FOR YEARS, pro-Tamil demonstrators have proudly hoisted the distinctive red flag many associate with the banned Tamil Tigers, a group Canada deems a terrorist organisation.But on Tuesday, among about 10,000 demonstrators on Parliament Hill, those were nowhere to be seen, replaced instead by Canadian flags and stark black banners - symbolic, demonstrators said, of the civilians killed in the offensive by the Sri Lankan government.
TWO LTTE propagandists surrendered to the army yesterday. They are known as Daya Master and George Master––a former schoolmaster and a retired postmaster respectively. Interestingly, Daya Master, a one-time LTTE spokesman, was rushed with a police escort to Colombo for treatment during the UNF government, which earned notoriety for its shameless appeasement of the LTTE.
MULLAITTIVU: SRI LANKAN Army troops, now engaged in the world’s largest rescue operation in the PUTHUMATTALAN ‘No Fire Zone’ (NFZ), upon evacuation of besieged civilians, were reportedly inching further towards the southern sector, close to AMPELVANPOKKANAI and VELAYANMADAM areas. The walk up to those areas has become easier, since no civil population was living there any longer.
MULLAITTIVU: More and more fleeing civilians from the ‘No Fire Zone’ in PUTHUMATTALAN, irrespective of Tiger threats or day and night risks, continues to stream across into troop-held areas as this report went to printing. By Thursday (23) morning, the total number of affected civilians that had escaped the LTTE grip in the past four days, beginning Monday (20) early morning rose to 103,143. With the 72,571 civilians who have exited and re-located elsewhere in cleared areas before 20th instant, the grand total as of Thursday (23) mid-noon reached 175,714.
SRI LANKA Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka told Asian Tribune that the world’s largest civilian hostage rescue operation was near completion. He further said that within the three days, from Monday April 20, more than 100,000 civilians had arrived into Government controlled areas. Meanwhile, when inquired about the fate of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Army Commander said, "Prabhakaran is in south of the No Fire Zone, taking cover among the civilians. My troops, the Special Forces,.....
A SENIOR UN official has urged Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels to lay down their arms and let the UN help trapped civilians to leave the conflict zone. Claude Heller, Mexico's ambassador at the UN in New York, spoke to reporters after chairing an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on the issue. While the 15-strong Council passed no resolution on the conflict, Mr Heller said he was voicing members' concerns. Sri Lanka's army says it has closed in on the last area of Tiger resistance.
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NORTH: LET the TRUTH dawn on all World Powers, International Community and the misguided. TRUTH is always stranger than fiction. But the TRUTH will out and no one can UNTRULY keep it a secret for ever. TRUTH will triumph (Sathya Mevam Jayam), but it always takes longer because TRUTH has no limits. UNTRUTH will TRULLY have a natural death, sooner or later. They bragged and distorted everything possible, but were, in TRUTH, not knowing what was going on in the north, and in TRUTH the whole TRUTH. Had the TRUTH been given its due justice in correct perspective, Tigers in Vanni would not have received fortunes into the coffers to buy weapons.
THE Sri Lanka Army's official information wing, Army website www.army.lk after its most recent new design has attracted nearly two million hits per day. Army website provides round the clock news updates with the latest ground photos and video clips using modern technology.
TAMILNET and other like minded web-sites are replete with harrowing stories, some authored by the Tigers themselves, of starvation among Tamil Civilians in the `Safe Zone’ to whom the Government has been supplying food and drugs. What is significant in these horror stories is that no one, not even the Tigers, say that a single Tiger is starving. If there is any truth in these stories, that can only be if the Tigers are robbing the Tamil Civilians of the food and drugs sent to them for their own purposes, thereby forcing those Civilians to starve.
STRAWS that Prabhakaran is clutching are snapping one by one. About two years ago after the army had begun its northward push and covered a considerable ground, Prabhakaran summoned some TNA parliamentarians to Kilinochchi and asked them to bring international pressure to bear on the government to give up its military onslaught and promised to hold out until then. Such was his unwavering faith in the international community. He was banking on India to bury the hatchet and come to his rescue. He expected his backers overseas to mobilise sufficient international support to scuttle the government's war effort. He made a terrible miscalculation!.....
