Heavy fighting ensued south of Chalai in general area Mulaitivu when a wave of LTTE infiltrators and attack teams targeted a weak point in the forward marching divisions last morning. The infiltrators were first spotted by the 55 Division as they targeted the boundary of two brigades of the 55 and 58 Divisions. The exact casualties to both sides will be revealed later.
During Oyatha Alaikal 1, 2 and 3, the Tigers successfully collapsed the Army's divisions by attacking them at the seam. This usually results in the two respective Divisions and their affected Brigades, Battalions all the way down to a platoon being split, thus opening up a gap through which the Tigers could flank the Divisions.
But this type of operation requires high morale, manpower and firepower on the part of the Tigers and weak leadership and morale and also inferior field tactics and strategies on the part of the Army, both of which were unavailable yesterday. A tactic like this will have little effect particularly on an Army which has 3 Divisions, 5 Task Forces and a Special Forces Brigade on reserve.
In many of the unfortunate occasions where this has happened to the Army, it happened due to low morale and inferior leadership on the part of some officers. Some Field Commanders-- from Platoon COs upto Brigade COs were concentrating on their own respective unit and not on the counter attack.
Meanwhile the LTTE has started another scam to discredit the Army and to give their fighters a fighting chance. The scam is to pose-off injured fighters as civilians who are handed over to the ICRC inside the civilian safety zone. From there these 'civilians' are registered by the ICRC and handed-over the the Sri Lanka Navy. The Navy will then transport them to Trincomalee Hospital.
Military Intelligence and Naval Intelligence have so far identified 30-40 such fighters from among the 'civilians'. They cannot be arrested or detained nor can they be rehabilitated like surrendees. If they are resettled once recovered from the wounds, there is a possibility that they might operate as insurgents from among the civilians.
Friday, March 6, 2009
LTTE's old tactics no match for the 'new' SL Army
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Puligal's recent blog post regarding the pix of SLA soldiers and allegations regarding its authenticity together with the VERY STRANGE removal of the said pix from defence.lk site seems puzzling dont you think??..
SOME(NOT ALL) of puligals posts seem plausible or debatable..like the above article..others like 1000's of SLA killed in actionin 4 days or so are utter fantasy creations..
Whats your opinion on this particular pix?..The close-up photo of the dead (soldier/tiger?) APPEARS to be a clean-cut Special Forces/Commando trooper unlike a Tiger who normally wear mustaches..:) and whats one body doing with its hands held upwards???..seems FAKE to me..i'm convinced on this lets see what others think shall we..
US Warns Cambodia of LTTE's Tamil Foundation
Cambodia mulls probe of foundation supporting LTTE
www.chinaview.cn
2009-03-09
"PHNOM PENH, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The Cambodian government was considering to investigate the actions of a local foundation which allegedly supported Sri Lanka's separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, said national media on Monday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has sent a letter to Interior Minister Sar Kheng to request him to do so, said English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodia Daily.
The foreign ministry received a diplomatic notice from the U.S. Embassy warning of the existence of the U.S.-based Tamil Foundation, the paper quoted the letter dated Feb. 26 as saying.
"Please, Minister, be informed about the organization and take measures to investigate the actions of this organization," said the letter, while not elaborating whether the Tamil Foundation was known to be active within Cambodia.
In July 2007, international security magazine the Jane's Intelligence Review reported that Cambodia was a significant source of weapons for the Tamil Tigers, but failed to mention its sources.
The Cambodian government denied it at the time, saying that Cambodia had destroyed many of its surplus arms and that the report referred to the situation before 1998. "
I visited Puligal blog for the first time today.
The latest post is very suspicious. Although, on seeing the photos, I did warn the moda Bandas yesterday that their dead were also stacked amongst LTTE bodies.
Any ways, what says Allah?
Yoshita won all medals?
Check this out:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/10/srilanka.blast
Americans think that we are fighting Islamists.
Heartening Example: Leader's Sons Making Common Cause With Ordinary Citizen's Children
Me' Puthata Jayawewa!
