Wednesday, December 27, 2006
NEW ALERT IN KATTANTKUDY COSATL REGION
An Eruptive crack on earth measuring ten metres has been noticed by the residents of the area at
The site of the crack is within 225 meters from the sea coast and the people fear that this may be a sign of an impending Tsunami. They have already informed of this to the Kattankudy Divisional Secretary, who has already visited the place in person and asked officials concerned to investigate into the matter.
Why the international interventionists failed in Sri Lanka
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The various phases of the history of peace-making in
The hidden side of the so-called peace process, not aired very much in public discourses, is the role of the key international players that rock the cradle and pinch the baby.
The following three cases, picked at random, highlight the crisis exacerbated by these international interventionists:
Case 1: Staff reporter, Surya Bhattacharya of the Toronto Star (Dec. 6, 2006) reported: “Other than listing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as a terrorist organization, the Canadian government has done little to curb fundraising by the banned group in Canada, Human Rights Watch says.
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Bhattacharya adds: “Following visits by two members who identified themselves as raising funds for the organization, Rajan Mahavalirajan called the police.
The men told Mahavalirajan, a business owner, that they were collecting money on behalf of the organization to buy surface-to-air missiles in
Moral: It took years for
Case 2: Lord Naseby (speaking in the House of Lords): My Lords, is the Minister aware that the Tamil Tigers are still recruiting child soldiers in north-east Sri Lanka; that the suicide bomber was a pregnant young woman; and that the Tamil Tigers still proclaims that it wishes to have peace in that country? Meanwhile, the Minister says that proscription is tough on those proscribed. Is he aware, nevertheless, that there is continual money laundering in the United Kingdom; that illegal rallies take place under the flags of Tamil Eelam; that bogus charities are being set up; and that TTN is broadcasting Tamil Eelam propaganda in the UK? He may say that the issues are dealt with toughly and rest with other government bodies, but is he aware that the proscription is being flouted? Is it not the responsibility of the Home Office and the Government in general to make sure that proscription means what it is meant to mean and that it is not just flouted almost daily?
Lord Howell of
In the House of Commons the following questions and answers were recorded:
Patrick Mercer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what checks are in place of fundraising charities associated with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the United Kingdom; [99675] (2) which fundraising organisations in the United Kingdom have been identified as having links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [99679]
Mr. McNulty (Tony McNulty MP is Minister of State for policing, security and community safety) replied:
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) were proscribed under Section 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in March 2001. It is an offence to be a member of the LTTE, or provide or show support for it. (House of Common written answers for November 7, 2006)
Moral: Lord Naseby has put it succinctly: “the proscription is being flouted” and “is it not the responsibility of the Home Office and the Government in general to make sure that proscription means what it is meant to mean and that it is not just flouted almost daily?” Minister McNulty’s reply amounts to this: Yes, they were banned in March 2001. It is an offence to provide or show support for it. But we let them run their show flouting our law because we are more bothered about Islamic terrorists.
The British politics of writing a law into it statute books and turning the other way when the law is flouted is typical of the Western attitude towards terrorism in
Case 3: TIME magazine in its first ever cover story on Sri Lankan exposed in detail the Indian RAW operations to destabilize its “friendly neighbour”. Since then research scholars have documented how
Moral: Blaming
In summary, these three cases highlight (1) the Indian origins, (2) the Western sources of funding and the purchasing and exporting of arms under the very noses of the global coalition of fighting terrorism and (3) the abandonment of the responsibilities of these two interventionists to a democratically elected government threatened by one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world. Though these countries are signatories to UN Security Council Resolution 1373, which categorically bans any financing of terrorist activities in their respective countries, the three cases highlighted here establish that they prefer to play the sanctimonious role of Pontius Pilate blaming
The available evidence, going even beyond these three cases, establishes that the international community’s complicity with the evil of terrorism is inexcusable and unacceptable. Washington Times (December 17, 2006) hit the nail on the head when it wrote: “A successful peace accord cannot be reached in Sri Lanka until the financial support for the terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam can be altogether strangled.”
