LTTE and Terrorism

LTTE Plan Kills Former Karnatak Minister Nagappa
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
December 09 03:43 AM: H. Nagappa, a former agriculture minister of the Southern Indian state of Karnataka who was abducted by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam associate and India’s most notorious forest brigand Veerappan, was found dead by Indian Police. Full Story

Devananda Says Prabhakaran Cannot be Trusted to Accept Federalism
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
December 09 03:43 AM: Douglas Devananda, the leader of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) asked how could any body trust the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of accepting a federal structure of government for Sri Lanka when it killed TULF leader Appa Pillai Amirthalingam for allegedly giving up the concept of a separate state. Full Story

Under federalism tigers can not have army say critics
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
December 08 03:08 AM: The insistence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that they should have permanent armed forces in the future has been cited as the main conflict with their newly declared policy of accepting a federal structure of government in place of separatism.
It has been pointed out that nowhere on the globe a nation having a federal government existed with two armed forces, of different loyalties. Full Story

Balasingham warns Jeyalalitha in London
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
December 04 07:44 PM: Tamil political sources allege that the chief negotiator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Anton Balasingham has issued a warning on the life of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jeyalalitha Jeyaram. Full Story

G.L and Balasingham Agreed to Divide Sri Lanka into Confederate States
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
December 06 08:07 PM: Anton Balasingham, the Chief negotiator for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and G.L. Peiris have announced that they have decided to accept a confederate system of government as a solution to Sri Lanka's civil war. Full Story

Confederate State Would Divide Sri Lanka
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
December 06 08:07 PM: The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, Sri Lanka's second largest opposition party called the Oslo Conference decision to devolve power through a confederacy as an attempt to divide a country which has always existed a unitary nation. Full Story

Balasingham warns Jeyalalitha in London
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
December 04 07:44 PM: Tamil political sources allege that the chief negotiator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Anton Balasingham has issued a warning on the life of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jeyalalitha Jeyaram. Full Story

LTTE Says It Needs a Standing Army
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 28 06:34 PM: Replying to US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage who requested a ‘public renunciation of terrorism and violence’ from the Tamil Tigers the terrorist group said that as long as Sri Lanka had an army it was necessary for them to maintain a standing army. Full Story

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In Defiance of US Tigers Parade Suicide Bombers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 27 07:00 PM:In an unprecedented show of strength the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) paraded the terrorist group’s strongest weapon against unheeding governments, the Suicide Bombers during a celebration to honor their fallen fighters and the 48th birthday of their leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran. Full Story

India Insulted if Prabhakaran’s Speech is Broadcast
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 26 07:09 PM: The Prajathanthra, a Movement for Social Democracy in Sri Lanka has called the decision of the State Rupavahini Corporation and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation to broadcast the Martyr’s Day speech of terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran a contempt of Sri Lanka courts and an grave insult to the island republic’s neighbor India. Full Story

Tigers at Oslo Say They Wont Change Terrorism or Separatism
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 26 05:09 PM: )The call by the United States to renounce violence was openly rejected by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at the press conference held at the end of Oslo conference of donor nations for the support of Sri Lanka’s peace. Full Story
LTTE siege on Delft island to starve rivals and drive them out
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 25 07:46 AM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has stopped all supplies to the Northern island of Delft where 5000 people live in order to starve the people and drive out its rival the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) from the island, the party’s leader Douglas Devananda charged. Full Story

UK joins USA to stay away from discussions with LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 25 05:00 AM: The delegations of the United States and United Kingdom will stay away from the discussion part of the Oslo conference of donor nations to support Sri Lanka’s peace after the Norwegian Foreign Minister and Prime Minister of Sri Lanka make their ceremonial addresses, refusing to sit together with the Terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in discussions. Full Story

Joint request for aid shows tigers are equal partners of govt. says JVP
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 24 07:40 PM: The General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Tylvin Silva charged in London that the Colombo government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe by issuing a joint statement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam asking for international aid had indicated to the world that they were running the country with the terrorist group as equal partners. < Full Story

Federalism would bring secession and future invasions says mahanayaka
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 24 08:14 AM: The introduction of any federal system in Sri Lanka would lead the North of the country to secede as a pure Tamil racist state warned the Most Venerable Madihe Pannasiha, the Mahanayaka Thero of the Amarapura Maha Nikaya at a conference held at the Jayewardene Cultural Center in Colombo. Full Story