Yoshitha Rajapaksa, son of the President, graduates as SL Navy Midshipman
"After the ceremony, Yoshitha bent to touch his parents feet to seek blessings. While the President kissed his son, his wife and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa, who was also present during the ceremony, hugged her son emotionally."
The proposed IMF facility for balance-of-payments problems will supplement the government’s efforts to stabilise the external sector performance of the country. As per the Governor of CB, the conditions of the facility are in line "with the government’s own policies" and would not be on “unpalatable” conditions. If this is the case then there is an acknowledgment that conditions such as those to which ponna Ranil agreed to, on which his Regaining Sri Lanka document was drawn upon -(a document which simply lacked explanation of what we were trying to regain implying its extent of failure)-are not welcomed by Sri Lankans any more.
However, if the government is to still stick with its policy of kicking IMF ass, then it should negotiate this loan for the time being(just take the 60 million-out of the 1.9 bn, on immediate offer ) and look for other means of financing / alternatives in due time. As sakkili land shrinks- increasing SL’s resource bases, economy will in fact recover in the long run. Also funds pledged by co-chairs of the donor nations will be available for post war reconstruction.
The debt/ GDP ratio in countries like japan(170%) and Singapore (96%) are close or more than 100% of their GDP. These countries are not bothered about government debt and are not reluctant to administer deficit budgeting.Thus, government debt is not a problem as long as the government ensures an uninterrupted cash flow and avoiding the so-called debt trap as predicted by many UNP biased economists .
THE IMPLICIT BOTTOM LINE HERE IS TO FINISH THE WAR ASAP.
Being Nobody,
Govt debt against GDP was brought down to less than 100% last year. It was hoverng around 90%. There is a lot room there to maneuver.
seems VP is clutching at the straws now?
attacking a muslim religious festival....
Pakistan will be oh.. so keen to extend further military aid to us now...
VP's not capable of any rational thinking it seems...
good...
end must be near...
Oh hello PeterPan....
Among the dead in suicide explosion were
DEVUNDARA Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman LINTON ABEYDEERA,
AKURESSA Pradeshiya Sabha Vice Chairman UPALI SARATHCHANDRA,
KUMBURUPITIYA Pradeshiya Sabha Vice-Chairman TILAK WIJESEKARA
and ATHURALIYA Pradeshiya Sabha member ANURA WICKRAMASINGHE.
http://www.army.lk/morenews.php?id=20626
people insulting eachother in our own language....
jeez.. this forum is becoming more hilarious and absurd with every passing day...
people.. stop smoking too much of your own stuff...
take a chill pill and relax....
guys,
these suicide attacks are the dying embers of a lost cause...
I reckon few more will pop up.. brace yourselves...
Afterall I read 100 plus sleeper cells are scattered throughout the greater colombo and the rest...
they have to go one way or the other...
But remember they'll (LTTE) will win few more battles... but the WAR.. Yes the WAR is being won by us(SLA)....
HMMMM...SORRY...!!!
I'LL DELETE IT...
phantom-x,
you are right, mate. i was wrong. thanks for pointing it. your advice is taken with respect.
it is ALWAYS our land.
my apologies.
what i struggled to say was our land forcibly held by tamill elamists was retaken. more than 6,000 km^2 land and more than 1,000km coastline.
actually LTTE claimed 18,000 km^2 for their toilet madu.
they (tigers) can never get a sq inch of our SL land. like ehud olmert said,"THEY WILL FAIL".
kasthuri,
come on. does it matter i have jewish genes??? jews were in SL for more than 1,000 years!
Moshe Dyan said...
come on. does it matter i have jewish genes??? jews were in SL for more than 1,000 years!
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Nope.
Every visitor sowed a few seeds, thanks to southern hospitality.
Panhinda said..."Govt debt against GDP was brought down to less than 100% last year. It was hoverng around 90%. There is a lot room there to maneuver".
I know.I was just making my point by bringing out examples from other countries about certain myths on government debt. Perceptions on government debt being something bad comes from the neoclassical version of economics...HMMM...which is also a version of economics that has not brought any economics prosperity to its practitioners.
Minister Ameer Ali Sihabdeen, the main target, escaped.
