Associated Press,  Fri Jan  2 00:35:41 EST 2009

    KRISHAN FRANCIS  -   Associated Press Writer  -              COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -  (AP)  Sri Lankan soldiers fought their way into the Tamil Tiger rebel capital Friday for the first time in a decade, military officials said, following months of fierce battles on the outskirts that left scores dead.

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Heming Heming.  The problem is political pressure on the troops which will cause serious casualties. Ideally the politicians should let the army first get the LTTE guns that are now pointed at Kilinochchi where all the buildings and infrastructure is targeted by the retreating Tigers. They will try to attack these points when the troops move in with their long range artillery. Yes the Tigers still have their long range weapons and 80 and 120mm mortars... Tigers have the coordinates of all these buildings according to some sources I know...That is what they did in Muhamalai.

Kili has no strategic value but a heck of a lot of political value.  VP must be in a bunker needing regular diaper changes for his soiled clothes as he panics.  The army is brave and taking a lot of hits and casualties.  Ideally I would like to see them bypass kili and get to Mullaitivu.  Eelam is coming to an end at least geographically as their area is rapidly dwindling...VP's bragging about "day dreams" is now a embarrassing wet dream for him.  The Colombo Political pundits are now silent. Last year they predicted that the Sinhala Army cannot beat the Tigers...Yes Jehan Pereras, Paikayasoththis, Sunanda's all said the same last year..

I thought Prabhakaran was saying that Kilinochchi would not fall?

What happened to all that Tamil braggadocio?

"day dream" said VP. More like a wetdream for him now. But let us a pause a moment to salute the brave warriors who fight amidst many odds, bad weather, and horrid mortar and artillery fire. The Tigers have withdrawn towards Mullaitivu.. Lets not gloat but take a moment to say WELL DONE Soldiers of the legitimate forces of the Democratically elected government and the nation of all people.

Well done boys. We salute you our brave soldiers. It is now time to give up violence and mythical Eelam and save innocent lives of all communities. The war has cost us a temendous amount in precious resouces in cash and kind and human lives. It makes no sense to continue this madness in search of a seperate state. Let us now all get together and build our beloved motherland.

Welcome SLA soldiers to Kilinochchi.


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Congratulations for
a job well done for Ceylon; a model cosmopolitan country,
a great relief to Sinhalese; minority in the globe but majority in Ceylon,
a constellation for Diaspora, mostly Tamils; minority in Ceylon but majority in the globe,
a exemplary victory for Ceylon Forces; unbelievable force against LTTE. Who “has attacked non-military targets including commuter trains and buses, farming villages, temples and mosques, resulting in civilian deaths. Some of the attacks resulting in civilian deaths include the Kebithigollewa massacre, the Gonagala massacre (54 dead), the Anuradhapura massacre (146 dead), the Dehiwala train bombing (56 dead),[89] the Palliyagodella massacre (109 dead) and the bombing of Sri Lanka's Central Bank (102 dead). The LTTE claims that some of these attacks on civilian targets are collateral damage.” As per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam

Need to be very cautious and vigilant inside Kilinochchi as there could be death traps for tomorrow. Ceylon Government should publish photographs and any other information of leading LTTE carder to make difficult a runaway. How can one know the next guy seated in a bus is,  Pottu Amman, Colonel Soosai, Brigadier Balraj, Vaithilingam Sornalingam, S. P. Thamilselvan, Sathasivam Krishnakumar, Thileepan, Ramalingam Paramadeva, Colonel Jeyam or even VP?

sathya
Have you heard the term 'sour looser'?


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Meanwhile unconfirmed sources claimed Prabhakaran's wife Mathivathini has applied for Asylum in Canada from India.

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perl wrote:

sathya
Have you heard the term 'sour looser'?

Sinhala forces can capture many more northern towns and hoist the lion flag of oppression but the resistancewill continue. Sinhala government has won Kilinochchi land but they fail to win the hearts of the Kilinochchi people, mainly the Tamil people. Sometimes strategic widthdrawal will pay off later.
The Tamil people of Kilinochchi should be celberating with joy if the people of Kilinochchi were liberated from the LTTE by the sinhala government.

Have you also heard that Kilinochchi fell to the government and re-captured again. Now the Challenge is keeping the town with sinhala soldiers with out being attacked.

The symbolic capture of holding the town is definitely a victory for Sinhala oppression of Tamils and this will give a boost to the ruling sinhala government to go ahead with the sinhala agenda in the north and east; wiping out tamil homeland.

I concede with the thousands of tamils that we have lost our fight temporarily to the sinhala oppressive forces and only constallation is that fight will continue when oppression continues.

At the moment LTTE is a sour looser and will wait for the tides to turn around.

it should be Sour Loser  not looser!  

I heard the sour loser's bomb at Airforce HQ in Slave Island at 5:20pm from close proximity..  There is likely to be more attempts to wreak havoc in Colombo as they lose more and more territory and embarrass themselves.

RogerThis wrote:

it should be Sour Loser  not looser!  

I heard the sour loser's bomb at Airforce HQ in Slave Island at 5:20pm from close proximity..  There is likely to be more attempts to wreak havoc in Colombo as they lose more and more territory and embarrass themselves.

A tiger in the open is less dangerous that the one in hiding.
The sinhalease and the Sinhala government can celebrate the symbolic victory of the town of Kilinochchi without people and they should remeber very well that this is another permanent scar in the minds of tamil people wo are facing this oppression and aggression since independence.

