News Archive

COUNTDOWN BEGINS: TIGERS CORNERED TO LESS THAN ONE Sq Km

MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS of the 53,58 and 59 Division, who have by now encircled the entire 700-800 sq meters left in the last patch of land where top Tiger hierarchy was believed to be hiding, continue to hear strings of loud blasts as terrorists were setting fire to their ammunition dumps. Latest ground reports reaching COLOMBO affirm remaining top-rung Tigers inside that space have been provided with security rings by Tigers who were marking time until death befalls them.
CHARLES ANTHONY, PULIDEVAN, NADESAN & RAMESH CONFIRMED KILLED

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PRABHAKARAN’S SON CHARLES ANTHONY, Head of LTTE Peace Secretariat S. PULIDEVAN, Head of LTTE Political Wing and former LTTE Police Chief P. NADESAN and Head of LTTE Special Military Wing RAMESH have been killed during Sunday’s clashes in the final battle for liberation of the Tamil people, military intelligence confirmed a few minutes ago. CHARLES ANTHONY, the elder son of the terrorist leader V. PRABHAKARAN, was in charge of the Information Technology Division and the Air Wing of the LTTE.
SO FAR FORTY-THREE DEAD TIGERS COLLECTED.

MULLAITTIVU: ARMY troops during search and clear operations in KARAYMULLIVAIKKAL area recovered thirty-five dead LTTE terrorists, eight female LTTE dead bodies, thirty-six T-56 weapons, thirty T-81 weapons, two FNC weapons, two Rocket Propelled Guns (RPGs), twenty-one hand grenades, eleven I-com sets, seven LTTE flags, five area maps, thirty packs, one Global Positioning System (GPS), seven Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) bolts, 3m detonator codes, Rs. 101,000/= in cash, one 120mm mortar barrel, one 81 mm bipod, two 81 mm base plates, three 60mm mortar tubes, three Light Machine Guns (LMGs), one MPMG weapon and one 40mm Grenade Launcher.
COUNTRY BEGINS A NEW ERA: PEOPLE REJOICE NEW LIBERATION

ALL SRI LANKANS, irrespective of their differences have joined hands together to mark the total eviction of Tiger Terrorism from the Sri Lankan soil in the past 24 hours as news beamed over the media on the LTTE’s humiliating defeat. Ground troops at this moment of writing are engaged in giving the toughest-ever last fight to the top-rung terrorist leaders who are fighting in the last few meters in the safe zone in PUTHUMATHALAN. Reports said the fighting had enormously affected the morale of the Tiger hierarchy as more and more of Tiger leader’s confidantes are fast dwindling with deaths of Prabhakaran’s son, Charles Anthony, Pulidevan, Nadeshan, Illango, Sundaram and Kapil Amman et al.
ARMY BRINGS ENTIRE COUNTRY UNDER GOVT RULE

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COLOMBO: SRI LANKA ARMY Monday (18) afternoon at 1400 hrs announced that the entire PUTHUMATTALAN area has now been brought under Army control bringing the entire country free from LTTE’s terrorism. Over 250 corpses of Tiger terrorists scattered in the entire area have been so far recovered and subjected to identification at the time this report was filed. It is believed all the remaining terrorist leaders including top Tiger (LTTE) leaders were among those feared killed.
The Man Who Destroyed Eealam

PRABAKARAN had everything. Territory. A committed rank and file. Lethal weaponry. International support and friends in the West. SHYAM TEKWANI tracks the alarming rise and astonishing fall of a man caught between escape and death. Excerpts of an article from Tehelka web publication.MORE VIVIDLY THAN anything that came afterwards in the Sri Lanka war, I remember his first handshake. The hand was soft, the grip delicate and limp. On that occasion in Madras, as he contentedly claimed credit for.....
How the West was Sidelined (For the Moment)

UNITED Nations Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, right, meets David Miliband, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Monday, May 11, 2009 at United Nations headquarters. (AP) A couple of years back, in Geneva, the British ambassador tried to have a resolution critical of Sri Lanka passed in the United Nations Human Rights Council. The previous year such a resolution had been proposed, and after negotiation, as I understood, it was kept on the table, so that it could be taken up if agreed.In 2007 Dr Dayan Jayatilleka decided that he would not accept a resolution. He also refused to negotiate on the terms of a Presidential Statement, which was then proposed by the British ambassador. He refused even to accept a draft text, since that would have been tantamount to agreeing that some sort of action was necessary.
NOTORIOUS "POTTU AMMAN, BANU & NADESHAN's WIFE" CONFIRMED KILLED

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MULLAITTIVU: LTTE MENTOR, PRABHAKARAN’s right hand, POTTU AMMAN alias PAPA OSCAR alias PO alias SOBHIGEMOORTHY alias KAILAN alias SHIVASHANKAR alias SHANMUGANATHAN who has been rated as the main mastermind in LTTE Intelligence Network and Planning and LTTE’s notorious “Artillery” wing leader, BANU alias BN alias BRAVO alias SIVANANDAN alias SOMASEKARAN who was also the terrorist in charge of the final battle were confirmed dead and gone by the Military Intelligence, the Army Headquarters declared at 17.15 hours on Monday (18). POTTU AMMAN, the butcher who planned and struck the most sacred Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of Tooth) in Kandy on 25th January 1998 was also responsible for the following terrorist activities since 1982.
Lanka Accuses UN, News Agencies of Collaborating With LTTE

FOREIGN Secretary Dr. Palitha Kohona yesterday (17) dismissed the threat of hauling the Sri Lankan political and military leadership before an international war crimes tribunal as a cynical exercise. Addressing a press conference at the Met Department auditorium, Kohona said that like any other state Sri Lanka had a legal responsibility to rescue hostages held by terrorists. The Sri Lankan government couldn’t be held accountable for taking measures to liberate civilians held at gunpoint by the LTTE.
Towards a New Sri Lanka - "The Island" Editorial

THE WAR is over in all but name. The LTTE's giant killing machine has been destroyed and the fate of Prabhakaran and other key terrorists will be known before long. It may not be hyperbolic that little Lanka's victory over terrorism is not second to the near impossible rare feats of humankind like man's landing on the moon. Her war had the trappings of a David-Goliath contest with all the western powers, save a few, unabashedly siding with a savage terrorist outfit they themselves had outlawed on their.....