Attacker believed have had special identification documents given to Pillaiyan Group cadres.
MOSHE...
APOLOGY ACCEPTED...!!!
:)
Challai still under siege.
LTTE sent 21-person team into the enclosed area on Monday morning. Heavy fighting ensued; 16 of the team died in action; five managed to return.
Photos published on DefenceLK/ArmyLK included SLA dead stacked amongst bodies of dead LTTE cadres.
Meanwhile, 55th Division is firing artillery in all directions, a show of desperation reminiscent to that of the EPS siege.
Unless SLN comes-up with a radical initiative, 55th Division will wither within the next month.
Col. Lawrence and Col. Keerthi are commanding the operation. Seran Unit and Jeyanthan Unit cadres are involved, along with a significant number of Sea Tigers.
I too saw the Puligal article on the Defence.lk photo.
The first dead soldier has an SLA typical look, but I sure there are many LTTE carders resembling typical Sinhalese as well.
As Puligal claim the photo was replaced after the article appeared, but as the statement is part of the main article, not a later added portion, it is clear the photo was removed before the article appeared. So either Defence.lk knew about the Puligal release or the switched the picture for some other reason.
Few soldiers seems to mock the dead towards the rear of the picture, maybe the reason to remove it.
One comment at puligal was about the office having a different boot than the soldiers. He hasn’t noticed that all almost all the dead LTTE fighters are minus boots these days? Is it because survived cadres rob the boots of the dead or SLA robbing boots? More like LTTE has failed to provide them with boots.
Is Diaspora only fund for guns, not for personal protection of their fighters. I saw only one dead Ltte fighter warring body protection.
Peter,
Fow few day I thout your the only one out of ltte supporters, (Upul, nav etc) has some balanced views of things....
Well I was wrong indeed......here we go, with your lies again....
damn...is it that hard to except defeat?
any living thing in this world knows ltte has no chance,,,,wow never thought Vp can brainwash this good....
all I have to ssay "WOW"
Mahen always make-up his own stories,,,nothing new
Chinthna,
Look at this
photo posted and removed by DefenceLK.
You can only see a few faces. Ask yourself if these are dead LTTE cadres.
Who posted the article on whatever blog is irrelevant. The photo was suspicious to begin with; and DefenceLK abruptly removing it only adds to the cynicism.
BOO PETER,
Yes, they are NOT dead LTTE cadres. They are simply FAKING ! So after the Army boys go away they will get up and attack from behind!
Ha Ha!
@ Peter said...
[ Chinthna,
Look at this
photo posted and removed by DefenceLK.
You can only see a few faces. Ask yourself if these are dead LTTE cadres.]
They are not dead actually. One guy has his palms together saying Wanakkam!
Total of 43 LTTE fighters were killed in the Chaalai area from Saturday midnight to Monday evening. corpse of more than 30 fighters who were inflitrated deep inside the SLA area were captured by SLA.
More than 300 SLA soldiers killed or wounded in that battle. 80% of the weapons belongs to those soldiers what SLA claimed that those captured from LTTE.
"I saw only one dead Ltte fighter warring body protection."
Must have been a high ranker too!
Breaking News.
SL Army is pushed back to Anuradhapura area. EPS taken by LTTE. Poonaryn still fighting.
Gosh its not that hard to understand,,,how many time we saw that ltte wears uniforms like our SLA....
ayoooooooooo charterrrrrrrrrr....
This is not ROCKET SCIENCE ppl,
malathi brigade likes to get cornered by sla. ha ha ha!
sinhla extremists & bhikkus will save the tamils from sindog & LTTE. ha ha ha!
SLA deaths in the past 3 days is less than 50, LTTE deaths over 200. They launched another attack on 55th today, trying to emulate Ceaseless Waves, but without much success. Unlike in the past, the SLA isn't holding onto territory at all costs, objective is to kill as many pigs as possible, thus they yield territory and allow the attacker to advance and employ defence in depth, hence the high kill rate, we are doing exactly what the LTTE did to us in the past!
