An LTTE team caught off-guard by yesterday's pre-dawn assault on Mulaitivu town is now trapped inside Mulaitivu town as the 59 Division commenced a clearing operation in the area yesterday. Communication lines were down from this afternoon to bring you the result of this operation.
Heavy fighting was reported in the last three consecutive days from the general area east of Kilinochchi, particularly from Visuvamadu, Piramanthaikulam and Karukkaikulam. Within the last week alone, over 270 LTTE bodies were recovered by the Army, majority being from Kilinochchi. By 12th January, the Tigers had a hardcore force of around 1,500 fighters and following recent clashes with the Army, the numbers could now be around 1100-1000.
The fighting is very similar to the ones witnessed along the former LTTE earthbund constructed around Kilinochchi town. Tigers have now abandoned the bund-warfare strategy in this area and LTTE cadres are fighting hard based on the mistaken belief that they will be massacred by the Army if they surrender. Surrendered or captured cadres claim the cadres are frightened of the Army and have no knowledge of the Army's humanitarian side.
The Tigers are now trapped into an area 22 miles by 15 miles and their remaining artillery guns will soon run-out of range. Intelligence sources estimate them to have around 800-1000 rounds left, which would become obsolete as the Army advances further into LTTE areas.
As the LTTE's strength dwindles, the SLA has placed majority of its offensive Brigades in reserve. The Special Forces Brigades are placed in full reserve and so is the 53. Out of the 4 Brigades of the 57, two are in reserve. One Brigade of the 58 is also in reserve.
The 55, under Prasanna Silva is set to take Chalai within the next 24hrs after gradually overcoming an earthbund. Brigadier Silva, who has a 2SF amphibious diving squadron, has continuously used unconventional tactics against the Tigers.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Tiger homeland shrinking
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Sam Perera said...
I agree with your positive outlook. However, we shall never let our guard down in confidence. We shall always be prepared to face worse threats. I hope that we will improve our forces, both size and quality, and have selected teams in continuous reconnaissance and patrol for the decades to come. We need to nip the buds of any future threats.
I agree 100% with Sam.
I think that the LTTE will try to go back to guerilla warfare, recovering hidden caches of arms and explosives, increasing in activity from an initial very low-level to a high-level, with civil disobedience, economic disruption, NGO and Diaspora Propaganda support, and all of the nonsense that worked so well for them to enable growth in the past.
That is why, in spite of the greater effectiveness of the SLA that Tropical Storm points out, we need a large number of boots on the ground as Sam Perera points out, to prevent it from growing again. This was, in fact, the painful lesson the US forces learned in Iraq (and in Vietnam), after the initial conquest of Iraq.
In addition to that, we need to implement demographic homogenization in the North and East right away. It is an axiom of guerilla warfare, that the guerillas need to be able to swim like fish in an ocean of civilian supporters. They don't have that "ocean" in the South, which is why a large scale LTTE guerilla movement cannot survive in Sinhala areas. In the North and East, they had the predominantly Tamil population to provide that "ocean" to swim in.
Now, we need to deny them that "ocean" in the North and East also, by ethnically integrating the populations, so that nowhere in Sri Lanka will there be an "ocean", for an LTTE-like separatist guerilla force to freely swim in and survive.
This ethnic integration process will take time and money to implement. Until then, we need a 500,000+ strong SLDF to protect the borders from external infiltration of men and arms, and to occupy every inch of land with omnipresent force. That includes denying the jungles, the villages, the towns and the cities to terrorists for use as safe havens.
In addition, there should be a 4,000,000 man National Guard including every adult citizen in the country that can bear arms, working in close collaboration with the SLDF, trained in counter-insurgency operations, and serving as the eyes, ears and first-responders in the denial of freedom of movement and action to the terrorists.
Such a Peoples Defense Establishment, coupled to an accelerated process of ethnic integration, will secure Sri Lanka for centuries to come, so all Sri Lankans can look forward to a future of peace and prosperity.
Puran bro,
if 58 to come to the northern borders of puthu they will have to come through tharavilkulam and also through the war free zone. can that be possible?
Tropical Strom said..
In the long term, democracy and prosperity will work to unite the country.
In the short, well it will be all fluid dynamics in motion.
The problem is: often fluid dynamic motions become unstable under adverse external and internal stimuli with unpredictable non-linear interactions, often passing through chaotic intermediate states, to achieve undesired equilibrium states far-removed from those conducive to the survival of carbon-based lifeforms resident in the fluid.
That is, we need to ensure security as a necessary precondition for the attainment of prosperity by all of us carbon-based lifeforms. :) :)
[[["In hindsight, I would say, the LTTE military performance dwarfs that of the SLDF, pound for pound."
]]]
right! LTTE child soldiers dwarfs the army by many pounds. well said!
Rover to wijayapala
[most of the points that you made here, makes me think you are an academic]
ha ha ha...
Looks like we have another wijayapala ghost here!
OGRE,
WISH YOU GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR PROMOTION !!
Rover
Wijayapala has become the most elusive, hated, duplicated, sought out Sinhalese figure on the forum.
Half the people on the blog don't even want to talk to him, other half want to verbally abuse him.
If they see Prabha and Wijayapala walking along the NE beach, they will go after Wije leaving Prabha behind.
"
If they see Prabha and Wijayapala walking along the NE beach, they will go after Wije leaving Prabha behind."
Heh! Heh! Quite agree with your point RC, mate...
[[[ Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Three years and a bit ago, I went so many km out of Colombo within half a day [leaving behind some important matter] to caste my vote to MR as I knew that this bullshit terrorism could only be sorted with war. War for peace.
I hardly voted previously.]]]
people like u & us have saved our country. not the wily self centred businesman like lalith kotalawala who in the guise of saving SL placed ads warning christians not to vote for MR. the only concern of these people is making money at the expense of all others.
when sakvithi played out millions of people lalith held press conferences claiming to help them.
although even at that point golden key may have been in deep shit, lalith acted like a solid investor.
next day he would have raised another couple of millions.
today i have a christian friend who lost rs. 7 million at golden key. lalith fired his manager & got away.
my friend fell hook, line & sinker for lalith's fake propaganda. he's up the gum tree now.
@Ananda-USA said...
[ The problem is: often fluid dynamic motions become unstable under adverse external and internal stimuli with unpredictable non-linear interactions, often passing through chaotic intermediate states, to achieve undesired equilibrium states far-removed from those conducive to the survival of carbon-based lifeforms resident in the fluid.]
In other word, if you drop the Maliban water bottle few times before you drink it, you will kill all the Bacteria, right?
/LTTE actions placing civilians at risk- HRW
The New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says LTTE actions has placed civilians in the Wanni at unnecessary risk adding that the Tigers have an obligation under international law to permit civilians under their control to flee to areas away from the fighting./
Human shield backfiring in the international theater.. Ha Ha
GSL must use this human shield in counter LTTE propaganda.. now and in future..
“Don’t complain about the snow in your neighbor’s roof while your own doorstep is unclean”. You have complained others of foul mouth but you have used utter filth in this blog. Anyone can go back and judge your duplicity by your previous postings. Remember ‘the ugliness you see in other’s a reflection of your own nature.’
The patriots here are discussing and analyzing constructive and productive means and ways to contribute to our beloved SL. While productive discussions are going on, you are acting the goat by regularly attacking true patriots and most respected bloggers like Ananda-USA , Sam Perera and etc. You are the Mangala Samaraweera in this blog. Since you came you have not done anything but whining, nagging and picking on others. This shows your dirty character and bad upbringing.
I have more respect to Mahen and Peter than you because they believe in something and don’t attack their allies. You even contradict your own preachings, do you have any morals? If any one should get out of this blog 100% it should be you because you have nothing important to contribute. I am sure an imbecile like you cannot understand the depth of any given important conversation. So my kind advice to you, in your own language, ‘don’t shit on this blog’ because nobody likes this type of nagging and whining. Don't bother to reply as I don't waste time replying to losers like you.
