Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
COMMANDING - IN - CHIEF EASTERN NAVAL COMMAND, India Vice Admiral Sureesh Mehta, currently in Sri Lanka called on the Commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka this morning (13) at the latter’s office, Army Headquarters (AHQ), Colombo.
COMMANDER OF THE ARMY, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka upon his recent assumption of office as Commander formally called on the Prime Minister Mr Ratnasiri Wikramanayake who is also the Deputy Minister of Defence on Monday (12) afternoon.
COMMANDER OF THE ARMY, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka upon his recent assumption of office as Commander formally called on the Prime Minister Mr Ratnasiri Wikramanayake who is also the Deputy Minister of Defence on Monday (12) afternoon.
IN A HIGHLY CRITICAL speech to the Human Rights Council on Tuesday (Dec. 11) the High Commissioner Louise Arbour, highlighted Sri Lanka\'s failure to address a raft of human rights abuses. She is pushing to set up a UN human rights office on the island - a move that Sri Lanka has categorically rejected, as explains Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka \'Even in post conflict situations it takes Truth Commissions many years to get to the bottom of things, as we have seen in South Africa. Just look how many decades it took the British government to investigate \'the bloody Sunday\' killings in Northern Ireland. However we are not shutting the door. We do have a capacity problem and we have asked for international assistance\' Carole Vann, Claire Doole/Infosud - Following her visit to Sri Lanka in October, the top UN human rights official, Louise Arbour has taken the government to task for failing to adequately investigate an \'alarming\' number of abductions and disappearances over the past two years, and for a lack of safeguards for those detained under emergency regulations. On Tuesday she also expressed her concern at human rights abuses committed by the Tamil Tigers. The Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Dayan Jayatilleka, rejected the allegations against the government, citing the mitigating circumstances of the civil war.
NEW DELHI, December 12: The Indian Air Force (IAF) recently staged war games in South India to test this country\'s capabilities to protect its \'high value\' assets like oil tankers, nuclear installations and ports against aerial attacks by \'non-state actors\' in the region like the so-called Tamileelam Air Force (TAF).
VAVUNIYA: TIGER TERRORISTS THURSDAY (13) morning detonated a claymore mine targeting a Police route clearing party at KURUKKALPUDUKULAM, VAVUNIYA at about 7.35 a.m.
INVESTIGATIONS HAVE REVEALED that one person arrested during the recent search operation had received training on flying in a foreign flying school and has direct connections with the LTTE, Defence Spokesman and Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.
A FRENCH COURT has turned down bail applications filed by 19 high ranking LTTE leaders arrested and detained in France and ordered they be kept in remand pending their trial in April 2008, agency reports said.
A RECENT PROGRAMME on Sri Lanka in \'Unreported World\' by Britain\'s Channel 4, focusing on the current situation in the conflict areas, interviewed Sri Lanka Army Commander Sarath Fonseka on Nov. 9. When asked why unidentified gunmen still run amok in the east, the Lieutenant General responded, \'it will happen as far as the LTTE and its operations are continued\'.
NORTH, WANNI & EAST: TWO OF THE LTTE\'s heavy mortars, most probably of 120 mm caliber were badly damaged following resistant fire directed by the troops during a string of confrontations that took place in the south of ADAMPAN in the past few days as the LTTE confirmed their death toll has exceeded thirty-three.