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Prabhakaran a Terrorist as far as India is Concerned

"AS far as the Indian Government is concerned, the LTTE is a terrorist organisation and Prabhakaran is a terrorist. The Government and Congress party consider the LTTE to be responsible for Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. We would expect Lanka to hand Prabhakaran over to us. Karunanidhi's remarks saying "Prabhakaran is not a terrorist" are his personal," Congress party spokesperson Kapil Sibal said. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka termed Karunanidhi's remarks as a poll stunt and said the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister was a "Chanakya" trying to exploit the issue for electoral gains....
55 DIV TROOPS TO LINK UP SHORTLY AS ESCAPEES FROM NFZ RISE RAPIDLY

MULLAITTIVU: THE MASS exodus of trapped civilians from the “No Fire Zone” (NFZ) at PUTHUMATHALAN took a dramatic upward turn by 1.00 p.m. Tuesday (21) afternoon, bringing the total number of escapees who have reached troops to 52,087 as more and more Tamil civilians were trudging towards the areas held by government troops for protection of their lives. The “World’s Biggest Rescue Operation” now in full swing after valiant troops on Sunday (19) night pierced the LTTE earth bund and enabled trapped civilians to move out saw 39,820 besieged civilians reaching 58 Division troops by Tuesday (21) morning.
FLEEING CIVILIANS DEFY TIGER DIKTATS & HEAD FOR CLEARED AREAS

MULLAITTIVU: PANDEMONIUM has broken out in the PUTHUMATHALAN “No Fire Zone” (NFZ) Monday (20) afternoon as a gathering of some 5,000 or more trapped civilians defied LTTE threats, braved to cross two more LTTE built earth bunds. Those fleeing civilians have been challenged, confronted and surrounded by gun-trotting Tigers inside the NFZ on their way but resisting civilians have gone on arguing against their detention by the LTTE. Heated arguments have prompted Tigers to react to the chaos by firing at them.
Unidentified Gunmen Take VOG's Life

VAVUNIYA: THE Visiting Obstetrician Gynecologist (VOG) of the VAVUNIYA hospital was shot dead by unidentified gunmen Monday (20) evening around 7.00 p.m.. The victim, Dr. MEERA MOHIDEEN (53), who sustained fatal injuries in the shooting later succumbed to his injuries. Another doctor named JEYARUBAN who was in the vicinity at the time of the incident was also injured. The VAVUNIYA Police are conducting investigations.
ARMY RECEIVES 49058 TRAPPED CIVILIANS IN 24 HOURS

MULLAITTIVU: THE LATEST HEADCOUNT who sought protection for their lives after arriving in cleared areas of PUTHUKUDIRIPPU from the PUTHUMATHALAN “No Fire Zone” in the past twenty-four hours ending Tuesday (21) noon has now risen to 49,058, updated statistics received by the Army confirmed. 58 Division troops have received 41,000 civilians whereas the troops, attached to the 55 Division accepted a total of 5863 civilians who crossed the sand bund. 53 Division troops meanwhile received twenty-eight escapees during Monday (20). Naval troops on Monday (20) in the meantime recorded the receipt of 2167 escapees who had fled on ordinary fishing craft across the seas.
Commander Briefs Visiting Pakistan NDU Team on Current Security Developments

A DELEGATION of officers, attached to the Pakistan National Defence University (NDU), now visiting Sri Lanka as part of their study programme called on Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, Commander of the Army Tuesday (21) morning at the Army Headquarters. The visiting team of delegates, headed by Rear Admiral Tayyab Ali Dogar as Group Leader included seventeen military officers from Pakistan tri-services and military men from Saudi Arabia, Germany and United Kingdom.
China Backs Lankan Fight Against LTTE

CHINA on Tuesday came out in support of the Sri Lankan Government's efforts to wipe out the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and apprehend its leader V. Prabhakaran. It also backed the decision of the Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Prachanda, to induct Maoist forces in the country's army. Both Nepal and Sri Lanka are friendly to China. We support the efforts of their governments to safeguard national integrity while ensuring security and political stability",....
NORTHERN EDGE OF NFZ FALLS UNDER TROOPS

MULLAITTIVU: AS the clock struck 4.00 p.m. on Tuesday (21), valiant troops moving past the PUTHUMATTALAN junction in the ‘No Fire Zone’ (NFZ) further extended their defence line to the eastern edge of the beach virtually breaking the NFZ into two major portions. It thus marked the complete capture of a box-type strip in the northern PUTHUMATHALAN area including the hospital. Two LTTE cabs, scurrying along the road beyond the perimeter of the dominated NFZ....
GOVERNMENT SETS ASIDE 700 MORE ACRES FOR TEMPORARY SHELTERS IF REQUIRED: 3668 IN SOUTHERN HOSPITALS

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COLOMBO: ELABORATE arrangements are now under way to accommodate swelling numbers of rescued “No Fire Zone” civilians now reaching cleared areas with the coordination of the Ministry of Resettlement and Rehabilitation, security forces and selected state and private sector agencies. Mr. M. HALDEEN, Secretary to the Ministry of Resettlement and Rehabilitation who was in VAVUNIYA when he was contacted by the www.army.lk told that more than 700 acres in PARAYANAKULAM area have been already earmarked for another new relief village with a view to housing displaced civilians being brought to VAVUNIYA by the Army in case available locations found inadequate and congested. Meanwhile, Ministry of Health said the number of IDPs so far hospitalized for medical treatment outside VANNI has......
"SOLE TAMIL LIBERATOR" GOES BERSERK & COMMITS HEINOUS CRIMES ON MINORS & ESCAPEES

MULLAITTIVU: THEY do speak, certainly very very much louder than how they really look like in reality. Never had they dreamt of a chaotic ill-treatment of this magnitude in the very hands of their so-called “sole liberators” of the Tamil people, to who the megalomaniac PRABHAKARAN vowed an utopian “Eelam” while sending his own sons and daughters overseas for studies. The tyrannical leverage, hitherto being exercised by the LTTE leader and his cohorts on thousands of Tamil civilians in his Vanni theater of absolute mayhem........