Associated Press,  Tue Jan 23 08:17:11 EST 2007

    DILIP GANGULY  -   Associated Press Writer  -              COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -  (AP)  Two roadside bombs exploded in northern Sri Lanka - 's Jaffna town Tuesday, killing a government soldier and three civilians, officials said. At least 25 others were wounded. Full Story


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Apparently the Army discovered a huge "" on Vaharai.  Clearly the Tigers were taken by surprise by Special Forces action because the Tigers were expecting an old fashioned full frontal assault by regular troops. They fled to preserve their forces.  HOWEVER here is an interesting quote about what was discovered.

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According to a long time watcher of the Sri Lankan war, the 152 mm guns the Army is now   talking about, are the ones which the LTTE itself had captured from the army in 1999 during the latter's ambitious campaign to take the Vavuniya-Jaffna highway - the A9.

I recall some top rungers misleading CBK and Anuruddha saying the Guns were destroyed and NOTHING fell into the hands of the Tigers. Who is culpable for the death and destruction to our troops by such lies?  BRAVO TO THE NEW ARMY AND  NEW LEADERSHIP of Sarath F and Gotabaya.  But someone must question the incompetents that led SLA before the recent dynamic changes.  Please note Mullaitivu was taken over by Tigers without a good fight and E.Pass was overrun and so was Pooneryn without anyone being held accountable for the debacles that only strengthened the Tigers conventional forces.  

I think the Tide has turned now.

The majority of the Tiger artillery has been captured from the SLA. This has been long known.

RogerThis wrote:

Apparently the Army discovered a huge "" on Vaharai.  Clearly the Tigers were taken by surprise by  BRAVO TO THE NEW ARMY AND  NEW LEADERSHIP of Sarath F and Gotabaya.  But someone must question the incompetents that led SLA before the recent dynamic changes.  Please note Mullaitivu was taken over by Tigers without a good fight and E.Pass was overrun and so was Pooneryn without anyone being held accountable for the debacles that only strengthened the Tigers conventional forces.  

I think the Tide has turned now.

It seems that LTTE has its own jokers (including one that walks like our good old Ratwatte) and they are still the same. As I have said several times in this forum, It is time for the tamils to kick out the current LTTE leaders.

Here are some comments from B. Raman, Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India


The desertion of Karuna has definitely dented its conventional capability. Prabakaran does not understand conventional tactics. He is essentially a terrorist leader, who can think only in terms of acts of suicide terrorism. The post-9/11 world is still prepared to tolerate organisations, which use conventional methods of fighting for achieving political objectives, but not those who rely on terrorism.

An organisation headed by a leader, who understands only terrorism, is unlikely to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the international community. Prabakaran is a liability for the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Tamils in the post-9/11 world. The time has come for the LTTE leaders and the Sri Lankan Tamils-- including  their overseas diaspora--  to introspect on their future course of action.  If they have to preserve the gains made by thousands of their cadres since 1983, they have to find a new leadership.

There is no need to make a mockery of the way people walk because of their physical disabilities. That is a bit cheap Truth.

My point is SLA must be wary of sneak attacks and they have good able leaders now.  

Be careful, though, Tigers did not lose too many of their men in these new victories. They lost weapons but they tactically withdrew without full faced confrontations for a reason: to live to fight another day.  

Let's root for the troops of the government but lets hope Tigers will lose more and see the futility of a racially exclusive  homeland.



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There is no need to make a mockery of the way people walk because of their physical disabilities. That is a bit cheap.

My point is SLA must be wary of sneak attacks.  Tigers did not lose too many of their men in these new victories. They lost weapons but they tactically withdrew without full faced confrontations for a reason: to live to fight another day.  Lets root for the troops of the government but lets hope Tigers will lose more and see the futility of a racially exclusive  homeland.

Rogerthis! I have no problem treating these thugs the way I do: they have destroyed large parts of my country and caused untold hardship to my people! What would you call a rapist, other than rapist? What would you call a bunch of rapist that attack a food ship that transports food to their own?

