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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........
5 YEAR OLD CHILD DIES IN LTTE SHOOTING & ARMY HELPS DELIVERY ABOARD BUS

MULLAITTIVU: THE paternal love of a father sees no boundaries or restrictions, as evinced in this heartbreaking story, accompanied by the photo that follows. LTTE terrorists in PUTHUMATTALAN “No Fire Zone” went on firing indiscriminately on civilian groups that were on the move Tuesday (21) afternoon and this small boy of 5 years, fearing for his life clung onto his father, unaware of his own fate that would befall within seconds.
5 YEAR OLD CHILD DIES IN LTTE SHOOTING & ARMY HELPS DELIVERY ABOARD BUS

MULLAITTIVU: THE paternal love of a father sees no boundaries or restrictions, as evinced in this heartbreaking story, accompanied by the photo that follows. LTTE terrorists in PUTHUMATTALAN “No Fire Zone” went on firing indiscriminately on civilian groups that were on the move Tuesday (21) afternoon and this small boy of 5 years, fearing for his life clung onto his father, unaware of his own fate that would befall within seconds.
TOTAL OF CIVILIANS LIBERATED FROM LTTE RISES TO 62,609

MULLAITTIVU: IN the past twelve hours ending Tuesday (21) at 8.30 p.m. another total of 21,534 trapped civilians in the “No Fire Zone” entered the cleared areas, held by Army troops in PUTHUMATTALAN, thereby increasing the entire total escapees to 62,609 during 20-21 April 2009. 58 Division troops received 48,501 civilians during those two days, 55 Division troops 10,743, 53 Division troops 98 and Naval troops a total of 3267 as of Tuesday (21) night.
It was a Famous Victory

IT WAS a victory for the history books. It was like a replay of the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. The 19th century promise of the younger Marx to usher in a free society had been betrayed by oppressive states of Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall was physically broken by its residents who ran free, a streaming torrent of humanity. The East Germany regime was far less authoritarian than that of Prabhakaran. The LTTE’s true German equivalent was Hitler but without the open adulation that the latter enjoyed. The parallel was nearer that of Mussolini as the Allies closed in. Italians revolted and ultimately hanged him from a bridge.
Violent LTTE Backers Arrested in France

MORE than 200 people had been arrested and four injured in Paris on Monday during an unauthorised protest by Tamils that turned violent, a French police spokesman said. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked an intersection in Central Paris, throwing bottles at passing buses as they demanded that Sri Lanka end its military assault on the LTTE.
Tigers Collapse

HAD the Tigers succeeded in assassinating Army Chief Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka in late April 2006 and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa seven months later, the enemy would have had the upper hand in the Eelam war IV. The government’s war effort would have suffered an irreparable setback. Therefore, Monday’s hostage rescue mission carried out by the army wouldn’t have materialised. Three years after surviving a suicide attack, Fonseka, undoubtedly Sri Lanka’s most successful service commander has led the ground forces into the last LTTE stronghold on the north-eastern coast.