US would not sit with LTTE terrorists
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 24 04:04 AM: The Sri Lankan Presidential Secretariat announced that the United States would not sit with the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at the Sri Lanka Donors Conference in Oslo. Full Story

LTTE Led Thugs Set Fire to EPDP Office in Chavakachcheri
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 22 08:55 PM: In the ongoing violence and protests orchestrated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in an effort to oust their rival political party the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) from Jaffna peninsula the Tamil terrorist group has set fire to the office of the EPDP in the Chavakachcheri town, the EPDP complained. Full Story

To Start One Party Polity Expulsion of EPDP is Necessary, LTTE Says
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 20 06:42 PM: Advocating a one party polity for the Northern and Eastern Provinces more than fifty front organizations of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam demanded that its opposition Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) be expelled from Jaffna Full Story

Police Uses Tear Gas on Armed Mob of Tamil Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 19 07:13 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organized mob attacked the Delft office of the opposition Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) also using firearms and Delft Police used tear gas to disperse the mob, police sources revealed. Full Story

Tigers Use Imported Mob to Stop EPDP in Delft
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 19 03:29 AM: The Opposition Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) complained to the Norway backed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) that they were being prevented by the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from engaging in normal political activities of the party in the Northern islands of Jaffna peninsula. Full Story

LTTE Frustrated Over De-Escalation Process of Sri Lanka
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 19 03:29 AM: The Sub Committee on De-escalation and Normalization (Jaffna District Committee) negotiations ended up with frustration and disappointment for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam since eight hours of discussions held at Muhamalai produced no results, LTTE sources reported. Full Story

Disregarding All Opposition Tigers to Continue Opening Eelam Police Stations
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 17 06:29 PM: Regardless of warnings of friends and foes alike that the continued task of establishing Tamil Eelam police stations in the Eastern Province would derail the government’s “peace process” ultimately, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is vigorously engaged in a drive to recruit young Tamil men and women as police constables and sub-inspectors, independent reports say. Full Story

There was a London UNP-LTTE Secret Pact Says Sudaroli
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 15 09:38 PM: Sudaroli, a strongly pro-LTTE Tamil daily published in Sri Lanka said by not granting the interim administration for the LTTE so far to take over the Northern and Eastern provinces of the island nation according to a pre-election secret pact the administration of Ranil Wickremesinghe was deceiving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

LTTE Continue to Extort People in Govt. Controlled Areas
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 13 07:14 PM: Despite the ongoing direct talks with the Ranil Wickremesinghe government the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam continue to extort money from the citizens of Sri Lanka living in the government controlled areas. Full Story

SL Government Participates in EELAM Police Opening
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 10 06:02 AM: Sri Lanka’s Chief negotiator with the LTTE at the Thailand talks and Constitutional Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris played down the rebel group’s extension of its Eelam Police to the Eastern Province and said it was a process happening in the LTTE controlled areas for a long time while the opening ceremony of the first such station at Palugamam was done with the participation of the Sri Lanka government representative, the additional Government Agent of Batticaloa, V. Shanmugam. Full Story

Tiger Demonstrations Want Prabhakaran Above Law
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 09 06:52 PM: Two massive protest demonstrations organized by the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to demand the government to withdraw a verdict given by the Colombo High Court sentencing the Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to 200 years of rigorous imprisonment were held in the Northern towns of Jaffna and Vavuniya, eye witness reports said. Full Story

Refusal to Paul Harris a Blow to Press Freedom
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 09 08:17 AM: The Prajathanthra, a movement for social democracy in Sri Lanka has lodged its vehement protests against the refusal of the Colombo government to extend the visa of Mr. Paul Harris, a British journalist in Sri Lanka and has alleged that that the refusal was “the result of pressure on the government” by a terrorist group banned in the United Kingdom, USA, Canada and Australia. Full Story

Bahu Sad Over LTTE's Failure to Obtain Much at Bangkok
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 05 05:59 PM: Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne, the leader of the New Left Front is so disappointed with the results of the second round of talks the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam held with the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration just concluded at the Rose Gardens Holiday Resort in Thailand he called it an unsuccessful meeting without any value to the Tamil people.
The radical Marxist leader who has been calling the terrorist insurrection of the LTTE with all its usual trappings like suicide bombings a “liberation struggle of the Tamil people” over the years said the LTTE had been turned in to a set of obedient disciples of the government carrying begging bowels soliciting for international aid. Full Story