Pansilu,
“Don’t complain about the snow in your neighbor’s roof while your own doorstep is unclean”. You have complained others of foul mouth but you have used utter filth in this blog. Anyone can go back and judge your duplicity by your previous postings. Remember ‘the ugliness you see in other’s a reflection of your own nature.’
The patriots here are discussing and analyzing constructive and productive means and ways to contribute to our beloved SL. While productive discussions are going on, you are acting the goat by regularly attacking true patriots and most respected bloggers like Ananda-USA , Sam Perera and etc. You are the Mangala Samaraweera in this blog. Since you came you have not done anything but whining, nagging and picking on others. This shows your dirty character and bad upbringing.
I have more respect to Mahen and Peter than you because they believe in something and don’t attack their allies. You even contradict your own preachings, do you have any morals? If any one should get out of this blog 100% it should be you because you have nothing important to contribute. I am sure an imbecile like you cannot understand the depth of any given important conversation. So my kind advice to you, in your own language, ‘don’t shit on this blog’ because nobody likes this type of nagging and whining. Don't bother to reply as I don't waste time replying to losers like you.
Rover said,
Sorry Priyashantha, that my guess made you call up the Arch. commissioner.
I didn't call him. It was a trap and Wije as dumb as ever fell into it.
But I called his mother Sumanakka. She is a down to earth woman. I am sorry if I said anything bad against her. It's not her fault.
Really Cold,
People are angry with Wijayapala because they can't argue with him or counter his facts properly. So, what they do, abuse him. The blog is full of young people who want to read war news and talk gossips about war and conflict. There is nothing wrong with it as long as they do not disturb healthy discussions.
Voice of Tigers banned
The Government yesterday banned the Voice of Tigers (VoT), the so-called official radio of the LTTE, Director General of the Media Center for the National Security Lakshman Hulugalle told The Island last evening.
A special gazette would be issued today (27), he said.
The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission had terminated the broadcast license granted to the VoT by the Media Ministry of the last UNF Government under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Chairman TRCPriyantha Kariyapperuma, told The Island following the LTTE’s ban, the ban of their radio was mandatory. "This was discussed very much during the last couple of weeks, but the decision was taken only on Sunday,"
The Colombians
By Gomin Dayasri
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items09/270109-1.html
good article.
Fellas,
Shall we all agree to stop fooling with fake IDs and resort to a fruitful discussion? Please!
@Rana
[ People are angry with Wijayapala because they can't argue with him or counter his facts properly. So, what they do, abuse him.]
This is the culture our political leaders have taught us. If you see a guy asking tough questions, you take the gun out and Bang! Bang!
[The blog is full of young people who want to read war news and talk gossips about war and conflict. There is nothing wrong with it as long as they do not disturb healthy discussions.]
Pardon me, my tuition master told me to memorize everything, not to have a healthy discussion.
@Last Mile
[ Fellas,
Shall we all agree to stop fooling with fake IDs and resort to a fruitful discussion? Please!]
Give me a ring when you have that agreement, will you?
I am taking a nap meanwhile.
Ninja,
I didn't know VOT was operating under a TRC issued license. LOL.
Then claims of govt attacking media could be true because on Nov 27th we have attacked VOT broadcasting stations in 2007?
If they see Prabha and Wijayapala walking along the NE beach, they will go after Wije leaving Prabha behind
No No. We kill them both. Easy. They are walking together like lovers do.
rocky bro,
What i said is a only a possibility, since some blogger mentioned that 58 in Puthu and becoz defence.lk says;
Meanwhile troops of Army 58 Division positioned next to the 55 Division, when describing battleground counterclockwise are now maneuvering in two frontiers. Troops deployed in northern section of the frontage are heading towards Challai to link up with 55 Division while those in southern section are maneuvering towards Visuamadu along with Army 57 Division.
The final siege begins; army maneuvering towards coast
PS. If they are moving, they will cut a-cross from the northern edge of the mainland. This will put more pressure on LTTE, since they will have to deploy more of its limited carders and it'll help the SLA to surround the Safe Zone from all corners. (This is only my opinion)
Maya Arulpragasam better known as MIA has been nominated for a Grammy and an Oscar Award. This bitch is a big time LTTE supporter, not that it matters anymore. If she gets the podium she will surely mention the so called "genocide" Most of her videos glorify the LTTE, women cadres, suicide bombers.
Of Patriots and Traitors in the same family
Ravi Karunanayako is the grandson of SDIG C.C. "Jungle" Dissanayake who was one of the main 1962 coup plotters.
Ravi's grand-uncle DIG (later IGP) S.A. "Jingle" Dissanayake and brother of "Jungle" was one of the officers at the fore-front of stopping the coup.
One benefit of the coup attempt was it enabled NQ Dias, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Defence and External, and Felix Dias, Defence Minister, to appoint Major General Richard Udugama as the first Sinhala-Buddist Commander of Sri Lanka Army.
personally i dont see why the army top brass designated a safe zone in the first place..
we cant shell that place but the LTTers are surely gonna move their heavy weapons to the area..
according to DW they still have 1000+ rounds left for them.
and we cannot assault the zone with forces.
The small team operations targeting pockets of terras are working like a charm and the snipers are doing one hell of a job too..
maybe the zone is there to only ease the pressure and please the IC/Un/india of the situation. The ground reality maybe very differant
Tiger Pussy Cunt MIA should be charged under UK Anti Terror laws.
If she does win a trophy it will give her something to get off on now that her main masturbatory fantasy (LTTE) is gone.
[If she gets the podium she will surely mention the so called "genocide"]
So you agree that "genocide" is happening now.
Awasan Satana
bhairav,
so called genocide..
When historians analyse the SL Terrorist Conflict they will identify one decision as the turning point.
The decision in Nov 2005 of VP to prevent the 300,000 to vote for RanilW at Presidential Election
Instead of becoming the first President/King/Dictator of Peelam today, VP is stuck in ever shrinking territory holding most of those very same Tamils as hostage human shields. Even Human Rights Watch is now criticising the darling LTTE.
For the secessionist organisation, the last 30 months have been one unbroken series of miscalculations and military debacles. The Sri Lankan armed forces have been on a roll ever since they tasted success in the Mavil Aru operation — provoked by a severely weakened LTTE’s foolish act of shutting the sluice gates and denying water to more than 30,000 civilians — in the Eastern Province. The real surprise has come in the Northern Province where, beginning in March 2007, the Sri Lankan army, air force, and navy have simply decimated the Tigers.
from the hindu.
even if LTTE is destroyed, no Tamils will forget the carnage SLA inflicted on Wanni people today and from the past.
I saw with my own eyes that how many Tamils were weeping after seeing the Wanni carnage on TV in Canada.
hansel,
i'm concerned about civilians.
but don't be emotional about it.
"what use is destroying the LTTE and inheriting a population thats hates us even more?"
you got a point there.
the simple answer is, there is no other way. this war has created ALOT of scars to millions of ppl. but that is ground to stop the war.
if the MAJORITY ppl in vanni hates SL in future that WILL BE A BIG problem. but it has solutions.
1. development will win some of them
2. democracy will win a further lot.
3. ethnic integration in vanni after the LTTE is wiped out will bring in ppl to vanni who love SL. so thereafter MOST ppl in vanni will not hate SL.
hate alone cannot do anything. actually it is self-destructuve. a strong army deployed in vanni in future will stop hate-based activities even if hatred exist.
We will never forget what SLA have done!
no Tamils will forget the carnage "LTTE" inflicted on Wanni people today and from the past..
it all comes down to this..
why doesnt the LTTE let the Civis to come down to SLA areas?
is it us who are shooting down and hanging civilians who are fleeing?
bahirav,,
how many singhala mother wept when thier loved once were hacked to death in villages,,,exploded to pieces in side buses ....remember....
LTTE is getting the return and if any one supported that filthy organization, they shud get it too.
okay..fakes are again at it. I leave the fake bhairav to play with his balls.
"Killing LTTE is actually killing tamils. So its genocide, I think."