We have shifted focus from PTK after capture of PTK junction, capture of that junction denies them many escape routes, no point thundering into PTK town with high casualties when the main battles are in the eastern side.
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LTTE attacks the Food Ship
BBC Sinhala Service Comes to LTTE's RESCUE!
Can anyone show the SLA bodies killed by the tigers; I mean not the one that talked about above. According to logic of some of the writers to these bloggs, SLA might have killed their own and throw them in the pile of the dead tigers to boost the impact, or who knows some may be pretending to be dead. Anything is possible these days as some are suffering from some kind of hysterias. Some say 1000s of SLA killed. If one can put that video showing bodies being pulled out of the back of a truck (including at least one alive at the time), surely some dead SLA bodies is not a big deal. Unless there is no kill to show. Lot of people want to see tigers' handy work, please.
Peter said...
Breaking News.
SL Army is pushed back to Anuradhapura area. EPS taken by LTTE. Poonaryn still fighting.///
it is going to happen.
mariyakade so mokakda dan situation eka machan
The battles are ferocious, need to accept that the LTTE is still a force to be reckoned with, they have spent years getting ready for this, remember we are facing their "elites", but the fact remains, they left it too late for their do or die battle, they should never have allowed Paranthan, EPS, Oddusudan and Mulla to fall. Their loss is our gain. MI thinks the elites were employed to gaurd their leaders rather than face us head on, they employed their lower level cadres and civilian forces to fight us off in Kili and Pooneryn, big mistake!
Situation is the same boys, SLA trying to get to Iranapalai (spelling?). Btw, we didnt use our special forces either except for limited missions, now they are in full action!
BREAKING NEWS
tamils pushed back to tobacco cultivation era. ha ha ha!
the remaining LTTE buildings should be flattened to the ground. these are the last & after this we can build whatever we want.
" Minnal said...
Peter said...
Breaking News.
SL Army is pushed back to Anuradhapura area. EPS taken by LTTE. Poonaryn still fighting.///
it is going to happen.
Yes, it is always "GOING" to happen.
BUT NEVER HAPPENS!
LIKE PEELAM
This may be old news.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090308/jsp/frontpage/story_10642588.jsp
The evacuation plan involving the U.S. Pacific Area Command seems to have been shot down by India who sees itself as the regional power. Foreign Minister Bogollagama alluded to this in his statement yesterday.
මට තේරෙන්නේ නෑ අපි මොන ලබ්බකටද අර එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ බල්ලන්ගේ මිනී පින්තූර ඇත්ත කියලා මේ පීටර් ගොනා එක්ක තර්ක කරන්නේ කියලා.
මොන වැරදි තිබුනත් අපේ එවුන් ඒ වගේ තුනයි පනහේ වැඩ කරන්නේ නෑ මේ සක්කිලි වගේ.
අපේ එකෙක්ගේ ඇඟිල්ලක් මුන්ට අහුවුනා නම් මෙලහකට ටැමිල්නෙට් එකේ අපේ දහදාහක් මැරුනා කියලා දාලා. මුන් එකෙක්ටවත් නිවුස් එන්නේ නෑ. ඒකයි මෙතන ෆුල් ටයිම් ලකා ගහගෙන ඉන්නේ.
මම හිතන්නේ මේ පීටර් කියන එකවුන්ට් එකෙන් කීප දෙනෙක් ලොග් වෙනවා. හැම වෙලාවකම මූ මෙතන ඉන්නේ ඒ හින්දා...
පීටර්ව බයිට් සහ ඇපටයිසර් එකක් හැටියට ගන්නවා මිසක් මේන්-කෝස් එක කරගන්න එපා.
Mariyakade said...
"The battles are ferocious, need to accept that the LTTE is still a force to be reckoned with, they have spent years getting ready for this, remember we are facing their "elites", but the fact remains, they left it too late for their do or die battle, they should never have allowed Paranthan, EPS, Oddusudan and Mulla to fall. Their loss is our gain. MI thinks the elites were employed to gaurd their leaders rather than face us head on, they employed their lower level cadres and civilian forces to fight us off in Kili and Pooneryn, big mistake!"
