According to the latest information received through Ground Intelligence, LTTE Supremo Velupillai Pripaharan has received minor bruise and cut injuries to his right shoulder in an Air Force bombing in November at Iruthirapuram (Uruthirapuram).
According to Military Intelligence a trunk of a Palmirah tree used as part of a camouflaged bunker at his safehouse situated in a housing scheme in Iruthirapuram had hit Prabha on his right shoulder. The man in some degree of discomfort had been taken to a secret location for treatment by his bodyguards. It is also possible that Pripaharan was in a state of shock at the time.
Confirmation of this news was being awaited by the Military Intelligence long before journalist D.B.S Jeyaraj's report to The Nation newspaper. DefenceWire was also awaiting confirmation before this post.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Prabha's Injuries Now Confirmed
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GREAT news. I like the bit about Velu being shocked. Its apt to terrorize velu to death instead of one shot bombing death.
Out of topic,
This is better than becoming a JVP/JHU monk..
http://www.army.lk/morenews.php?id=9394
Need to bring the LTTE leader, maniac Velu to Galleface Green and hand-over to the parents of Tamil Child Soldiers, Suicide Bombers, the survivors of LTTE mass village massacres, survivors of bomb blasts that indiscriminately killed thousands of innocent Tamils, Muslims, and Sinhalese.
noltte=peace..what a wonderful idea but i dont think we will get the chance..During the north/south korean wars ages ago..the north koreans captured an american pilot and released him in the north korean village that he had bombed a short while ago..please dont ask me what the north korean villages did to him....but i am sure you can guess:):).
Does nayone know whether the tamil civillians in the vanni and elsewhere in Sri Lanka are being addressed appropriately and adequately about what the government intends to do? I do not have any facts or figures on this, and would appreciate any insights and particularly sources that can be referred to for a substance and effectiveness study.
This lapse appears to have been a very important flaw on our part the tigers have manipulated to the extent where these guys even believe they have a right to claim to be the sole voice talking for the tamils.
Does nayone know whether the tamil civillians in the vanni and elsewhere in Sri Lanka are being addressed appropriately and adequately about what the government intends to do? I do not have any facts or figures on this, and would appreciate any insights and particularly sources that can be referred to for a substance and effectiveness study.
This lapse appears to have been a very important flaw on our part the tigers have manipulated to the extent where these guys even believe they have a right to claim to be the sole voice talking for the tamils.
any truth to this story or is it propaganda?
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/162517.html
Colombo, Dec 21 - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been attempting to smuggle its chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, out of Sri Lanka to treat the injuries he suffered when the air force busted his bunker last month, the media reported Friday.
According to the government-owned Daily News, intelligence reports say that the Tiger chieftain might have suffered fractures in his arm and leg when his bunker in Jayanthinagar, northern Sri Lanka, was destroyed by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) on Nov 26.
'Since the Tiger leader is already suffering from diabetes, the situation has got worse and the LTTE is making attempts to evacuate him to a foreign country for further treatment,' the paper said.
The Colombo-based daily said 116 of the 200 bodyguards of the Tiger chieftain were killed in the air raid.
The SLAF's MIGs and Kfirs fighter bombers, which struck the bunkers, had used a sufficient number of bombs to destroy the kind of bunker Prabhakaran would hide in.
'The pilots who carried out the task observed that anti-aircraft guns at the location were activated once the target was hit precisely. That confirmed that the Tiger leader was definitely there at the time of the raid.
'The Tiger leader has around 200 guards around him all the time. The SLAF has received reliable information that 116 of Prabhakaran's bodyguards also perished in the air raid.'
According to information available, the LTTE removed rubble from the location to save the life of Prabhakaran who had been trapped inside a destroyed bunker, the report added.
However, a senior Tamil journalist working in north Sri Lanka discounted the story.
'Prabhakaran's wife, Mathivathani, would never have participated in a public function in Kilinochchi last Sunday (Dec 16) if her husband was in bed with a grievous injury. Also, she would never have attended a public function if the security situation was so bad,' the journalist, who did not want to be identified, told IANS.
Prabhakaran lives more than 40 ft underground
Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran lives more than 40 ft underground in a massive, well provided, and seemingly impenetrable bunker complex hewn from rocks in the middle of a thick jungle in northeast Sri Lanka.
Adele Balasingham, the Australian-born wife of the late Anton Balasingham, the LTTE's ideologue, describes Prabhakaran's office cum residence in the Alampil jungles, in her book 'The Will to Freedom'.
'Our cadres led us down the steps into a room about thirty to forty feet underground. To our amazement, we could see that this subterranean haven of tunnels and rooms had been chiseled out of the underground rocks. Our room had been carved out, high enough to stand up in and move around comfortably.'
'Mr.Prabhakaran's room was even deeper underground than ours,' she writes.
'Low lying roofs constructed over the bunkers, and banks to divert water, prevented the monsoon rains from pouring in and flooding the bunkers.'
'Stronger than concrete, this underground granite structure stood up to the heavy downpour of the monsoon rains when the entire jungle turned into a muddy quagmire.'
'Since we were deep into the earth, where the sun's heat has no access, the room was absolutely freezing, particularly at night. My bones ached from the cold and I wondered how it could be endured over a sustained period of time. But obviously it had been, and without any ill-effects,' she notes.
The expansive complex was more like a village than a camp. It had been cleared of virgin jungle. The LTTE's cadres had pulled out rocks and cleared the foliage except the giant trees, which gave it good cover. Sixty to seventy feet wells had been dug, only to find that there was no water!
Since the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was on the prowl in the Mullaitivu jungles at that time she was referring to, keeping 'Base One Four' supplied with food and other necessities was extremely problematical.
From 1987 to 1990, the IPKF was fighting the LTTE as the latter had refused to comply with the India-Sri Lanka Accord on the ethnic question and lay down arms.
Under these difficult circumstances, the LTTE's cadres in Base One Four had to survive on rice and dhal without salt, Adele says.
The routes of the food suppliers had to be changed frequently to avoid being detected by the IAF's MI-24 choppers and the IPKF's foot patrols. Mines had to be detected and dodged.
Though the camp was visible from the air, and the IAF's choppers could swoop down, the casualties in Base One Four were minimal, Adele notes.
The place had, however, been very well defended on the ground by a network of mines, booby traps and snipers, as the IPKF learnt to its discomfiture when it attempted an air borne assault on Alampil in the latter stages of the war against Prabhakaran.
At the present time, Base One Four will surely have a ring of anti-aircraft guns as the Jayanthinagar camp had when the SLAF struck it on Nov 26.
Military analysts here say that Prabhakaran will be in danger of being hit from the air, not when he is in Base One Four, but when he ventures out to meet his cadres or attends functions outside.
Defenceline;
Fuel-air ordnance will do a number on anyone hiding undergound.
I thought we had quite a few of those to spare one for ol' Velu.
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