LTTE and Terrorism

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
June 11 03:26 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam will continue to beef up its forces , despite the on going peace process with the government, a military leader of the rebel group declared at a passing out parade of the rebel soldiers. Full Story

US says Tamil tigers abduct and sexually exploit children
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
June 10 07:19 PM: Despite the publicized puritanical sexual mores of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam the Tamil terrorists abducted and held children for sexual exploitation, charged the State Department of the United States of America. Full Story

There should be only one BUDUBANA
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
June 08 04:52 PM: Wimal Weerawansa , the Parliamentary Group Leader and the propaganda Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna said there could be only one dharma preached by the Buddha on one issue and not several different ones commenting about an alleged change of policy of the Maha Nayaka Theros regarding the "peace process of the Ranil Wickremesinghe government." Full Story

No new camps and get out of old camps, Tigers tell Army
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
June 06 01:49 PM: Three Tamil newspapers , generally considered pro-Tamil Tigers have orchestrated a hue and cry about building a massive Sri Lanka Army military camp in East Chavakachcheri while supporting the LTTE movement demanding the army should leave all public and religious buildings they occupy at present. Full Story

Balasingham quarrels Ranil Wickremesinghe over broken promises
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
June 02 05:22 PM: Accusing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of back tracking on the crucial issues of de-proscription of the terrorist group and granting an interim government of two provinces of Sri Lanka to its rule the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) chief negotiator demanded those promises should be fulfilled to rejuvenate the island nation's Norway backed peace process. Full Story

Tiger leader confirms that there was a UNF-LTTE pre-election pact
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
June 04 04:40 PM: The leader of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Selvakumar Paramamoorthy Thamilchelvan has confirmed that their terrorist group had a pre-election pact with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and his United National Front. Full Story

LTTE WEBSITE CASTING DOUBTS ABOUT PEACE OUTCOME SAYS EUROPE SHOULD STOP DEPORTING ASYLUM SEEKERS UNDER EU-SL AGREEMENT
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
June 03: The Tamil Tigers controlled website Eelamnation quoting unknown Tamil politicians and organizations making doubts over the outcome of peace talks in Thailand said Europe should stop sending back Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers back to their homes. Full Story

LTTE RIVAL DEVANANDA TELLS IN INDIA THAT PRABHAKARAN HAS NO MANDATE FOR A SEPARATE STATE AND HIS CEASEFIRE IS DISHONEST
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
June 01: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s arch rival K. N. Douglas Devananda told India’s leading news magazine, The Frontline, that the terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had received no mandate from the Tamil people of Sri Lanka for a separate state called Eelam. Full Story

SRI LANKA’S PEACE PROCESS REACHES A STALEMATE BY BOTH PARTIES ATTACHING PRE-CONDITIONS TO DISCUSSIONS SCHEDULED IN THAILAND
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 31 : Sri Lanka’s peace process has reached a stalemate by both parties of the conflict attaching pre-conditions to start direct talks between them at the end of this month in Thailand to seek solutions to the country’s nearly two decades old separatist conflict. Full Story

VENERABLE ITTAPANE DHAMMALANKARA’S STATEMENT THAT THE MAHANAYAKA PROTEST DOCUMENT WAS TAMPERED WITH WAS TOTALLY UNFOUNDED
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 30: Contradicting a statement made by the Venerable Ittapane Dhammalankara that new items have been added to a protest statement after it was signed by the Nayaka Thero of the Kotte sector of the Siyam Maha Nikaya, Dr. Piyasena Dissanayaka of the National Joint Committee said the allegation was totally unfounded. Full Story

LTTE INDICATES THEY ARE VERY MUCH PERTURBED OVER SRI LANKA’S DEFENSE PACT WITH THE US AND HANDING OVER OIL TANKS TO INDIA
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 29: The official organ of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam indicated in its latest issue that the rebel group was greatly perturbed over Sri Lanka’s defense pact with the United States and the island nation’s decision to hand over the huge tank farm in Trincomalee to the strategic interests of New Delhi. Full Story

