Sri Lankan Police nab three LTTE propagandists

August 21st, 2009 COLOMBO - Pakistan has asked the Sri Lankan Army to provide training to its armed forces. Following the Sri Lankan Army's tremendous success against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Pakistan Government wants it to train their security personnel in counter-insurgency operations, Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya said.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There has been no infiltration into India of Tamil Tiger guerrillas since the Sri Lankan military crushed them in May, parliament was told Tuesday. Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken said in the Lok Sabha that a small number of Sri Lankan Tamils continued to arrive in the Tamil Nadu coastal district of Rameswaram as refugees.

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.

May 21st, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan Government is to bury Liberation Tiger of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) chief V.Prabhakaran in a unmarked mass grave, Sri Lankan Army sources said. Prabhakaran will be burried along with all the other LTTE fighters who were killed in the final assault.

May 18th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will address the nation today at 6 pm after the Lankan Army declared victory in his nation's over quarter of a century civil war with the Tamil Tigers rebels. Earlier in the day, the Sri Lankan Army claimed that Liberation of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was shot dead by Sri Lankan Special Forces, as he tried to stage a dramatic breakout from an army encirclement.

May 17th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced Sunday that they had decided to 'silence' their guns amid intense rumours that their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was dead. In a statement posted on the TamilNet website, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said its decades long struggle for a Tamil homeland 'has reached its bitter end'.

May 16th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Saturday declared that the Tamil rebels have been defeated militarily. 'I am proud to announce that my government with the total commitment of our armed forces has, in an unprecedented humanitarian operation, finally defeated the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) militarily,' Rajapaksa said.

May 1st, 2009 COLOMBO - At least 23 Sea Tigers were killed and three of their boats were destroyed when the Sri Lankan Navy foiled a LTTE suicide attack on its vessels patrolling off the Mullaitivu coast in the early hours of Friday, authorities said. The authorities said that naval troops guarding the Mullaitivu sea waters engaged a cluster of Sea Tiger boats, including two explosives-laden suicide boats, when they were heading to attack the naval patrol crafts deployed in the area around 1 a.m.

April 29th, 2009 COLOMBO - The 58th division of the Sri Lankan Army has reportedly captured another LTTE post in Rettavaikkal. Army officials said that the Rettavaikkal is a tactically important location considering the LTTE's hold has been reduced to less than six square kilometers of territory.

April 26th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan Defence Ministry on Sunday said that the Army has captured strategic Valayarmadam area and encircled remaining six square kilometre strip of land which could be the possible hideout of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. "Sri Lankan soldiers have liberated Valayarmadam area and so far rescued 500 civilians held hostage by the LTTE from there," the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.

April 22nd, 2009 COLOMBO - Two second rung leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have surrendered to the Sri Lankan military, a military spokesman said Wednesday. The two were identified as LTTE media coordinator Velayutham Dayanithi alias Thaya Master and George, who was English translator to former LTTE political wing head S.

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.

February 15th, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan Air Force sank two attack craft of the Tamil Tiger rebels in air strikes Sunday, the defence ministry said.. 'Sri Lankan Air Force MiG-27 fighter jets launched precision air strikes at identified Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attack craft sinking two, while destroying another, north of the Mullaittivu lagoon at around 1 p.m.

January 18th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan troops advancing towards the last bastions of the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north-eastern Mullaitivu district have stepped up attacks and captured several LTTE fortifications in the area, the military said here Monday. The military said that several LTTE hideouts in the area northwest and east of Puthukkudiyiruppu 'have reportedly fallen into army hands one after the other during late Sunday when 57, 58, 59 Division troops and the Task Force II mounted heavy and surprise attacks on them'.

January 6th, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan government Wednesday banned the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), terming it a terrorist organisation, a minister said here.