My brother bhairav, I can understand your feelings. But I cant understand why all of tamils in Jaffna celebrated Army victories like that.
blucher,
"The decision in Nov 2005 of VP to prevent the 300,000 to vote for RanilW at Presidential Election"
i don't believe this BS. i read an article in lankaguardian and did my own checks.
FACTS:
1. voting at presidential elections in the north-east has been VERY VERY poor always (1988, 1994, 1999, 2005)
2. if voters turnout of 1999 and 2005 are compared,
ONLY jaffna and batti showed a reduction.
but 95% of the population of jaffna and batti in november 2005 were living in govt controlled areas!!!!!
3. omanthai was not closed by the govt on the election day 2005 and a MASSIVE number of ppl came to govt side to vote (and went back).
compare the VANNI turnout 1999 and 2005. you will see this MASSIVE increase.
BBC Assailed for Refusing to Carry Gaza Appeal
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/world/europe/27britain.html?hp
@Bahirav,
We will never forget what SLA have done!
Please add all patriots here at DW as well. We also never forget.
Pranab Mukherjee to come to SL today.
we will never forget what,
1. LTTE has done to our country
AND
2. what LTTE tried to do to our country. (which is worse)
so we have a double.
Bhairav,
Small mistake mate.
You should use "LTTE' Instead of "We".
So it should be;
LTTE will never forget what SLA have done!
We agree.
Moshe,
"IF this doesn't have a military solution, why THE FUCK the LTTE took up arms."
I couldnt have phrased it any better
Moshe Dayan
You have to compare 2004 General Election and 2005 Presidential.
In 2004 the people in LTTE areas voted for TNA. In 2005 they didn't vote. Have
The Gov't checkpoints were opened but LTTE did not allow them to vote.
There will be no difference between 1999 and 2005. In 1999 voting was not optional to people in those areas.
Min. Premajayanta says that, every inch of land in the North will be liberated by Independence Day.
This the thing which i hate the most.
Politicians, giving statements about war.
But LTTE will never remain to remember what SLA have done.
Harima dukai.
B#1,
I missed that part. LOL
But, people like Bhairav, Mahen, Peter etc. (who were paid by the LTTE) will remember.
Min. Premajayanta must be pretty sure.
DoDo Bro,
Are you around?
Moko sadda naththe?
DMK under pressure as Lanka mounts ‘final’ assault on LTTE
Can anyone give me a better formula to calculate the death toll of the LTTE in last week
>The remaining area now 320 KM2
>Liberated are = X
>over 270 LTTE bodies were recovered
>LTTE bodies recovered by LTTE = Y
We should find out the Y based on the remaining area and remaining carders and then 270+Y is the answer.
My guess is more than 600 killed.
N,
Though you have asked me not reply, nature of your post requires a reply. Even if you do not read others will read.
Pansilu is a character created for a special purpose which is similar to your N character. I haven’t seen your N character also contributing much to defence matters.
What you said about Pansilu is absolutely correct and same applies to your N also.
You are very keen and quick to condemn me for attacking Ananda-USA and Sam Perera but haven’t seen any problem with Moshe, Sam Perera, Asithri and Priyashantha attacking Wijayapala. Wijayapala do not attack anybody but only defend himself against inhuman attacks from others. He discusses many important things with other people in decent manner for months.
Where were you when the above patriots who are on your good list attack him with all filth in the world? You must be sleeping or your own double standard made you blind to the naked truth!
If you can show me some consistence with you postings towards Asithri, Pryashantha, Sam Perera and Moshe etc also, I am ready to quit the blog without delay. Otherwise you can keep your holier than thou attitude go to sleep again, I don’t care.
You don't have to reply also, because I do not reply to loosers like you.
[
Ananda-USA said...
The problem is: often fluid dynamic motions become unstable under adverse external...
conducive to the survival of carbon-based lifeforms resident in the fluid.]
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Really Cold said...
In other word, if you drop the Maliban water bottle few times before you drink it, you will kill all the Bacteria, right?
]
Most of the time I skip over your posts... But I'm glad I read the above
Good one mate :)
Any thoughts on where the remaining Zlins might be? A 20 x 15 km area is not that big. I just read the post about Challai as a possibility.
I wonder what's the range of these crop dusters are?
N= Ananda or Sam P or Ninja,
Most probably Ananda-USA
Though you have asked me not reply, nature of your post requires a reply. Even if you do not read others will read.
Pansilu is a character created for a special purpose which is similar to your N character. I haven’t seen your N character also contributing much to defence matters.
What you said about Pansilu is absolutely correct and same applies to your N also.
You are very keen and quick to condemn me for attacking Ananda-USA and Sam Perera but haven’t seen any problem with Moshe, Sam Perera, Asithri and Priyashantha attacking Wijayapala. Wijayapala do not attack anybody but only defend himself against inhuman attacks from others. He discusses many important things with other people in decent manner for months.
Where were you when the above patriots who are on your good list attack him with all filth in the world? You must be sleeping or your own double standard made you blind to the naked truth!
If you can show me some consistence with you postings towards Asithri, Pryashantha, Sam Perera and Moshe etc also, I am ready to quit the blog without delay. Otherwise you can keep your holier than thou attitude go to sleep again, I don’t care.
You don't have to reply also, because I do not reply to loosers like you.
I am not bhairav,
I agree with you 150%.
N,
Double standard fakeer, now where are you! See my point?
What happened to your fake not so clean attitude?
"RAHATH WENNA ISSELLA YAKO SOWAN WENNA BALAPAN BOORUWA"
Hi Puran
Are you around?
Hanging around machan. I was castrating some peelamists in LNP!...LOL!
Peelam supporters are crying bucket loads over this video clip. Their disinformation is on overdrive right now.
Clip
We have to counter their propaganda.
What do you think?
REALLYCOLD SAID...
Even though MR and company did not come to the power thinking of wiping out LTTE, LTTE later asked for it and MR responded.
WE CLEARLY KNEW HE WAS GOING TO DESTROY THE LTTE. ALL THE PATRIOTIC MOVEMENTS WERE AGAINST THE RANIL WICKRAMASINGHAS "WIJAATHIKA ASHUDDA BALAWEGAYA"
PEOPLE LIKE LALITH KOTHALAWALA, KUMAR RUPASINGHE PUBLISHED PAPER ADVERTICEMENTS NOT TO VOTE FOR MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE. IF YOU ARE NOT SURE YOU GO TO ANY SRI LANKAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEBSITE AND SEARCH THE ARCHIVES. YOU WILL GAIN A GOOD KNOWLEDGE ON WHAT HE SAID BEFORE THE 2005 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
IN 2005 IT WAS BETWEEN JAATHIKA BALAWEGA VS WIJAATHIKA BALAWEGA...!!!
WE WON...AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO WIN...!!!
I AM REALLY PROUD TO BE A PART OF THIS VICTORY...!!!
Moshe, there you are
[We will liberate North by Independance Day - Susil
Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha said that every inch of land in the North will be liberated by Independance day, the upcoming 4th of February.]
So much has happened since I last posted here. Good to see that you are still around Puran.
Does anybody have a link to the statement made by the former ipkf commander Gen Kalkat stating that the troops that captured Mulativ are true heroes?
Supreme Courts terminates interim orders over hedging case.
AOOuchhh...
Looks like Petrol prices are going to be increased again!
LBO also says that the remaining coastline has also been captured. Can anyone confirm if its the whole coast or the coastal areas adjacent to the Mulativ town? If its the whole coast we must have got Chalai too!
DoDo Bro,
We have to counter their propaganda.
Why not machan..
Katch,
Nice to see you after a long time.
Guys,
What about GOSL declare one day of Ceasefire to evacuate Women and Children. If LTTE complies then extend that to another day(altogeter 2 days).
Any thoughts?
blucher,
"You have to compare 2004 General Election and 2005 Presidential"
no. these two are not comparable. it is like apples against pineapples.
presidential elections must be compared against presidential elections ONLY.
remember in a presidential election, there are either NO TAMIL CANDIDATES or they stand no chance.
also the 2004 GE in the north was COMPLETE CRAP. EU observers said the result is not at all representative of ppl's views. LTTE rigged the vote BIG TIME.