Washington Times concluded by saying: “To bring the Tamil Tigers into meaningful and lasting cease-fire agreement, and stop the violence that is besieging the small nation, it's fund-raising activities in the West will need to be stopped. As long as the Tamil Tigers have the support of funds flowing in from outside
This squarely and fairly places the onus of ending terrorism in
If, for instance, a Sri Lankan Air Force bombs target a military training camp of the Tamil Tigers packed with adolescent students recruited from schools in the Vanni the Western and Indian diplomats march into the Foreign Office to lodge their protests, with Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, trailing her moralistic saree behind her. But who is there to tell the Western diplomats that their states, acting collectively as Allies in World War II, violated humanitarian laws on an unprecedented scale when they dropped 80 million incendiary bombs to blast Hitler’s
Leaving aside
These interventionists never hesitate to use weapons of mass destruction without any inhibitions when the necessity arises to defend their states against internal or eternal enemies threatening their sovereignty or borders. In recent times the Western “coalition of the willing” collectively used the UN to impose economic sanctions against Saddam’s one-man regime in Iraq and starved 600,000 children to deaths caused by malnutrition and related illnesses, according to internal UN reports. (Will Ms. Coomaraswamy send her rock- ‘n- rolling ambassadors to investigate this horrendous crime against children?).
Yet in the recent shortages of food in
Of course, they have not stopped at just moralizing and using the big stick of aid to force
Big powers are, of course, born with a genetic condition that prevents them from deriving any intelligent conclusions from their failed experiments in the past. Their vaunted think-tanks are hardly superior to a tank full of stunned mullets or smug frogs. These interventionists have failed in the past and they have not paused to ponder why their prescriptions have failed in
Nor will they concede that one of the primary causes is the terrorist virus cultured in their own backyard and exported to
Their tendency to scapegoat the Sri Lankan government is like Hitler blaming the Jews for the ills of
They repeat the same mistake in
The Tamil Tigers got Loganathan Kethiswaran, the deputy head of the Peace Secretariat, in
It was meant to be an information meeting for Tamil refugees in
"Suddenly," wrote Hagvaag, "between forty and fifty people came into the room and shouted slogans supporting the Tigers. Then they went on the attack." They were attacked with table-legs, chairs, chilli and fists by the Tigers.
Loganthan, who was warded in Oslo Casualty Clinic with bandages round his head, told Hagvaag:" "I took the blow to the head and fell to the floor. They went on hitting me while I lay here. They kicked me and hit me in the ribs and in the head. Afterwards I sat down in a sofa holding my head in my hands. Then I felt my eyes burning. It was chilli pepper."
Hagvaag report adds: "He had to have ten stitches in his head. One of his ribs had punctured lung."
Why was he attacked? He was the spokesman for the EPRLF in
Kandiah Premachandran, said: “This is the first time in my political career anything like this happened to me."
Hagvaag reported: "He had several stitches on his head and his dark suit was stained with chilli. The Tigers hate other Tamil political groups, including the EPRLF. In the bloody civil war in
Visiting Tamil MPs and
When I met Erik Solheim, the peace facilitator, in the foreign Office in
Eliminating Tamil rivals of the Tigers on the basis that they were "the sole representative of the Tamils" was a theoretical line plugged by Anton Balasingham and accepted uncritically and willingly by Solheim and Wickremesinghe. This theoretical construction was a peak point in the mono-ethnic extremism that refused to tolerate opposition even within the ranks of the Tamils.
Like all other myths of Jaffna Tamil politics this was another fiction fabricated to justify tier superior exclusiveness and extremism. It served as a theoretical justification for the exclusion or elimination of those who stood in the way of the authoritatarian regime of Prabhakaran.
There is no known theory in pluralistic democracy which has accepted a single individual or party as the "sole representative" of any community. Solheim showed an extraordinary inclination to go along with this wild fantasy of Balasingham. He too was operating on two-party negotiations between the Government and the Tigers brushing aside the need to conduct multi-party negotiations, including the Muslims and even the dissident Tamils like Karuna representing the Tamils of the east. Balasingham's bogus theory of the Tigers being "the sole representatives of the Tamils" was acceptable to Solheim because he could ignore the swelling pressures of ground realities. It was tantamount to appeasing only armed group to impose a solution dictated by the gun and not on the aspirations of all communities. Solheim was going nowhere with his partisan theories and politics. Nevertheless, he persisted in going down this failed track with the full knowledge that Prabhkaran's intransigent politics would not rescue him or the peace process.
