(By EFT – Vanni Correspondent)
Bloody battles
Yesterday, the SLA’s 53rd and TF8 suffered heavy casualties mainly due to booby traps while trying to push through the Tiger FDL bordering the NFZ, around 50 infantrymen lost their legs - KIA figure is undisclosed. This was one of the bloodiest days in recent battles. The 58th is positioned to break through the NFZ FDL any time now.
President makes morale boosting visit to Kilinochchi
The GoSL President, Mahinda Rajapakse announced that he is fully behind the SLDFs objectives in wiping out terror. The announcement made during his visit to the former de-facto capital of the LTTE is seen as a morale boost to the SLA high rankers and foot soldiers before the final push into the non liberated territories. The President has promised to deal with international pressure until the tri-forces complete their ongoing mission of rescuing civilians forcibly held by the LTTE.
UN Special Envoy arrives in Sri Lanka
An United Nations Special Enjoy appointed by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon arrived yesterday and is expected to meet the President today. The Special Envoy met the Defence Secretary yesterday. EFT does not want to speculate on the purpose of the visit but unverified information suggests that it has something to do with an UN role in supervising the welfare of the Wanni IDPs.
EFT
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50 men lost their legs.
Correct me if I am wrong. But if stealth and surprise is not essential in a particular offensive isn't the above casualty figure too high?(I mean injuries due to APs)
Tigers expect every second for us to launch an attack now. So surprise of the attack is not something to be considered is it? Isnt there something we can do to remove the APs before launching an offensive?
Bloody battles-50 men lost their legs
This is all thanks to that useless 48 hr ceasefire. Give LTTE another day, they will plant many more booby traps. The best and the braves shall not wasted like this more.
/Yesterday, the SLA’s 53rd and TF8 suffered heavy casualties mainly due to booby traps while trying to push through the Tiger FDL bordering the NFZ, around 50 infantrymen lost their legs - KIA figure is undisclosed./
LTTE now has to protect only 20km^2 and SLA has to attack at that place only at any time. So timing and multiple fronts have less relevance now. (Still SLA can use place and time for their choice in micro scale but I don't know how good it would be.)
So it seems SLA casualties are unavoidable in this case.
/HE the president, the military top brass and the united nations officials along with selected representatives of the diplomatic community finished a lengthy delebration of talks a few minutes ago...
the evacuation plan and the contingency were discussed in length as the small teams of the commando regiment experienced and trained in urban warfare and close quarter battles are now stationed,taking positions in the no fire zone awaiting the green signal from the CC...
final push to commence shortly...with the expectation of ending within this month... /
I hope UN will not call and tell the plan to LTTE...
Ninja source please?
/No resistance...so far...very little and they too run away leaving the weapons even when attacked indicating that they are forcible recruits with no background.yesterday in one such instance we found the 4 dead cadres with over 15 T 56 riffles indicating that some died and that the others ran leaving even thr weapons...indicating that they are no battle hardened cadres but new recruits...
intel reports spoke of over 200 recruited yesterday even amongst the civilians...
they still have about 1500-2000 cadres left and a good 800 or so centralized with who we believe is the leader who is directing the ltte at the moment in the no fire zone...whoe ever that may be...
Ltte shot and killed over 15 yesterday accusing them of plotting to escape...so much for the sole reps of Tamils...:((
Meanwhile the 58 and 53 reached the first part of thr milestone in the final push...the ltte launched a small scale counter attack yesterday on the 53 while when the arti support was called in ,vanished without a trace.../
From SF@LNP
f**k with the UN envoy, finished the job AQAP.
Get the bloody Velupissa, Pottu pakaya and all other senior leaders without any delay.
