“Who Killed Cock Robin”? Not I, said the Sparrow With my Bow and Arrow” The above lines from an old nursery rhyme recur constantly in my mind when looking at the controversy surrounding the deaths of some senior leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) in the early hours of May 18th 2009. Balasingham [...]
Sri Lanka will study a call by the United Nations for a report on the alleged shooting of surrendering Tamil rebel leaders by the army, saying the accusation is “baseless” and a humiliation for the country. The government in Colombo said it will make a formal response to the request made by Philip Alston, the [...]
Colombo – The Sri Lanka Navy has seized a ship reported to have been used by Tamil rebels to smuggle weapons, the Defence Ministry said Monday. The vessel, known as the MV Princess Cristina, was escorted to Colombo harbour, the ministry said. It did not say where the 89-metre-long ship was seized or the country [...]
The Sri Lankan government on Sunday denied claims by a former army chief, who has turned presidential poll candidate, that orders had gone out not to spare rebel leaders who were willing to surrender during the final phase of the civil war which ended in May. The final phase of the bloody war, which killed [...]
In an act of tremendous political-military significance, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday ceremonially opened a national war memorial at Pudumattalaan, near the site where LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed.The memorial is located near the mangroves in Nanthikadal lagoon where Prabhakaran fell to the bullets of the Sri Lankan forces in the third [...]
The intelligence wing of the LTTE has cautioned the Tamil people not to give credence to any speech one of its intelligence operatives may give on Martyrs Day on Friday as he is now in the custody of the Sri Lankan army. A press release e-mailed by one Kathirkamathambi Arivazhagan, in charge of external intelligence [...]
TORONTO — Canadian immigration officials arrested an Indian man in Toronto on Thursday after he gave a fiery speech at an event where the flag of the outlawed Tamil Tigers rebels was flown. Sebastian Seeman, who was in Canada on a speaking tour, was taken into custody by Canada Border Services Agency officers and questioned [...]
Human Rights Watch has warned the Sri Lankan government against arbitrary detention of suspected opposition fighters, as the country prepares to free 130,000 Tamil refugees held in camps. The international rights group said on Wednesday that it has been informed that some camp residents were told that they would be moved to other detention camps rather than be given [...]
The toughest sentence of seven years in was given to Nadaraja Matinthiran, whom the court heard was the leader of the LTTE. A French court on Monday jailed 21 Tamil Tiger militants convicted of extorting millions of euros from the Tamil diaspora in France to fund their armed campaign in Sri Lanka. The toughest sentence [...]
There seems no difference between the Colombo Hindu College Ratmalana and any other school, except for the armed police officers guarding the gate. The college in the Sri Lankan capital is a government rehabilitation center established exclusively for former child soldiers of the Tamil Tiger, a rebel group that was defeated by the government troops [...]
Mahinda Rajapaksa did what Mahinda Rajapaksa does best at the National Convention of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He played ‘politician’, ‘man of the people’, ‘Mr. Congeniality’ to perfection. He walked in the rain among the party loyalists, thereby instantly re-establishing rapport with the ground troops he will need at election time. He did not [...]
Ever since the war in Sri Lanka moved towards a devastating climax early this year the propaganda war has hotted up. With many arms all over the world, the pro-Tamil Tiger elements have easily bested the government of Sri Lanka in this rhetorical game. If one spins lies, it is wise to take up half-truths, [...]
The CID has arrested the LTTE cadre who brought a lorry laden with explosives to Colombo to be used in the 1996 Central Bank suicide attack. Police media spokesman SSP I. M. Karunaratne said yesterday the suspect known as Sellathamby Navaratnam, had come to the cleared areas from the Vallamullivaikkal with civilians fleeing the LTTE [...]
Following the recent exposures from the recently arrested leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam rebel movement, the government of Sri Lanka has decided to appoint a senior military intelligence officer as Sri Lanka Ambassador for Eritrea. The New Ambassador previously acted as the Director of Military Intelligence of Sri Lanka Army. According to [...]
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