B#1,
thanks for the info, mate.
sad situ. politicos trying to impose their BS in the war effort.
Been busy Puran, can’t even keep up reading the posts here leave alone writing any :)
Also too many rumours going around without anybody wanting to confirm anything.
I think Minister Premajayantha should keep his mouth shut about deadlines! They want part of the glory without making any sacrifice!
Asiantribune says heavy casualities in Vishwamadu for both sides.
"Vigilante is trying his best to save sorry arse of vesapille."
No. I don't think so. :)
It's out! Would the Army fire at it's own no fire zone?????
Terrorists Move Arms Into ‘Safe Zone’ & Cause Havoc Firing Villages Inside
THE Army in Wanni, in the wake of a series of ‘shelling’ allegations and also media reports to the same effect, some of which had even directly blamed Wanni troops, once again on Monday (26) urged the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to prevent the LTTE from using the demarcated ‘Safe Zone’ for firing and let trapped civilians freely enter Wanni areas, held by the government. The ‘Safe Zone’ was declared by the Army on 21st January with the noble motive of salvaging the precious lives of trapped civilians, most of who had no option other than yielding to LTTE diktats and atrocities. As a result many civilians began to trickle into the ‘Safe Zone’ minutes after the Air Force dropped leaflets requesting the public to move. A few hours after the aerial information mission, panicking terrorists jumped into action and started firing on to those village areas, intending to stall intended civil movement, the Army Headquarters in a statement said.
Several international news agencies as well as pro-LTTE mouthpieces, though fully aware of Wanni ground realities, still continue to paint a gloomy picture, alleging that battling Army troops were intentionally firing towards the ‘Safe Zone,’ inflicting casualties among civilians. Some of these reports, quoting even unheard medical officers, Wanni provincial authorities and affected civilians with fictitious names assert that the Army had deliberately shelled hospitals and villages inside the ‘Safe Zone’.
In fact, the truth is otherwise. Tiger terrorists, now in their death throes having lost almost all of their remaining strongholds and hideouts in Kilinochchi and Mullaittivu districts, are resorting to every possible inhuman and barbaric trick, as their behavior, taking cover behind inside villages in the ‘Safe Zone’ amply demonstrated in the past three days. Those terrorists, mingling with ‘Safe Zone’ bound civilians while threatening the public had managed to move their artillery and mortars into villages in this safe area and had reportedly fired the first volley of shots on their own, aiming villages inside the ‘Safe Zone’ where those affected civilians are taking refuge.
In the meantime, Wanni troops urged the ICRC to convince the LTTE immediately and make them desist from firing further, since the area has been declared safe. Similarly, the LTTE with its sinister moves in mind continued to detain those civilians by force, prompting even the detained UN staff to lodge a strong protest to the LTTE in search of their release.
The Army has never come across any hospital, as stated in some of those reports in Vallipunam village in the ‘Safe Zone’, nor has the government Health Ministry appointed any Medical Officer for a non-existent health unit as reported. Those reports were totally untrue and misleading to a greater extent since the Army has had no need to fire on the very ‘Safe Zone’ that the Army itself has proposed and created. Terrorists, as evident in all their endeavours, would now go to any length at any cost to regain their lost image as well as their strongholds at the expense of the lives of the very people whom they claim serving. On the other hand, it was the Army itself with the coordination of the ICRC brought down more than seventy five patients to Vavuniya from Pudkudirippu hospital for further treatment.
Major General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander, Security Forces Wanni met the ICRC Head of Delegation in Wanni Ms Balerie Tetitpierre and urged the ICRC to prevent the LTTE from using the Safe Zone and allow trapped civilians to move freely into government-held areas.
Tamil Civilian (TC): We don't want to die. I don't want my children abducted for cannon fodder. Let us leave to government controlled areas.. please..
Pirabas catchers (aka LTTE cadres) (PC): No! You modayas! You need to be liberated. Don't move! Stay here and we will liberate you!!!
TC : Are you going to liberate us under 6 feet of earth, ha?
PC: Shut up! You don't know what's good for you. Why don't you want to be liberated. We will bring you ultra liberation.
PC2: Ok thambi, fire some shells to the no fire zone and liberate some of our people!
Wooosh! Wooosh! Wooosh! Boom!! Boom!! Boom!!
International LTTE catchers (aka Disapora) (ILC): Aiyo!!! Aaandawane! The Sri Lankan Army is committing GENOCIDE against the Tamils!
Stop the war!!
Please Stop the War!!
Ane aiyo please stop the War!!!
Gonsillu,
Why are you using filthy language to convey a simple message?
As far as I know Gonsillu is a LTTE maggot with a Sinhalese name.
Besides I know how disadvantage for us to call a ceasefire.
I will not waste my time on a Foxy Moron like you in this blog.
Denmark to Ban TRO
Tambala,
Black Cats(IND): Shall we go and rescue all civilians immediately?
hak hak ha.. :p
A great tribute to a great hero from a great Sri Lankan community (The Malays)
In Colombo Crackers are going very high and celebrations begun in a big way. What is happening
Piraba Choraba welaada?
Is that viswamadu falls to 58th Division
Maya Arulpragasam, better known as MIA, has become the first Asian woman to be nominated for both Grammy and Oscar Awards which are considered the highest prestigious awards in the world of Music and Cinema. Sri Lankan origin Maya Arulpragasam better known as MIA
Maya's nomination in the Grammy Award is in the 'Record of the Year' category for her single Paper Planes. The five nominees for the award are: 'Chasing Pavements' - Adele; 'Viva la Vida'- Coldplay; 'Bleeding Love'-Leona Lewis; 'Paper Planes' - M.I.A and; 'Please Read the Letter' Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
Maya has also been nominated for an Oscar in the category 'Film Songs' for 'O Saya' in the film 'Slumdog Millionaire' along with A.R. Rahman. The Oscar is awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as the highest award in the film industry. Normally five nominations are made to each of the 21 categories for which nominations are made. The nominations for the 81st award were announced on the January 22nd .
The award ceremony will take place on the 22nd February at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood when the result of the voting by the 5810 members of the academy will be announced
Ass Tribune article
@Sakkily Bhairav
We will never forget what SLA have done!
That's what exactly we want you do do !
I'm jubilated by seen you Sakkiliya down on the knees and weeping.
I saw with my own eyes that how many Tamils were weeping after seeing the Wanni carnage on TV in Canada.
I'm over the moon man ! Para Sakkiliyas who planned to send SLDF on 10,000 body bags are now weeping . . . !
Leave Sri Lanka man . . .after these lessons. . . Stay where ever you are . . . !
Just to clarify, purpose of 53rd is not to clear the area of influence (between Mankulam and Omanthai), area of influence was cleared by 56th in November - December time.
Fierce fighting in Vishwamadhu, we have broken through first line of LTTE defense, not fallen yet, but will be soon ;-)
Jay and to others who write bullshit...
Re:Ass Tribune article
I guess , you are not aware what sort of service the Asiantribune has been doing to counter LTTE propaganda during the last 6 years.
Even former foreign minister Luxman Kadir personally praised Asiantribune in 2005 for countering LTTE propaganda in USA.
If you don't know the true facts, don't write bull shit..
Don't be an A$$ clown like Pansillu.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Malaysia (LTTM)?
Malaysia has banned the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) and wants to prevent Vellupillai Prabhakaran from coming to roost in Malaysia.
LTTM = Hindraf ?
International media reports said Malaysia was also keen laying hands on Prabhakaran, as it had an year ago, made allegations of possible links between the LTTE and some elements within the now-banned Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) in Malaysia.
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Malaysia (LTTM)?
Malaysia has banned the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) and wants to prevent Vellupillai Prabhakaran from coming to roost in Malaysia.
LTTM = Hindraf ?
Article
International media reports said Malaysia was also keen laying hands on Prabhakaran, as it had an year ago, made allegations of possible links between the LTTE and some elements within the now-banned Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) in Malaysia.