Interesting. I wondered why there were report of LTTE using vehicles such as some T55 main battle tanks mostly in recent months. I guess they saved them too for the final battles. Stupid. Looks like VP has become too cautious with advancing age.
delay tactics the only way LTTE lasted so long. if they sacrificed their pundayan cadres first match would have been over long ago.
peeter the old suck-kili whore,
[Every visitor sowed a few seeds, thanks to southern hospitality.]
Thanks to northern hospitalitiy, u and ur daughter have pure karapothu skins, unlike the skins of an average suck-kiliya which is as black as hell. ur ancestors were converted to christianity by portuguese/dutch by force. ur whore grandmas were gang raped by them, and u r derived from the by products of those gang rapes.
[LTTE sent 21-person team into the enclosed area on Monday morning. Heavy fighting ensued; 16 of the team died in action; five managed to return. ]
And those 5 who returned were Screwed In Action (SIA), suck-kili doctors confirmed.
ps: change ur profile pic back to that calander bitch.
"delay tactics the only way LTTE lasted so long. if they sacrificed their pundayan cadres first match would have been over long ago."
If they had taken Jaffna in their first attack the war would have been very different. Did they have battle tanks then and did not use them? If so, then extremely stupid.
Single,
[පීටර්ව බයිට් සහ ඇපටයිසර් එකක් හැටියට ගන්නවා මිසක් මේන්-කෝස් එක කරගන්න එපා. ]
Don't worry. My main cause is peeter and the main intercourse is its whore wife.
LTTE never had the power to defeat SLA. jaffna or anywhere. it was all a propaganda backed scam to extort money from moda tamils in the west.
their only chance was to deceive & scare us into giving eelam by threatening to give us hell.
we're the guys who are giving them hell now. eelam is over.
"LTTE never had the power to defeat SLA. jaffna or anywhere. it was all a propaganda backed scam to extort money from moda tamils in the west."
Well said!!!
මේවට අපේ පාලකයො වගකියන්න ඕනි!
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In the absence of any real defence news, please find below a recipe for tempered dhal:
1) Wash and boil dhal with some salt – keep it aside (1 cup dhal needs 1.5 cups of water)
2) Now Take a pan, preferably earthen ware pot
3) Add oil
4) Add mustard seeds
5) Let the mustard seeds pop, then add chopped red onions, garlic, green chillies and curry leaves, add a few pieces of tomato chunks (optional)
6) Fry until onions are golden brown
7) Add thick coconut milk and a few fenugreek seeds, red chilli flakes, yellow powder (kaha kudu) and non roasted curry powder (optional and very little of it)
8) Allow to boil
9) Then add dhal
10) Simmer for a few minutes
11) Eat with pol roti and lunu miris
Mohammed Zubair,
thanks for the parippu recipe. LTTE suckers haven't eaten so much parippu since elara. after this heavy meal they'll lose the taste for eelam. ha ha ha!
Velluprabhakaran said
"LTTE never had the power to defeat SLA. jaffna or anywhere. it was all a propaganda backed scam to extort money from moda tamils in the west.
their only chance was to deceive & scare us into giving eelam by threatening to give us hell.
we're the guys who are giving them hell now. eelam is over."
Yes, now eelam is over. But remember that the LTTE won most the battles in Eelam war III. So claiming "LTTE never had the power to defeat SLA." is simply incorrect. Lets assume that the LTTE did not use their best fighters or main battle tanks or most of their boats when they attacked Jaffna due to VP being too cautious. If they had used everything they had then and this would have been enough to take Jaffna, then the war would have been very different.
Infinity,
Ellam war 111, ltte won most parts cuz not their were capable doing so, its cuz we didnt have proper leaders and guide....too much corruption...etc...
LTTE never had strength, it was just us, being so lazy (most of top leaders).........
even the LTTE freedom struggle & vesapillai had to be created & supported by india & the west. tamils couldn't even do that on their own.
if they are so powerful why do they have to rely on child kidnappings for recruitment? 80 million cannot raise an army? all they do is cheer the deaths of so called low caste tamil children like in a cricket match & give them bs titles like mahaveer.
dieasspora must be the most selfish, bloodthirsty & gutless expats in the whole wide world.
what kind of liberation army or struggle is that?
