THE alleged head of the Tamil Tigers in Britain was buying bomb-making equipment for the terrorist group while holding regular meetings with Special Branch, it has been revealed. Timesonline on Saturday (April 18) reported Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar, known as AC Shanthan, became the first person to be convicted of aiding the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) since the British Government declared them an illegal terrorist group in 2001.....
THE Asgiriya Mahanayake Most Ven. Udugama Sri Buddharakkhitha Thera said the Norwegian government had given maximum support to the LTTE while talking peace with the Sri Lankan government. Speaking to Rodney Perera, Jayantha Dissanayake and AMJ Sadik - the Ambassadors designate to Norway, Kenya and Brazil, at the Asgiriya Maha Viharaya on Sunday, the prelate....
OVER 1,200 metric tonnes of essential food items have been shipped for the civilian polity in the High Security Zones of Mullaitivu and Pudumathalan from the Trincomalee harbour yesterday (19). These essentials such as rice, flour, sugar, dhal and soya meat have been transported by the ship Thirupathi, Resident Manager of the Trincomalee Ports Authority Nimal Jayatissa said.....
Reporting on Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) documents released on April 15, Stewart Bell of Canada National Post said the Canada based World Tamil Movement who directly had connections with the leadership of the LTTE, according to a letter taken into custody, was requested by the terrorist group to raise Rs. 370 million or the equivalent of 4.55 million Canadian Dollars to buy anti-aircraft missiles, cannon or artillery, speedboats and aircraft for a protracted insurgency in Sri Lanka...
COLOMBO: A large gathering of protesters, belonging to National Freedom Front (NFF), Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) political parties and a few more organizations demonstrated in front of Royal Norwegian Embassy in Colombo this afternoon (20) denouncing “Norwegian inaction on Oslo embassy attack”, “Norway’s secret dealings with LTTE” and her alleged continuing support to the Eelam cause.
MULLAITTIVU: THE biggest-ever “Rescue Operation in the World” in the north of Sri Lanka was fast gathering momentum, as thousands of irate, trapped and disgusted Tamil civilians in the PUTHUMATHALAN “No Fie Zone” (NFZ) were anxiously trudging miles to reach government-held areas in PUTHUKUDIRIPPU as the dusk fell on Monday (20). President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a couple of hours ago made a surprise visit to the Sri Lanka Air Force Headquarters Operations Room and personally monitored the exodus of those fleeing civilians with the help of aerial footages, being taken then and there over the skies in PUTHUKUDIRIPPU..........
THE Security Forces will continue their military operations until it rescues the last civilian held hostage by the LTTE and the last LTTE leader is killed or surrenders to the Security Forces, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told the Daily News yesterday. He said it is high time for the LTTE leaders to let the remaining civilians arrive in the Government controlled areas and surrender to the Security Forces as a 24- hour ultimatum has already been issued by the Government for them to surrender. “They should either surrender to the Security Forces or see their end at the hands of the troops,” Rajapaksa added. He said the Security Forces displayed their professionalism to the entire world by successfully rescuing the civilians in the biggest ever hostage rescue mission....
PEOPLE of all walks of life yesterday lauded the Security Forces for rescuing over 35,000 civilians who were held hostage for months by the LTTE despite numerous appeals made by the Government and the Iinternational Community to release them. Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thera who firmly believed that terrorism can be defeated at a time when the then UNF Government was pandering to the LTTE yesterday lauded President Mahinda Rajapaksa , Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Service Commanders for confining the LTTE terrorists to a narrow stretch of land which was also dedicated for the civilians....
THE Sri Lankan army has done the civilised world proud by undertaking probably the biggest ever rescue operation in the world to save tens of thousands of civilians taken hostage by a terrorist outfit banned in many countries. Yesterday, the troops smashed the LTTE defences in the ‘civilian safe zone’ enabling over 35,000 men, women and children to move to safety in the government-held areas. Prabhakaran's death squads, true to form, used suicide bombers and fired heavy weapons killing as they did dozens of civilians in a desperate bid to prevent them from fleeing....