JAN 2, 2008: Sri Lanka withdraws from the ceasefire agreement and steps up attacks against the Tigers
JAN 2, 2009: Sri Lankan forces capture Kilinochchi, leaving the Tigers only the jungle district of Mullaittivu.
What a win... What a win in a just one year...
slpower,
good one.
hopebthe war doesn't end on feb 22!!!!
Vigilante
Wow! Asian Tribune countering LTTE propaganda???
KTR the editor is one of the biggest crooks that i have personally known. He would do anything for a Swedish Krona.
He has become an embarrasment to Lankans now emailing all and sundry for donations.
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Naturally, i forwarded the above email to well known African/Nigerian scam merchants. KTR am sure will feel at home these kinds.
I have been following Asian Tribune myslef for the past 2-3 years regularly.
I beleive they are one of the best web sites which counter the strong tiger propoganda machine.
They are very muh pro-tamil and pro-Sri Lanka, and extremely detrimental to LTTE's cause.
Bhairav said...
Us tamils are never cannibals, it's against our religion to eat meat. But you eat all kinds of meat, even fish.. disgusting.
Can be true.. some of you don't eat meat but sacrifice chicken goats to all kinds of gods, any comments about that?
Jay,
I am not anyone associated with AT.
The AT and its owners had it fair share of critcism and scandals because they were doing what no one dares to do in those days of CFA years. So you dig hard for the internet for these Anti AT articles. But the AT has proven over the years what they really stands for. As "I am not Bhairav" says they are pro tamils but anti LTTE.
Man don't come to a blog to mudsling against others.Talk some sense. Most Sri Lankans agree that AT is doing the right thing. I don't know your background, but if what you say is true, you are most likely a LTTE diehard. Thank you for letting the cat out of the bag.
Idiot.
On second thoughts I guess you'll anyway rot in hell for supporting LTTE to kill my people over the past 30 years.
SLA is anyway going to get the leaders. Probably the hostage crisis may delay them by a few weeks at most.
So Bhairav, please, please put preassure to the bastards to release my people. Let them go. They have suffered enough to keep your american dream. But dont let them die this way.
For the benefit of the people who cant distinguish,
ID of real LTTE Bhairav : xxxx1265
Fakes ID : xxxxxx8814
Its difficult to distinguish by looking at the post cos fake says the same absurd thing as the real Bhairav, but with a pinch of sarcasm..
SC terminates interim order on hedging deal
Supreme Court terminated the interim orders on the hedging deal, given the Government's faliure to comply with court ruling on the reduction of fuel prices.
Oh I would love to see SLRC news tonight!!! SC bashing for sure.... hoot hoot!
Jay,
I am not even a Tamil. I am Sinhalese who hate UNP traitors and JVP saboteurs....Ha..Ha..Satisfied..
I'm Sri Lankan!!!
To tell the truth I'm actually a TamSinMusBurg
Jay you can talk to me though ;)
Guys,
What is the actual reason behind the mukarjee's urgent visit?
Bhahirav,
I can understand your anger at the suffering civilians especially if you have relatives or know people that have relatives. I do not for a moment condone deliberately targeting civilians. However, I don’t think our armed forces target civilians deliberately. If the tigers bring their big guns and place it among civilians and start firing, we have no choice but to take them out!
Venting anger and hatred at the Sinhalese for your present predicament is to deny the role played by the tigers together with the Diaspora. During the ceasefire you only wanted war and provoked the govt at every given opportunity. You did that because you thought that you could win the war!! Now that the war has not gone the way you want you cry about the civilian casualties. If those people you saw crying really cared about the people in the Vanni they could always bring pressure on the tigers to release those civilians to an organisation like the icrc who will make arrangements to transport them away from the areas that fighting takes place.
So Bhahirav, the question you must ask all those friends and relations of yours whom you saw crying is this: Were they crying for the suffering people of the Vanni OR were they crying for their shattered eelam dream? (for themselves)
I think you are smart enough to see the reality.
Guys
"Guys,
What is the actual reason behind the mukarjee's urgent visit?
"
To have a Gay game with Ponna Ranil & (Ava)Mmangala.
Patriots
I heard a vicious rumour
That the government is planning on indiscriminate bombings in Colombo and Kandy
To divert international attention from Vanni
Could this be true?
I hope not :-)
Nisal
Pitu ganan digata liyanne nehuwa, Peliyakin dekakin Kunuharupayyak dala Ivara karanavako.
Hi Peter
Did you find a parking space for your DICK in Colombo?
Let's remember Mullaittivu Battle Hero Colonel Laffeer -
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090127_06
.
RECENTLY I NOTICED LOTS OF RANIL W'S "PONNA LAMA SAMAJAYE" HENCHMAN COME HERE TO SPREAD THEIR VIRUSES (TO CHANGE THE MIND SET)
DON'T GET FOOLED BY THEM...!!!
NEVER EVER FORGET WHAT HE TOLD WHEN OUR BRAVE SOLDIERS CAPTURED THOPPIGALA.
NEVER EVER FORGET WHAT HE TOLD WHEN WE WERE ABOUT TO ATTACK AND LIBERATE MAVIL ARU FROM THE LTTE.
NEVER EVER FORGET THE WAY HE TREATED OUR SOLDIERS DURING THE CEASEFIRE PERIOD.
NEVER EVER FORGET THE WAY HE LET THE LTTE TO GET STRENGTHENED DURING THE CEASFIRE PERIOD.
NEVER EVER FORGET THE WAY HE COWARDLY HANDLED THE LTTE DURING THE CEASEFIRE PERIOD.
NEVER EVER FORGET THE WAY HE ALLOWED THE LTTE TO INSTALL HIGY TECH COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENTS.
NEVER EVER FORGET THE WAY HE GAVE PERMISSION TO THE LTTE TO MAINTAIN TWO CAPITALS IN ONE COUNTRY.
NEVER EVER FORGET THE WAY HE STRENGTHEN SEPARATISM.
ETC...ETC....ETC....ETC.....
hahahaha....
[[ Lalith said...
Nisal
Pitu ganan digata liyanne nehuwa, Peliyakin dekakin Kunuharupayyak dala Ivara karanavako.]]
Lalith, macho umba walige pagagenada? mama nam kawadawath pituganan liyalath na, pitu ganan liyapuwa balanneth na.
Actually, it's great if MIA wins an Oscar or Grammy or both.
Then we can show where her real loyalties lie and the true nature of her masters!
What better publicity can we get??? This will reach all nooks and corners of the world.
Hello Creative bunch!!
Can you come up with a way to give negative publicity for M.I.A. and expose her bias to Terrorism before the awards?
We have to find a way to stop Westerners romanticizing about LTTE and Tamil cause through M.I.A. Hollywood has adapted Tibet cause and I am sure they must be thinking of doing the same with Tamil Homeland.
I am not sure whether votes have been already casted or not. Hollywood usually like spooky characters like her since last show was stolen by another British Singer and drug addict controversial Amy Winehouse and that was controversial as well.
One thing we can do is a global online petition campaign exposing her LTTE symbolism through the songs and LTTE being a ruthless terror group.
Delon's video was a good one;
This is Obama era and people are rejecting Terrorism and violence big time.
M.I.A. should be taught she was denied of her recognition because of LTTE. Otherwise these Terror-Friendly Tamils will never get the message to give up violence.
DM news item
"Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today praised the President, Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Ministers for the success of the military operations"
"ME WAGE DIWA DEKE PONNAYEK...!!!"
Indeed! That must make up somewhat for his lack..
[DM news item
"Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today praised the President, Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Ministers for the success of the military operations"]
Colombo high class political lifestyle at its best.
Basically, you jump in and get the value of someone's achievement without doing anything at the victory party.
The peace will bring wave of economic success and so much cash flow for those who did nothing for the war leaving poor soldiers behind.
Law of nature: Hustlers always win.
Those who do the real solid work don't usually know how to play the 'social' game.
They are good at trashing fellow kind though.
I suggest we start a strong campaign to get MIA at least one of those awards!
Suggestions please!