MZ,
If you have Pol Rotti and Lunumiris, who the hell wants Parippu?
Ha Ha
"Ellam war 111, ltte won most parts cuz not their were capable doing so, its cuz we didnt have proper leaders and guide....too much corruption...etc...
LTTE never had strength, it was just us, being so lazy (most of top leaders)........."
Yes, the army was much stronger at the start of eelam war IV than at the end of eelam war III. But so was the LTTE then since they had used the whole peace period to arm themselves.
At Jaffna LTTE could have, if VP had not been so afraid, brought everything they had against only a relatively small part of army. Remember also at that time the LTTE had many infiltrators and weapons inside Jaffna due to the A9 being open. Effectively crushed now then but very differently back then.
Not saying that the LTTE would have won. That is for historians to debate when more data have been declassified.
our leaders never had the will to defeat LTTE even though the army had the capacity.
JR = dharmishta.
premadasa = pro ltte.
wijetunga = good leadreship for a very short period.
chandrika = push pull. sudu nelum & war talk .
ranil = international (western) peace net that trapped us & almost fucked us right up the ass.
mahinda = let the army defeat LTTE without interference. 3 years flat. LTTE never had a chance.
3 years after we let it build up for 30 years. if we acted earlier, LTTE wouldn't have lasted 3 months.
LTTE is getting ready to surrender!!!!!
velluprabhakaran
Agree 100%, our prvious leaders were just puppets of other countries and IC, never had the backbone.
SLA always had the capability, lets say we didn't have any guns back then, we would have finish ltte, by just stabbing them with a knife. cuz we had the people power, capable of over running ltte at any stage lol:)
defencewire next article will say it all!
Im sure our boys have a good plan, If i want to see all these scums dead, I can imagine how much our SLA boys and commanders want that.......
No chance for ltte, they can try.....but WILL FAIL.........
""Puk Batta said...
LTTE is getting ready to surrender!!!!!""
PUK-gattaa!..who told u all this?tamil-sell-once?..lol!
Puk Batta,
Nice try, but we are not falling for it.
BTW, I used your fake surrender story to spread havoc in Mahen's Puligal blog!
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..who the hell is this author..???
ooooops didnt know PUK BATTA IS LTTE lol:)
Guys how come there is new news from Rupavahini on youtube?
I meant to say NO new news
""Breaking News.
SL Army is pushed back to Anuradhapura area. EPS taken by LTTE. Poonaryn still fighting"""
who told u all this? Anton balaa?
Chinthana4Lions,
when JR took over in 1977 there were no geographical racial demarcations in SL. but when UNP handed power back to slfp in 1995 SL was in pieces.
history judges leaders by their results. not by their motives which are always hidden & subject to debate.
this theory applies to dharmishta JR as well as serial killer vesapillai.
history will be written that while mahinda, sarath & SLDF saved the sinhala from sure annihilation, vesapillai flushed the sakkily down the commode with eelam map & all.
ha ha ha!
boys & gaals, specialy boys!!
plze guard u r pukaa, aginst from
puk-kolla,puk-gattaa, puk-battaa!
"3 years after we let it build up for 30 years. if we acted earlier, LTTE wouldn't have lasted 3 months."
Could not agree more with you bro.
MR went to Colombo National Hospital to visit minister Mahinda Wijesekara.
Dear Sir, please don't do this kind of careless thing at this hour.
"our leaders never had the will to defeat LTTE even though the army had the capacity."
Sure, the army would have always have won an war if having good leaders due to the smaller resources of the LTTE. But if Jaffna had fallen and the LTTE could thus increase its conscription base by many times while making blockading very difficult it may have required conscription also in the south to win the war.
Remember that in 2006 there were less troops in Jaffna and there were many infiltrators. Let us say that the LTTE had attacked with 10,000 men instead of 1,500. Also included their battle tanks and all of their elite troops and used all of their boats, many hundred if including the fishing boats, for landing troops.