I saw at "Deyata kirula" Exhibition a type of vehicle used to clearing a path through a mine field.(A vehicle with a sort of a roller attached with chains in the front). The soldier told me that it is not used in battle fronts due to the fear that they will be captured by the LTTE. But i think the time to worry about hardware losses is gone now. We need to save as much soldiers as possible. Perhaps its time to put these machines to use
/This is all thanks to that useless 48 hr ceasefire. Give LTTE another day, they will plant many more booby traps./
CFA means by definition in LTTE tamil dictionary SLA don't do any thing while LTTE do every thing. In fact, LTTE can spend more cadres guarding civilians so in a CFA period no or less civilians can escape. And longer the CFA more time to build earth bunds, burry AP mines etc.
Sam P.
Stop trying to make Bull***T comments.
Those got nothing to do with the 48 hrs ceasefire.
SLA can sit behind those with out loosing any. If SLA do that, you would be the first one to start typing too.
So use your brain before using the fingers.
Mahen,
Are suggesting that LTTE will just play fair and abide by a ceasefire? Grow up dude, and look at the history of ceasefires in SL. We snooze, we loose. That is the golden rule. LTTE will try to gain every advantage like planting booby traps and recruiting more warm bodies, and further preventing civilian movement if you give them chance.
http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=8589
Thats why Peter and Upul missing...
Sam P.
Your brain power seems to much slower than the typing speed mate.
Might find following link useful.
I believe that there is no other option. Glad that we started moving forward. We need to shrink the NFZ. And reach the stuck civilians. It is unrealistic to believe that they will be allowed to come to us, despite whatever parties urging.
This seem to be the ONLY option. We should find some diplomats to handle the IC. Maybe a trip to Sigiriya will be good for them, ha?
It is interesting to see the developments in Canada. Especially the stalemate breaks up and govt bend in front of protesters. It looks likely. And if so, the next will be a double humiliation to Canada when SL refuse to abide their suggestions.
Why can't Canadian govt treat terrorists as terrorists and use tear gas to expel road blocks? Don't they know that they are setting a very bad example?
i suppose the possibility of supplying prosthetics are not high on the governments list.
wonder if the government would back a initiative to produce them locally,..maybe even use local talent-ie:- colombo university students...ect
Norway Norway They've gotta know that when they beg and apologize, they cannot dictate terms at the second time. SL should make most of the Oslo event.
CONGRATULATIONS RUSSIA
for totally eliminating Chechnian terrorists.
Welcome to the club!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8001495.stm
Can someone shed some light on this disturbing news .
Someone [was it Moshe?] has raised this possibility in the forums about few days ago.
It will be harder to find the Fatpig elsewhere than in NFZ. And surely he can flee as he wishes.
Hello folks. It is hilarious to see how individuals create and publish loads of Cock and Bull and drag innocent information seekers to confusion and desperation.Mahen is no exception to SF in LNP or Defencenet or Wire. They are all scavengers that manipulate historical information. Frontline information is always held and no detailed accounts are given to any individual other than sharing with in high command itself. Hence I suggest to treat this and other so called BREAKING NEWS as good as surrender of Pottuamman way back...SLA has started it's offensive but operation details were not given to any Tom,Dick or Harry. Sorry Mahen I have to warn innocent readers your attempt to score early points may have exceeded your potential…:-)
This is interesting
BritishMPtalkthetruth
Breaking News!
UK Tamil Tigers head found guilty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8004360.stm
Ian,
Thanks very much for the link above.
Pukka...I say... It is refreshing to see at least one white man talking sense.
Buster,
We suggest you think before you type, by trying to discredit our news you are actually belittling our source who is on the frontline fighting pigs unlike yourself sitting in a comfortable air conditioned office and typing garbage.
If you are so close to the "High Command" you will know the truth about the Pottu story - its obvious you don't.
If you do have first hand completely 100% verified and credible news, why don't you start your own blog and enlighten us all?
We have encountered the likes of you and have seen them off, same future awaits you.
Mahen
People who dispatch truth always leave room to accommodate criticism. In your case you proved that your reflection in the mirror is not you but someone else. Hence I suggest stop scavenging and elaborating with added salt and pepper...I do not need to start a blog but visits existing blogs to warn innocent victims. I know little bit more than you would expect me to know rather than dwelling on Pottu story...:-)
Buster,
I guess your reflection on the mirror resembles a monkey.