RC said
"The peace will bring wave of economic success and so much cash flow for those who did nothing for the war leaving poor soldiers behind"
agreed.
I can also invisage many a Govt henchman turned arms dealers crying in their sleep and pondering how can they buy the next luxury apartment in Dubai during peace time.
Flashback
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Vaharai tragedy
[TamilNet, Thursday, 11 January 2007, 02:05 GMT]
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=20840
However, now we know there wasn't any considerable damages to civilians in Vakare.
I was butt fucked when I was 12 by a 50 year old commander in a bunker. Then I became a realy tamil.
Lucky I was a boy, girls get two of them old men at the same time.
How do SL army initiate its men?
I have to go offer some vegetables and coconuts to the trunk god.
All of you people, if you need a trunk like him forget viagra get some coconuts ready.
Puran bro,
can you guess, why Mr. Mukherjee visit Sri lanka,
its sudden visit or shedule ?
they going to sign ceasefire?
they going to jam all....
i think we shuould not listen to them..
I think in this moment SL should work according to our own plan..
Guys any suggestion ????
M.I.A.
Exposing truth campaign.
This is a good start, goal should be make that top 10 active until Grammy/Oscar.
http://www.petitiononline.com/
When there was a petition against Rizana, there were over 30k signatures.
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?rizana1
They key is to write a credible petition without misinformation.
army in vishvamadu
India has no sympathy for LTTE
-Pranab Mukherjee
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/south-asia/india-has-no-sympathy-for-ltte-pranab-mukherjee_100147753.html
Guys,
All you need to react and beat this kind of misleading propaganda oporating by LTTE supporters to under value the SL war againt LTTE terrorits. Visit below link....
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090127.wsrilanka27/BNStory/International/home
Karunanidhi hospitalised with back pain
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chennai/Karunanidhi_hospitalised_with_back_pain/articleshow/4032224.cms
Can you guys guess the cause for his pain?
all those tamil terrorists who come here for sympathy, you're at the wrong place buddy
There is absolutely nothing for the patriots to worry about Pranab Mukerjhee's visit to Colombo.
It is mainly to discuss post war diplomatic and military issues. With the decimation of the LTTE Sri Lanka is in a unique position to influence India.
Expect much awaited and postponed co-operation treaties to get off ground soon.
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
January 27, 2009 at 3:49 AM EST
TRINCOMALEE, SRI LANKA — In the local office of Sri Lanka's national Human Rights Commission here in this eastern seaside town, they have statistics: Ninety-eight people were abducted in this area last year, snatched off the streets by the infamous white vans with no licence plates that are used by government security agencies. Eighty-five other Tamils simply disappeared. At the commission they have case files and police reports.
But none of the staff will talk about them. "We are helpless," one staff member said apologetically, ushering a visiting journalist out of the office. "We would like to help the people but we have to be afraid for our lives, too."
And who do they fear at this government office?
The government.
Eastern Sri Lanka offers insight into what the north of the country - the area that until weeks ago was held by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - will soon look like. The Tigers have lost all but a tiny portion of their territory to a punishing air and ground assault by government forces, launched by a president determined to end the country's 25-year-old civil war to win elections in April. He promises peace and development for the civilians of the north, where long-time oppression of the minority Tamils by the Sinhalese-dominated government helped to create a powerful secessionist movement.
Until 2006, this swath of the east was also held by the LTTE. But infighting within the Tigers, which Canada and many other nations list as a terrorist organization, led to a split and the rebels of the east soon allied themselves with the government.
Today the government holds up Eastern Province as a model of its magnanimity, pointing out that elections were held there shortly after its military control was established, and that a Tamil party headed by ex-rebels won the region.
"The President has shown his commitment to honourable peace in Eastern Province; those people were given the chance to elect their own people. They know they are being represented, not neglected," said Lakshman Hulugalle, spokesman for the Ministry of Defence.
But international observers said the poll was marred by rigging, violence and intimidation, and the provincial government is dominated by ex-fighters from the breakaway Tamil faction who have little support from the population, which resented the rebels' often oppressive rule. Indeed the Chief Minister of the province is Sivanesathurai Santhirakanthan, better known by his nom de guerre Pillayan, which he acquired when he joined the Tigers as a 14-year-old fighter. Today he is ostensibly the most powerful man in the province, a claim he rejects with a small, tight smile.
"The government is eliminating terrorism, offering a political solution, and that is how I have been elected Chief Minister," he began in a recent interview in his office, then added, "I have become a chief minister but I have not received powers from Colombo. For the past six months Colombo says, 'This is not the right time to devolve powers.' They say they will give them in time."
Most local and international observers - even Mr. Hulugalle of the Defence Ministry - predict that when the LTTE loses control of all its territory in the north it will launch an underground, Iraq-style insurgency. The Tigers have since the first days of their fight used suicide attacks on civilians, including those at prayer in places of worship, as one of their standard tactics.
"The LTTE will go to the jungle as resistance, and even if there are a few hundred of them, the government has to maintain a military presence in the north; their residual force will require suspicion of all Tamils," said Jehan Perera, head of the National Peace Council. "The situation is likely to be the same or much worse than in the east - the soldiers, the questioning of people, the difficulty of getting private business to invest there."
And the peace of the victors will be a cold one for the Tamils, he predicted. "They say they will be doing infrastructure, building roads and that kind of thing, but it will all be done by the central government, and this conflict grew in the first place from the view the central government is Sinhalese and doesn't take their interest into account," he said.
Thus the streets of Trincomalee, banded every 150 metres or so with checkpoints where Tamils are grilled about who they are and where they are going and whether they can prove they do not support the LTTE, offer a grim vision of what the north will soon be like.
"What democracy do we have today?" asked the president of a respected local development organization, too afraid to be quoted by name. "We cannot meet, we cannot talk, even if someone sees us now, the security will come and ask what we are discussing. Every time you leave your house it's like you are going to court to face charges."
Sure, he said, the government has built a few roads (using Sinhalese-owned contractors and only Sinhalese labourers), and yes, he got to vote, for the first time in decades. But that is cold comfort, he said. "You can put a parrot in a nice cage and feed it nice food like apples but it's still a caged bird."
Pillayan, the Chief Minister, knows people are frustrated, and said that the situation will change. "The central government gave assurance that the 13th amendment [to the constitution, which promises power-sharing with the Tamils and other minorities] and even more will be there," he said. "We still have hope."
Yet as frightening as the disappearances, and perhaps more likely to cause further conflict over time, is the government's unabashed campaign of "Sinhalization." Historic sites commemorating ancient Tamil kingdoms have, in the months since the government took control of the area, suddenly become memorials to Sinhalese kingdoms. Some Tamils stopped at checkpoints can no longer give the names of their home villages, because those places have new Sinhala names, local and international human-rights monitors say.
The government recently announced that the fishermen of Trincomalee were back to catching their prefighting hauls of fish, but neglected to mention that it continues to deny all but a handful of Tamil fishermen the right to put to sea (citing the security risk that they might ferry supplies to the Tigers) and has instead brought in Sinhalese fishermen from the south, to whom it affords much more freedom.
"All the land seized as a 'high security zone' in the 2006 fighting is still in the hands of the military, and you have tens of thousands of people stuck in resettlement camps where they aren't allowed to fish and don't have land to farm and have a miserable existence," said one United Nations employee who was not authorized to discuss the situation on the record.
UN agencies, which are feeding civilians on both sides of the conflict and supporting a host of development projects across the country, as well as other aid agencies, are routinely denounced in the state-controlled Sri Lankan media as overt partisans and backers of the LTTE, a fact that both hinders their work and has the effect of blunting their criticism.
There is an additional layer of tension in the east because the LTTE is still present here, albeit underground - a situation that will be doubly true in the north. The rebels continue to pressure the Tamil population to provide funding and other support for the nationalist cause, and attempt to enforce vote boycotts and other obstacles to peaceful political participation.
In the anxious offices of the Human Rights Commission, investigators are regularly reminded by their government masters that official policy is: All is well in the east. And they despair. "How can people live like this?" a staff member asked. "How can people say this is peace?"
