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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) forces thwartted a pre-dawn attempt by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers and paramilitary cadres of Karuna group from Chenkalady Black Bridge SLA camp in Batticaloa district Wednesday around 3:30 a.m, to advance into Koduvamadu area in LTTE held territory in Batticaloa, sources in Batticaloa said. LTTE recovered the bodies of two paramilitary members killed in the retaliation besides eight T-56 rifles, unconfirmed sources in Batticaloa said. The four injured paramilitary members were first rushed to Chenkalady hospital and later transferred to Batticaloa Teaching hospital. They were identified as Thutchan, Varman, Nesan …

SLA dumps dead soldiers in the stretches of Arippu [TamilNet, Wednesday, 30 January 2008, 17:34 GMT] Sri Lanka Army in Mannaar, while under-reporting their casualties in the fighting, has been dumping tractor-loads of dead soldiers in the delta of Aruvi Aa'ru (Malwattu Oya), the area emptied of people after capturing it from the LTTE last year. Two Sri Lanka Army soldiers, escaping from the battlefield with the help of local residents have said that their fellow troopers killed in the battle were being dumped near a coconut palm grove at Ooral, a locality 1 km south of Aruvi Aa'ru and few kilometers east of the coastline between Arippu and Chilaavatturai. Hun…

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) embarked upon intense attack on the 'safety zone', in the early hours of Sunday, targeting a place called Pachchaip-pulmoaddai, aiming for bifurcating and capturing the northern part of the 'safety zone', initial reports from Vanni said. Heavy shelling and gunfire by the SLA started around 3:15 a.m. in the morning, and within 45 minutes, more than 300 shells exploded inside the civilian area of the safety zone around Pachchaip-pulmoaddai. Heavy civilian casualties are feared. Because of the rains, people are even unable to hide in the bunkers which are flooded, reports said. Meanwhile, since Friday, the SLA was building up heavily on the other side of…

SLA extends fishing ban in Vadamaraadchi [TamilNet, Thursday, 21 June 2007, 18:02 GMT] Sri Lanka Army (SLA) extended the fishing ban imposed in Vadamaraadchi region in Jaffna district on Wednesday, in the wake of the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) and Sea Tiger battle in Point Pedro seas. There was no supply of fish in Vadamaraadchi Thursday. Fishing in the area was already restricted to day time and only one km into the sea from the coast, an impediment cutting down fishermen's catches and income. The SLA fishing ban imposed Wednesday covered areas from Tho'ndaimaanaa'ru to Point Pedro Munai in Vadamaraadchi north and Ampan, Kudaththanai areas in Vadamaraadchi east. …

SLA informant shot dead in Point Pedro [TamilNet, January 08, 2006 12:52 GMT] Sinnarasa Rasaiah, 47, from Vinayaga Mudaliyar (VM) Road in Point Pedro town, and owner of a bakery, was shot and killed at 3.30 pm.m Sunday by unknown gunmen who forced entry into the bakery located within 100 meters of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) 52-4 Brigade Head Quarters within the High Security Zone (HSZ) encompassing the Point-Pedro harbor, sources said. Residents allege that Rasaiah was a military informant. Point Pedro Police has taken the body to the Point Pedro General Hospital in Manthikai for postmortem examinations. The brazen killing within the HSZ, the third murder to …

SLA launches artillery attack on LTTE territory in Vavunathivu [TamilNet, Tuesday, 02 January 2007, 12:22 GMT] Soldiers from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Vavunathivu camp fired mortar and artillery shells from 5:10 a.m Tuesday on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held areas in Vavunathivu in Batticaloa, sources from Batticaloa said. SLA spokesperson Prasath Samarasinghe said the attack was retaliation to the LTTE artillery fire on Vavunathivu SLA camp areas from 5:45 a.m to 6:45 a.m Tuesday. He added that one SLA trooper was injured in the LTTE attack. Unconfirmed reports said that a sentry point on the LTTE Forward Defence Line (FDL) caught fire in the at…

SLA launches artillery barrage in Northern FDL. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna has launched a barrage of artillery shells Sunday early morning into Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) territory across the Northern Forward Defence Line of the Tigers. The artillery barrage continued for more than 4 hours. Heavy artillery firing from Sri Lankan positions in Jaffna started at 4:20 a.m. Normalcy in Vanni has been disturbed as the Sri Lankan forces are stepping up air, naval and ground attacks in the recent days. -Tamilnet-