The LTTE would still have been outnumbered but they would only face a small part of the army and odds that were not impossible, just very difficult.
It is sad to see media people is blocking the trolly which carried Mahinda Wijesekara to National Hospital. This was seen in the Lasantha's incident as well.
Media people hope you are having a brain....Pls refrain from doing this.
not leting terrorist organizations like the LTTE build up is what the citizens of any democartic country expects from its elected leaders.
our previous leaders (political & civil) failed miserably in this respect due to various reasons ranging from misguided policies to corruption.
55th and 58th HAVE TAKEN PALAMATTALAN,my source told me minutes ago. Any further information from your side???
Think-tank calls on LTTE to negotiate surrender
March 10th, 2009 - 11:32 am ICT by IANS -
Brussels, March 10 (IANS) The humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka’s northern Wanni region is rapidly becoming a catastrophe, the International Crisis Group (ICG) has warned and called on the Tamil rebels to surrender, EuAsiaNews reported Tuesday.
In a report Monday, the ICG said an estimated 150,000 civilians were trapped in an ever shrinking space, forcibly held back by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and exposed to indiscriminate attacks by the Sri Lankan military.
“The Sri Lankan military has already achieved its military objectives and essentially won the war. It must not pursue a strategy of annihilation,” the Brussels-based think-tank said.
“The Sri Lankan government must hold off on the final assault to allow adequate supplies of food, water and medical aid to reach the civilian population and to let those civilians who wish to leave to do so.”
“The LTTE has been defeated and must surrender,” the ICG said, adding that the group’s current actions demonstrated its “utter disregard for the Tamil people”.
“The international community should send its strongest possible messages to the LTTE that it must negotiate a surrender. In exchange, key international parties should commit to supervise the surrender and to guarantee the physical protection of any surrendered fighters.”
On the other hand, if the LTTE continues to use civilians as a human shield and forcibly recruit children and adults, the report suggests that its leadership should face international justice for its serious war crimes.
International leaders, in particular the UN secretary-general, Indian prime minister and the president of the US, must press for these actions immediately, the ICG stressed.
mulathiev TARZEN..
umbe Kilinochchi express ekata mokada wune ?
[18 Tamil youths arrested in outskirts of Colombo]
Way to go Sri Lanka. It is imperative that we stop giving LABELS like 'LTTE' to Tamil terrorists. We cannot waste time analyzing if these terrorists are indeed LTTE.
Suspects should be photographed, finger printed and their assets need to be recorded for future confiscation, if convicted.
A terrorist is a terrorist, and only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.
At least now... realistic Sri Lankans need to see how many forces are AFTER US... to grab our resourceful land.
We MUST jettison out-of-date systems and introduce all new laws and regulations for the great country.
If we cannot defeat the terrorism, it's our weakness... not the strength of Tamil terrorists.
[* US doesn't want to advocate talks with LTTE - Ambassador Blake ]
Mr. Blake... It is now time to apply brakes on your unsolicited involvement in Sri Lanka's internal affairs.
Do you expect us to TALK to Tamil terrorists, even if you ADVOCATED doing so?
When, where and how did you qualify to advise us, proud Sri Lankans?
[Military Intelligence and Naval Intelligence have so far identified 30-40 such fighters from among the 'civilians'. They cannot be arrested or detained nor can they be rehabilitated like surrendees. If they are resettled once recovered from the wounds, there is a possibility that they might operate as insurgents from among the civilians.]
is it really true?
if anything SLA nor SL police always kill tamils if they even had a little suspicion they r linked to ltte
i dont believe the above statement
this is DW thinking inside his head then writing it :)
පීටර්ව බයිට් සහ ඇපටයිසර් එකක් හැටියට ගන්නවා මිසක් මේන්-කෝස් එක කරගන්න එපා.
Well said
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Sri Lanka dusts off the begging bowl
Sri Lanka's bill for its war on rebels, declining exports and a failing currency policy have forced an about-face from the government as it seeks US$2 billion from the International Monetary Fund. A boast that Colombo had access to cheap credit without conditions now looks bankrupt
The country had $1.7 billion in gross official reserves at the end of December, sufficient just for 1.5 months of imports, compared with more than $3.5 billion a year earlier.
