Soon we celebrate the Sinhala Tamil New year; a time of reconciliation and good will towards one another. GOSL has also limited its offensives against the LTTE (but increased tactical manoeuvres to expedite civilian liberation) as if to extend the same good will even to its enemies.
This weekend is another significant one in the calendar as Christians all over the world would celebrate Easter. Easter is a time when the supreme sacrifice by Jesus Christ and His subsequent resurrection from the dead is remembered. EFT pays tribute to supreme sacrifices made by all armed forces and civil security services of Sri Lanka in its successful effort to eradicate LTTE terrorism from our motherland.
Happy New Year to our Singala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu readers! Happy Easter to our Christian readers! Happy New Year and Happy Easter to our Singala Christian and Tamil Christian readers!
The LTTE has a golden opportunity during this New Year/Easter period to save some pride (if any left) by using “good will” as a reason to release the Human Shield; thus preventing further unnecessary hardships and loss of life for the innocent Tamil civilians.
However, the LTTE are notoriously bad at exploiting opportunities as they often involve a compromise. They are even worse at the art of compromise so there is little hope for the entrapped civilians, unfortunately, from the LTTE. Their only hope is to be liberated by the advancing SLDF and/or escape to liberated areas at their own risk.
Meanwhile, SLA could still launch attacks targeting LTTE positions which are blocking the safe passage of civilians. These passages are:
1) North via Ampalavanpokkanai towards 55 Division & West via Ampalavanpokkanai towards 58 Division
2) Causeway towards the main land from Putumattalan to Iranapalai
3) The A35 from Karayamullivaikkal
4) Causeway from Valayanmadam linking with A35
53 Division along with Task Force 8 may move eastwards along A35 hugging the Northern edge of Nanthikadal lagoon. 59 Division might move North from Mulathivu along the Eastern edge of the lagoon and the two divisions (and the task force), should meet in the next couple days. This should liberate both sides of the lagoon and a large part of the NFZ. The road linking the coast to the A35 is important as it dissects the NFZ in the middle.
Loud explosions have occurred in the NFZ today. This could be an attempted deterrent for civilians escaping. Number of civilian casualties, if any, are not yet known.
There are doubts about the body double of Piripaharan – he may not have been used as a double (pictures captured by 58 Division a few weeks back). There are also rumours that Piripaharan is planning a getaway using 25 speed boats – of which a large number of boats would act as decoys - and a merchant ship when in high seas.
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Tuesday, 7 April 2009
LTTE Demonstrations in London - Banned LTTE flag flying in Westminster
According to the Metropolitan Police in the UK, there had been around 2,000 Tamil protestors on London’s Westminster Bridge overnight; men, women and children. The Met Police say it is an illegal protest as no prior notification was issued to relevant authorities by the protestors nor any permission granted.
Since Westminster Bridge is a gateway joining several major arteries to the city centre, some access roads had to be closed to divert vehicular traffic causing disruptions in the city centre during London’s busy morning rush hour.
In the early hours of the morning the police started to order crowds to move on. They had to use mild force to move some stubborn protestors from the bridge where they were causing traffic chaos by this illegal protest. Some of the protesters had to be carried away to a more manageable position on Westminster Square in order to open the access roads. This is when the protest turned somewhat violent. It is believed that one person jumped from the bridge in to river Thames in an attempt to self immolate. There is now confirmation of this claim by a spokesman for the Met Police. The Police and River Guards are investigating.
A majority of protestors have now dispersed, only around 200-300 remain within a police barricade on Parliament Square. They are expected to disperse despite their threats to be there until a ceasefire is put in place. They claim the British Government has done little to stop the “Genocide” in Sri Lanka. They are still contending vociferously with the police as this post goes for publication. Many flags of the banned terrorist organisation are waving freely in front of British Houses of Parliament. Judging by Live TV pictures, the younger male protestors are intimidating and bordering on violent behavoiur. Some men were restrained by forcing them on to the ground by the police.
A Met Police spokesman confirmed to the BBC News Channel a few minutes ago that because of the women and children involved, the police have been following a soft approach. However, they will now inform the crowds the demonstration is "in violation of the law" and warn if they do not disperse within a given time frame they will be arrested.
Pro-terrorist MP Simon Hughes appeared on BBC NEWS TV Channel with his usual blurb.
A Tamil woman protestor was interviewed LIVE by the BBC channel who spoke so shoddily the BBC interviewer had to remove the microphone away from her when she started talking irrelevant nonsense (as far as we could make it, it was something about getting the Met Police drunk!). This woman was an embarrassment to Tamils (or to any intelligent community). This underscores the calibre of Tamil Diaspora who attend this type of pro-LTTE demonstrations and challenges the very basis of their nonsensical protests.
