News Archive

Eurojust Tactical Meeting on 'LTTE Front Organizations'

A TACTICAL Meeting on LTTE Front Organizations, was hosted by Eurojust (the EU institution responsible for co-ordination of investigations and prosecutions between competent authorities in the Member States), on March 30-31, 2009 in the Hague, Netherlands. The Meeting was attended by representatives of the Intelligence and Criminal Justice communities of EU member States, non-EU countries including Sri Lanka and the Europol,said a press release issued by the Sri Lanka Embassy in Brussels.
UNHCR Welcomes Positive Developments at IDP Sites

THE UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) wishes to make reference to the Guidance Note outlining principles on protection and assistance with regards to the internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Wanni in the districts of Vavuniya, Jaffna and Mannar. As the lead agency for IDPs, UNHCR is carrying out its mandate to ensure that the conditions at the IDP sites are in line with international standards. As part of these efforts, the agency put forward to the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) a set of principles which must be fulfilled to ensure full compliance with global standards at the IDP sites in the three districts.
Three Terrorists Lose Lives; More Explosives Found

MULLAITTIVU: A SEARCH that followed a brief confrontation this morning (2) at about 11.45 a.m. in VISUAMADU led to the recovery of three dead bodies of LTTE terrorists, six T-56 weapons, one Rocket Propeller Grenade (RPG), two I-com sets, two maps, one Rocket Propeller (RPG) round, thirty LTTE uniform sets, one Bangalore torpedo, one wire cutter, one remote controller, two claymores of 2.5 kg and 500 g of C-4 explosives......
Troops Strike Thirty-One Terrorists; Fifty T-56s Collected

MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS now closing in on their final target in PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU, in another round of heavy fighting this morning (2) beat the enemy bitterly killing over two dozens of terrorists. Troops afterwards collected thirty-one dead Tigers, fifty T-56 weapons, one Global Positioning System (GPS) unit, two Rocket Propeller Guns (RPG),.....
Priest Accused of Helping LTTE to Recruit

A GROUP of parents who came over to the military side late last month had complained that a priest in the ‘no fire zone’ in Mullaitivu, had helped the LTTE to forcibly recruit several hundred underage children. According to one mother (whose name cannot be revealed for security reasons), parents had sent some 600 children to a Catholic Church located in Walayarmadam, Priest accused of helping LTTE to recruit just south of Puthumatalan, to protect the children against recruitment by the LTTE.
Food & Essentials Sent to Mullaitivu's Trapped Civilians: Navy Ensures Safe Passage

THE UN World Food Program dispatched 1,030 metric tonnes of essential food items on Wednesday (1) to trapped civilians in Mullaitivu on the ICRC chartered vessel. The Navy is providing assistance and safe passage to transport the food items. Navy spokesman Captain D.P.K. Dassanayake said MV City of Dublin carried over 1,030 mt. of food items in addition to medical items and emergency health and shelter kits. The cargo will be handed over to the Government Agent in Mullaitivu to be distributed among the displaced.
Shocking Story of Forcible Recruitment

A GROUP of parents who came to the military on March 27 had revealed a shocking story about a priest, who was living among them in the ‘no fire zone’ in Puthumatalan, and helped the Tamil Tigers to forcibly recruit more than 550 underage children. According to a mother (whose name cannot be revealed due to security reasons) parents of some 600 children had sent their children to a church located in Walayarmadam, just south of Puthumatalan in order to protect them from the LTTE’s continuing forcible recruitment of underage children and teenagers.
Tigers Use 150,000 as 'Shields'

THE haunted eyes of the grandfather who had just escaped from the Tamil Tigers at their most furious betrayed the horror he had left behind him. “I want to live, not die, and that’s why I have come here with my family,” he said. The exhausted businessman was safe in a Sri Lankan army base after weeks trapped with 150,000 other civilians in a seven-square-mile strip of land on Sri Lanka’s northeast coast, short of food and fresh water and incessantly pounded by shells.The rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who for the past 26 years have claimed to be fighting to protect Sri Lanka’s Tamil ethnic minority, have forbidden the refugees to leave—on pain of death.
Thirteen Tiger Infiltrators Killed in Ambush

AMPARA: TIGER terrorists, who have inducted terrorist teams into the east, either disguised as civilians or otherwise with the intention of crippling normalcy, had to undergo a terrible fate this morning (3) at about 6.15 a.m. when Special Task Force troops laid an ambush and killed thirteen Tiger terrorists in KOTIYAKUMBURA, LAHUGALA, AMPARA. Pockets of Tiger terrorists since of recent times after their entry into TRINCOMALEE, BATTICALOA and AMPARA provinces have been carrying out a new wave of killings in order to provoke civilians as well as Security Forces.
One More 130 mm LTTE Artillery Gun Caught

MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS continued their offensives against LTTE terrorists in PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU east and north of MULLAITTIVE town areas causing heavy losses among the terrorists on Thursday (2). During search operations that followed confrontations, troops recovered one 130 mm artillery gun, five T-56 weapons, one Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG), one I-com set, one Mitsubishi single cab and one motor bicycle from those areas.