IS this the Peace and Democrazy that the SL forces fought for and sacrificed many lives?
Robert Mugabe will be smiling - attention will soon be diverted towards SL away from Zimb.
Thanks vajira,
If possible, can you please enlighten us the truth of the rumors regarding the fall of vishvamadu.
Hi,
M.I.A may have different political views than mine. And she may have reasons for the same (as I have reasons for my beliefs).
But when it is coming to the creativity, she is really a good vocal and talented lyricist! Her song with AR is super in "Slum dog" which deserves double Oscars.
And why shouldn't I proud becasue one of them is from the region and one of them has direct link to Sri Lanka!
to enojy the Sports and Arts you need to remove poltical glasses.
Unless UNP'rs will never enjoy Nanda Malini/Kapuge and SLFP'rs cant enjoy the Jothi/Latha etc..
Same goes, and with that mindset you can't simply enjoy the game of Murali and Ajantha Mendis too!
First listen to her song and honestly ask yourselve weather you like the song or not...
The same writer Asanka accuses of bias, misleading LTTE propaganda also wrote the following:
|Torn apart by unrest, Tamil family longs for freedom
by Stephanie Nolen
Vavuniya, Sri Lanka: When he saw the pair of young women walking up to his front door, Anthony T knew his family had not escaped.
Months before, he had at last succeeded in scraping together loans for $50,000 (U.S.) and paid a smuggler to get his son to Canada as a refugee claimant. He got his oldest daughter into pre-college bioscience studies. He thought, then, that his children might be spared.
But 18 months ago, recruiters for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam came to the home of Mr. T, 57, a coconut and rice farmer whose identity has been confirmed by The Globe and Mail but will not be published due to concerns for the safety of his family.
The young women spoke at length to Mr. T and his family about the Vietnam war. "They told us it was a long war that no one thought the Vietnamese could win, but that they endured and it was a people's war and they won in the end," Mr. T recalled a few days ago with a small, painful smile.
He had managed to send his son out beyond their reach but now the Tigers wanted one of his daughters. "I never thought they would come for her."
During the past 18 months, the government has used a massive military offensive to squeeze the LTTE in all directions, and yesterday announced that the army had seized the northern town of Mullaitivu, the rebels' last stronghold - although no journalists are allowed in the area to try to confirm this.
"The Sri Lankan army captured the Mullaittivu bastion completely today," Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka, the army commander, said last night in a speech after LTTE fighters had been driven out of the town earlier in the day.
The guerrillas have come back from near-obliteration before, but this time it seems likely that their control over the north is ended.
The end didn't come soon enough for Mr. T's daughter. The recruiters came back to their home, in a village 12 kilometres from Mullaitivu, three more times. His daughters were terrified, he said, and didn't want to go; their parents were equally afraid. So the Tigers turned up the pressure, taking Mr. T himself away for "questioning." They only held him for a day, he said, but their message had been effectively delivered: when he arrived back home, it was to find his three daughters arguing over whom should go, so that their father would not face incarceration or worse. They decided in the end to send the eldest, who was then nearly 18, because her educational background might get her a job as a medic, and perhaps some security away from the front lines.
So she went, just as the Sri Lankan government intensified ground and air attacks on the area where the LTTE had long run a sort of autonomous semi-state. And so began Mr. T's days of worry, an anxiety that has sharpened to corrosive fear as the Tigers lost their capital, Kilinochchi, three weeks ago, and then, day by day, were pushed back up against the sea. "It's all I think about, all I can ever think about," he said.
Mr. T, a quiet, grey-haired man wearing a pale blue sarong, relayed all this in Vavuniya, the "exchange point" where some civilians are allowed to pass between army and Tiger territory. He came down a few days before, bringing a nephew in urgent need of medical treatment; as the oldest family member, he was the least likely to incur the suspicion, and possible detention, by the Sri Lankan government when he crossed out of rebel territory.
Since he arrived, he has learned his family has been almost constantly on the run, driven from one area to another by aerial bombing and by the Tigers.
The practice has been condemned by the United Nations, which estimates that as many as 300,000 civilians have been trapped now between the opposing forces. "Pretty soon there will be nowhere to go but into the sea," Mr. T said quietly.
The LTTE has been fighting since the mid-1970s for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, which continues to be oppressed by the Sinhalese majority that dominates the national government.
The Tigers have been listed as a terrorist organization by countries, including Canada, because of their use of suicide attacks on civilians, and have long been condemned by human-rights organizations for their forcible recruitment of soldiers, including a great many children.
He has lost all hope that the LTTE will maintain their "independent homeland" in the north, and in some ways, he won't miss them, dragging off people's children and constantly demanding "donations" for the cause, as soon as he had saved a few rupees.
Yet at the same time he fears the repression that will come with living in a militarized north under government control. "Intelligence has a list of whose family is in the LTTE," he said. "If we cross over here, we will be under surveillance and persecuted."
All the options are bad, he said simply. "There is no saviour, neither the LTTE nor the government." But neither side cares how he and people in his village feel, he added.
"It doesn't matter who we are living under, it has to be without violence. We are not troublemakers. We want to live in peace, independence and dignity. We want the same facilities and rights that people enjoy in the rest of the country: education, jobs and access to land. If we have this, then there won't be any problem."
Now he waits in Vavuniya, desperate to go home, or as close to it as he can manage, in case his daughter is either released by the Tigers, or manages to slip away.
"Maybe, maybe, I will be able to get to her and somehow I can get her away. We can all get away." [courtesy: The Globe and Mail]
Its true we have brain-washed LTTE supporters and brain-washed GOSL supporters.
Ah thats democrazy!
Some of you say pictures of injured and dead civilians are LTTE cadres.
But look they arent wearing LTTE uniforms. Have you ever seen president velu without a uniform? Have you ever seen a LTTE cadre not it uniform?
some times LTTE wear civilian like uniforms, BUT THATS THEIR UNIFORM. Many variations in uniforms to reflect many moods LTTE cadres in
moda Bandas have one uniform for all army navy and airforce. Lol
But look they arent wearing LTTE uniforms. Have you ever seen president velu without a uniform? Have you ever seen a LTTE cadre not it uniform?
I dont know about "President Prabha" But if you referreng to the Bloddiest Child killer, here he is in civil cloths:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39521000/jpg/_39521930_prabhakaran_ap_203index.jpg
RANIL GEN JANAPATHITA PESASUM
CHECK THE VIDEO ON ETHALAYA.COM
Poor Ranil,
"Napuru kalata satha hata peminena wehesa
Eduru noweyi kala kam pala deva misa"
- Subhashithaya
HEY RANIL,
MONGALA MOKAKADA ME GENA KIWWE?
In case if that WAS him, then that must have been the LTTE uniform at the time!
Regd M.I.A,
There is famous joke about Nalin de Silva who was too extrmist abotu Tamils and also a cricket fan.
One day he was yelling at a meeting :
"we should kill all the tamils except Muralitharan.."
Then some one in the crowd, who is more extreme shot back..
"Why not Muralitharan Nalin sir? we must kill him too"
Nalin got angry told slowly
"If Murali killed will it be your mother going to bowl?"
යකෝ මුරලිව මැරුවොත් විකට් ගන්නේ උඹේ අම්මද...?
Hope this will help bit.
Nisal,
Vishvamadu is NOT under SLDF control. But the fall is imminent. So is the scenario regarding Chalai and Puthukudirippu. It is not healthy when people promise immediate deadlines. With the civilian factor even the hierarchy of SLA cannot predict time frames.
War on terror has failed in Sri Lanka - Ranil
Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is on a visit to India, told the media the frequent bomb attacks on civilians demonstrated that the war against terror had failed in Sri Lanka.
June 9, 2008
Thanks Vajira.
With regard to MIA- global online petition campaign exposing her LTTE links will, i fear will only back-fire and will benefit her.
Delon did a very good PR job in promoting MIA.
I doubt very much she will win any awards.
Nevertheless, she has done very well to be even nominated.