Senior economist Sirimal Abeyratne from the University of Colombo told Inter Press Service (IPS) that the financial crisis is so acute that Sri Lanka had few choices. ''Otherwise, why ask for money if we have money, particularly from an institution [IMF] that the government didn't want,'' he said.
Hugh Bredenkamp, deputy director of the IMF's strategy, policy and review department and one of the study's authors, said that Ghana and Sri Lanka are good examples of the relatively few low-income countries that, prior to the crisis, had began to get access to international financial markets to help finance their budgets.
Bredenkamp said both countries were hit as the markets essentially shut down. Sri Lanka has seen the spreads on its international borrowing rise to essentially prohibitive levels.
At the same time, both countries have seen foreign investors exiting from their domestic bond markets. So those two avenues for financing budgets are now drying up, Bredenkamp said in the report.
Weerakoon says the swaps and diaspora funds do not work in the short term, a view shared by bank governor Cabraal. ''We have exhausted access to domestic borrowing and international markets [or it has dried up]
conomist Abeyratne said Sri Lanka was in a debt trap, where one had to borrow to pay off debts. ''We are down to our lowest levels. , the government paid close to half a billion dollars in debt payments and this year it will be higher. So we are borrowing to pay off our debt - which is where part of the $1.9 billion IMF facility will go.''
Weerakoon said the debt payments will increase this year once some central bank bonds expire and payments are made. There was also payment to be made to Iran for an oil credit line, she said. ''There is quite a list of payments.''
http://www.vakthaa.tv/v/3320/oddusuddan-ambush
last two days were busy days.. close to 2000 civilians have managed to escape terra clutches. almost all of them through the eastern FDL manned by 58/53 divs.
all though the main FDL is about 3-4 kilks westwords of the NFZ, groups of SF snipers are deployed almost to 400m of the NFZ.
They have taken down 13 targets yesterday alone.
now both 53/58/55/59 are sending sniper teams to hunt down terras guarding escape routes for the civilians.
civilian informants have managed to tip off the recent bomb laden truck departures from within the civilian settlements. Thats how SLA managed to stop any infiltrations easily.
air sorties are done on a daily basis. atleast 2 sorties only from the Kfirs.
further 7 bodies of infiltrators were found in a jungle patch south of puthu. the 50 or so members that managed to breakthru 58 FDL had broken into groups of 10. The guess is about 10 still survive. This group was hunted by Tf4 troops.
oddusudan ambush my hairy black arse.
the video was taken 1998 in kokkavil area.
i dont think we even have those kamaz trucks with us anymore
Duzz, you are posting to the wrong thread.
mobile eka pissu kelinawa ban...
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Hi fellas,
Keith "Rent-a-Gob" Vaz is at it again
For the right kind of treatment & insentives Mr Vaz would no doubt try to white wash Joseph Fritzl and get him clear of any wrong doing.
Navi Pillai,
Go home!
You are not qualified to hold your post!
Colonization:
(Thanks for Dinky Winky and Wijayapala for their responses.)
It is time to do another round of so called colonization. We need to re-settle Sinhalese back in villages created by our ancient kings without disrupting the land occupied by Tamils.
All the provinces in Sri Lanka has to have a uniform ethnic composition. This will ensure each and every person in Sri Lanka get an equal share of access to opportunities. It is time to invite Sinhalese back in to the provinces of N and E. Most importantly, equal ethnic distribution will reduce future crisis related to the territorial integrety of Sri Lanka.
One of the the best way to do this population redistribution of creating permanent military bases in these areas and providing the heroic Sri Lankan soldiers well needed land that was used by their ancestors around the lakes created by ancient Sinhalese kings.
At the end, these areas will see a development benefiting both Sinhalese and Tamils in the area.
This is Sri Lanka for new ages - think about it. Don't let anyone tell you you can't. We were told so many 'you can't' and we have risen above them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x544SZj25Iw
Take us to Yal Panam Lady!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXUCk5NIL5o
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