Balasingham Preaches Peace While LTTE Caught with Arms
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 03 05:34 AM: While Anton Balasingham, the Chief negotiator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was telling reporters at Bangkok about the involvement of his group in the de-escalation process of violence in the Sri Lanka’s civil conflict between the government and the LTTE, the Sri Lanka Navy arrested six LTTE cadres while they were transporting Claymore mines, communication equipment and a satellite communication dish to a LTTE controlled area in a boat. Full Story

Balasingham Speaks in Contempt of Court Verdict
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 02 08:48 AM: The Chief negotiator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Anton Balasingham has lodged the terrorist group’s strongest protest against the verdict of the Sri Lankan High Court in Colombo, sentencing the leader of the Tamil terrorist group Velupillai Prabhakaran to 200 years of rigorous imprisonment. Full Story

Thailand Conference Paving Way for Eelam
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
November 02 08:49 AM: Twenty one national organizations of Sri Lanka charged that the current Thailand talks of Sri Lanka was concentrating on sidelining the Parliament and President of Sri Lanka and covertly allowing the LTTE to assume the powers of a separate state by right of illegal occupation. Full Story

Terrorist Group Says Ranils Govt. is Best
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 25 05:45 PM: Supporting directly Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s minority government in Colombo in its present crisis the main organ of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in its latest edition said “Sri Lanka’s future depends on a stable UNF government.” Full Story

Joint Task Force to Replace Interim Council Says JVP
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 24 07:27 PM: The official organ of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna said that the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were conspiring to by pass the practical difficulties of installing the much-opposed interim administration council with a pivotal role for the Tamil terrorist group by granting powers to two other administrative units under discussion. Full Story

Eastern Province Muslim Leader Says Norway is Suspect
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 22 04:09 PM: The rebel Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Member of Parliament and UNF Minister for Highways A.L.M. Athahulla who is leading a team of Muslim MP’s in the controversial boycott of parliament said the attitude of the Norwegians regarding the Muslims of the country was very suspect.
He accused Norway, which is overseeing Sri Lanka’s peace of paying no attention to the sorry plight of the Muslims in the Eastern Province and said due to the activities of the LTTE in the area the Muslims had become second class citizens who should live at the mercy of armed group. Full Story

Muslims Helpless as Tigers Kidnap Their Man
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 17 04:40 PM: The Akkaraipattu area in the Eastern province despite a curfew imposed by the Police remained tense after a young Muslim man was allegedly kidnapped by the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

Rupavahini and Lokubandara in Conflict Regarding End of Government
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 17 04:41 PM:While the state owned major television station, the Rupavahini announced in its news bulletin that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had obtained the sanction of his cabinet to dissolve the government and go to the country for a general election his Leader of the House W.J.M. Lokubandara denied such a decision was taken by the cabinet. Full Story

Tigers Still Abduct muslims
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 16 02:31 PM: While the LTTE leadership still attempting to control the Muslims in the East through cabinet minister Rauff Hakeem , whose political party is in crisis due to his Tiger connections cadres of the LTTE stepped up it campaign to extort from the Muslims. Full Story

JVP Protests State Visitor Protocol Accorded to Balasingham
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 16 01:52 PM: The way LTTE’s chief negotiator Anton Balasingham was received at the Katunayaka International Air Port and dispatched with an attending military officer in an Air Force helicopter to a reception of the separatist armed forces held in the Tamil rebel held areas was a public example of how the Ranil Wickremesinghe government was shamelessly subservient to the Liberation Tiger’s of Tamil Eelam and ever ready to meekly acquiesce to the wants of the terrorist group charged the opposition Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP). Full Story

JVP Says There's no Security for Muslims and Sinhalese in East
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 14 05:05 PM: Wimal Weerawansa, the Information Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and member of parliament charged that the due to the violent acts created by LTTE cadres released by the government from jails the government had created a situation where the Sinhalese and the Muslims in the Eastern Province had to provide their own security. Full Story

UNP Ministers Divided Over Whom to Blame for Grenade Deaths
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 14 05:05 PM: Two cabinet ministers of the Ranil Wickremesinghe government were divided as to who was responsible for the grenade explosion that killed three LTTE supporters in Trincomalee while performing a “hartal” against the government. Full Story

