Tournament favourites Delhi Daredevils turned in a thoroughly professional performance in the clash of the heavyweights at SuperSport Park, beating Deccan Chargers by six wickets. Tillakaratne Dilshan proved his worth yet again with an unbeaten fifty to steer his team to 149; he was supported by Dinesh Karthik, who finally delivered with the bat after [...]
Apr 30, Vavuniya: The mobile hospital donated by the French government has commenced its operations at Chettikulam in Vavuniya yesterday. The Ministry of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services said that the new mobile hospital is equipped with 100 beds and all other medical equipments. Nearly 30 French medical personnel including few specialist doctors are working [...]
We have at no time gone for a ceasefire. We will not do so now. There is no time for that now. In the five or six days remaining we have given the opportunity for the LTTE to lay down their arms and surrender to the Armed Forces and, even in the name of God, [...]
Colonel R Hariharan is a retired military intelligence officer. He is a prolific writer on insurgency and terrorism. His comments on developments in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka [Images] are regarded highly professional and rational. He served in Sri Lanka as the head of intelligence for the Indian Peace Keeping Force between 1987 and 1990. [...]
During the past 48 hours security forces led by 58 Division infantrymen have advanced further South of Rektavaikkal, shrinking the remaining swathe of land to a near 7sq.kms where LTTE terrorists are expected to face its end game, military sources said. The 58 Division troops advancing South and the 53 Division flanking west of Vellamullivaikkal [...]
“My problem is not what the LTTE will do to you,” the Defence Secretary said, “instead it is that should such a thing happen, we would not be able to take Prabhakaran as planned!”. He said after thirty years, the time had come finally for Prabhakaran and other terrorist leaders to be captured dead or [...]
The LTTE is trying to use 20,000 or more Tamil civilians as human shields and hostages, in an eight square kilometer enclave along a beach in northeast Sri Lanka. All this is an attempt to avoid defeat at the hands of the army, which is intent on capturing or killing any LTTE leaders remaining there. [...]
Toronto, April 30 Acting tough for the first time with Tamil protesters here, police arrested 15 of them Wednesday as they tried to push their way towards the American consulate. Waving Canadian and LTTE flags, thousands of Tamils have been protesting outside the consulate since Sunday seeking US pressure on Sri Lanka to stop its [...]
The Unilateral Ceasefire declared by the LTTE is a total bluff as Tiger terrorists have made seven suicide attempts within 24 hours using human bombs, explosive laden truck, motorbikes and a double cab against the troops operating in Rettavaikkal, Government Defence Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said yesterday. Minister Rambukwella said Tiger cadres have blown off [...]
Sri Lanka said the army’s intervention to free thousands of civilians held by Tamil Tiger rebels prevented a “bloodbath” in the north, where the military is fighting to end a 26-year insurgency. “The dire warnings by some of our friends in the international community of a bloodbath if the security forces entered the no-fire zone [...]
29 April 2009 – The estimated 50,000 people still trapped in the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka are at great risk and the top priority must be to get them out as quickly as possible, the top United Nations relief official stressed today, again appealing for a further humanitarian pause in the fighting. “These [...]
The United States has decided to delay a $1.9 billion (1.28 billion pounds) International Monetary Fund loan to Sri Lanka to try to pressure Colombo to do more to help civilians caught in the fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The officials, who spoke on condition they not [...]
“My problem is not what the LTTE will do to you,” the Defence Secretary said, “instead it is that should such a thing happen, we would not be able to take Prabhakaran as planned!”. He said after thirty years, the time had come finally for Prabhakaran and other terrorist leaders to be captured dead or [...]
A former spokesman for the Tamil Tigers who surrendered last week has accused the rebels of shooting dead at least 200 civilians, and forcibly recruiting children as young as 13. Velayudam Dayanidi, better known as Daya Master, made the accusations in a video interview released today on the Defence Ministry’s website ten days after surrendering [...]
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