Greatest Victory in Our Country
MAJOR GENERAL Lalin Fernando (Retired) in an interview with the Daily News expressed his views on the most significant military victory accomplished by the Armed Forces freeing the nation from three decades of LTTE terror. He said he considers the soldiers who waged this war against terrorism as the greatest treasure while the Leaders who boosted the morale and gave the leadership as the greatest Leaders we have had in our history. Q: How do you view the military victory achieved by the Armed Forces? A:This is the greatest victory in the history of our country, because we have got rid of a terrorist who destroyed our country during the past three decades. I look at the soldiers who fought this war as the greatest treasure we have and the Leaders who gave the morale and the leadership as the greatest Leaders we have had in our history.
ARMY COMMANDER General Sarath Fonseka yesterday said the media personnel who had been paid by the LTTE to promote its cause would be appropriately dealt with according to the law. He said so in an interview with ITN last night. In answer to a question what he proposed to do in respect of journalists in the pay of the LTTE, as revealed by the two LTTE spokesmen now in custody, General Fonseka said, such people should be considered traitors and brought to book.
THE LTTE groups which are known to have infiltrated the Eastern Province have sought the help of National Integration Minister Vinayagamurthy Muralitharan to arrange for them to surrender to the military. After the EP was liberated, these small groups were holed up in the jungle and continued to attack villages such as Moneragala and Ampara and are said to have killed a number of civilians. Minister Muralitharan who before his defection from the LTTE led its fighting cadres as eastern commander told Daily Mirror yesterday that the leaders of these groups had contacted him and asked for his support to surrender to government forces.