Disarming the Tamil rivals to empower the Tigers was a total disaster. It is the fore behind this theory that led to the liquidations of the Tamils rivals, from Amirthalingam to Neelan Tiruchelvam.
But Solheim didn't have to go that far back in history to find out the grim realities of the theories, slogans and justifications that came out of the mono-ethnic extremism of the north. What happened to Kethiswaran in
Besides,
Leaders of Tamil rival parties in
They see Erik Solheim as a Tiger sympathizer who wouldn’t even respond to their calls. I must admit that Solheim did give an appointment to one of the Norwegian Tamil leaders after I made representations to him. But I was told later than nothing had changed. The Norwegian politicians and authorities continue to ignore the grievances of its Tamil citizens threatened by the Tiger agents hoping it would go away in time. But it hasn’t. Erik Solheim, the Norwegian Foreign office and the Norwegian government are fully aware of the plight of the dissident Tamils in
The Sri Lankan Diaspora in
This is a damning indictment of
Karuna’s allegations of the corrupt practices of Solheim do not seem to be far-fetched at all. Political corruption takes on many shapes at different levels. Isn't it coruption of the most nefarious kind when the Norwegians have opened their territory for the Tigers to raise funds, beat up their rivals, run websites (nitharsanam.com) by Tamil messengers of deaths, which, incidentally, forecast the death of Lakshman Kadirgamar, the Sri Lankan foreign minister, fund Tiger terrorism through INGOs like Red Bana, appoint ambassadors to cover-up Tiger atrocities, manage truce monitors who rush to condemn Sri Lankan government but find it very difficult to move when the Tigers are caught red handed etc? What chances are there for peace to progress on a level playing field if
Looking back, it is all to clear now that the peace process was doomed from the day
Besides, no peace facilitator can afford to lose the confidence of one or the other party. For the Norwegians to play the role of the honest peace-broker they have to win the confidence of both parties. Anything short of that is to sink all hopes even before they could sail out of the harbor on the long and arduous voyage of bringing back the Golden Fleece of peace to the war-weary people of
Last but not the least, the Sri Lankan delegations at the
Not everybody in
Besides, Solheim relied too much on Balasingham without realizing that he was merely his master’s voice -- ironically a position confirmed when Balsingham honored him with the title of the Voice of the Nation.. Solheim came a cropper with his Ceasefire Agreement – his only claim to fame (or is it ill-fame?) – because he relied excessively on the word of Balasingham who gave a devious “Yes” in Oslo knowing that his master, whom he knows better than anyone else, would say “No” in Vanni. This confirms amply that Solheim has failed, as stated by Dr. Subramanian Swamy, to grasp even the fundamentals operative in the peace process.
Tragically, it is the war-weary people of
3 rebels, policeman killed in Sri Lankan violence
Associated Press, Wed December 27, 2006 06:03 EST . - - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Government forces killed three suspected Tamil rebels in two separate incidents in Sri Lanka - 's volatile northeast on Wednesday, while a roadside bomb blamed on the rebels killed a policeman, the military said.
The rebels say they are fighting to create a separate homeland for the country's 3.1 million ethnic minority Tamils, who face discrimination at the hands of the majority Sinhalese.
The government says it can give limited autonomy to Tamils, but only within a united
Skirmishes continue with heavy losses to the LTTE
The fresh round of violence unleashed by the LTTE terrorists since the Christmas Day is still continuing in the North and East, military sources said.
In the latest episode of these skirmishes, the Special Task Force personnel killed an LTTE cadre who had lobbed a hand grenade at them at Kuruppalmadam in Batticaloa this afternoon.
The STF personnel received information from a Tamil civilian in the area that a group of LTTE cadres had been setting up a claymore mine on the road leading to Ambalanthurai. The STF personnel who rushed to the location were attacked by the terrorists with a hand grenade to which the soldiers retaliated to.