Mahen
Please give a break to those from the frontline taking all that trouble to keep Ellalan Team flowing with live information to keep the public updated...lol...
Thxs for the update.
Ground commanders recently stated that they need to clear least 50,000 civilians in the no fire zone before any ground operations taken place. I believe this was one the reason for the CF. Unfortunately many civilians didn't get the chance to cross over to Govt side during the 2 day CF period. From what I understand current operation has few phases. Once group keeps LTTE busy while another get the civilians out.
As much I would like these operations to end. It will not end in April. It’ll will go on till end of May.
"50 men lost their legs."
Not the correct figure. It is much less than that. But the total # injured was around 50.
Buster,
Its obvious that you have an axe to grind with the SLDF. We don't care whether you think that our source is in the frontline or not.
Is your surname Wickramasinghe / Jayawardene / Premadasa / Daluwatta / Karunayaka / Matthew / Dissanayaka / Bandaranayaka?
Buster,
Thanks for the warning. As a rule of thumb, I consider anything coming out of an anonymous source to be a rumor.
Yes, the famous Pottu's story is something I never took in face value for the following reasons.
(1) If it is known only to a very few people, then I believe that the following people should be there at minimum.
(a)Head of DMI
(b)SLA Commander
(c)Secretary of Defence
(d)President
(2)It is very unlikely that the above 4 will release tidbits of the story for public consumption if it was so secrative.
(3)If it is somebody on the side of above 4 or in MI field ops, then exposing such state secrets is treason.
(4) If what Mahen says is true, then many radio intercepts by MI about Pottu apologizing to trapped Vidusha etc. etc. must be just a charade to cover the defection story.
(5) Why should MI go such long ways to coverup this story is an enigma? Exposing the capture and a few words from Pottu about defection on TV could have delivered a fatal blow to LTTE morale.
Based on these possibilities, if the story is true indeed, then Mahen should be somebody very close to 4 main players or straight from MI who was in the field.
If the story is not true, the of course we need not to say anything about Mahen said here.
If nothing else became of the two-day ceasefire, in my opinion it did serve an important political purpose. The military cost of the ceasefire against any political mileage gained by this unilaterally declared ceasefire is a matter to be debated between the powers that be.
GOSL could now take this as an example before the international community to prove that the LTTE does not honour any type of ceasefire. They could now be confident before the IC NOT to offer any ceasefire to the LTTE. The people of Sri Lanka could now be justified even more of their plea to their government to eradicate the LTTE without further ado.
Thanks hpbd.
Tamil Tiger guilty of terror charge
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පංකාදු ලංකා,
I agree with you on your assertion about relative merits of 48 hrs pause. However, my heart bleeds when I hear that 50 of my brothers lost their legs for this international stupidity that allowed no civilian to get out and more AP mines to be planted.
සෑම් පෙරේරා,
ඔබේ අදහස් සමඟ මා හුඟක් දුරට එකඟ වෙනවා. මහේන්ගේ කතාව ඇත්ත වුනත් මම වැඩිය පුදුම වෙන්නේ නෑ. මේ වගේ සංකීර්ණ ගැටුමකදී ඕනෑම දෙයක් වෙන්න ඉඩ තියෙනවා. පොට්ටු භාරවෙලානම්, ඒක ලෝකෙට කීම සමහර වෙලාවට අපිට පාඩු වෙන්න පුළුවන්.
Sam P,
Yes, it is heart breaking when our boys suffer; there is no way to console one self when a young life is lost or permanently disabled. But there is a bigger picture to consider. Errors of judgement are one thing but what gets me is when lives are lost due to corrupt politicians and/or military leadership. I hope the current crop of leaders are better than some we had in the past (who rented weapons to the LTTE!)