I have always used "Sinhala Budhist" government and "Sinhala Budhist" agenda in my postings to show that the elected governments cater to the aspirations of the majority demands not protecting the rights and aspirations of the Tamil minority of the country where they have enjoyed their own "Majority" status in the north and east. By systematic colonisation and sttling sinhalease under the pretext of High security Zones the plan to destroy the tamil homeland is progressing well.  The Sinhalease blame the LTTE for everything for this war forgetting the fact that the sinhala agenda of the governments since independence gave birth to many groups and finaly the LTTE.

If not for the fight by LTTE more territory would have been colonized by the sinhala government.


This is just one proof for the Sinhala agenda:

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JHU General Secretary, Venerable Omalpe Sobhitha Thera has reminded the government that the Maha Sangha has the power to order the Government not to take backward the step taken forward to eradicate terrorism.

When the above is the reality the tamils have to fight and get their self determination. Sinhalease will realise soon that keeping the north and east under LTTE control temporarily and give devolution is a better option in the longrun to achieve permanent peace in the country. When there are people who are ready to blow themselves then you cannot win the war with even dropping cluster bombs on tamil towns to capture the vacated land later.

polburuwa wrote:

Well done boys. We salute you our brave soldiers. It is now time to give up violence and mythical Eelam and save innocent lives of all communities. The war has cost us a temendous amount in precious resouces in cash and kind and human lives. It makes no sense to continue this madness in search of a seperate state. Let us now all get together and build our beloved motherland.

I do agree with you 100 % with the last part "Build our beloved motherland".

You do not build build a motherland of citizens of different ethnic background by implementing the will of the majority only. A responsible majority will and should include policies to protect the minority land and language rights. You can crate hatred among the minorities by colonising their traditional land with systematci schemes. You do not oppress one community to side with the budhist monks to make the whole country a Sinhala country. If you cannot deliver a federal state to the Tamils of the north and East the fight will continue and innocent lives will be lost from all communities and in most cases tamils only due to dropping of tons of bombs in tamil areas.

Peace4All has good points; But he or she fails to ever condemn the LTTE or to ask the LTTE to drop their preposterous, ludicrous demand for a racially exclusive homeland when more than 55% of Tamil people live, prosper, benefit from free education in the Sinhala areas and are beneficiaries of Sinhala Buddhist government(to use his/her own definition and not mine) largesse. NO country other than SL conducts war while supplying food and essentials to the area controlled by the enemy. They have always done it even though Tigers use it to their benefit, because they know each inch of SL is part of a united SL with different ethnic groups.

I always said a Political solution is needed to satisfy the economic, social and political aspirations of the minorities. We the Sinhala majority can take a leaf from the US and see how they have progressed.  No final peace is possible without a political settlement.  But for that to occur, the Tigers need to be wiped out.  Let us not forget that the Tigers use civilians as hostages and abduct children and force them to fight. Tamils keep quiet out of fear, while others join them willingly.  But is absurd for one minority to claim they have some divine right to 45% of the land mass and 60% of the coastline to accomodate the aspirations of whack job hiding in a bunker where ONLY tamils can live. So if you want Eelam they you need to vacate the rest of the nation and the country can give a proportionate amount of land (14%) for a racially exclusive homeland for tamils.  What is happening and has happened is how the Tamils want to enjoy the benefits of a central government, free university education(look at how many TAmils are at Pera for example) but not share an iota of the resources in the N.E with the rest of the nation. That is purely simply racism.  

I do not like the militant Buddhist monks.  I hope more enlightened people will work with moderate Tamils after VP and his ghouls are wiped out.    Reasonable devolution and rapid economic integration is the key. Along with that Tamils and Sinhalese should learn each other's language and not remain isolated. In Malaysia Tamils don't utter a peep when they were told to learn Bahasa Malaysia and in US, Canada and England they willingly learn and function in English. So why are they so adamant about refusing to learn the language of the majority? that is absurd because these Tamil Vellala types feel superior to others...


ARE YOU for a racially exclusive homeland Peace4All? Yes or No would suffice. If Yes, they are you going to tell the Tamils to get out of Colombo, Kandy, Matara, Galle and renounce their privileges?  I say no because every Lankan should be able to live, work, prosper any place in SL including in Jaffna if a Sinhala person if so wishes to do so... But as of now, only the Tamils can do that amidst discomfort and harassment but we Sinhalese and the Moslems cannot live, prosper or trade in the North .. Why is that?

BTW, the lies about cluster bombs was exposed.  and USAF, Israeli AF, NATO forces all use cluster bombs and it is not illegal.  Suicide terrorist bombs are. I am sorry for civilian deaths and the misery that has been foisted upon the tamil people of the North by VP and the resultant war.. The war will end when Tigers renounce their so called divine right to a bogus separate state that only exists in their dreamworld and decide to help the majority help  and protect minorities.  All minorities must have the same rights and on paper legally they do so far.  It is only the war that has sadly resulted in Tamils being profiled like Moslems in the US.

peace4all wrote:

I do agree with you 100 % with the last part "Build our beloved motherland".

You do not build build a motherland of citizens of different ethnic background by implementing the will of the majority only. A responsible majority will and should include policies to protect the minority land and language rights. You can crate hatred among the minorities by colonising their traditional land with systematci schemes. You do not oppress one community to side with the budhist monks to make the whole country a Sinhala country. If you cannot deliver a federal state to the Tamils of the north and East the fight will continue and innocent lives will be lost from all communities and in most cases tamils only due to dropping of tons of bombs in tamil areas.

you also donot have the  GOD GIVEN RIGHT to anihilate PLOTE TELO EPRLF EPDP members just b'cos one crazy man wanted to be the king of thamileelam. There are many who want to comeback and start their lives again in their motherland.  Probably the daughters and sons of the LTTE victims. The tamils who gave life just becos they had a different view.