On the subsequent search operation the Soldiers found a body of a slain LTTE cadre, a claymore mine, an electrical switch and a 50m- wire roll.
Meanwhile, at Mahindapura in Trincomalee a soldier suffered injuries as the LTTE terrorists fired mortar shells at the Army camp at Mahindapura, Tuesday morning around 11.45.
In the northern theatre, the Army soldiers gunned down two LTTE cadres who had attempted to penetrate into the security forces defence line at Muhamalai around 5 this morning. The soldiers also found a T-56 machine gun, two magazines and a GPS device along with the two bodies of the LTTE cadres.
Separately, the Army troops on the search operation in Navanthurai area, found another body of a slain LTTE cadre, Tuesday morning around 11.40. The LTTE cadre was believed be a member of the group of LTTE cadres who had lobbed hand grenades at the Army soldiers on the Christmas day. Five more LTTE cadres were killed in the security forces retaliation to the attack that took place on the Christmas Eve.
In Vavuniya, the LTTE terrorists lobbed a hand grenade at the office belonging to PLOT, a popular Tamil political party, around 7.25 Tuesday night. However, no casualties were reported in this incident.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Asian nations remember the 230,000 killed in 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
Associated Press, Tue December 26, 2006 03:51 - Associated Press Writer - Entire villages were swept to sea in
``I cannot forget ... it feels like it happened just yesterday,'' said Zaldi Setiawan in Aceh, where an estimated 167,000 people died, including his two children, who were ripped from his arms by the waves.
``I can still imagine their faces,'' he said, joining scores of other Acehnese in prayers at mass graves that contain tens of thousands of corpses.
The drill on Indonesia's resort island of Bali which involved warnings sent from the capital to radios along the beach occurred hundreds of kilometers (miles) to the east and was as much about raising awareness as testing technology deployed in the country.
Sirens wailed as crowds, many of them school children, briskly walked inland from the shore, accompanied by
``The biggest challenge is working with the people to make them aware,'' said German geologist Harald Spahn, who is helping
In
Sharon Howard, a 39-year-old British tourist who lost her fiancee and two children in the disaster, attended one memorial but said being there made her ``very sad, very sad.''
``I miss them. They were my life,'' she said, tears pouring down her cheeks. ``I wish I could turn back time and they could all come back.''
In Sri Lanka - , the resurgence of a civil war has added to the misery of survivors and slowed efforts to rebuild sparking criticism from outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who urged Tamil Tiger rebels and the military to lay down their arms.
``No one could have prevented the tsunami's wave of destruction,'' he wrote in a statement. ``But together, we can stem the tide of conflict, which threatens once again to engulf the people of
In
Volunteers were replanting mangroves in
The 2004 tsunami generated an unprecedented outpouring of generosity, with donor pledges reaching some US$13.6 billion (euro10.3 billion), but many of those homeless complain they are stuck with poorly built structures that leak, are termite-infested or located in flood zones.
Corruption has also marred the process, with several private organizations forced to delay projects or rebuild homes after contractors and suppliers ran off with the funds.
Seven Western nations sent a letter to Thai police saying up to 60 percent of the US$1.6 million set aside to help identify the dead in that nation appears to have been misused.
The money may have gone toward travel and other miscellaneous costs, the letter said, calling for an investigation.
Sri Lanka rebels forced way onto Jordan ship-crew
Associated Press writers Rungrawee C. Pinyorat in Khao Lak, Gavin Rabinowitz in New Delhi, Vijay Joshi in Kuala Lumpur and Bharatha Mallawarachi in Hikkaduwa contributed to this report.
Two of the 25-member crew suffered injuries when they were ordered off the stricken Farah III and pushed into boats by the rebels, Ramiz Abdul Jabbar told a news conference.
Jabbar and his crew were brought to Colombo by the Red Cross on Monday after they were freed by the rebels, two days after their ship's engines failed, leaving it adrift off the Mullaittivu coast.
The rebels said they had come to the crew's rescue after the ship began drifting in rough seas.
The ship, carrying a cargo of rice from
"They ordered us to leave the ship, they fired four shots to make us jump into boats," Jabbar, flanked by Sri Lankan navy officials, said.