Mahen,
Mate, please lay off Buster and Sam. Who crowned you King of the blogs? Don't assume that you are the only one with connections to high level sources, others like Buster may have first hand information as well. Also insulting your readers isn't going to increase your popularity mate, be polite to your readers, otherwise they will abandon your blog.
Pottu,
We do not lick A****.
http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=8592
Mahen said...
Pottu,
We do not lick A****.No, you don't lick anything but you have an attitude problem.
BTW congratulations!. Your cottage industry seem to be growing.
Seems like you not only have a 'singalese' member(someone with extensive knowledge about Sardiyal) but also a vanni corespondent!
Ninja,
Some chick huh?
Ninja,
Few things,
1)Duvaraga's examination center is very interesting
Cencholai
Iranamadu Road
Kilinochchi
2)Charles Anthony's Grades
ASS
3)Duvaraga Agri School Entrance
She gets in to the campus with theree C's. This is quiet contrary to whar Eelamist propogate that they need 3000 A's to go to campus.
4)The Sinhala language is perfect on all documents compared to the ones coming from Mulathivu Doctor's letters (Oyage Angaya)
5)The depiction of CA in TamilNet.tv is very close to what we have see here :)
/Some chick huh?/
Ha Ha I guess Dwaraka will soon be in the lankaenews star gallery..
BTW, TRP@Rivira says Chals ANthoby, Dwaraka, Madivadini, Swarnam, Bhanu are in Malesiya !!! And 5 SF is into action !!! (I even didn't know about raising a 3 SF..!)
[Pottu,
We do not lick A****.
]
Wow... Display of great communication skills to those who read the blogg!
A++ MORON.
Hey ladies, stop the pillow fight, it is turning me on.
Check out Charles Anthony's A-level results - it is A-S-S! How good is that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB0dAQX3dgE
Daughter is hot.. she failed A-levels first time. VP visited the exam center next time.. she passed.
Cali,
Dude, English version is there already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfmZtbBRgzA
Failure to understand the conflict by UN and the West has created a humanitarian Crisis – Prof. Rohan Gunaratna "Sri Lanka has become a living laboratory on how to and how not to fight terrorism. Governments from around the world have started to study the Sri Lankan case. Western and other military, law enforcement security and intelligence services are today consulting the Sri Lankan government on how they reduced the LTTE power from a formidable to a mediocre organization. Sri Lanka provides the best case study of how to dismantle a terrorist group militarily. Sri Lanka still needs to develop its core competencies to fight LTTE's domestic and foreign support base politically, economically and diplomatically. Until then the conflict will subsist and may even revive, said Prof: Rohan Gunaratna Read More
Killer T,
Simply you do not have a clue about the truth.
Do you undestand we can have bad days as well as good days ?
Life is not sweet as you think.
Officially we are going for the final push !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8005433.stm
"
Do you undestand we can have bad days as well as good days ?"
Oh really? I thought Mahen had no bad days! WOOOO... Mahen,how is london?
MAHEN,
DONT TRY TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT.IT MEANS THAT U ACCEPT WHAT I SAID.YOU HAVE NO SOURCE.JUST BUPLISHING COOKED UP BS.GET LAID YOU MORON.
KillerT
All members of EFT have got laid even before you knew the meaning of what getting laid means boy.
Lankadeepa reports
India has told the TNA that India does not have right to call for a ceasfire it's the GOSL that has to decide. They have said that they only concern about the civilians
By the way do U'll think Congress will form the governement????
There was an interesting comment about breaking the NFZ in to two by the forces.
Don't U think that's a great Idea
devide & conquer a Golden rule in the art of war
I cannot believe people here rejoicing in the suffering of my brothers and sisters who are being killed and maimed every day by the gosl forces in the "safe zone". Have you not got a heart?
Let us all pray for the safety of our brothers and sisters and light a candle of sacrifice to our fallen cadres.
Mahen,
Rupavahini told that everything is ready for the Hostage rescue operation;
Any I dea when it's gonna start???