2ND LEAD SLA launches new offensive towards Vaharai [TamilNet, Friday, 06 October 2006, 05:21 GMT] Sri Lankan forces have launched a new offensive towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled Vaharai region Friday morning. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops from Mankerni SLA camp advanced into LTTE controlled territory south of Vaharai with heavy artillery shelling, Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombardment and rocket fire from the Sri Lanka Navy gunboats, according to civilian sources. Thousands of civilians, most of them recently displaced from Trincomalee, were struggling to flee to safer areas. Civilian casualty figures are yet to be reported. Heavy f…

SLA launches offensive from Muhamalai [TamilNet, August 11, 2006 12:10 GMT] Liberation Tigers Military Spokesman Irasaiah Ilanthirayan said the Sri Lankan troopers launched artillery attacks and began a troop movement towards south. The Tiger fighters were rushed to Muhamalai area in defence, he further said. Further details are not available at the moment.

SLA, LTTE exchange rocket fire at Muhamalai FDL [TamilNet, Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 19:14 GMT] Sri Lanka Army soldiers and LTTE fighters exchanged artillery and rocket fire in Muhamalai sector on the Thenmaradchi division of the Jaffna peninsula, Wednesday. Eight SLA troopers who were injured in Wednesday's shelling were admitted at the Palaly military base hospital. Residents in the northern town said heavy gun fire was heard from the morning till evening. Meanwhile, a Sri Lanka Army soldier was injured in a claymore mine attack at Koolavady in Aanaikoddai. The attack targetted a SLA patrol, civilian sources in the area said. http://www.tamilnet.…

SLAF bombs Verukal ferry [TamilNet, August 04, 2006 13:41 GMT] Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers Friday evening around 5:00 p.m. bombed and destroyed the ferry linking Liberation Tigers controlled Vakarai mainland with Trincomalee south, civilian sources said. Further details are not available at the moment http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=19070

SLAF, SLA attacks tantamount to declaration of war by Colombo, Elilan tells SLMM [TamilNet, July 29, 2006 16:49 GMT] Liberation Tigers Trincomalee District Political Head S. Elilan, in an urgent letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major General Ulf Henricsson Saturday evening said that artillery attacks by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and air strikes by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in the Liberation Tigers controlled territories in the Northeast, tantamounted to Declaration of War by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) against the LTTE. "It is now appropriate for the SLMM to declare publicly that the ceasefire agreement is not holding anymor…

SLN ship under atack off Pulmoddai coast [TamilNet, August 01, 2006 15:13 GMT] The Jetliner ship which escaped in Trincomalee attack Tuesday afternoon with about eight hundred SLA soldiers has come under attack again in the Pulmoddai sea bound for north from six in the evening Tuesday, military sources said. Kfir jets have gone to the area in support of the ship. Villagers of Kokilai, Pulmoddai and other areas close to the Pulmoddai Sea are fleeing from their houses.

Combined by Nanni Chozhan from various sources and first released in Wikipedia. The Sea Tigers have been accused of hijacking 4 Sri Lankan supply vessels in the waters of Sri Lanka namely Irish Mona (in August 1995), Misen (in July 1997) Morong Bong (in July 1997) and Princess Kash (in August 1998) but it destroyed by Sri Lankan Navy's Airforce along with cargo in it. They have also dismantled equipment from a drifted vessel named MV Farah III (in December 2006). In the year 1996, Lawrence Thilakar, a member of the LTTE central committee, said that the Tigers would target both Sri Lankan military inside and outside supply lines.[38] A second development w…

Soldiers' families 'not paid enough' Families of killed soldiers are paid only Rs.150,000 for over 23 years Disabled soldiers in Sri Lanka have accused the authorities of ignoring their plight and that of the families of killed service personnel. Asoka Dayaratne, of Organisation for Disabled Soldiers, said the compensation paid for war victims is not adequate. "For over 23 years, families of a killed soldier is still paid mere Rs.150,000," he told BBC Sandeshaya. Families of late Generals, Denzil Kobbekaduwa and Vijaya Wimalaratne were also paid just Rs. 150,000 Disabled Soldiers' Organisation He recalled that fam…

When Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed the Tamil Homeland killing seven Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres on Thursday 27 July 2006 he was silent. When Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed the Thenam Conference Centre killing eight Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres on Thursday Saturday 29 July 2006 he was silent. When Sri Lanka Army launched offensive to capture Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) administered Mavilaaru on Sunday 30 July 2006 he was silent. When the residents of Mavilaaru complained of promised water facilities not materialising he was silent. When around a million Tamil fishermen complained of not being a…

Solheim to give up Sri Lanka role Mr Solheim at last month's Geneva talks Norway's peace envoy to Sri Lanka, Erik Solheim, has announced that he will soon give up the job. Mr Solheim told journalists in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, that he wanted to concentrate more on his job as overseas development minister. Mr Solheim has played a central role in moves to resolve Sri Lanka's civil war. Last month he brokered the first face-to-face talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels in three years. 'Above expectations' At the end of those talks, in Geneva, the Sri Lankan government and the Tigers agreed to curb violence and rene…

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Somali sex gang groomed and raped underage British schoolgirls saying it was 'part of their culture' Men ranging in age from 18 and 22, encouraged girls, one of who was just 13, to have sex with them in a flat and hotel rooms http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/somali-sex-gang-groomed-raped-4706033?ICID=FB_mirror_main This is the shocking moment a member of a brutal prostitution gang checked into a hotel to rape a 13-year-old girl. In the sickening CCTV shot, twisted Jusuf Abdirizak, 20, is seen at the reception of the Premier Inn in Bristol where he and Said Zakaria, 22, attacked the terrified girl. The teenager had been traffic…

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Some say terror label prolongs Sri Lanka war By jared ferrie Publish Date: 28-Sep-2006 The streets of Jaffna were lined with government soldiers. Posted every 50 metres, leaning up against pockmarked walls, or standing in the thin shadow of a tree in the blazing sun. They rode slowly by on bicycles, in the back of tractor trailers, and cruised past in truck convoys. Within months of this early summer scene, the uneasy calm would erupt into open battle with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers, or LTTE). There were checkpoints all the way from Jaffna town southeast to the peninsula’s narrow Elephant Pass. Since 1998, …

Sri Lanka: Some Thoughts on LTTE's Military Response - Update No 147 By Col R Hariharan (Retd.) [This is the second part of SAAG Note No 458 "Sri Lanka: War after the fall of Vidattalthivu- Part 1–Update No146" dated July 21, 2008 available at http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/notes5/note458.html] During the last one week, Sri Lanka army has kept up its momentum of advance. According to defence sources, the troops of 57 Division are on the periphery of line Tunukkai-Mallavi, west of A9 highway. We can expect them to secure the line from Vellankulam on the coast to Mallavi during the course of the week The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)'s faile…

Stating that she shared the concerns of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi regarding Sri Lankan Tamils issue, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi has told him that she "shall take up the matter" with the external affairs minister. "I share your concern regarding the disturbing developments in Sri Lanka vis-a-vis the Tamils. I shall take up the matter with the Minister of External Affairs (Salman Khurshid)," she said in her January 30, 2013 letter to Karunanidhi. The Congress president's response to a January 19, 2013 letter by Karunanidhi was posted on DMK leader's page in micro-blogging site Twitter. In identical letters to Gandhi …

The revelation by a scientific monitoring institute in the United States that Pakistan is building a powerful new nuclear reactor has left many in Washington and Delhi wondering. Could it be that the report by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (Isis) was released at a time when it may derail the US-India nuclear agreement? The landmark deal allowing the US to sell civilian nuclear technology to India - for the first time in three decades - is expected to be ratified by the US Congress later this week. Nervous supporters of the deal see the report, which says that Pakistan is capable of using the reactor to produce enou…

Tensions between India and Pakistan cause deep concern internationally, largely because both countries have nuclear arsenals. Both are also relatively new nuclear powers and there are concerns that neither fully understands the nuclear doctrine of the other. India and Pakistan stunned the world with back-to-back nuclear tests in May 1998, sparking fears of an arms race on the sub-continent. Unlike Russia and the United States, they are not bound by any treaty obliging them to reveal the extent of their arsenals. And perhaps most worryingly, no one knows for sure how many warheads each country has. Experts fear that India and Pakistan do not have the mutua…