STF CHIEF SAYS THE TAMIL TIGERS WERE DELIBERATELY TRYING TO PROVOKE A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE GOVT. FORCES AND TAMIL PEOPLE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 28: The Commander in Chief of Sri Lanka’s elite police commandos, The Special Task Force (STF), charged that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who were enjoying privileges under a Memorandum of Understanding reached between the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, were deliberately trying to provoke a conflict with their force and the ordinary Tamil citizens of the Eastern Province. Full Story

BLACKING OUT MAHANAYAKA VIEW IN THE PRESS NOT APPROPRIATE SAYS PRO PEACE MONK VENERABLE ITTAPANE DHAMMALANKARA
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 26: Venerable Ittapane Dhammalankara , the Anu Nayaka Thero of the Kotte Sector of the Siyam Maha Nikaya and the leader of the sector of the Buddhist Monks who are supporting the government’s peace process with the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam in reference to the blacking out of the statement of the Maha Nayaka Theros both in the electronic and print media by the all powerful Media Unit of the Prime Minister’s office said that there should be freedom of the press to publish anything not illegal in the country. Full Story

DESPITE CONTINUED ALLEGATIONS OF ARMS SMUGGLING BY THE TAMIL TIGERS SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN OF FISHING IN TAMIL AREAS
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 25: Despite continued allegations of arms smuggling by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam the Sri Lanka government lifted a fishing ban imposed mostly on the Tamil fisherman 16 years ago as a preventive measure against gunrunning by the rebel group. Full Story

PRO-LTTE NEWSPAPER SUDEROLI SAYS THE HONEY MOON WOULD SOON COME TO AN END AND PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO BE PREPARED FOR WAR
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 23: The pro-LTTE Tamil newspaper, Suderoli, said that the Jaffna people felt the rebel group's honeymoon with the Sri Lanka government would be over very soon and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam office in Kokuvil in Jaffna were advising people to be prepared for war. Full Story

Norway Gave Tamils The Chance To Develop Own State
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 22 05:29 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam website Eelamnation quoted a senior leader of their organization as having said that this is the first opportunity for Tamils to develop their own nation state. Full Story

LTTE Protests Lease of Oil Tank Farm to India
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 22 02:45 AM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam website Eelamnation writing about moves to lease out a section of a 1000 acre oil tank farm by the Sri Lanka government to the Indian Oil Corporation said that only the Tamil Eelam has a right to make a decision whether to lease out the farm or not. The LTTE controlled website said Tamils have mounted protests against the act of leasing out a section of the farm in the Eastern seaport of Trincomalee to the Indian company but did not name the Tamils or any organization which represented the Tamils who protested. Full Story

Karialan Warns of Last War if Talks are Scuttled
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 20 05:19 PM: The official news website of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Tamil Net quoting a senior leader of the terrorist group warned the government of Sri Lanka if peace talks were to be scuttled and fighting broke out again it would be the last war to be fought by them to achieve their objective. Full Story

Rival Tamils Running Away in Fear Of LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 19 05:29 PM: Since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres are entering army controlled areas in the Northern Province their archrivals the Eelam People's Democratic Party members are scooting off the area, claimed Sooderoli, the pro-Tiger Tamil newspaper. Full Story

We Want A Place In Talks Say EP Sinhalas
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 16 06:13 AM: Some Sinhalese citizens organizations in the Northern and Eastern Provinces have appealed to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Chandrika Kumaratunga that they should also be represented in whatever future peace talks with the Tamil Tigers. Full Story

Tigers Say Peace Talks Could Get Delayed
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 16 02:24 AM: Complaining of a "fresh gloom" in the Norwegian backed peace process in Sri Lanka the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said negotiations in Thailand were clearly not anticipated in the immediate future. Full Story

LTTE Teaches Children How To Kill Themselves
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 14 09:15 AM: The child soldiers often kidnapped from their parents by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were trained in the methods of suicide charges Dr. Harendra de Silva, Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the National Child Protection Authority in Sri Lanka.
Full Story

