The Washington Times Editorial published on April 25, 2009 titled ‘Tigers at bay’ stressed that the international community should allow the Sri Lankan Government to complete their mission in wiping out the LTTE terrorism which claimed thousands of lives over three decades.
The LTTE, one of the world’s most violent terrorist outfits, are surrounded in [...]

At a panel earlier this week, a State Department official agreed that the mass exodus of civilians from the

LTTE-controlled areas disproves the propaganda by LTTE leaders that the civilians wanted to remain under the leadership of the LTTE.
“I think this is really especially significant, of course, because we’ve been hearing from the LTTE on many [...]

Sri Lanka is in the same predicament as a pregnant woman writhing in labour surrounded by a team of doctors and midwives who, instead of helping her with an agonising delivery complicated by abnormal baby presentation, are proffering unsolicited advice on postnatal care.
What Sri Lanka needs urgently from the international community is help to extricate [...]

Charging a country-based charity group with indulging in fund-raising for banned LTTE, the United States today slapped sanctions on the Tamil Foundation, prohibiting nationals from engaging in any transaction with it.
The Foundation has been designated under “Executive Order 13224″, which “targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism,” the US Department [...]

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday rejected the Tokyo Co-Chairs’ (Norway, Japan, US and EU) call for immediate negotiations with the LTTE to facilitate surrender of LTTE arms with a view to working out a political solution.
Nothing could be as ridiculous as this, an angry Rajapaksa told The Island, emphasising that nothing short of unconditional surrender [...]

 
The Tokyo Co-Chairs (Norway, Japan, US and the EU) yesterday admitted to their failure to persuade the LTTE to allow civilians freedom of movement.
In a press release issued yesterday the Co-Chairs have called on the LTTE to discuss with the Government of Sri Lanka the modalities for ending hostilities, including the laying down of arms, [...]

As the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York was to the civilised world abhorring terrorism, so has been the fall of the LTTE to some Colombo based foreign ambassadors and journalists sleeping with terrorists. Having pulled for terrorists not so covertly, they now find it difficult to come to terms with the fact [...]

 
“Vanakkam, Barack Aiyah, please don’t close down Guantanamo. That is my only hope for survival” was the gist of the message that came from somewhere in Mullaitivu and made by one Velupillai Prabhakaran.
Barack Hussein Obama who has already made history by being he first black American to be President of the USA, has possibly made [...]

 
The United States does not advocate that the Government of Sri Lanka negotiate with the LTTE, a group designated by the US since 1997 as a foreign terrorist organization, said the US Embassy in a press statement issued on Tuesday on the liberation of Kilinochchi.
The statement said however the US believes that a broad range [...]

US president-elect Barack Obama on Monday (Dec 1) had stated that “sovereign nations have the right to protect themselves” against terrorism, revealed the international news media.
According to the media reports, Obama speaking at a Chicago Press conference told the reporters that his incoming administration would be fully committed to wipe out terrorism.
”What I can say [...]