நாசமா போன நம்பியாரின் கதையை கேட்டு ஐநா பாதுகாப்பு சபை புலிகளை ஆயுதத்தை வைத்து விட்டு சரணடயட்டாம்;மக்களே பொறுத்தது போதும் பொங்கி எழுங்கள். நாங்கள் பயங்கரவதியாம்;

சகலரும் உடனடியாக கவன ஈர்ப்பினை உச்சகட்டமாக முன்னெடுங்கள்; அல்லது ஸ்ரீ லங்கா இனவெறி அரசு தலைவிரித்து ஆடபோகிறது. இன்னும் பல்லாயிரம் மக்களை நாம் பலிகொடுக்க வேண்டிவரும். எங்கள் பலமே எமக்கு உதவி. உலகிலே வாழ் எட்டு கோடி தமிழரும் எங்கள் பலம் என்ன என்பதை உலகிற்கு கட்டும் நேரம் வந்துவிட்டது.

சர்வதேசமே எட்டு கோடி மக்களையும் நீதான் பயங்கரவாதியாக மாற்றி கொண்டிருக்கிறாய்.

உலக தமிழினமே வாழின் மனத்துடன் வாழ்வோம் இல்லை மறவரை மாள்வோம்

இந்த கன்றாவியையும் ஒருக்கா கேளுங்கோ

Edited April 23, 200916 yr by தேசம்

இந்த ஐநாவின் அறிக்கைக்காகவா நாங்கள் இவ்வளவு நாளும் காத்திருந்தனாங்கள். எல்லாமே உந்த இந்தியாக்காரங்களின் வேலைகள்.

UN Calls on Rebels to Surrender as Sri Lanka Says War Nears End

By Bill Varner and Paul Tighe

April 23 (Bloomberg) -- The United Nations Security Council called on the Tamil Tigers to surrender to help save civilians caught in the conflict as Sri Lanka said rebel resistance is coming to an end in the north.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam must “immediately lay down arms, renounce terrorism, allow UN assistance to evacuate remaining civilians and start a political process through dialogue to put an end to the conflict,” Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, which holds the Security Council’s rotating presidency, said after a meeting in New York late yesterday.

Tamil Tiger fighters can’t “hold out much longer,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday in Colombo after two LTTE leaders, including Daya Master, the group’s spokesman, surrendered.

The LTTE, facing defeat after a 26-year fight for a separate Tamil homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka, is now caught in an 8-kilometer-long (4.9-mile-long) area on the northeast coast, according to the army. Soldiers are advancing after helping about 95,000 civilians flee the area this week.

More than 150,000 displaced people are now in government- controlled areas in the northeast, the military said.

“We urge all parties, including the government, to abide by obligations under international humanitarian law and allow international humanitarian agencies access to those affected by the fighting,” Heller said.

U.S. Comment

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice called the situation “grave” and “dire” in remarks to reporters after the meeting.

“We condemn the action by the LTTE to hold thousands of innocent civilians hostage in the so-called safe zone,” she said. “We think it is absolutely imperative that both sides cease the fighting and heavy shelling that is putting many thousands of civilians in immediate danger.”

About 3,000 rebels have sought protection from the army since January, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said in a telephone interview from Colombo yesterday. The second LTTE leader who surrendered was an aide to S.P. Thamilchelvan, the slain head of the LTTE’s political wing, the military said.

Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE leader, is in the government-declared safe zone near the port of Mullaitivu along with the civilians, according to the military.

“Time is already up for the bloodthirsty brute Prabhakaran and the shaken terrorist lives in borrowed times now,” Rajapaksa said, according to a statement posted on the government’s Web site.

Prabhakaran has “spurned the possibility of a pardon by us,” Rajapaksa said. “By not giving up arms and surrendering as required, he must now face the consequences of his acts.”

Civilians Held

The army is holding thousands of civilians in the northern Wanni region, TamilNet, a Web site that gives reports from the Tamil perspective, said yesterday.

People are moving toward LTTE-held territory to avoid the army, it cited C. Ilamparithi, an LTTE political division official, as saying.