Sinhala MP's to Launch All Island Protest Against "False Peace"
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 11 09:38 PM: The newly formed Sinhala MP's Group would declare its five great precepts of ideology in front of the Sri Maha Bodhi on May 14 before they launch an all island protest movement against the impending danger of the government's so called peace proposals said the group's conveyor Dinesh Gunawardane. Full Story

More Than Thousand Monks Converge On Colombo
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 11 09:38 PM: In one of the strongest shows of strength against the government so far, more than one thousand Buddhist monks converged on the capital city of Colombo and meditated against the memorandum of understanding brokered by Norway between the Sri Lanka government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

LTTE Increases Extortions And Kidnappings
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 11 05:00 PM: The much respected human rights organization, University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna)charged that despite numerous complaints by various human rights groups of the world the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has increased its child abductions and extortions in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Full Story

Purahanda Kaluwara Director Praises Tamil Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 10 02:57 PM: Prasanna Vithanage's blanket endorsement of the militants refutes well documented evidence of rights violations, adds to suspicion that he is backed by pro-LTTE foreign NGOs
Refuting strong evidence to the contrary, a leading Sinhala film director has upheld the LTTE's human rights record claiming that there is no repression of the Tamil people by the militant group. Full Story

Thamil Chelvam Refuses to Say Sorry for Crimes Against Civilians
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 09 10:52 AM: Does the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam take responsibility for the horrible crimes committed at the Aranthalawa Buddhist Monk massacre, the massacre of pilgrims at Sri Maha Bodhi, Anuradhapura, the bombing of the Temple of the Tooth, or the early morning massacring raids on Sinhalese villages bordering Tamil areas in which the marauding Tigers took delight in cutting little babies and their mothers to pieces? That was a question to which the rebel group's political wing leader Thamil Chelvam would not say "yes" or utter the simple words, "We are very sorry" Full Story

Tamil Tigers Fail To Deny Amnesty'Intl Charges
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 08 07:40 PM: In an obvious reference to the warning of the US ambassador in Colombo last week against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam violating a Norway backed truce the leader editorial of their main organ said the "value judgment" of the envoy was "hasty and disquieting" on matters that are yet to be investigated by truce monitors. Full Story

Seruwila High Monk Challenges Merging Of North And East
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 06 02:41 AM: The merging of the Northern and Eastern Provinces under the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration's proposal to establish an interim administration for the two provinces led by the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam will be challenged in Sri Lanka's Appeals Court, a report said. Full Story

Lokubandara's Flimsy Defense Of Interim Council
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 05 08:10 AM: Sri Lanka government's leading public defender of the Ranil Wickremesinghe policies of peace said his Prime Minister would never betray the Sinhalese to the LTTE.
W.J.M.Lokubandara, the Minister of Justice and the Buddha Sasana and the Government of Sri Lanka's public face during a time of its secret deals with the LTTE speaking about the proposed interim administration of the North and the East, defended Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as a man who would not betray the majority Sinhalese by his proposed move to just give over the two provinces of the East and the North to Prabhakaran who is claimed by those who are close to him as the Prime Minister and President of Eelam, the putative state to be carved out of Sri Lanka. Full Story

Ranil Is Going For Official Talks With People Not Recognizing Him As PM
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 03 05:00 AM: The most ludicrous thing happening in Sri Lanka today was that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was getting prepared to hold official talks with a group of people who had publicly declared that they did not recognize him as the Prime Minister of the whole country said Tylvin Silva, General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Full Story

Tamil Tigers protest Against New Recruitment to the Army
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 03 08:10 AM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam website the Eelamnation said that the Tamil National Alliance members of parliament had demanded that the decision of the Sri Lanka Army to enlist and train 5000 new soldiers should be immediately stopped Full Story
Human Rights Group Says Norway Is Bias
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 02 03:13 AM: One of Sri Lanka's leading human rights groups of Tamil academics have brought serious charges against Norwegian authorities who are running the Sri Lanka Monitoring Committee and accused them of bending to the will of the LTTE terrorists as patent injustices were committed by the rebel group before their very eyes against innocent civilians. Full Story