One of the crew, Shareef, who came to the conference in a wheelchair, said he was injured in the back after the rebels forced him into a boat.
"There were no seats in the boats, I was hit by the water when it moved," he said.
Jabbar said six armed men boarded his ship. "They had explosives, they said they wanted to blow up the anchor," he said.
Once the crew, a mix of Jordanians and Egyptians were brought ashore, they were given food, water and clothes, he added.
The ship has since run aground, some three miles off the coast, its owners said. "We want our ship back, we want the cargo but this can only be done by governments," said Jemal Alzeghari, a representative of the shipping company. He put the value of the ship and its cargo at $10 to $12 million.
The spat comes at a time when the Tigers, fighting for an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the east and north, are locked in daily artillery duels with the military.
The violence has killed more than 3,000 people so far this year and forced thousands to flee.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Sri Lanka to rescue crew of Jordanian ship from north
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military will mount an operation to rescue the crew of a Jordanian ship which drifted into waters near a Tamil Tiger stronghold, truce monitors said on Sunday, the latest flashpoint in renewed fighting in the island.
The ship carrying a cargo of rice drifted off the Mullaittivu coast in the island's war-torn northeast early on Saturday after mechanical failure.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam earlier said the 25 crew of the Farah III were safe and that they were trying to arrange for their return through the International Red Cross.
The captain of the stricken vessel told Reuters over telephone from the de facto rebel capital of Kilinochchi that he and his crew were in good health.
"They have taken care of us, extended great hospitality," said Ramis Jabhar, the Iraqi captain of the ship which he said was now anchored off the Mullaittivu coast.
The head of the LTTE peace secretariate S.Puleedevan, who was also on the phone call, said a meeting was being held with the Red Cross later on Sunday to organise the crew's safe passage home.
But the Sri Lankan military has accused the Tamil Tigers of forcibly boarding the vessel while it was drifting in the seas, with its cargo of 14,000 tonnes of rice bound for South Africa from India.
International monitors overseeing a tattered 2004 ceasefire between the Sri Lankan military and the Tamil Tigers also weighed in, saying the rebels must respect international law.
"The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has conveyed to the LTTE that the government will conduct a rescue mission to salvage the ship and its crew. SLMM has strongly advised LTTE to allow for this operation to be executed without any delay," the mission said in a statement.
The military said attempts to establish contact with the ship had failed and it was believed that the LTTE's Sea Tigers had disconnected the communication systems.
The crew consisted of Jordanians and Egyptians, the military said.
"The armed pirate act by the LTTE is a clear violation of international maritime laws and the navy has found it difficult to react due to the presence of the ship's crew," the military said.
The standoff over the ship comes at a time when the Tigers, fighting for an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the north and east, are locked in daily artillery duels with the military which has forced thousands of people to flee.
In fresh fighting on Sunday, the rebels fired artillery and mortar bombs in Batticaloa area in the east, the military said, adding soldiers returned the fire. No damages were reported.
More than 3,000 civilians, troops and rebel fighters have been killed so far this year in a series of ambushes, air raids, ground and naval battles and suicide bombings.
However the fighting has been largely confined to the north and east, and many fear an all-out return to a war that has killed more than 67,000 people since 1983 could spread throughout Sri Lanka and be catastrophic.
FEATURE - First tsunami, now war: Sri Lanka survivors can't win
VINAYAGAPURAM CAMP, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Squatting under a makeshift shelter in a refugee camp in volatile east Sri Lanka, grating coconut for a curry as monsoon rains thunder down, tsunami survivor Kamalini Kandasamy has seen it all before.
The 26-year old and her husband had expected to spend the second anniversary of the island's worst natural disaster in their rebuilt home on the tsunami-battered east coast. Instead they are on the run again -- this time from renewed civil war.
Kandasamy and her family are among thousands who have fled Tamil Tiger rebel-controlled territory in the eastern district of Batticaloa to escape the crossfire of fierce artillery battles and air raids. She paid an unimaginable price.
"When the bombs fell, I started running and fell in the shock," she told Reuters, tears welling in her piercing blue eyes. "I was 9 months pregnant. I was immediately taken to hospital. My child was stillborn."
