21st December: Troops of Task Force 1 on mission to capture LTTE’s heartland, Kilinochchi, had several confrontations with detected groups of LTTE terrorists in general area Nivil yesterday, 21 December. Army Soldiers attached to 582 Brigade have extended their defences destroying LTTE strong points observed in general area Nivil yesterday. Electronic Warfare sources confirmed that [...]
Appeal by Catholic and Anglican bishops for a ceasefire with the LTTE during the Christmas and New Year season has failed to evoke a positive response from the Sri Lankan government, which vowed to continue with the offensive against the Tamil Tigers. The government on Thursday said it would not go in for a truce [...]
Tamil civilians in Jaffna today (Dec 21) staged a massive protest against atrocities committed against them by the LTTE terrorists. According to the defence.lk special correspondent in Jaffna, over 16000 civilians marched peacefully from Kaithadi to Chawakachcheri this morning displaying banners and placards with slogans against the LTTE. The protestors demanded the LTTE to let [...]
Sri Lanka Navy destroyed a medium-size LTTE logistics vessel carrying a large quantity of war like materials seventy (70) Nautical Miles North-east of Mullaithivu during the early hours today (20th December 2008). The Navy also intercepted a cluster of LTTE boats and destroyed four enemy attack craft, which were abortively attempting to support the enemy [...]
19th Dec, Political analysts see the fuel controversy as a plot by the Sri Lanka main opposition party, UNP to deprive the government of its revenues and stop the on-going war effort against LTTE. A fuel shortage resulted in Sri Lanka due to the clash between the executive and judiciary branches of the government is [...]
Wanni operation video 19th December 2008
Two LTTE sea tiger leaders were killed in an air attack launched by the SLAF MI-24 helicopter gun ships targeting LTTE boat movement this morning, 19 December. Air Force sources confirmed citing Electronic Warfare sources, two woman LTTE sea tiger leaders, Suhandini and Siran, were killed in the air attack launched around 11.45 am targeting [...]
By Ambassador Blake: I was disappointed to read on TamilNet criticism of the US Government’s programmes to help stabilise and develop Eastern Sri Lanka. Since there is no mechanism to respond to TamilNet, I thought I would use the Embassy’s blog to respond to some of the incorrect assertions in the TamilNet article. First, a [...]
What price “Freedom of the Press”? : Reporters Without Borders have taken umbrage at the Sri Lanka government’s action in blocking out the BBC Sinhala service “Sandeshaya” programme rebroadcast by SLBC. The Sri Lankan Diaspora welcomes this move by the Sri Lanka Government and the SLBC. This has been a long time coming.
Obtain battle-ground view of operations, relief measures and abuse of aid by certain aid agencies Defence Advisors/Attaches representing seven nations were offered a battle-field view of the ongoing military operations against the LTTE, described by the Fedaral Bureau of Investigations, USA as the “most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world”. Defence Attaches representing the United [...]