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a court battle over oil hedging payments to banks that could cost the state oil company hundreds of millions of dollars, officials and lawyers said.
$300 million wasted as a result of the incompetance of CPC/Minister/Finance Ministry.
If it was a corporate body, as a stakeholder i would have voted the CFO & CEO out.
Guess who pays for this in the end- not the 130 odd ministers in their gas guzzling cars,SUV etc.
look now what is praba doing. He is now giving interviews in Sinhala. What a Change.
here is the Link to watch.
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=6P4lhCxSVXk
Mist,
Sorry couldn't reply.
As Vajira said, dont worry about Mukherjee s' visit.
Believe me, India loves to see the end of LTTE than us, even though they created it.
There is a new post @ DW.
there are rumours,that Challai has been taken minutes ago.Can you confirm this?
Guys,
Watch Aljazeera.
Inside Story: Sri Lanka war to end.
CHALLAI HAS BEEN TAKEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
a friend just phoned me and told me,that his cousin,a soldier in the 55th division,phoned him 30 minutes ago and told him,that they have taken Challai two hours ago. It will be made officially in the next 12 hours,until mine clearing in the vilalge will be finished. The cousin of my friend in Challai told him,that the village has been taken,but that some smaller streets leading to the south are still heavily mined and that now sappers are working on the scene.
Good sign. It seems terrorists in south need to stay away from LTTE, by throwing away what they have with them
http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=7044
Nisal,
Can you guys guess the cause for his pain?
Diahoria.
LTTE Diaspora Propaganda Network out in Full Force Now. Patriots Needed to Counter Their False Allegations!
My Comment at GlobeAndMail.com
Posted 27/01/09 at 7:00 AM EST
You (Lanka Deepa, from San Francisco, United States) wrote:
I have never heard of such preposterous claims of cruelty by Sinhala soldiers any time in the last 30 years as recounted here.
This is a part of the Psy-Ops practiced by LTTE supporters to demonize the Sinhala majority in the eyes of the world, in their claim of permanent victimhood to gain sympathy. The LTTE supporters and apologists commenting here keep citing 'intolerable discrimination' against Tamils by Sihalese, when what they are really saying is that they mourn the loss of the privileges they enjoyed under colonial rule in Sri Lanka for helping to suppress the Sinhala majority, and are now unwilling to live as equals with the Sinhala majority. They were motivated to make these demands by the military weakness of Sri Lanka, with its 5,000 man ceremonial army, and encouraged by assistance from Tamil Nadu and India, to carve out a racist, apartheid, Tamil-only state in Sri Lanka, using discrimination as a pretext.
They attacked the Sinhala people over 4 years, to provoke a violent response, and then ran to the world yelling we can't live with the Sinhalese, they are killing us. Nevertheless, since the 1983 riots, over a 30 year period, despite over 100,000 Sinhala people blown to bits and hacked into pieces, entire villages of Sinhala and Muslim people massacred and ethnically cleansed, and every moderate Sri Lankan Tamil dissenter murdered, there has not been one instance of violence by civilian Sinhalese against Tamils. Just do a search on YouTube.com to see for yourselves. Even when the LTTE controlled nearly 35% of Sri Lanka, 85% of Sri Lankan Tamils lived in peace and safety among Sinhalese in the Sinhala South, not among their diabolical saviours.
Do not be misled by this network of con-artists. Their plea for your sympathy is only as deserving as that of the man who axed both his parents to death and then pleaded for clemency because he was an orphan.
Jay said...
$300 million wasted as a result of the incompetance of CPC/Minister/Finance Ministry.
But consider this: If oil prices continued to rise, this oil hedging deal would have protected Sri Lankans against unaffordable oil costs that would have shut down transportation, businesses and some electricity generation. There was no way of predicting the precipitous decline in oil prices triggered by the home mortgage crisis in the US that spread to other sectors and countries.
Exactly the same thing happened in California during the electricity generation crisis a few years ago, when the then Gov. Gray Davis tried to stem the tide by hedging. Market manipulation by Enron exacerbated that crisis. Gov. Schwartznegger came in claiming incompetency on Gray Davis's part, but guess what, he and California is now mired in a budget crisis triggered by falling tax revenues that eclipses Gray Davis's problem.
In short, hedging is practiced in various market sectors to protect investors and consumers against price increases (and decreases). If the price rises, and you are protected against that, you congratulate yourself on your smartness. But, if it declines, you lose the hedge fee, which is a very small fraction of the anticipated price increase. It is an INSURANCE cost; people should be happy that their leaders tried to protect them by buying that insurance, instead of leaving them wide open to a much greater financial disaster!
I have bought homeowners insurance, earthquake insurance, life insurance for a great many years, and have not received an "insurance payout" on those payments. But I am ECSTATIC about that; the alternative could have been far worse! My house could be destroyed, and I could be DEAD!
My Comment at GlobeandMail.com
You (Lanka Deepa, from United States) wrote:
The LTTE never cared for their people. Would any leader with a modicum of compassion demand his followers to committ suicide by cyanide pills to avoid capture, conscript underage children by force, direct artillery fire onto one's own people to claim the Sri Lanka Army did it for propaganda purposes, order all seriously wounded LTTE fighters to be killed so that they would not be captured and treated in hospitals by the Sri Lanka Army? Would a compassionate movement intentionally engineer a mass exodus of into western countries such as the US, Canada, UK, Germany etc, claiming to be refugees from violence but who are in fact economic refugees, charge them exorbitant smuggling fees, unload them onto the welfare systems of host countries, and them subject them to violent mafia-like control and extortion?
In contrast, the Tamil people in LTTE areas of the North & East of Sri Lanka were supplied with food, medicine, fuel and all other essentials by the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), largely at Sinhala taxpayer expense, while the LTTE was wantonly murdering people on a massive scale. All teachers, doctors, nurses, administrators in LTTE areas were, yes, paid by the GoSL. Never in the history of human conflict has any government displayed this much compassion for people in enemy occupied territory, who provided the recruits for the enemy's fighting force. This is not how Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman demolished the will of the Confederacy in the US Civil war,laying waste everything in his path during his march through Georgia from Savannah to the Sea. Even today, in the final
stages of the war against the LTTE in Sri Lanka, the GoSL is bending over backwards, to assist and protect civilians. It is the LTTE that is firing artillery from the safe zones declared by the GoSL, and is using civilians as a human shield, again displaying their signature callous disregard for human lives.
My comment at GlobeandMail.com
You (Lanka Deepa, from San Francisco, United States) wrote:
Posted 27/01/09 at 5:29 PM EST
LTTE Supporters among the Sri Lankan (SL) Tamil Diaspora in western countries, and Indian Tamils in Tamil Nadu, are the only people who support the LTTE; the SL Tamils in Sri Lanka are heartily sick of the LTTE who enslaved them, tortured them, and killed them. These Diaspora Tamils, largely unimpacted by the violence they sow, still yearn for a racist aparthied Tamil-only Eelam state in Sri Lanka; which will never be realized. In the coming years, Sri Lanka will move towards one Sri Lankan identitity through ethnic integration; there will be no Sinhalese, Tamils, Moslems or Burghers in Sri Lanka, only Sri Lankans. There will be only one nation, populated by one people who love this Ratna Dipa Janma Bhumi of ours.
Do not be misled by this network of serial con-artists. Protect your own countries against separatism espoused by them pursuing the Greater Dravidian Nation agenda as articulated by Vellupillai Prabhakaran, and rabble-rousing communal Tamil Nadu leaders such as Karunanidhi, Vaiko, Ramadoaa and Tirumavalavan. Today they are begging for your understanding and help, all tears and smiles, but tomorrow they will seek to displace you from your own hearth and home. Equal rights and equal responsibilities are not for them; they seek dominance in pure-Tamil Eelams all over the world. Learn from us Sri Lankans who have suffered from their manipulative machiavallian schemes.
Their plea for your sympathy is only as deserving as that of the man who axed both his parents to death and pleaded for clemency because he was an orphan. If you love your people, think before you leap to conclusions!
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