Five Tigers Killed by STF when They Entered Camp
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 10 05:38 AM: The first five deaths from a clash between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lanka Security Forces after a cease fire agreement was signed between the two parties was recorded , October 9 in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Full Story

Six soldiers released but Tamil Tigers refuse to release the weapon or the Truck
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 10 07:15 AM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam released the six Sri lanka government soldiers, whom they were holding as hostages for the last fifteen days but refused to return the army truck and the single weapon taken into their custody with the hostages. Full Story

Tamil Tiger Mobs Attack Vavuniya Police Station
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 09 05:38 PM: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organized rioters pelted stones at the Vavuniya Police station and passing vehicles during a demonstration the terrorist group organized to demand the release of the LTTE cadres languishing in Sri Lankan jails. Full Story

Tigers Using Leniency of Govt. Trying to Eliminate Opposing Parties
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 09 05:38 PM: The Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP), a parliamentary political party of the Sri Lankan Tamils alleged that the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam emboldened by their recent adventures of mob attacks against the police and the army has started building a fascist rule in the provinces of the North and East by destroying pluralism and democracy in the area by trying to eliminate political groups opposed to them physically. Full Story

Hostage Soldiers Definitely to be Free When Govt. Gives into Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 08 02:38 AM: As a plan agreed upon by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Ranil Wickremesinghe government with the collaboration of the Attorney General’s Department to give in to the Tiger demands and resolve the hostage problem of six soldiers two LTTE cadres in police custody filed applications for bail in the Appeals Court. Full Story

Drawback of Peace is It Depends on A Secret Pact
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 07 08:48 AM: The key draw back in Sri Lanka’s Norway backed “peace process” was that it was largely perceived as resulting from a “secret understanding” between the ruling United National Party and the terrorist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam charged one of Sri Lanka’s leading human rights groups. Full Story

LTTE Undue Influence to Obtain Two Thirds Power for PM is Foul
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 05 06:33 PM: It was unacceptable by the people for a terrorist leader of an organization that killed an elected President and two opposition leaders of the country and a Prime Minister of the neighboring country to do undue influence on parliamentarians to change the constitution of the country and attempt to obtain a two thirds parliamentary majority for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for that purpose said chief opposition whip Mangala Samaraweera. Full Story

To End the Dispute Govt Gives in to Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 05 00:01 AM: The government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will give in to the demands of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by making immediate preparations in granting bail to the two arrested cadres of the rebel group in order to get freedom for the six soldiers still being kept captives by them. Full Story

Tamil Tigers Still Call the Shots in Sri Lanka
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 02 04:38 PM: The former editor of Colombo’s Sunday Observer H. L. D. Mahindapala said the kidnapping of seven soldiers by the LTTE highlighted once again that it was the Tamil Tigers who were calling the shots and Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government as usual was surrendering to them without a murmur. Full Story

Tiger Mob Attacks Valachchenai Police and Damages Property
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 02 04:38 PM: ) A Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organized mob of nearly 1000 Tamil school children and 300 adult supporters attacked damaging police vehicles and the bunkers, fences and canteen (the cafeteria) of the Valachchenai Police station.
This is the second time the LTTE used school children to attack a security installations in the North and the East. Full Story

National Geographic Records Tamil Tiger Attack on Anuradhapura
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
October 01 07:38 AM: The National Geographic magazine in a special feature on World Heritage sites published three photographs of Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura and said in 1985 the terrorists of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam attacked Anuradhapura and massacred nearly two hundred people. Full Story
Abduction of Soldiers Shows Tigers not Ready to Give up Terrorism
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 29 03:55 PM: The arrest of seven soldiers by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and refusing to release them until two LTTE cadres arrested two weeks ago for breaking law by the Trincomalee Police has indicated to Ranil Wickremesinghe government and the rest of the world that the Tamil Tigers were not yet ready to give up all the terrorist tactics to achieve their political goals, opposition critics pointed out. Full Story

Chandrasekar Blames Thondaman for Not Seeking Tiger Help
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 28 10:48 PM: Periyasamy Chandrasekar, a cabinet Minister of Sri Lanka’s Ranil Wickremesinghe government blamed his trade union rival Arumugam Thondaman, another cabinet Minister for not seeking the help of terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to solve some problems of the plantation Tamils. Full Story

Tamil Tigers Take Seven SLA Soldiers Into Custody
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 27 02:48 PM: In an exhibition of a new challenge to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka the recently de-banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam took into custody seven soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army, said Army sources in Colombo. Full Story