Much disruption to daily life and costs to the British tax payer has been caused as a result of this illegal activity. The City of Westminster had to deploy a special team to remove all the rubbish left by the Tamil protesters overnight, hitting the pockets of council tax payers of the area.
We will publish updates as and when available.
EFT – Westminster Correspondent
Since Westminster Bridge is a gateway joining several major arteries to the city centre, some access roads had to be closed to divert vehicular traffic causing disruptions in the city centre during London’s busy morning rush hour.
In the early hours of the morning the police started to order crowds to move on. They had to use mild force to move some stubborn protestors from the bridge where they were causing traffic chaos by this illegal protest. Some of the protesters had to be carried away to a more manageable position on Westminster Square in order to open the access roads. This is when the protest turned somewhat violent. It is believed that one person jumped from the bridge in to river Thames in an attempt to self immolate. There is now confirmation of this claim by a spokesman for the Met Police. The Police and River Guards are investigating.
A majority of protestors have now dispersed, only around 200-300 remain within a police barricade on Parliament Square. They are expected to disperse despite their threats to be there until a ceasefire is put in place. They claim the British Government has done little to stop the “Genocide” in Sri Lanka. They are still contending vociferously with the police as this post goes for publication. Many flags of the banned terrorist organisation are waving freely in front of British Houses of Parliament. Judging by Live TV pictures, the younger male protestors are intimidating and bordering on violent behavoiur. Some men were restrained by forcing them on to the ground by the police.
A Met Police spokesman confirmed to the BBC News Channel a few minutes ago that because of the women and children involved, the police have been following a soft approach. However, they will now inform the crowds the demonstration is "in violation of the law" and warn if they do not disperse within a given time frame they will be arrested.
Pro-terrorist MP Simon Hughes appeared on BBC NEWS TV Channel with his usual blurb.
A Tamil woman protestor was interviewed LIVE by the BBC channel who spoke so shoddily the BBC interviewer had to remove the microphone away from her when she started talking irrelevant nonsense (as far as we could make it, it was something about getting the Met Police drunk!). This woman was an embarrassment to Tamils (or to any intelligent community). This underscores the calibre of Tamil Diaspora who attend this type of pro-LTTE demonstrations and challenges the very basis of their nonsensical protests.
Much disruption to daily life and costs to the British tax payer has been caused as a result of this illegal activity. The City of Westminster had to deploy a special team to remove all the rubbish left by the Tamil protesters overnight, hitting the pockets of council tax payers of the area.
We will publish updates as and when available.
EFT – Westminster Correspondent
Monday, 6 April 2009
Fat Lady warms up her voice – Less resistance from LTTE
Since the large scale elimination of LTTE fighting cadre in the last 48 hrs, the resistance to civilians trying to escape to the GOSL controlled areas has reduced significantly. This is not because there aren’t sufficient armed LTTE members in the NFZ to restrict civilians escape, but there isn’t anyone to give orders; to tell them what to do. This will not only encourage large numbers of civilians to cross over, but will cause low level armed cadres to desert their ranks and surrender. The SLA is clearing escape routes so larger numbers of civilians would be encouraged to make the move.
Though most of the heavy artillery guns and other weapons are now captured or put out of action, a serious point taken in to consideration by the SLDF is the massive stocks of arti-shells, munitions and other explosives which are stockpiled in the NFZ. These could be triggered off by the losing LTTE to create indiscriminate carnage. Therefore the SLDF are on high alert with SF (Special Forces) in position waiting to storm the NFZ when orders are given.
The morale of SLDF, particularly the SLA Infantry, is at an all time high having witnessed so many LTTE hard-core and long standing terrorist leaders on the KIA list. Vidusha & Deepam have been a thorn-in-the side of the advancing forces, but now they have truly met their Maker (we are sure the Maker is not impressed by them). Eye-witnessing the dead bodies of terrorist leaders “Live” (as opposed to hear of their demise over LTTE communication), is the icing on the cake to battle fatigued men on the front lines. This has given them an unprecedented morale boost (not that they needed one. . .) and spurred them on to fight with more vigour and vehemence.
Rumours are rife that Piripaharan is “brown bread”, but these rumours are just that, rumours. There is no truth in them. He is in civvies and probably on a crash diet in the hope of attaining the same appearance as one of the people he claims to represent. This way he hopes to mingle with the civilians to try and save his sorry...ahem...bottom. Good luck to him!