LRRU,
According to Mahen it started some time back. When DW said it was a "wait and see" period mahen said the army does not "wait and see".
I am confused now...what the hell is going on?
Some folks with credible sources(DW/DN) just keep mum. And People who are not so lucky (i.e SF@LNP and our own mahen)keep jumping up and down....
Guys,
Intersecting NFZ into two from Puthikudyiruppu road is good and logical approach. MI24 gun ships can help over Nanthi Kadal lagoon. Tigers will have dilemma which section to protect. Naturally they will opt to protect the section with the leadership. Then we could liberate all civilians in the other section quickly and concentrate on the remaining section to wipe out the leadership.
A sure way to go!
--- Rana ---
According to "Times Online" the British government had regular meetings with the British LTTE terrorist leader "Shanthan".
And also it is well established now that orders for most of the suicide attacks occurred in Colombo, which killed hundreds of civilians were came straight from Britain.
Sri Lankan government should start an investigation immediately to probe weather there was any connection between suicide bombings in Colombo and the British government. It is surprising the way some of the British parliamentarians working hand in hand with the banned LTTE terrorists.
Following is the "Times Online" article.
click here.
SL will not accept compensation for damage to mission in Oslo
LTTE won’t free civilians even if 48 months are given - Rambukwella
/I cannot believe people here rejoicing in the suffering of my brothers and sisters who are being killed and maimed every day by the gosl forces in the "safe zone". Have you not got a heart?/
Your LTTE brothers and sisters are suffering and getting killed because they are keeping our innocent SRi Lankan tamil sisters and brothers as hostages, killing them when try to escape and use them as human shield. Have you not got a brain?
/Let us all pray for the safety of our brothers and sisters and light a candle of sacrifice to our fallen cadres./
Safety of your LTTE brothers and sisters directly depend on how long they can keep the hostages human shield. Go and do the next genocide protest, beg for ceasefire, do self immolation or jump in to Themes river or Niagara falls.. but don't attack Sri Lankan embassies or sinhala shops in Paris.
Terrorist Selva,
We have no mercy for your terrorist brothers and sisters. Recently, we sent your terrorist brother Theepan ans sister Vidusha to Eelam. Please immolate yourself if needed to join them in Eelam. If you die, it is one less dead terrorist the world has to deal with.
Selva,
We are sorry for any death and injury on innocent civilians but you need to understand SLA is having a war with world’s most notorious terrorist gang called LTTE.
LTTE and its leadership are responsible for all civilian deaths and injuries not SLA or SLG.
It is not hard to understand that, if you are not drugged by eelam BS. Open your eyes and see the truth.
--- Rana ---
Tick! Tick! Tick!
Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick!
We are waiting!
hi,
It seems there is a lul in fighting last 48 hrs.
I'm seriouse goverment is loosing the battle now.
I think like North Korea did we should not listen to these western fuckers and wack the No Fire Zone.
& what's up with this Miliband fucker; he is trying to pry his finger into our internal matters.
It's high time that we support alquda or IRA to carryout some terror attckes in London; i'm seriouse then this UK assholes will have something to worry;like the Mumbai attcks.
Now I'm praying for a Terror attck in London or Oslo.
I'm slowly getting to feel that groups like Al Qeda are correct in attcking west. I never felt like that before; I was pro western but now I hate western people.
Everytime I see a white face (Which I do in Business) I feel like killing him/her. I'm slowly becoming a anti western terrorist.
I strongly feel if UK is trying too hard on us we should attck the British embassy ; May be set fire on British council;;;;
Rohitha and RAW - The connectionInteresting information has been revealed in the Indian media about the “connection” between Foreign Affairs Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and India’s espionage and intelligence agency the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Selva,
Cannot believe some of our old heads still sit and waiting. However 2nd generation of us are fully behind our struggle.
Majority in Sri Lanka are foolish enough to think, end of the Genocide in Sri Lanka will push our freedom struggle out.
Puran Appu,
Macho, is RAW is working for SLG or they got a mole in our unit?
