ICRC Vavuniya Head Meets SF-Wanni Commander
ANOTHER round of discussion between the Commander Security Forces Headquarters-Wanni (SFHQ-W) Major General Jagath Jayasuriya and ICRC Vavuniya Head Ms Valerie Petit Pierre was held on Thursday (14) at the SFHQ (W). Main focus of the meeting was on the safety evacuation of civilians injured in LTTE firing, facilitation of displaced civilians' passage due to LTTE activities in the “No Fire Zone” into cleared areas with ICRC’s involvement and hospitalizing them for treatment. Brigadier General Staff SFHQ-W Brig. Sudantha Ranasinghe was also present during the discussion.
MULLAITTIVU: THE ENTIRE north of MULLAITTIVU, adjacent to the NANTHIKADAL lagoon plunged into a human catastrophe of unprecedented nature in the past 6-7 hours as thousands of entrapped civilians in the “New Safety Zone” (NFZ) defying LTTE threats and diktats began swarming into the cleared area of WADDUVAKAL en masse. Many forcibly detained civilians in the ‘NFZ’ sticking themselves to the whatever alternative means available to them at hand risked their lives and waded the lagoon by way of inflated tyre tubes, rafts, makeshift boats, Theppam (crafts) and swinging ropes, etc. despite rains of LTTE bullets that were directed towards them from LTTE-held areas. 
MULLAITTIVU: THE JORDANIAN “FARA-3” vessel that became defunct in the seas off MULLAITTIVU, about two years ago and subsequently high-jacked and towed away by Tiger terrorists before MULLAITTIVU and KILINOCHCHI fell into Army hands was brought under the Army troops Thursday (14) afternoon following a series of exchange of gunfire between ground troops and terrorists. Tiger terrorists ever since the“FARA-3” was captured used it as a firing pad after creeping into it and converting it into a terrorist hideout. The ship wreckage .....
COLOMBO: AN LTTE terrorist committed suicide by jumping off a seven-storied luxurious condominium in WELLAWATTA late last evening (14) when the troops swooped on it and found four explosive-laden LTTE suicide jackets, kept hidden in the terrorist’s apartment. On reliable information received, troops assisted by local Police cordoned the seven storied residential apartment on 37th Lane, WELLAWATTA Thursday (14) evening around 9.10 p.m. Security Forces methodically encircled the specific luxurious apartment and stormed it in order to find the four suicide jackets. 
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Wednesday urged Tigers to lay down their arms and let the civilians go. "Their forced recruitment of civilians and their use of civilians as human shields is deplorable," said the President. "The United States stands ready to work with the international community to support the people of Sri Lanka in this time of suffering. I don't believe that we can delay," Obama said. "Going forward, Sri Lanka must seek a peace that is secure and lasting and grounded in respect for all of its citizens," he said.....
THE PEACE Secretariat welcomes the latest efforts by the Sri Lankan forces, which have enabled over 5000 more of our fellow citizens to escape from LTTE clutches. It is also noteworthy that this has not been accompanied by allegations of large numbers of civilian casualties. It is noteworthy that, following the large exodus of over 100,000 civilians in the three days after April 20, the flood became only a trickle as the Tigers built up their techniques of imprisonment. Our forces could only move forward slowly and cautiously, so as to avoid civilian casualties, but nevertheless they did move. It was however only on May 10 then that there was another substantial number of escapees.
THE PAST few weeks have seen four major public demonstrations in Ontario by Tamil-Canadians demanding that the federal government do something to stop what they describe as a genocide against their people by the Sri Lankan Government. Three of those demonstrations were legal. The first was a sit-in on Parliament Hill in Ottawa that lasted more than two weeks and did not attract much attention, even from the Tamils’ usual political patrons in the Liberal party. It was only after the demonstrators folded up the flags representing the terrorist organisation the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam that politicians would even acknowledge them — the Tigers, although a banned organisation, are believed to a have a large presence in the Canadian Tamil community..jpg)
VAVUNIYA Police on Wednesday, arrested a key suspect in the assassination bid on Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, on December 1, 2006 in Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo. Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekera said the suspect Dharmalingam Dharmatharan alias Kili had been living in the No Fire Zone and moved to Vavuniya along with other IDP’s. Police arrested him on a tip off at the welfare centre operated at Tamil Maha Vidyalaya, Vavuniya, he said. The suspect is now being interrogated by Vavuniya police and is expected to be brought to Colombo soon.