Many thanks to all bloggers who submitted their 7-letters. They were all very good, but EFT thinks MIRACLE stands out from the rest. So Congratulations! to Rayan. Here is your consolation gift - A Miracle for Rayan with compliments from EFT. Enjoy!
Sunday, 5 April 2009
Fat Lady Clears her throat - PTK Liberated and LTTE suffers irreversible losses!
PTK Liberated - over 420 bodies collected
As reported earlier by EFT, the 58th and Task Force 8 (attached to the 53rd) boxed in the remnants of the LTTE's PTK fighting force north east of PTK, by last evening the vast majority of these trapped cadres were annhilated by the SLA. Over 420 bodies were collected during clearing operations (the official count stands at 250). The cadres were hunted down only after offering them a chance to surrender - about 70 did surrender, the scenes of surrender are reminiscent of Iraqi soldiers surrendering to the coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War (our source has videos and pictures of these surrender scenes, we will upload them here if they receive clearance!).
The LTTE were not able to send in a rescue force to get these trapped cadres out as the SF had infiltrated the borders of the NFZ (as reported earlier by EFT). The SF were able to neutralize attempted LTTE incursions from the NFZ into the boxed in area.
The SLAF ably supported the SLA during this annhilation mission and used their recently acquired arsenal of laser guided A2S missiles to strike at identified targets with pin point accuracy, as has been reported by other sources - self styled "Colonel" Vidusha (commander of the Malathi brigade), "Colonel" Theepan and Nagesh, Duruga, Gadaffi (high rankers) along with other middle rung leaders have reportedly died in these air strikes.
The bodies of Theepan, Duruga and Vidusha's are said to be among the recovered corpses, an MI team from Colombo is on their way to the scene to establish the identity of the dead leaders.
Civilian exodus expected any minute now
With the trapping of the LTTE in the NFZ, the civilians are getting ready to abandon the NFZ and flee into cleared areas. Within the next 48 hours, the exodus is set to start (some say it has already started). LRRP is conducting limited operations inside the NFZ, but due to the sensitive nature of these operations, we will not reveal details. A UNHCR delegation is already in Sri Lanka , their mission is to observe the civilian exodus and ensure their welfare needs are met. If the LTTE holds the civilians any longer, they are making it worse for themselves as it would give the SLA more time to annhilate the remaining cadres, if they flee along with the civilians, they will be picked up and sent to rehabilitation.
A number of SLA infantrymen and SF soldiers have laid down their lives in the past few days of fighting, we would ask our readers to pay tribute to these fallen bravehearts.
EFT
Pictured are "Colonel" Theepan and "Colonel" Vidusha in an LTTE cerenomy held at Pallai in 2003. May they rust in peace.
Friday, 3 April 2009
Towards the Winning Post
SLDF is continuing their operations at close proximity to the borders of the government declared No Fire Zone (NFZ). It is no secret the LTTE have built up strong points in the NFZ from day one and operate from there hiding behind civilians. They have built sand bunds, bunkers and other strategic strong points inside the NFZ. Therefore the SLDF have to seriously consider the merits of infiltration in to the NFZ to neutralize some of these strategic strong points and/or LTTE assets. This may or may not be happening – EFT cannot confirm nor deny if SLDF are actually operating inside the NFZ. All we can say is that IF that is the case, it would be just small SF teams with the sole intention of taking out key LTTE members and assets out of action. They would be “hit-and-run” type operations carried out with expert skill and pin-point accuracy.
However, the LTTE are also actively seeking loopholes in the FDLs (Forward Defence Lines) of the SLA to infiltrate and launch surprise attacks from behind. They also seek to take over SLA armouries and ammunition dumps to replenish their dwindling hardware and consumables. The Army are well aware of these tactics from the lessons learnt from the past.
Large numbers of LTTE fighters, both hardcore higher level cadres and new recruits are killed or taken out of action on a daily basis. We will not comment on casualty figures of SLDF.
During the past few days the LTTE do appear to have built more sand bunds in the NFZ and mustered up more civilians to join the fighting forces. This they do by a mixture of coercion and indoctrination. These changes will influence military strategies of SLDF. Undoubtedly, these are the final days of the military conflict and the only hope for the LTTE leaders could be described in a 7-letter word.
We leave it with you our readers to suggest what that word might be. You may suggest more than one 7-letter word (or indeed words of any length in any language).
However, the LTTE are also actively seeking loopholes in the FDLs (Forward Defence Lines) of the SLA to infiltrate and launch surprise attacks from behind. They also seek to take over SLA armouries and ammunition dumps to replenish their dwindling hardware and consumables. The Army are well aware of these tactics from the lessons learnt from the past.
