Senior Tamil Tiger rebel killed in fighting

August 7th, 2009 Arrested Tamil Tiger leader in Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's military says it is interrogating the new leader of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels after his capture in a foreign country. Military spokesman Brig.

August 6th, 2009 Sri Lanka says new rebel leader arrestedCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka says that a wanted arms smuggler who recently took over as the new leader of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels has been arrested overseas. Government information director Anusha Pelpita said that Selvarasa Pathmanathan was arrested Thursday in a foreign country which he refused to name.

August 2nd, 2009 COLOMBO - A senior civil administration official in the Sri Lankan government has been arrested for alleged links with the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels, police said Sunday. Nagalingam Vethanayagam, the government agent of Kilinochchi, was arrested Friday following information from an arrested Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre, police said.

July 5th, 2009 COLOMBO - A lone Tamil rebel killed a soldier in eastern Sri Lanka and injured two in a shootout marking the first military casualties after the guerrilla leadership was crushed six weeks ago, a military spokesman said Sunday. The incident took place in Kirankulam, Batticaloa, 300 km east of the capital when soldiers attempted to ambush a rebel riding a canoe in a lagoon Saturday.

April 22nd, 2009 Sri Lanka says 2 rebel officials surrenderCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's military says that two Tamil Tiger rebels officials have surrendered to its advancing troops in the northern war zone. Military spokesman Brig.

April 22nd, 2009 Sri Lanka refuses to pardon rebel leaderCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president has ruled out a pardon for the Tamil Tiger rebels' leader if he's captured alive by government soldiers now advancing into the last remaining rebel territory. A statement quotes President Mahinda Rajapaksa as saying he was ready to pardon the reclusive guerrilla leader Velupillai Prabhakaran if he had surrendered to the armed forces.

April 20th, 2009 COLOMBO - Closing in on the last Tamil Tiger base, Sri Lanka Monday ordered rebel chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and his fighters to surrender by Tuesday noon or face death. 'We have issued the last and final 24-hour ultimatum to Prabhakaran and his group to surrender,' defence ministry spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told reporters Monday.

April 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has said Tamil Tiger chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran is his 'good friend' and he would have 'deep regrets' if the Sri Lankan rebel leader was killed during the military operations in the island nation.

March 30th, 2009 COLOMBO - At least 26 Tamil Tiger guerrillas and a Sri Lankan Navy sailor were killed, and four rebel boats were destroyed in a clash off the coast of Mullaitivu in the island nation's northeast early Monday, an official said here. The pre-dawn sea clash erupted when Sri Lankan Navy patrol boats engaged a cluster of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) boats off Chalai and Mullaitivu areas, where the rebels are now confined to a 21 sq km land stretch.

March 22nd, 2009 COLOMBO - A senior leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels' naval wing was killed along with a few others when the troops advancing from various directions towards the fast shrinking rebel strongholds fought pitched battles with the rebels in Sri Lanka's north, the defence ministry said here Saturday. It said that the troops of the 55 Division have recovered bodies of four Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres including the body of Sindu, a senior leader of the Sea Tigers after fierce clashes south of Patikkarai in the north-eastern Mullaitivu district Friday.

March 12th, 2009 COLOMBO - The Tamil Tiger rebels' finance wing head Subarathnam Selvatureiy has been killed in Sri Lanka's northeastern Mullaitivu district where the government troops and the rebels were locked in heavy fighting, the defence ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said Selvatureiy, alias Thamilendi, was killed in fighting east of Puthukkudiyiruppu in Mullaitivu district Tuesday.

February 4th, 2009 COLOMBO - At least 12 Sea Tigers men, including the wing's deputy leader, were killed in fierce fighting with the Sri Lankan troops which are close to capturing the rebels' last naval base in Mullaitivu district, the defence ministry said Thursday. Claiming that the fall of the Chalai Sea Tiger base was 'imminent', the defence ministry said that three other senior leaders of the naval wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were also among those killed in fierce fighting throughout Wednesday.

February 4th, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan military Thursday said that it has captured the last sea base of the Tamil Tiger rebels. Officials said the Tamil Tiger base in Chalai was captured by the troops of the 55 Division Thursday afternoon.

January 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan military Wednesday said 13,000 Tamil Tiger rebels and 3,700 soldiers have been killed since the armed conflict between the two sides began to escalate in July 2006. 'In the last two months alone, 1,500 Tamil Tiger rebels and 150 soldiers were killed,' military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara, said.

January 8th, 2009 COLOMBO - Three air force personnel and four civilians were killed Friday morning in a Claymore mine explosion carried out by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Sri Lanka, an official said. Military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said that they were killed when the bus they were travelling in came under attack at about 9.30 a.m.