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 About 11,000 Tiger guerrillas have been killed since the military launched its campaign to secure the Mavil Aru anicut in July 2006, Army Commander Sarath Fonseka told his officers on Friday. The toll was given during his quarterly address to officers of Grade 1 and above. They comprised selected officers from the ranks of Major up to Majors General. Some 200 of them, with the exception of those serving in operational areas, took part in the conference at Army Headquarters.
Lt. Gen. Fonseka said the Army was moving on four different fronts to regain control of the remaining areas in the Wanni. He said on one front, Pooneryn was only some 30 kilometres away. However, he did not identify the fronts in question. He said according to estimates provided by the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), only some 4,000 Tiger guerrillas now remained. |
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 by: Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha
A recent article by a gentleman called Sreeram Chaulia is a wonderful example of the manner in which propaganda against the Sri Lankan government is being piled up in what seems a desperate attempt to shore up the cause of its opponents. This, I fear, includes not only the LTTE, but those in Sri Lanka who have provided Mr. Chaulia with his little quotes that shore up his relentless condemnation of the current elected government and its supporters. Mr. Chaulia, it seems, is a ‘researcher on international affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship in Syracuse, New York’. This it seems qualifies him to generalize on Sri Lanka, along with a ‘month-long tour of Sri Lanka’ that he has just completed. He did not see me during this period, which is strange since I am the only person he mentions by name in his article, except for President Mahinda Rajapakse (and three other world leaders, contemptuously dismissed in what he sees as their seminal contribution to Sri Lankan affairs – ‘It is a fascinating sight in Colombo to behold giant billboards of Rajapakse shaking hands with the Chinese President Hu Jintao, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Gilani. Rajapakse’s “devil may are” defiance of international calls for political solutions is a product of the presence of these sympathetic leaders whose military and diplomatic backing has enabled the army to outgun the LTTE’.) |
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by: Ananth PALAKIDNAR The Bishop of Jaffna Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas Savundharanayagam took part in a religious service at the Madhu Church yesterday for the first time since the shrine was liberated from the LTTE by the Security Forces a month ago. Jaffna Bishop Thomas Savuntharanayagam visited the shrine area and saw the renovation work carried out by the Security Forces, soon after the church was rid of the LTTE presence. Bishop Savuntharanayagam is also the first Bishop, in the Mannar diocese to visit the Madhu church for the first time since the shrine was liberated from the LTTE, Mannar Vicar General Rev. Anthony Victor Sosai told the Sunday Observer. |
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 by: Ananth PALAKIDNAR
The Ministry of Resettlement and Disaster Management has allocated Rs. 15.2 million as compensation to families affected by violence in the Jaffna district, sources said. The allocation was made at the request of Minister of Social Services and Jaffna district Parliamentarian, Douglas Devananda, the sources said. |
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New York – UN Member States met 9th September for the first-ever Symposium on Supporting the Victims of Terrorism. Last week they held a review of the UN’s Global Counter Terrorism Strategy. Both events raised questions concerning the definition of terrorism, which is still being negotiated in the General Assembly (GA).Efforts to draft a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism (CCIT) have been on the agenda of the General Assembly since 1996, with the creation of an Ad Hoc Committee (AHC) “to address means of further developing a comprehensive legal framework of conventions dealing with international terrorism” (Resolution 51/210). Since then, the AHC and the General Assembly’s (GA) Working Group on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism – part of the GA’s Sixth (Legal) Committee – have worked on separate but related aspects of draft negotiations for the CCIT. |
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