Cabinet Minister Accepts Prabhakaran As Leader
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 02 03:13 AM: A cabinet minister of the ruling United National Front government and leader of the Ceylon Workers Congress Arumugam Thondaman told a cheering May Day rally in the tea plantation town of Hatton that separatist and terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was also the leader of the Indian origin Tamils working in the tea plantations, the BBC reported. Full Story

June Peace Talks May Be Postponed Say Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 01 07:58 AM: The London based LTTE organ, the Tamil Guardian, blaming the Sri Lanka Army hinted due to truce violations of the military the much awaited peace talks by the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration could be further delayed beyond mid-June. Full Story

Balasingham in Fear Changed Flight Path
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
May 01 07:54 AM: The official LTTE organ published in London gave some credence to unconfirmed Indian newspaper reports that Anton Balasingham's fear of an Indian Air Force interception made the seaplane carrying him to the Maldives change course. Full Story

Violating the MOU Tigers Hold Old Man for Ransom Over a Month
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
April 30 03.45 PM : The London based human rights organization, the Amnesty International has sent a world wide appeal requesting to save a 82-year old man, whom the organization alleges had been held hostage for ransom over a month now by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in violation of a MoU signed between them and the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of Sri Lanka. Full Story

National Organization Against MOU
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
April 06 10.47 AM : At two important meetings of Sinhala nationalists in Galle and in Colombo it was decided to form a non-political party national organization to fight the memorandum of understanding reached between Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, organizers said. Full Story

LTTE To Openly Fundraise IN New York
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 23 07:12 PM : Apparently strengthened by the promise of de-proscription by the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration in Colombo the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is scheduled to hold its first fundraiser in the city of New York on March 23 2002 after it went underground many years ago Full Story

Local Polls No Referendum On MOU
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 22 03:17 PM : A US-based Sri Lankan nationalist group is accusing a top government minister of resorting to deception in trying to pass off the recently concluded local government elections as a 'referendum.' Full Story

Judge says Ranil broke his oath
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 21 06:00 PM : A retired Sri Lankan Supreme Court Justice and Presidential Counsel, K.M.M.B. Kulatunga attacked the MOU signed between Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran as an "illegal" document adverse to the government, sovereignty, territorial integrity and democracy intended to make Ranil Wickremesinghe the next President of Sri Lanka and reminded him that he took an oath on the pirith book not to do anything adverse to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. Full Story

India Not Happy About MOU
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 17 07:17 PM:Sri Lanka's second largest parliamentary opposition group, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna stated that the island nation's neighbor India does not support the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The radical JVP who vehemently opposes the MOU, claiming that to be an infringement on Sri Lanka's sovereignty and territorial integrity said in its organ Niyamuwa that the island nation's giant neighbor does not seem to support the MOU either. Full Story

LTTE hails lanka Govt. for not accusing them

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 14 05:11 PM: Pointing out that the United States was not the proper authority to intervene in violations of the permanent ceasefire the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) jubilantly announced that the Sri Lanka government has itself not protested about such violations by the LTTE. Full Story

While Ranil promises LTTE deproscription Lokubandara assures the Buddhist that the ban would never be lifted
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 13 09:19 PM: While Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has given a firm promise to the Tamil National Alliance that the lifting of the ban of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam would be considered at the time of the peace talks the government is also organizing a series of meetings headed by Buddha Sasana Minister W.J.M. Lokubandara to assure the Buddhist monks that the ban would never be lifted. Full Story

It was difficult to change at once says LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 13 02:40 PM : While contradicting their own chief negotiator Anton Balasingham in London LTTE spokesman Yousuf in Sri Lanka told BBC's Sinhalese program Sandeshaya it was a difficult task for the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to follow all conditions at once of the MOU signed between their leader and the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Full Story

Marapone contradicts US Ambassador and says no LTTE breaches
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 12 11:21 AM: Sri Lanka’s Defense Minister Thilak Marapone contradicted Colombo’s US Ambassador Ashley Willis, United Nation’s Children’s Fund UNICEF, the BBC online News Service, the Tamil human rights group, Tamil Rights, organization of Tamil academics like UTHRJ and the government’s own coalition partner the Muslim Congress and said there was no evidence that the terrorist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was doing any thing in breach of the MOU signed between his leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Full Story