Tiger Letter Says Eelam May Be Achieved With Int'l Help
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 26 04:12 PM: Confidential letters exchanged between sources close to LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and other LTTE activists in foreign countries after the Thailand talks and Anton Balasingham’s press conference statement that the LTTE had dropped its demand for a separate state indicate despite the statement the separatist policy of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam remained unchanged. Full Story

Tamil Tiger Police Spreads to Eastern Province
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 24 05:12 PM: In their latest expansion of power in running a parallel government with Colombo the rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) announced the extension of the jurisdiction of the ‘Tamil Eelam Police’ to the country’s Eastern Province in the coming few weeks. Full Story

Paduman Says LTTE Will Continue to Beef up Its Units
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 24 05:12 PM: Despite the on going direct talks between the Colombo government of Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) the separatist rebel group would continue to strengthen their armed forces. Full Story

Government Does not Have Enough Votes for Interim Administration
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 23 06:45 PM: An amendment to the constitution to implement an interim administration with a pivotal role for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam would never win a two-thirds majority in the parliament assured Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Leader of Opposition of Sri Lanka’s parliament. Full Story

Hakeem to See Prabhakaran Amidst Fears of Ethnic Cleansing
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 22 07:38 PM: Sri Lanka Moslem Congress leader Rauff Hakeem is planning to meet Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in the Wanni for talks to resolve differences between their ethnic groups, amidst fresh fears spreading among the Muslims in Mannar area due to a pamphlet distributed by a purported Tamil Tiger front demanding the Muslims to quit that area. Full Story

Hindu Charges: LTTE Did Not Drop EELAM
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 20 08:27 PM: One of South Asia’s most influential dailies, the Hindu said in an editorial analyzing the Tamil Tiger negotiator’s statement at the conclusion of the first session of direct talks between the rebels and the Colombo government that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels had not ruled out separation. Full Story

No Lion Flags at the Thailand Talks
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 16 06:06 AM: When the over hyped direct talks between the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration in Sri lanka and the Tamil rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam open up in Sattahip Naval Base in Thailand today the opening ceremony would neither fly the ancient Lion Flag of the proud Indian Ocean island nation nor a representative of the elected executive President, Chandrika Kumaratunga or any Sinhala national organization representing the whole country or the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka would participate in it. Full Story

Did Prabhakaran Smuggle Aircraft?
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 13 09:15 PM: Many have widely speculated that the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran has imported an aircraft in the guise of bringing in to the country the dead body of a comrade who died in a London hospital of cancer. Full Story

LTTE Attacks India and Praises Ranil to the Sky
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 11 08:08 PM: Only with few days left to go for the Thailand based direct negotiations between the Colombo government and the Tamil Tigers, the main organ of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), The Tamil Guardian attacked India as a country shedding “crocodile tears” for the hardships of the Tamil community. Full Story
Ranil and Karu Speak of Peace with LTTE While LTTE speaks of Separation
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 10 06:48 PM: While the leader of the United National Party Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his deputy Karu Jayasuriya hailed what the they called a victory rally of peace with the LTTE to show their power in the country by an orchestrated political rally in Colombo, September 9, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam selected the day to appreciate their separatist “judiciary system” they are conducting independent of the government of Sri Lanka. Full Story

Tamil Tigers Want Other Countries Follow Ranil in De-Banning
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 07 07:38 PM: The other nations of the world who proscribed the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam should lift their ban on the LTTE since the Sri Lanka government of Ranil Wickremesinghe has now lifted its proscription of the group said S.P. Thamilchelvan in an interview with Frances Harrison of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Full Story

LTTE Continues to Kidnap Children: One Camp Has 500
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 07 07:38 PM: Though the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam recently announced that they released 12 child soldiers they had kidnapped, reports continue to flow in that they are continuously engaged in kidnapping children to be recruited to their fighting forces against the will of those children. One escaped child soldier told police that he saw nearly 500 children being trained in a LTTE facility, at Kudimbimalai in Eastern Province. Full Story

No News Will be Allowed Against Peace Process
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 06 11:35 PM: The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka took the most unusual step of protecting his "peace plan" with the Tamil terrorist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by calling all editors of major dailies and weeklies of the country by telephone and asking them not to publish any news or comment against the peace plan. Full Story

