In a surprise move, Tamil Tigers facing rout in battle with Lankan troops and its entire top leadership, including supremo V Prabhakaran, in hiding on Saturday named a high-profile representative, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, as its new contact with the international community.
The rebel outfit said Pathmanathan would head its newly established Department of International Relations and represent [...]

Wanni Operation Video, 31st January 2009

With the Government ruling out any ceasefire, Army troops today rolled out to wrest the last territories held by Tigers’ and foiled a rebel suicide boat attack, apparently aimed at breaking the Naval Blockade off the Mullaitivu coast, for a breakout bid by militants.
In fresh military offensive, which is shrinking the Tigers to just a [...]

ONE of the bunkers where LTTE terrorist leader PRABAKARAN is believed to have used to hide him self was found in the VISUAMADU jungle by the 57 Division troops Commanded by Major General JAGATH DIAS on Friday (30).
12 SLSR (12 Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment) troops operating under the 572 Brigade recovered this underground bunker over [...]

 
Top LTTE leader Bhanu was seriously injured in Udayarkattu, Mullaitivbu, military sources said.
“Bhanu who was in charge of the artillery and mortar units of the LTTE, had been fleeing for safety from the advancing army.
This had caused a severe dent in the fighting capability of the Tigers.
It was only last week that LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s [...]

 By : Jeffrey

“An organisation headed by a leader, who understands only terrorism, is unlikely to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the international community. Prabakaran is a liability for the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Tamils in the post-9/11 world. The time has come for the LTTE leaders and the Sri Lankan Tamils—-including their overseas diaspora—- to [...]

Security forces engaged in the liberation of Mullaitivu have come across a urea manufacturing factory West of Pudukudiruppu, top Army sources said yesterday.
Army spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said that the LTTE had manufactured urea to be utilized in the manufacture of bombs and at the time of detection there were ten bags of urea.

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President Mahinda Rajapaksa has given LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran 48 hours to release civilians in his clutches so that they could reach safety. Prabhakaran’s compliance is in serious doubt, given his callous disregard to human suffering.
Last week, President Rajapaksa told newspaper editors that the troops could wipe out the LTTE overnight but what was preventing [...]

The capture of Mullaitivu, the last big town under the control of the Liberation  Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in a way came about as abruptly as Kilinochchi on January 25. But the 59 Division of the Sri Lanka security forces which captured Mullaitivu had to fight its way through in some of the worst [...]