoolchildren and their father, a former cadre in the LTTE, were left hospitalised following an attack on them by a Sri Lankan police officer.

A Sri Lankan police officer assaulted two Tamil schoolchildren and their father, a former LTTE cadre, leaving all three hospitalised on Sunday.

The children, 16-year-old Kirupakaran and 14-year-old Sharmila, were with their father P Vasanthakumar and the rest of the family at home when the Sri Lankan police officer arrived at their residence in the evening.

A human skeleton has been found by the Kankesanthurai railway station in Jaffna this morning.

Residents of Cheddikulam, Vavuniya reported a tense situation last week after Sri Lankan authorities stepped up a campaign to evict Muslim farmers from the area by arresting one farmer and seizing his tractor.

The incident took place last Thursday in Suduventha Pilavu where Muslim farmers have been resisting attempts by the Sri Lankan forest department to evict them from their cultivation lands.

Tensions came to a head when STF troops arrested one farmer and seized his tractor, causing locals to confront forest department officials.

A school in Myliddy, Jaffna was released after 27 years of military occupation, with most of the buildings demolished and a well-maintained Buddhist shrine and piles of discarded alcohol bottles in their place.

Northern Provincial Council member, T Ravikaran has rubbished claims that the current Sri Lankan government does not participate in Sinhalisation of the North, saying that Sinhala settlements have continued with the current government and that the Sri Lankan President was anyway complicit in his role as Mahaweli development minister the previous regimes.

The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) today called on the UN Human Rights Council to refer Sri Lanka to the UN General Assembly and to the UN Security Council in order "to be referred to the International Criminal Court or to a specially created international criminal tribunal set up by the UN". 

In a resolution passed today, the NPC also urged the UNHRC, which is currently holding its 39th session in Geneva, to appoint a UN Special Rapporteur for Sri Lanka and to urge the UN to impose military sanctions on Sri Lanka.