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Archive for March 2009

Sri Lanka rejects latest LTTE call for a ceasefire

Mar 31st, 2009 | By | Category: Daily News

Mar 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka today rejected the LTTE’s latest offer for a ceasefire call saying that the government will not go for any ceasefire with the rebels under any circumstances and the war is to be finished soon. “We will not cave into pressures from any international quarters locally and internationally and will not [...]



LTTE 130mm artillery piece destroyed in Mullaittivu

Mar 31st, 2009 | By | Category: Daily News

Another LTTE 130mm artillery gun was reported destroyed during a combined Air Force – Army precision strike launched in general area Northeast of Puthukkudiyirippu, this morning (March 31) at around 11.30a.m. According to Air Force sources, the attack was launched on real-time ground and air surveillance information received. The artillery gun was engaged with precision [...]



Some foreign nations conspire to give LTTE a lifeline

Mar 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured articles

At a time when the LTTE is breathing its last, some foreign countries are engaged in a conspiracy to give a lifeline to this terrorist movement. These countries support the Government as well as the LTTE simultaneously using their duplicitous character. Steps must be taken to rid this country of terrorism without falling prey to [...]



LTTE casualties mount in last-ditch fighting at Puthukkudiyirippu

Mar 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Daily News

At least 26 LTTE terrorists were killed and over 30 injured in yesterday’s (27) fighting ensued with Sri Lankan security forces in the eastern fringes of Puthukkudiyirippu and Karaiyamullivaikal, Ministry of Defence sources reported. Successive attempts made by LTTE to engage concentrated assaults at the military forward defences North of Iranapalai and East of Puthukudiyirippu [...]



PRO-LTTE LABOUR PARTY M.P. WHO PROPOSED TO EXPEL SRI LANKA FROM THE COMMONWEALTH IS IN HOT WATER FOR IMPROPERLY TAKING TAX PAYER MONEY

Mar 30th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured articles

After Keith Vaz another pro-Tamil Tiger Member of Parliament is in real political trouble in the United Kingdom. Joan Ryan, the Labour Party Member of Parliament who recently proposed that Sri Lanka should be expelled from the Commonwealth of Nations is in hot water for claiming allowance for a second home while living very close [...]



RANIL AND HIS UNP HAVE NO RIGHT TO DICTATE HOW THE SL GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE AIDED BY IMF

Mar 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured articles

Once a great party the UNP has become the worst ever political party in the world today under the worst leadership of Ranil Wickckramasinghe. He is a man without any decent principles but a person having a born skill to destroy Sri Lanka. He never loved his country of birth but dreamed after dream to [...]



How the global wire services slander honest politicians using our own media

Mar 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured articles

The 26 March edition of ‘The Island’ newspaper of Sri Lanka has, presumably inadvertantly, published a classic, slanderous attack by the global wire service Associated Press (AP) on a developing country politician whom they have found ‘uncooperative’ of their agenda. Disguised as a ‘news report’ the attack based on lies, misinformation and opinions targets the [...]



Who crapped on Paradise?

Mar 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured articles

Sri Lanka is a place for all of us to live in harmony. If anyone, especially the Tamil Diaspora thinks that Sri Lanka should be ethnically divided, then, the following is food for thought for you. This is also good for those LTTE sympathisers in our country as well as around the world: Your claim: [...]



LTTE international network: The next major challenge

Mar 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured articles

The Sri Lankan military has destroyed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a conventional military force. Deprived of territory, the separatist group has no choice but to revert to unconventional guerrilla warfare and terrorist tactics. The LTTE’s ability to continue its violent campaign for an ethnic Tamil state in Sri Lanka depends largely [...]



SAM missiles fired from No-Fire-Zone – Puthukkudiyirippu

Mar 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Daily News

TWO Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) helicopters, engaged in assisting evacuation of Army casualties in PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU had a miraculous escape this morning (25) at about 11.00 a.m. when Tigers inside the ‘No Fire Zone’ fired anti-aircraft missiles on them. Both helicopters carrying injured soldiers however continued their mission despite the barrage of LTTE missiles. Tigers [...]