The government accused the Tamil Tigers of firing on civilians as they fled. The LTTE said more than 1,000 civilians were killed in the army’s operation in the zone where a “bloodbath is prevailing,” according to an e-mailed statement from the group’s Peace Secretariat on April 21. The military rejected the accusation.

வல்லரசுகளின் கைக் கூலி ஐ.நாவும் சொல்லி விட்டது நாங்கள் பயங்கரவாதிகள் என்று. இது தமிழரின் பொறுமைக்கு கிடைத்த உன்னதமான வெற்றி.

இன்னும் கொஞ்சம் பொறுமையாக இருத்தல் மிக அவசியம்! ஏனென்றால் மிச்சம் மீதி இருப்போரும் எமிமீது பயங்கரவாதி பட்டம் கட்டுவதற்காக. நிச்சயகாக மீதமுள்ளோரும் எம்மீது பயங்கரவாதிப் பட்டம் கட்டுவார்கள். கொஞ்சம் பொறுத்திருப்போமே!!!!!!

The UN Security Council has called on Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka to lay down their arms and let the UN help evacuate civilians from the warzone.

BBC

The council's president branded the Tigers a terrorist movement and said they should join a political process.

Sri Lanka's army says it has closed in on the last area of rebel resistance in the island's north-east.

The military says more than 100,000 civilians have escaped from the rebel-held area, but many remain trapped.

On Wednesday, Sri Lanka's government said the rebels' media co-ordinator, Daya Master, had given himself up, along with a top interpreter.

Correspondents say the surrenders will be a major setback for the rebel leadership if they are proved to be true.

Tamil Tiger leaders have insisted that rebels should commit suicide by swallowing cyanide capsules rather than be captured.

Human shields

The head of the Sri Lankan army, Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka, told the BBC that troops knew the "general area" of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and that "action will be taken to destroy him".

Prabhakaran was hiding near the coast, Lt Gen Fonseka said.

The general said only 300-400 Tamil Tiger fighters remained, but there may be 700 "forcibly armed" people in rebel bunkers.

The government has said that a pause in fighting is not necessary because additional consignments of food, medicine and other essentials have been dispatched to the war zone.

It says that the rebels are a "spent force" confined to an area no bigger than 12 sq km (five square miles).

The stern message to Sri Lanka's rebels was delivered by the Mexican president of the Security Council, ambassador Claude Heller, after an informal meeting in New York.

"We strongly condemn [the Tamil Tigers] a terrorist organisation for the use of civilians as human shields and for not allowing them to leave the area of conflict," he said.

Mr Heller called on the Sri Lankan government to allow aid agencies in to help those affected by the fighting.

Sri Lanka had not formally been on the Security Council's agenda for Wednesday. But it has faced criticism from advocacy groups for failing to act in the face of the escalating violence.

Diplomats say countries like China and Russia see the situation in Sri Lanka as a civil war rather than a threat to international peace and security, which is the threshold for the council to act, reports the BBC's UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan.

Because the UN meeting was informal - and held in the UN building's basement - nothing binding was agreed which has to be followed up with action, our correspondent adds.

But Western diplomats say a strong statement of concern has been sent from New York which will be closely followed by both the Tamil Tigers and Sri Lanka's government.

France and Britain are talking separately about whether it might be possible to send boats to rescue people who remain trapped on beaches in north-eastern Sri Lanka.

Conflicting reports

Earlier on Wednesday the head of the Tigers' Peace Secretariat, Seevaratnam Puleethevan, told the BBC he had heard media reports two Tamil figures had handed themselves in.

He said that the pair had not been active because of illness and old age.

The army said the number of Tamil civilians who had escaped from rebel-held areas had risen to 77,000. That figure was later raised to 100,000.

The US state department released satellite images of civilian camps consisting of 25,000 tents in a government-designated safe zone - which the army says will not be attacked by heavy armaments - in the dwindling amount of territory still held by the rebels.

The images show the area before the camps were established and after displaced people moved in.

The state department says 120,000 people remain in the war zone.

Conflicting figures

Amid conflicting claims from the ongoing conflict, the Sri Lankan government says that about 30 civilians have been killed in recent days, including 17 in a rebel suicide attack.

There is no confirmation of either side's claims, but the UN estimates that more than 4,500 civilians have been killed in the past three months.