AN unruly situation emerged when a group of LTTE activists in Australia tried to obstruct a peace rally organized by a number of Sri Lankan residents in Melbourne on Saturday morning. An association named 'Melbourne Lankan Students' organized a peaceful demonstration in front of the Melbourne State Parliament displaying banners demanding that the LTTE release civilians in the Wanni. Around 2,000 people took part in the demonstration...
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday (5) called on LTTE leader Velupillai Pabhakaran to surrender now with his small number of fighting cadres who had been cornered to the No-Fire Zone or face total annihilation within days if not in hours. Addressing a function held at the Temple Trees to welcome 3,000 UNPers in the Colombo District to the SLFP fold, President Rajapaksa said the LTTE had come to the tail end of its 30-year barbaric and inhuman terror campaign...
AMBASSADOR Ravinatha Aryainsha has told Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) that some apologists among them were trying to save the LTTE by calling for a ceasefire and trying to stop the Sri Lanka Government from militarily defeating the terrorists, and that if MEPs really want to help affected civilians, they should use whatever influence they had, particularly with Tamil diaspora they represent, to bring pressure on the LTTE to let go of the 50,000 people they were holding as ‘human shields’......
US AMBASSADOR for Sri Lanka Mr. Robert O’Blake Monday (6) morning met Commander of the Army Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka at the Army Headquarters and received an update on the status quo, related to the near completion of military offensives in the deep north and east of Puthukkudiyiruppu in Vanni. Lt. Gen Sarath Fonseka, giving a brief outline of the latest military achievements, loss.....
MULLAITTIVU: SEARCH and clear operations being conducted by the troops in PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU area recovered seventy-two more LTTE dead bodies on Monday (6). Latest recovery amounts the number of dead bodies so far found by the troops from the area since 1st of April to five hundred and twenty-five (525).
MULLAITTIVU: THE TRIUMPHANT end of the military onslaught that bagged the whole of PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU LTTE stronghold sans the remaining No Fire Zone (NFZ) strip, to which the LTTE has now crept in with heavy weapons was meticulously planned and effectively executed under the direct and able command of Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, Commander of the Army.....
IT IS now as clear as daylight that the LTTE has really and truly taken hostage of all Tamil civilians in the "no-fire-zone" (NFZ). Unable to face the army, the LTTE cadres have now run into the relative safety of this zone and are clearly holding the people as hostage there and have resorted to murdering them if they attempted to escape their captivity. The LTTE cadres are the "sole Murderers (not Representatives) of Tamils".....
Cementing the bonds of comradeship and understanding between them further, parents of a fallen War Hero in the Sri Lanka Air Force have volunteered to donate an artificial limb to an Army War Hero, sustained injuries in the Wanni Humanitarian Operations, during the monthly meeting of the Seva Vanith Army Branch (SVAB) held Thursday (28) evening at Defence Services School auditorium. This unique gesture of Mr. P. S. Punchihetti and Mrs. Seetha Punchihetti.....
SHAMINDRA Ferdinando documents the history of the current phase of the military campaign that has boxed the LTTE to a small sliver of territory on the Mullaitivu coast.Last Thursday’s bloody battle at Anandapuram on the eastern flank brought an end to organized LTTE resistance in the Puthukkudiyirippu area in the Mullaitivu district. The 58 Division troops had fought their way into heavily defended Anandapuram after 53 and 55 Divisions sealed off the area the previous day. The latest loss of territory would thwart any attempt on the part of the LTTE to hold off the army outside the civilian safety zone on the Mullaitivu coast....
MULLAITTIVU: THE cream of the LTTE organization appears to be fast dying off, unable to meet the resistance of the troops who have now shown up at the doorstep to the No Fire Zone where Tigers are holding hundreds of Tamil civilians captive, barring them from moving into government-held areas. Over a dozen of top-rung Tiger leaders, including PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU area leader, THAVABALASINGHAM alias THEEPAN alias TANGOPAPA alias THEEBAN, special women’s leader VIDUSHA, Leader for “MALATHI Regiment”, KEERTHI, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU Military Leader, SUNDARAM alias NAGESH, Military Leader for PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU area NADARASA alias GOPAL.....