Thousands Flock to JVP Rally to Protest LTTE De-Banning
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 04 06:25 PM: The decision of the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration to de-ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam would legitimize all the illegal activities of extortion and child abductions conducted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at the present time against the people of the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka charged the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Member of Parliament Anura Kumara Dissanayaka speaking on the occasion of their party rally against the UNF government at the Fort Railway Station. [Full Story] [Photos]

Sri Lanka Muslims to Be Represented As a Separate Unit at Talks
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 04 06:25 PM: While the Muslims of Sri Lanka would have their own representatives looking after the interests of their ethnic group it is still undecided the Sinhalese Buddhists are going to be represented at the proposed “peace talks” in Thailand , many Sinhala organizations complained to President Chandrika Kumaratunga . Full Story

UNP Says President's Decision About Tiger Ban Should Not Be Allowed to Become a Reality
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 03 06:22 PM: United National Party spokesman and Minister of Education Dr. Karunasena Kodituwakku said that President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s decision not to allow the lifting of the ban of the Tamil Tigers couldn’t be allowed to become a reality for the benefit of the country. Full Story

Tamil Tigers Organized Student Attack on Army Camp
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 03 06:22 PM: Sri Lankan Army sources said that the attack on their 524TH Brigade Headquarters in Point Pedro using school children has been well organized by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) and attacks by similar mobs are expected to be employed by the terrorist group all throughout the proposed “peace talks” in Thailand to drive out the army completely from Jaffna peninsula. Full Story

Separation Reminds Something Else
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 01 08:48 PM: The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress would insist that Northern and Eastern provinces should be de-merged from each other to implement any peace process in Sri Lanka, the party’s leader Rauf Hakeem told a Muslim youth conference in Puttalama. Full Story

Jaffna's Sole UNP Member in a Conflict wih Ranil Wickremesinghe
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
September 01 08:48 PM: Accusing the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was favoring the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) over him in matters concerning affairs in Jaffna the Hindu Religious Affairs Minister and the sole United National Party Member of Parliament of the District of Jaffna, Mr. T.Maheswaran has started a boycott of Parliament in protest. Full Story

Sinhala MP'S Group to Campaign Against De-Banning of Tamil Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 31 07:40 PM: The Sinhala group of parliamentarians who held their meeting at the Dharmayathanaya, Borella anddecided to campaign island wide against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s decision to de-ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

MEP Vehemently Oppose Ranil's Decision to De-Ban LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 31 07:40 PM: The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP), which convened a special Central Committee meeting of the party unanimously decided to vehemently oppose the decision of the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration to lift the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as a pre-condition to talks in Thailand. Full Story

Central Bank Governor Accused of Not Acting Against Eelam Bank
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 30 06:50 PM: The leader of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna and Convener of the Sinhala Parliamentarians Group expressed amazement that they have not received any response from the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka for almost one month to their complaint that he had allowed the violation of monetary and banking act by allowing the function of the Eelam Bank. Full Story

Armed LTTE Men Cross Lines Defying Orders of Army
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 29 04:30 AM: With few days to go for the much hyped “peace talks” to start somewhere close to Bangkok, Thailand between Colombo and the Tamil Tigers, both the Sri Lanka Army and the Norway backed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission have reported a serious situation created by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by sending black uniformed Tamil guerillas across the main Supply Line of the government in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Full Story

Decreasing Sl security areas will be target # 1 of Thai Talks
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 28 06:57 AM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam would send a four-person delegation to the three-day Thailand talks scheduled to begin on September 16 reported the Tamil Guardian, the London based organ of the terrorist group. Full Story

Malwatte Mahanayaka Thero Insists He Remains Totally Opposed to LTTE De-Banning Despite Marapana
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 27 06:58 PM: The most Venerable Rambukwelle Sri Vipassi Maha Nayaka Thero of the Malwatte chapter of the Siam Maha Nikaya said despite the visit to the official residence of the Mahanayaka at Kandy by the Defense Minister Thilak Marapana as a government emissary and his subsequent statements to the press, he remained totally opposed to the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s decision to lift the ban of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

SLMM Help to Change agreement for LTTE boats to be closer to Shore
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 27 06:58 PM: The Norway backed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has once again undertaken to negotiate with the Sri lanka government to change the agreement on the transportation of the troops of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from Wanni to Eastern Province and back in favor of the Tamil Terrorists. Full Story
Govt. Attaches a Condition to Pacify De-Banning Protesters
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 26 05:07 AM: Amidst growing agitations and protests against de-banning of the terrorist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration of Sri Lanka announced that the government would only de-ban the terrorist group with a condition of re-introducing the ban if the Tamil separatists broke off peace talks. Full Story