Large numbers of LTTE fighters, both hardcore higher level cadres and new recruits are killed or taken out of action on a daily basis. We will not comment on casualty figures of SLDF.
During the past few days the LTTE do appear to have built more sand bunds in the NFZ and mustered up more civilians to join the fighting forces. This they do by a mixture of coercion and indoctrination. These changes will influence military strategies of SLDF. Undoubtedly, these are the final days of the military conflict and the only hope for the LTTE leaders could be described in a 7-letter word.
We leave it with you our readers to suggest what that word might be. You may suggest more than one 7-letter word (or indeed words of any length in any language).
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Tigers sorrounded in PTK East
No way out
Units of SLA's 58th division have linked up with TF8 (attached to 53rd) in PTK East - Pachchapulmudai. The SLA trapped the tigers from fleeing into the NFZ as all the access routes (including Pachchapulmudai junctions) have been cut off. It is apparent that the entire area except the NFZ will be taken under SLA control within the next 24 to 48 hours. SLAF has dropped leaflets from air asking the civilians to stay away from the LTTE ammo dumps in the NFZ. Intel suggests that there is a serious threat the LTTE might blast the dumps causing carnage to the civilians.
Charles Anthony injuries are minor
It is reported that Charles Anthony, the son of VP and heir apparent has been injured in battle. EFT can confirm that this is indeed true, however, the injuries are very slight. The injury news was in fact planted by the LTTE to show off to the diaspora that the leadership is fighting hard and leading the battle from the front, the LTTE is very keen to show the super rich diaspora that they are still committed to the cause - the LTTE does not care about poor innocent Tamil civilians, the majority of the civilains do not care much for the LTTE either.
LTTE, you have officially been had!
The most startling news revealed by our source today is that Special Forces fighting units numbering around 200 SF battle hardened soldiers have infiltrated the borders of the NFZ and have trapped the forward fighting units of the LTTE! The LTTE units are in disarray due to the uncoventional tactics used by SF units, regular infantry units confront the enemy head on and secure territory and capture bunkers lines, our SF guys are playing a totally different ball game!
END GAME!
EFT
Units of SLA's 58th division have linked up with TF8 (attached to 53rd) in PTK East - Pachchapulmudai. The SLA trapped the tigers from fleeing into the NFZ as all the access routes (including Pachchapulmudai junctions) have been cut off. It is apparent that the entire area except the NFZ will be taken under SLA control within the next 24 to 48 hours. SLAF has dropped leaflets from air asking the civilians to stay away from the LTTE ammo dumps in the NFZ. Intel suggests that there is a serious threat the LTTE might blast the dumps causing carnage to the civilians.
Charles Anthony injuries are minor
It is reported that Charles Anthony, the son of VP and heir apparent has been injured in battle. EFT can confirm that this is indeed true, however, the injuries are very slight. The injury news was in fact planted by the LTTE to show off to the diaspora that the leadership is fighting hard and leading the battle from the front, the LTTE is very keen to show the super rich diaspora that they are still committed to the cause - the LTTE does not care about poor innocent Tamil civilians, the majority of the civilains do not care much for the LTTE either.
LTTE, you have officially been had!
The most startling news revealed by our source today is that Special Forces fighting units numbering around 200 SF battle hardened soldiers have infiltrated the borders of the NFZ and have trapped the forward fighting units of the LTTE! The LTTE units are in disarray due to the uncoventional tactics used by SF units, regular infantry units confront the enemy head on and secure territory and capture bunkers lines, our SF guys are playing a totally different ball game!
END GAME!
EFT
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Breaking News – Two Unidentified Aircrafts detected over the NFZ
EFT Vanni correspondent reports that two unidentified light aircraft were observed over the NFZ (No Fire Zone) few hours ago. These aircraft are reported to be smaller than the Zlin-143s which the LTTE are known to possess.
Due to the smaller size of these planes, we believe it is not capable of carrying any reasonable amount of ammunition or fly out far as Colombo.
However LTTE leaders attempting to flee the Island using these planes (and land them in the sea to continue their escape via boats) cannot be ruled out at this stage.
We will try to bring more info as it reaches us!
EFT
Due to the smaller size of these planes, we believe it is not capable of carrying any reasonable amount of ammunition or fly out far as Colombo.
However LTTE leaders attempting to flee the Island using these planes (and land them in the sea to continue their escape via boats) cannot be ruled out at this stage.
We will try to bring more info as it reaches us!
EFT
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