Tamils blame Norway for allowing to violate their rights
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 10 07:39 PM: Presenting a research paper for the Sri Lankan group, ‘Tamil Rights’, human rights activist Rohini Hensman charged the Norwegian government of miserably failing to provide human rights guarantees for the people living in the Eastern and Northern provinces of Sri Lanka in the MOU prepared by them. Full Story

Ranil Says LTTE Will be De-proscribed
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 08 07:20 PM: The LTTE website, the Tamil Net reported that the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had assured the Tamil National Alliance delegation who met him in the parliamentary complex in Sri Jayawardhanapura that he would take a “constructive decision” to de-proscribe Tamil Tigers at an appropriate time. Full Story

LTTE Should Define What's Sri Lanka in the MOU says Gamini
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 08 01:19 PM: Mr. Gamini Iriyagolle, a senior lawyer of the Sri Lanka Bar, history scholar and keen watcher of the separatist activities in Sri Lanka has warned that the MOU signed between terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has dangerously ambiguous terminology where clarifications should be obtained immediately. Full Story

Desmond Tutu and Others Warn Lanka Peace Process
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 06 01:33 PM: More than one hundred Human rights activists all over the world, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa have cautioned Sri Lanka that "euphoria regarding peace process" should not tempt every body to turn a blind eye to human rights violations by the main actors taking part in the ongoing proceedings for peace. Full Story

Ranil Surpasses Dharmapala in Betrayal
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
March 01 08:07 PM: At one of the biggest rallies ever organized reflecting the growing disenchantment of the Sri Lankan people against the Memorandum of Understanding signed between terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said Ranil Wickremesinghe has surpassed Don Juan Dharmapala, the puppet king of Kotte in the greatest betrayal of the nation. Full Story

JVP Calls the MOU an illegal surrender agreement
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 25 04:15 AM: Calling the MOU signed between Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran " a surrender of the Sri Lankan state" before Tiger terrorism a main opposition group challenged it as a document invalid before the country's supreme law.
Issuing a statement, immediately after the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam delegates put their signatures to the document prepared by Norway at two different places, the political bureau of the second largest opposition parliamentary group of the country, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) or the People's Liberation Front said the agreement which was signed without being forwarded to the President of the country has got no legal validity before the supreme law of the country. Full Story

Leading Author Warns of the End of the Nation
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 23 09:48 AM : Sri Lanka's foremost novelist and author Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera warned that the Sinhala nation was in danger of extinction if things continued like under the present government for a period of time.
Dr. Amarasekera said the Sinhala nation might not last long if the present trend were to continue unchecked and the nation's enemy was not defeated with a determination. Full Story

Norwegian MOU Bias to LTTE saysJVP
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 22 07:07 PM : Sri Lanka's second largest opposition group, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in a special statement issued in the parliament by Wimal Weerawansha M.P. said that the MOU signed by the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with the LTTE has officially recognized that there were certain areas controlled by the terrorist group in Sri Lanka and stops the recruitment of soldiers to the government security forces while there would be no such restrictions to the tigers since they operated secretly. Full Story

Media Not Free In Sri Lanka Say Critics
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 19 06:20: There is a censorship of state and private media on the Tamil separatist issue due to the Sri Lanka government's on going efforts to appease the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and bring them over to the negotiating table, charged journalists and media watchers.
Since the formation of the United National Front government two months ago, Sri Lanka's newspapers and electronic media have been under severe pressure of the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration to restrict any information regarding the separatist issue and the real doings of the Tamil separatist terrorists against the country, they said. Full Story

LTTE caught smuggling arms for the 4th time
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 18 06 19 PM: Sources in the Sri Lanka Navy headquarters in Colombo said that the navy for the fourth time since the government-LTTE cease fire in the island nation has detected LTTE boats bringing in arms and ammunition in the Mullaithivu- Chalai area last Friday while the government was busy celebrating the opening of the A-9 Highway calling it a step towards peace Full Story

