News Archive

Wanni ICRC & UNICEF Heads Receive Updates

HEAD of the ICRC in Vavuniya Ms Valerie Petitpierre and a team of UN officials this morning (4) separately met Major General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander Security Forces Headquarters-Wanni (SFHQ-W) at his Vavuniya office to discuss matters of concern to their routine operations in Wanni. The ICRC official during her discussions focused attention on speedy evacuation of entrapped civilians who continue to receive injuries as a result of terrorist firing inside as the extent of remaining Karayanmullivaikal and Vellamullivaikkal areas in the “No Fire Zone” (NFZ) is fast shrinking.
MoD Organized Pirith Chanting Illuminates BMICH Premises

A SEA of saffron-clad Buddhist monks, drawn from all four corners of the island, adding a colourful spectacle to the BMICH premises during the weekend invoked blessings on the country, its President, Defence Secretary, Tri services Commanders, Police and Security Forces during an all-night Pirith chanting and an alms-giving. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Mrs. Shiranthi Rajapaksa, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa.....
Troops March Forward Crossing Captured Bund

MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS who pierced a section of another LTTE earth bund in the stretch of land between the A-35 road and the NANTHIKADAL lagoon on Sunday (3) expanded their advance by another 250 metres as dusk fell on Monday (4) while closing in on KARAYANMULLIVAIKKAI. 53 Division troops commanded by Major General Kamal Gunarathna after tactfully overcoming LTTE resistance, later found four LTTE motorbikes, four T-56 weapons.....
LTTE Bus & Thirty-Seven Claymore Mines Uncovered

MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS engaged in search and clear operations in the general areas of VISUAMADUKULAM, KILINOCHCHI, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU west, UDAYARKATTU, ALANKULAM and AMPAKAMAM continued to collect more and more LTTE arms and ammunition throughout the day. Three T-81 weapons, two T-56 weapons, one sniper weapon, sixty 60 mm mortar bombs, three Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), 16kg of C-4 explosives, fifty-four hand grenades, sixty-seven training hand grenades, two thousand five hundred and thirty anti personnel mines of P-4 mark 01 and four other anti personnel mines,........
Troops Close in on Prabhakaran

MILITARY spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanyakkara said that the Tiger leadership was confined to an area of 4.5 km in the ‘No Fire Zone’, South of Vellamullavaikkal and the troops were continuing with the humanitarian operation of evacuating the civilians trapped in the this area. The 58, 53 and 59 Divisions of the Army were advancing from three different directions and moving towards the area where some of the key LTTE members and Tiger leader Prabhakaran were hiding, he said.
Canada won't Support LTTE: It will Continue Assistance to Sri Lanka

CANADIAN International Cooperation Minister Beverly J. Oda yesterday (3) said the Canadian Government will not provide any support for the pro LTTE elements operating on its soil. She arrived in Sri Lanka for a one day official visit at the invitation of Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama. Addressing the media after a meeting with Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, Oda said the Canadian Government has identified these elements and they will be severely dealt with according to law of the country. “Canada proscribed the LTTE as a terrorist organisation in 2006 and that policy decision remains unchanged,” she said.
Political Kryptonite; The Tamil Tiger Flag has Become a Source of National Discomfort

THE arrest on Thursday (April 30) of 15 Tamil Canadian protesters after they crossed a police line in front of the U. S. Consulate in Toronto seemed to mark the climax of a national rally — from Montreal to Ottawa to Toronto — against the humanitarian disaster in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone. But to organizers, the minor violence was little more than a last gasp of frustration at the rally’s failure to attract any high-level political support. The true moment of crisis came the week before in Ottawa, with the failure of an alleged secret deal with a Conservative party operative that would have seen....
How UK can Help SL - "The Island" Editorial

HERE seems to be no end to foreign do-gooders visiting here purportedly to help resolve the conflict. Now it is a British delegation! For the past three decades or so, neither foreigners nor successive Sri Lankan governments have succeeded in finding a solution. It is a foregone conclusion that the visiting British dignitaries are wasting their time and energy. The European Parliament, about three years ago, sagaciously put its finger on what had put paid to Sri Lanka's peace efforts in its resolution on Sri Lanka on Sep. 08, 2006. It read, inter alia, [the EU Parliament] 'condemns the intransigence....
Terrorists Trigger Claymore Against Tractor

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MONERAGALA: SUSPECTED terrorist infiltrators in the dense jungles off WELIARA, BUTTALA surrounding PELAWATTA Sugar Company complex detonated a claymore mine against a tractor moving in the area and killed its driver Tuesday (5) morning at about 10.30 a.m. Reports reaching COLOMBO said the tractor was supervising the electric fence, set to scare off wild elephants in the areas surrounding sugar cultivations when the claymore mine was activated by hiding terrorists.
Civilians Give Tips & Police Uncover More LTTE Claymores & Ammo

MANNAR: AS THE resettlement programme in the MANNAR district gets underway, the Police have expanded their search wing and clearing operations without taking any risks whatsoever. A series of search and clear operations conducted in the areas between 29th April- 3rd May, the Police supported by Army troops uncovered further stocks of LTTE military items, left hidden or buried by evicted LTTE terrorists.