"We do not know what the future holds for us. Now I am told my house was damaged by shelling," she added. "If peace really returns, I would prefer to go back. That's my place."
More than 3,000 people have been killed this year in a series of air raids, ambushes, land battles and suicide attacks as the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fight a new chapter in a two-decade civil war.
The ship carrying a cargo of rice drifted off the Mullaittivu coast in the island's war-torn northeast early on Saturday after mechanical failure.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam earlier said the 25 crew of the Farah III were safe and that they were trying to arrange for their return through the International Red Cross.
The captain of the stricken vessel told Reuters over telephone from the de facto rebel capital of Kilinochchi that he and his crew were in good health.
"They have taken care of us, extended great hospitality," said Ramis Jabhar, the Iraqi captain of the ship which he said was now anchored off the Mullaittivu coast.
The head of the LTTE peace secretariate S.Puleedevan, who was also on the phone call, said a meeting was being held with the Red Cross later on Sunday to organise the crew's safe passage home.
But the Sri Lankan military has accused the Tamil Tigers of forcibly boarding the vessel while it was drifting in the seas, with its cargo of 14,000 tonnes of rice bound for South Africa from India.
International monitors overseeing a tattered 2004 ceasefire between the Sri Lankan military and the Tamil Tigers also weighed in, saying the rebels must respect international law.
"The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has conveyed to the LTTE that the government will conduct a rescue mission to salvage the ship and its crew. SLMM has strongly advised LTTE to allow for this operation to be executed without any delay," the mission said in a statement.
The military said attempts to establish contact with the ship had failed and it was believed that the LTTE's Sea Tigers had disconnected the communication systems.
The crew consisted of Jordanians and Egyptians, the military said.
"The armed pirate act by the LTTE is a clear violation of international maritime laws and the navy has found it difficult to react due to the presence of the ship's crew," the military said.
The standoff over the ship comes at a time when the Tigers, fighting for an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the north and east, are locked in daily artillery duels with the military which has forced thousands of people to flee.
In fresh fighting on Sunday, the rebels fired artillery and mortar bombs in Batticaloa area in the east, the military said, adding soldiers returned the fire. No damages were reported.
More than 3,000 civilians, troops and rebel fighters have been killed so far this year in a series of ambushes, air raids, ground and naval battles and suicide bombings.
However the fighting has been largely confined to the north and east, and many fear an all-out return to a war that has killed more than 67,000 people since 1983 could spread throughout Sri Lanka and be catastrophic.
FEATURE - First tsunami, now war: Sri Lanka survivors can't win
VINAYAGAPURAM CAMP, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Squatting under a makeshift shelter in a refugee camp in volatile east Sri Lanka, grating coconut for a curry as monsoon rains thunder down, tsunami survivor Kamalini Kandasamy has seen it all before.
The 26-year old and her husband had expected to spend the second anniversary of the island's worst natural disaster in their rebuilt home on the tsunami-battered east coast. Instead they are on the run again -- this time from renewed civil war.
Kandasamy and her family are among thousands who have fled Tamil Tiger rebel-controlled territory in the eastern district of Batticaloa to escape the crossfire of fierce artillery battles and air raids. She paid an unimaginable price.
"When the bombs fell, I started running and fell in the shock," she told Reuters, tears welling in her piercing blue eyes. "I was 9 months pregnant. I was immediately taken to hospital. My child was stillborn."
"We do not know what the future holds for us. Now I am told my house was damaged by shelling," she added. "If peace really returns, I would prefer to go back. That's my place."
More than 3,000 people have been killed this year in a series of air raids, ambushes, land battles and suicide attacks as the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fight a new chapter in a two-decade civil war.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Armed men board Jordanian ship near Tamil rebel bases in northeast Sri Lanka : military
Associated Press, Sat December 23, 2006 01:39 EST. Armed men boarded a Jordanian-registered cargo ship off
Associated Press, Fri December 22, 2006 07:46 EST . COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Sri Lanka's air force destroyed a Tamil Tiger guerrilla base in the volatile north on Friday, the military said while accusing rebels of attacking government security posts elsewhere in the north.
The Tamil Tigers say they are fighting to create a separate homeland for
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