Ranil's promises to tigers implemented says JVP
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 16 03:10 PM: What the Ranil Wickremesinghe government in Sri Lanka is implementing as its peace plan is a list of promises given to LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran and published as a special Tamil language manifesto distributed only among Northern voters by the UNP charged the island nation's second largest opposition group the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). Full Story

Hundreds of Tigers in Jails Relesed
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 21 02:36 PM: The United National Front government, under pressure from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is in the process of releasing hundreds of detainees taken into custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Both the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and its proxy political group, the Tamil National Alliance have been organizing public agitations like prison fasts to get supporters of the terrorist movement released from the country's jails. Full Story

Ranil told not to trust military but them by Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 13 09:18 AM : The main organ of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in a leader editorial questioned Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe why he could not trust the LTTE in removing fishing restrictions in Tamil areas and severely warned him not to seek counsel of Sinhala military commanders steeped in ethnic hatred of the Tamils when dealing in these matters. Full Story

LTTE expresses unending desire for separation
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 12 06:25: Despite the much-heralded peace talks with the Sri Lanka government, the LTTE's political wing leader Thamil Chelvan expressed his group's inextinguishable desire of them to secede from Sri Lanka in an interview published in a Canadian newspaper.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's political wing leader Thamil Chelvan who is also known as Tamilselvan told Canada's widely circulated newspaper, The Globe and Mail, that the Tamil Tigers hoped for a Quebec-style referendum on secession from Sri Lanka and would respect the result even if they lost . Full Story

Protesters Disrupts Independence Day Celebrations in Los Angeles
They Demand Resignation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe
By Hassina Leelarathna (Sri Lanka Express):
Feb 05 03:08 PM: The Sri Lankan government's official 54th Independence Day celebrations, held at the Consulate General's office in Los Angeles today, were disrupted when a protester made his way to the midst of the proceedings and demanded that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe resign from his position. Full Story

Tyronne's book justifies Kadir policy
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 04 06:13PM: Although Sri Lanka's new Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando has attacked his predecessor, Lakshman Kadirgamar' S successful campaign to get the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam proscribed internationally, in a book authored by the new Foreign Minister on Sri Lanka's separatist crisis published in 1988, he had admitted the immense damage done by the terrorist group to Sri Lanka operating from foreign countries. Full Story

Under Ranil's noninterference rebels extort
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 03 06:27 PM : Under the relaxed security situation of the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is competing with the other two sections of ex-armed groups in the Tamil National Alliance , the EPRLF (Suresh Wing) and TELO to plunder money from helpless Tamil victims in extortion schemes, ransom kidnappings and illegal taxes mostly imposed on poor farmers in the Eastern province, reports say. Full Story

Can't Protect Lanka's Unity by Appeasing LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 02 04:10 PM : In a twenty one page report, which described intensified murder, mayhem, fraud, kidnapping and child conscription by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam since the rapprochement between the UNP and the LTTE, a group of Tamil human rights workers told the Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe that it was against all reason to believe that the unity of Sri Lanka could be preserved through the appeasement of the LTTE. Full Story

Ranil postpones elections at the behest of LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 01 07:54 PM: Member of Parliament Wimal Weerawansa issuing a statement on behalf of the sixteen member parliamentary group of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna of Sri Lanka's official opposition said that the "puppet government" of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had decided to amend the local government elections ordinance to postpone the elections in the country's Northern and Eastern provinces at the behest of the terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

TNA Attempting To Remove Security Camps
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Feb 01 00:36 AM : The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam publications show that they are attempting to displace the security forces camps in the Northern and Eastern Provinces using the Tamil National Alliance, various civic organizations and their favourite politicians in the UNF government showing they are close to hospitals and schools. Full Story

LTTE Organ Sees Features of a Separate State
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 30 01:16 PM: The liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam described itself as having all the qualities of a separate state-firepower of a conventional army, expanding its numbers and territory , ultimately - its political inescapability minus only of international recognition. Full Story

