WANNI: LATE PRABHAKARAN’s mother and father who had sought refuge with others after exiting from PUTHUMATTALAN area were identified Thursday (28) by military authorities. His father, VERASWAMI THIRUWENGADAM VELUPILLAI and mother, VELUPILLAI PARVATHI PILLAI of seventy-nine years of age had been identified while living inside one of the IDP centres in VAVUNIYA.
COLOMBO: MEDICAL authorities in the Army conducting DNA tests on CHARLES ANTHONY and PRABHAKARAN re-affirmed both of them have been identified as father and son after matching. Authorities after referring the samples to scientists conducted a match on both of them.
DAVID sent Goliath reeling in Geneva on Wednesday. Little Lanka, preening herself on defeating terrorism on home soil, scored an impressive victory over 'diplomatic terrorism' in a hostile terrain. At the UNHRC special session, her resolution to counter an attempt to confer pariah status on her was carried with a majority of 17 votes – 29 for, 12 against and 6 abstaining. Nobody expected her to crush terrorism.
THE Janes Defence Weekly said all parties agreed that the LTTE as a conventional fighting force has now become defunct. The magazine quoted UN spokesman Gordon Weiss as saying, without Prabhakaran there is no LTTE. The piece written by the magazine’s Asia Pacific Editor, Trefor Moss in its latest issue of May 27 as the headline of the issue said....
IN FAVOUR: Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Uruguay, Zambia; Against: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
HUMAN Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said that over 9,000 LTTE cadres now in government custody would be put through a comprehensive rehabilitation programme. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council Special Session in Geneva on Tuesday (May 26), he said the government would help them to reintegrate with the civil society. He said, "We work very closely with several UN Organisations such as UNDP, UNICEF and ILO as well as international organisations such as the International Organisation for Migration, IOM in this endeavour.
THE US Congress delegation said they saw the standards of relief villages where the Internally Displaced are accommodated are good and impressive, and of a much higher standard than described by some media.They said so, after meeting President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday. The delegation led by Congressman Heath Shuler (Democrat - North Carolina) that arrived in Sri Lanka on May 26 went on an observation tour of the relief centres where civilians liberated from the LTTE are being accommodated.
THE Sri Lanka Army will be strengthened and modernized to meet any internal or external threat to the country despite the Sri Lankan military’s victory against the LTTE, Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka told the media yesterday. Addressing the media at the Army Headquarters soon after the ‘Victory Parade’ to mark the Sri Lanka Army’s victory against the LTTE at the Army Headquarters ground, the Army Commander said attention would be more focused on external threat to the country when planning, restructuring and modernization of the Sri Lanka Army.
THE special session on Sri Lanka has come and gone, though interested parties such as the Dutch Foreign Minister seem determined to continue on an adversarial path. Nothing can be done however about those with political agendas, and though it is depressing to see such agendas asserted with self-righteous sanctimoniousness, the world does not really take seriously such posturings on the part of politicians.
THE prestigious ‘India Today’ in its June 1st issue summarizes the Rise and Fall of Prabhakaran and attributes his arrogance to his end. It also states the politico-military unity between Rajapaksa and Fonseka gave the offensive decisive thrust as a reinvigorated Army with fresh recruits using guerilla tactics prevailed over the languishing LTTE.