On your second (good) point: LTTE is not dead, they will surely move on to terrorist attacks, they will attack banks, air ports and sea ports. Even privet firms like Dialoge, telecom might be targeted. Trains, buses and public market will be attacked.

We will see an end to this only when the “the national leader” is eliminated. His dream is to be king of northern Sri Lanka. He will even kill his mother get there.

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The wepons we are talking about taken by or given by Army Trators like Cpt. Suresh who is commander in LTTE now. There are lot of traitors in the forces who gave all the internal military secrets to LTTE. Donot say that LTTE is superior. They thrive with bribing .. Traitors.

An effective argument is effective when it deals with facts and given that Ratwatte limps because he had an auto accident is what I was referring to.  I see MR's Dutugemunu cutouts everyday and those are a joke.

but anyway the key is to execute those guilty of treason. I think  given our level of corruption, LTTE might have politicians in their payroll too. Afterall, the great gentleman Parami Kulatunge was betrayed by a Sinhala Major for  thirty pieces of silver.

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The majority of the Tiger artillery has been captured from the SLA. This has been long known.

Yes, in fact Ranil W went around the world saying the govt is still making payments for some of them - his way of either
being truthful or demoralizing the Troops so that they could never fight again.


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RogerThis wrote:

An effective argument is effective when it deals with facts and given that Ratwatte limps because he had an auto accident is what I was referring to.  I see MR's Dutugemunu cutouts everyday and those are a joke.

but anyway the key is to execute those guilty of treason. I think  given our level of corruption, LTTE might have politicians in their payroll too. Afterall, the great gentleman Parami Kulatunge was betrayed by a Sinhala Major for  thirty pieces of silver.

After seeing the government corruption and their inability, about 5 years ago I wondered why on earth LTTE couldn’t defeat such a bunch of profound genius.  Well the answer is LTTE themselves are profound genius too.

When CBK was around, as little as $200 million ($million to each MP for 100 of them), LTTE would have changed lot of things in the parliament.  Obviously the cost now has gone up with the globalization since people think $million is a very small amount of chunk.


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I think Mr. Velu will be missing the great Kauna. Without Karuna LTTE is nothing. They can only kill innocent people and nothing.

Velupillai Pirapaharan without Karuna is like a Bull with only one testicle.

RogerThis wrote:

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According to a long time watcher of the Sri Lankan war, the 152 mm guns the Army is now   talking about, are the ones which the LTTE itself had captured from the army in 1999 during the latter's ambitious campaign to take the Vavuniya-Jaffna highway - the A9.

Not that I'm an expert of all details of the war, but the LTTE captured a total of 3 152mm guns in EPS in 2000.  All the previous artillery captured- in Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi- were 122mm.  

It is known that the Tigers gained more artillery during the CFA, but I don't know about the 152mm guns which are quite large and certainly cannot be transferred ship-to-ship at sea intact.  I heard nothing about 152mm guns in the East.  The Tigers had two 122mm and two 130mm guns at Sampur.  I have a feeling the above story is hogwash.


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It's the army spokesman himself who is saying they are 152mm guns. Surely there's something he says we can believe?

I still find it so hard to digest that The Associated Press still insunuates that it may not be the LTTE doing the bombing. they still use the words "being blamed" on the tigers LOL they are such a joke this includes all of the foreign reporting agencies BBC. Reuters etc

one poster said great Kruna. dont forget who Karuna is. he is the LTTE general who had 200 police officers executed after they surrendered. they were taken into the jungle and each shot in the head.

the mian reason the LTTE is facing so many setbacks is because the Tamil poepl in srilanka dont support them anymore as they have seen what they truely are. have they dont anything worthwhile for the tamils in the period that they had these areas under their control? no all they did what extorot people and rebuild their fighitng capability to continue figting. its quite clear they have no intention of peace no matter what. unfortunately the tamils outside srilanka are still dissolutioned into still beleiving the LTTE fights for the tamil cause. and its amazing the number of tamils who have never seen sri lanka who beleive in the LTTE.


and on the Mr Raman comments, though they are quite true this is a writer who is very sympathetic to the LTTE so take anything he says witha pinch of salt.