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  • Prabakaran Hiding, Taking Cover Among Civilians - Sri Lanka Army Commander

    SRI LANKA  Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka told Asian Tribune that the world’s largest civilian hostage rescue operation was near completion. He further said that within the three days, from Monday April 20, more than 100,000 civilians had arrived into Government controlled areas. Meanwhile, when inquired about the fate of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Army Commander said, "Prabhakaran is in south of the No Fire Zone, taking cover among the civilians. My troops, the Special Forces,.....

  • TAMIL TIGERS URGED TO END FIGHT - UN

    A SENIOR UN official has urged Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels to lay down their arms and let the UN help trapped civilians to leave the conflict zone. Claude Heller, Mexico's ambassador at the UN in New York, spoke to reporters after chairing an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on the issue. While the 15-strong Council passed no resolution on the conflict, Mr Heller said he was voicing members' concerns. Sri Lanka's army says it has closed in on the last area of Tiger resistance.

  • "Sathya Mevan Jayan"-TRUTH TRIUMPHS

    NORTH: LET the TRUTH dawn on all World Powers, International Community and the misguided. TRUTH is always stranger than fiction. But the TRUTH will out and no one can UNTRULY keep it a secret for ever. TRUTH will triumph (Sathya Mevam Jayam), but it always takes longer because TRUTH has no limits. UNTRUTH will TRULLY have a natural death, sooner or later. They bragged and distorted everything possible, but were, in TRUTH, not knowing what was going on in the north, and in TRUTH the whole TRUTH. Had the TRUTH been given its due justice in correct perspective, Tigers in Vanni would not have received fortunes into the coffers to buy weapons.

  • Army Web Popular - Newspaper

    THE Sri Lanka Army's official information wing, Army website www.army.lk after its most recent new design has attracted nearly two million hits per day. Army website provides round the clock news updates with the latest ground photos and video clips using modern technology.

  • Tiger Confessions And Intentional 'Blindness' of The WEST - Reader's Opinion

    TAMILNET and other like minded web-sites are replete with harrowing stories, some authored by the Tigers themselves, of starvation among Tamil Civilians in the `Safe Zone’ to whom the Government has been supplying food and drugs. What is significant in these horror stories is that no one, not even the Tigers, say that a single Tiger is starving. If there is any truth in these stories, that can only be if the Tigers are robbing the Tamil Civilians of the food and drugs sent to them for their own purposes, thereby forcing those Civilians to starve.

  • A Major Victory on The Diplomatic Front - 'The Island' Editorial

    STRAWS that Prabhakaran is clutching are snapping one by one. About two years ago after the army had begun its northward push and covered a considerable ground, Prabhakaran summoned some TNA parliamentarians to Kilinochchi and asked them to bring international pressure to bear on the government to give up its military onslaught and promised to hold out until then. Such was his unwavering faith in the international community. He was banking on India to bury the hatchet and come to his rescue. He expected his backers overseas to mobilise sufficient international support to scuttle the government's war effort. He made a terrible miscalculation!.....

  • International Community Comes to Civilians' Aid

    IN response to the Government’s request, the international community yesterday pledged their fullest assistance to the civilians fleeing from the LTTE clutches. Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama at a meeting with Colombo based diplomatic community yesterday requested their assistance to enhance water, health, sanitary and accommodation facilities to these civilians. India, the United States and Australia are among the first countries which pledged urgent assistance to these civilians.

  • Indian Anti-Terror Front Felicitates President

    THE All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF), a leading organization opposed to terrorism in all its forms has felicitated President Mahinda Rajapaksa for “launching a nationwide peace initiative and checking the LTTE onslaught”. The Memorandum of Felicitation was handed over to the Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi yesterday by Maninderjit Singh Bitta, Chairman of the AIATF, which was set up in the late 1980s to counter terrorism that wrecked the Indian State of Punjab at the time. It’s founder and present Chairman.....

  • "PRABHA MIGHT STAY WITH HIS COHORTS UNTIL ESCAPE," SAYS DAYA MASTER

    MULLAITTIVU: TIGER supremo, PRABHAKARAN, confined now to the remaining swathe of land towards the south of the “No Fire Zone” (NFZ) in PUTHUMATTALAN was to stay along with his cohorts up to the last moment until he finally finds his escape, surrendered DAYA MASTER has reportedly told the interrogators. He has also told them that PRABHAKARAN would stay as long as his last fighter remains with him before his possible escape, he has further told the interrogators.

  • THEY STILL PREFER TO BE UNDER GOVT TROOPS

    MULLAITTIVU: WITH the entry of 2,934 more trapped civilians into the cleared areas in the past couple of hours, the total of civilians who had reached government troops went up to 108,001 by Friday (24) noon.