Under Terrorist Pressure Ranil's Government Decides to Amend Constitution
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 16 06:02 PM: The Ranil Wickremesinghe administration has accepted the clipping of the wings of President Chandrika Kumaratunga through a constitutional amendment under the pressure of the terrorist group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a pre-condition to the Thailand "peace talks". Full Story

JVP says Ranil's Sea Passage is a Threat to India and Creates Eelam
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 14 04:29 PM: The Ranil Wickremesinghe administration, by allowing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam a permanent sea passage to transport its troops from Northern Province to Eastern Province and back had created not only more ability for the terrorist group to establish a separate state but also posed a serious threat to the security of India, Sri Lanka's second largest opposition group the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) charged. Full Story

JVP says Ranil's Sea Passage is a Threat to India and Creates Eelam
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 14 04:29 PM: The Ranil Wickremesinghe administration, by allowing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam a permanent sea passage to transport its troops from Northern Province to Eastern Province and back had created not only more ability for the terrorist group to establish a separate state but also posed a serious threat to the security of India, Sri Lanka's second largest opposition group the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) charged. Full Story

The Tamil Tigers Want to Keep Ranil in Power
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 08 04:50 PM: In the brewing constitutional conflict of Sri Lanka between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has pledged to stand by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Full Story
Trade Exhibition in Jaffna Attacked by Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 07 03:13 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam attacked the three-day trade exhibition held at the Jaffna Central College that concluded on Monday as an effort by the Sinhalese businessmen to foray in to Jaffna in search of customers. Full Story

Muslims Commemorate 130 massacred by Tamil Rebels
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 06 05:34 PM: Amidst continued tensions created by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam among the Muslims by targeting them for endless extortions hundreds of Muslims in the Kathankudi town commemorated the twelfth anniversary of the mosque massacre perpetrated on them by the Tamil rebel group, security sources said. Full Story

LTTE renamed as foreign terrorist group in US
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 05 05:378 PM: In a fact sheet put up in the website of the United States Department of State, which reflected an official register the Secretary of State Colin Powell re-designated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam a foreign terrorist group for another two years. Full Story

Now Tamil Tigers want Lankan waters demarcated for them along the Eastern coast
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
August 28 06:01 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) reiterated its demand to keep Sri Lanka Navy off limits from a three and half mile wide sea corridor allowing the rebel group to travel in a demarcated sea route along the coast connecting Northern and Eastern Provinces in a discussion held with the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission in the rebel held area in Northern Sri Lanka. Full Story

Ranil to meet Prabhakaran before Thailand
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
July 30 06:27 AM: Responding to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's strong desire to meet terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran the pro-LTTE Tamil daily Suderoli said that the LTTE leader also would be delighted to welcome the Sri Lankan Prime Minister in the Wanni. Full Story

Sri Lanka government to be taxed by the LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
July 28 03:13 PM: In Sri Lanka the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is still a terrorist group proscribed under the island nation's law. But the country's lawfully elected government of Ranil Wickremesinghe has entered into an agreement with the unlawful group. Making the so called peace process more comical the terrorist group is now imposing taxes on goods belonging to the lawfully elected government itself before the goods enter what the terrorist group calls "Tamil Eelam", a putative state to be carved out of the island's Northern and Eastern provinces. Full Story

Moragoda Begging for Peace Talks
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
July 28 05:05 AM: The Tamil Tigers official website, the Tamil Net published these photographs of Prime Minister's Man Friday Milinda Moragoda going to London and meeting a more plump and sickly looking Anton Balasingham, the self acclaimed theorist and chief negotiator of the Liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

LTTE man boasts that none of their assets were frozen
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
July 27 06:22 PM: A Canada based LTTE front leader contradicted Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and said so far not a single penny belonging to the Sri Lankan terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had been frozen either by Canada or by the United States. Full Story

34 Abducted from military sensitive seven Islands
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
July 26 05:43 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which has won the concession of entering the military sensitive islands off Jaffna peninsula ostensibly to do political work under the ceasefire agreement has so far kidnapped 34 Tamil youth from the islands, charged the Sri Lanka Navy in a report to the Ministry of Defense. Full Story

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