What have we here? Looks like a couple of terras have joined the party. btw,where is peelam peter?
Puran whst happened to u?Since when did u start giving publicity to bullshit sources such as Sunday leader?
No one is holding the civilians hostage. They are staying in the "safe zone" of their own free will. We choose to stay with our brothers and sisters in Thamil Eelam instead of flee into occupied areas where we are sure of getting mistreated, harassed, raped and even killed.
Stand by.
And yesterday (18) alone 3218 your brothers and sisters choose to flee by their own free will, into occupied areas where they are sure of getting mistreated, harassed, raped and even killed instead of of staying in the "safe zone" of their own free will.
Total around 70,000 your brothers and sisters in this year choose to flee by their own free will, into occupied areas where they are sure of getting mistreated, harassed, raped and even killed instead of of staying in the "safe zone" of their own free will.
/However 2nd generation of us are fully behind our struggle./
Only the 2nd generation?.. From Canada..?
Who gave you the right to occupy our lands, didn't your own "mahavansam" mention that the northern areas were always a Thamil Kingdom? You can try, you can never conquer us, you can capture our lands, but our hearts are always in Eelam.
Dear Ninja:
I do try to stay away from making comments, but your recent comments brings me to make this observation.
The tone, demeanor and decorum you exhibit in countering LTTE terrorist sympathizers' cruelty and ruthlessness (carried out by LTTERs in the pretense and disguise of caring about the innocent hostages) towards our innocent Tamil brothers and sisters) is quite exemplary and powerful.
No amount of filth can achieve this power against LTTE. Please keep up good work.
Of course they are our brothers and sisters not theirs.
/didn't your own "mahavansam" mention that the northern areas were always a Thamil Kingdom?/
When did you start believing "mahavansam"? (Answer is NO.)
/You can try, you can never conquer us, you can capture our lands, but our hearts are always in Eelam./
No problem.. we know your body is in Canada, UK... and heart, kidney, etc is in peelaam.. please tell LTTE at least not to shot at those who flee.
onceinawhile,
Macho, Puran also doing his best to let us know what he read / is aware. Same goes with most of the others too.
Therefore we should not go too hard on any one please.
So let's try to keep the conversation ticking as joint effort, with out any personal attacks please.
If we need to credible info, then we should just stick to defence.lk or army.lk .
Guys,
3000 crossed ; 28 terrorists dead (what they call civilians)
Seems to me the party is on & the tempo becomes faster, when would it be the baila session
Chief joker tamil nadu says Praba is NOT a terrosist
I think we should not waste time talking about this old man who's loosing his mind
Aljazeera is giving false propoganda about civilian deaths
Selva,
People like you still does not give up your money motivated businesses while young kids and Civilians getting killed. All becuase your terrorists business leaders are trying to keep the business as usual.
Sunday column is up.
Blogger LRRU said...
hi,
It seems there is a lul in fighting last 48 hrs.
I'm seriouse goverment is loosing the battle now.
I think like North Korea did we should not listen to these western fuckers and wack the No Fire Zone.
& what's up with this Miliband fucker; he is trying to pry his finger into our internal matters.
It's high time that we support alquda or IRA to carryout some terror attckes in London; i'm seriouse then this UK assholes will have something to worry;like the Mumbai attcks.
Now I'm praying for a Terror attck in London or Oslo.
I'm slowly getting to feel that groups like Al Qeda are correct in attcking west. I never felt like that before; I was pro western but now I hate western people.
Everytime I see a white face (Which I do in Business) I feel like killing him/her. I'm slowly becoming a anti western terrorist.
I strongly feel if UK is trying too hard on us we should attck the British embassy ; May be set fire on British council;;;;
19 April 2009 05:11______________________________
You are part of the problem, not the solution and an embarrassment to decent folks anywhere.
Take your racist, terrorist ranting elsewhere.
Mahen... are you letting this ugly post stand? Please remove it and its author.
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