Overseas Tiger Lobbyists Take to Streets
AN ESTIMATED CROWD of about 150-200 Tiger supporters in Oslo Tuesday (7) morning stormed Norwegian Prime Minister Stoltenberg’s office and demanded Norway’s immediate intervention for a cease-fire in Sri Lanka. A similar simultaneous protest on the Thames Bridge in London has also been reported Tuesday (7) morning around the same time. Those Oslo agitators, holding placards with Prabhakaran’s portrait condemned the Sri Lankan government and threatened the Police encircling them that they would not leave the premises until Norway gives an undertaking to them on their demands. Several Police dogs in the company of riot squads watched the developments which they described as ‘illegal’.
PRABHAKARAN’S thirty-four-year-old killing spree has taken him nowhere. He began dreaming of Eelam in the early 1970s and cut his teeth on violence in 1975 by murdering the Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah in cold blood. But, today like Ozymandias’ empire, nothing remains of Prabhakaran’s ‘separate state’. His Eelam project has manifestly come a cropper. Worse, he is shamelessly hiding behind innocent men, women and children and driving his cadres to suicide so that he could live another day or two....
THE SOCIETY for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR) has urged Australian authorities to proscribe the LTTE and its front organisations in Australia under the Criminal Code Act of 1995 to prevent them from disrupting ethnic harmony and presenting a threat to the national interest of Australia. In a memorandum addressed to the Attorney General of Australia Robert Mc Clelland, MP, SPUR said the LTTE facing imminent defeat militarily and politically in Sri Lanka has launched a frenzied and desperate campaign to create tension within the expatriate communities in Australia to tarnish the international image of Sri Lanka...
MULLAITTIVU: AN LTTE WOMAN SUICIDE BOMBER blew herself up at about 2.00 p.m. on Monday (6) in the general area of RAMANATHAPURAM immediately after she spotted the presence of Army troops ahead of her. The impact of the explosion injured one of the officers on duty in the area, but his condition was out of danger and not critical, according to the ground sources. 
MULLAITTIVU: MASSIVE stocks of LTTE explosives, arms and ammunition, lethal weapons, sophisticated technical devices and other accessories continued to emerge as troops were busy clearing captured areas in the north and east of PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU on Monday (6) and Tuesday (7) morning. Troops recovered one I-com set, one Improvised Explosive Device (IED), one 60 mm mortar IED and five anti personnel mines from RAMANATHAPURAM area.....
IN ORDER TO receive first hand experience on the life of civilians at the IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) centres in Vavuniya, the special UN envoy Mr. Walter Kalin and Secretary General Secretariat for Coordinating of Peace Process (SCOPP) Prof. Rajiva Wijesinghe visited Vavuniya during the weekend and met the authorities and Commander, Security Forces Vanni, Major General Jagath Jayasuriya. The UN special envoy visited the IDP centres at Menik Farm, Vavuniya Tamil Maha Vidyalaya and Omanthai IDP registration centre and spoke to a cross-section of the inmates.
THE FIRST death anniversary of late Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle fell on 6th April 2009. He was killed in a suicide bomb attack, carried out by an LTTE terrorist on 6th April 2008 when he was participating in a New Year festival at Weliweriya. At the time of his death, he was the Minister of Highways and Road Development, Chief Government Whip, Treasurer of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Member of Parliament for Gampaha district. A series of commemorative ceremonies were held in Katana and his electorate, attended .....
PRESIDENT Mahinda Rajapaksa said the eradication of terrorism and creating an atmosphere in the country through which all communities could live in unity and peacefully was the greatest service the government could render to those who lost their lives due to terrorist activities. "I am prepared to face any threat in my endeavour to eradicate terrorism," he said. The President was speaking at a ceremony at Temple Trees yesterday morning where a book on the services rendered by the late Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, who was assassinated by the LTTE on April 6, last year, was presented to him by the family.
MULLAITTIVU: ARMY troops conducting search and operations in the general area of PUTHUKUDIRIPPU found five LTTE dead bodies, eleven T-56 weapons, one Light Machine Gun, two Rocket Propeller Grenades, two I-com sets, three pouches, seven T-56 weapons. In the meantime, troops recovered one T-56 weapon, twenty-five anti personnel mines, seven Rocket Propeller Grenades, five hand grenades, two pouches, one shot gun and one Arul bomb from the general area of RAMANADAPURAM. 