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Tiger defences captured
Fri 19 Dec 2008 9:53:32 IST
By Vijey Kumar
Sri Lankan troops have captured Tamil Tiger defences near the rebels' political headquarters after heavy fighting, the government said Thursday.
Soldiers were conducting "counter-terrorist operations" along the northern and northwestern defences of Kilinochchi, the political capital of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the defence ministry said.
It said the military carried out at least 10 bombing sorties against Tamil Tiger positions on Wednesday as ground troops faced stiff rebel resistance.
The LTTE said it repelled the multi-pronged offensive by government forces, killing 170 soldiers and wounding 420 on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The military rejected rebel claims and said they lost only 25 soldiers.
Singapore Man Sentenced for Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Money Laundering
Fri 31 Oct 2008 10:11:46 IST
By Source : U.S. Department of Justice
Aided Tamil Tiger Terrorists in the Attempted Purchase of Surface to Air Missiles, Night Vision Devices, Machine Guns and State of the Art Firearms
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Haniffa Bin Osman, age 57, a citizen of the Republic of Singapore, today to 37 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and money laundering, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein said, "Haniffa Bin Osman conspired with others to provide material support to the Tamil Tigers, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and attempted to illegally export arms, including state of the art firearms, grenade launchers, night vision devices, surface to air missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles. We will use all available legal tools to prevent terrorism, including undercover operations targeting people who attempt to obtain military weapons in violation of American law."
Pro-LTTE group threatens death to Jayalalitha: AIADMK
Thu 30 Oct 2008 9:04:52 IST
By IANS
Canada-based Tamil group sympathetic to Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers has threatened to assassinate former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayaram Jayalalitha, a party official said Wednesday.Jaya Kumar, a former AIADMK minister, told the police that a man calling himself Tamil Maindan, a functionary of the World Tamil Eelam Protection Organisation, had sent a letter warning that Jayalalitha would be killed for opposing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
“Jayalalitha would suffer the same fate as (former Pakistan prime minister) Benazir Bhutto for continuing to oppose Tamils in Sri Lanka,” said the complaint.
If Prabhakaran surrenders, Tamil suffering will end - Professor P Radhakrishnan
Tue 28 Oct 2008 10:45:08 IST
By Extract from rediff.com
Professor P Radhakrishnan, a sociologist from the Madras Institute of Development Studies is an authority on affirmative action, agrarian problems, backward classes and reservations, backward class politics, caste system, untouchability, globalisation and society, language politics, social discrimination, mobilisation and movements and terrorism.
In this interview with rediff.com`s Shobha Warrier, he tries to draw the difference between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the ordinary Tamils of Sri Lanka .
From a sociologist`s point of view, do you think there is sympathy for the Sri Lankan Tamils in Tamil Nadu?
We have to first separate the LTTE from the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. When the LTTE began its work, it was well meaning there was a lot of sympathy and support for it. Over the years, it has degenerated and become hegemonic and lost whatever goodwill and support that it got initially.
Now, the sympathy has to be for the Sri Lankan Tamils because they are suffering because of a double whammy both by the Sri Lankan government and the tyranny of LTTE chief V Prabhakaran. Being sympathetic to the suffering people is one thing supporting the LTTE is quite another, particularly after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. LTTE is now seen as one of the deadliest terrorist organisations. So, there is the sympathy for the Tamils and not for the LTTE.
The sympathy was much more in the beginning. I remember people waiting at Madras (now Chennai) airport to receive the refugees. That kind of sympathy does not exist anymore with the people because of the LTTE`s misdeeds though the issue is still alive.
So, the politicians of Tamil Nadu cannot get the sympathy of the people anymore now if they support the LTTE. The LTTE lost a lot of genuine support and goodwill with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
All of us are concerned whenever there are civilian causalities and displacement anywhere in the world. And, here, these are taking place in our neighbourhood. Culturally and ethnically, the Sri Lankan Tamils are close to the Tamils of Tamil Nadu.
India Congress distances from threat to quit Parliament on Tamils issue
Tue 21 Oct 2008 9:24:14 IST
By PTI
The Congress on Monday sought to distance itself from its ally DMK's stand that MPs from Tamil Nadu should quit their seats in Parliament on Sri Lankan Tamils issue, saying the government has acted in the matter with "great alacrity."
"We have not offered our resignations. Government has already acted with great alacrity...", party spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan told reporters in reply to questions on the issue.
Noting that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already talked to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, she said National Security Adviser M K Narayanan had also visited Colombo to discuss the Indian fishermen issue with the authorities there.
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