The JVP reminds Ranil that he is no JRJ
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 29 06:12 PM: In a strongly worded editorial published in their party organ, the Seenuwa, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna replied Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's warning that he would not let anybody set fire to the country as they did in 1987, by reminding him that he was no J.R.Jayewardene and they were now living in different times. Full Story

JVP says Tamil tigers are preparing for war
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 28 03:02 PM: The Seenuwa, a Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna organ in its lead story reported that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam under the guise of getting ready for the Norwegian sponsored peace talks was actually doing hasty preparations these days for another protracted war. Full Story

Police raid leads to killing of army men
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 27 04:24 AM: Thanks to the wide publicity given to a clumsy police raid on a safe house of the military intelligence unit of the Sri Lanka Army at Athurugiriya at least one person serving that unit had been killed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Batticaloa, and many more are in mortal danger, army sources revealed. Full Story

We Will Have Our Own State Says LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 26 05:05 PM: Despite the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe' S statement that the proposed peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is the last chance for peace the terrorist group's daily electronic bulletin, the Circle Digest declared they would one day have their own state, separate or confederate . Full Story

Tigers planted the story to obtain Army secrets
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 25 03:02 PM: A Los Angeles based newspaper said that the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , was successful in obtaining details of the covert operators of the army with the help of the police, by planting a story on an assassination plot to kill the Sri Lankan Prime Minister by the army. Full Story

Surrender Prabhakaran to India
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 24 03:15 PM: Prajathanthra, the Colombo based Movement for Social Democracy said in a press statement signed by its convener Lucien Rajakarunanayaka regarding the request of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to hold its proposed peace talks with the Sri Lankan government at an Indian venue that it is now up to the Indian authorities to test the LTTE’s new found interest in humanitarian concerns by asking it to surrender its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence Chief Pottu Amman to India. Full Story

LTTE advises Ranil to impeach Chandrika
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 23 01:22 PM: Warning their newly won political ally, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that the Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga would comprehensively sabotage, even scuttle, the Norwegian 'peace initiative' the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ardently advised him to impeach the country's President before she did any damage. Full Story

Tyronne attacks Kadir's policy to ban LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 22 05:35 AM: Sri Lanka's new Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando is of the opinion that former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar did a terrible mistake by going on a campaign internationally urging the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam be proscribed. Full Story

LTTE accuses India of killing Kittu
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 21 07:12 AM: Making serious allegations of murder against the country, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said, that Indian government should be held responsible for the high seas drama in which Sathasivam Krishna Kumar alias Kittu and other cadres of the Tamil Tigers were killed Full Story

We jumped from Lankan Frying Pan in to the Canadian Fire
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 19 04:03 AM: After the anti-terrorist Bill 36 had become law in Canada to many Sri Lankan Tamils who ran away from "the persecution of Sri Lanka" in search of the Canadian freedom it had instead become "like jumping from the frying pan into the fire", said LTTE spokesman and President of the World Tamil Creative Writers Association, a front organization of the rebel group based in Toronto. Full Story

Army and PA Furious As Embargo Lifted Says LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 17 02:10 PM: The Sinhala far-right, the core support base of the People's Alliance together with the Sri Lanka Army were gritting their teeth with frustration as the embargos were being lifted by the UNF government led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe charged, the Tamil Guardian, the main organ of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

Tigers Say Peace Talks Not Allowed Due to Caste Prejudices
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 16 02:35 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam charged that the recent protests by the Tamil Nadu political parties and major newspapers in India against their proposal to hold the Sri Lankan peace talks in Tamil Nadu were generated by prejudices based on caste and ethnicity. Full Story

Tamil tigers call Subramaniam Swamy a clown
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 16 07:48 AM: Hitting back hard on their former friend turned enemy, the President of India's Janatha Party Dr. Subramaniam Swamy, the Sri Lankan terrorist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam called the Indian Tamil politician a childish and clownish man for asking the Sri Lankan government not to have talks with the Tamil rebels. Full Story

Not So Unselfish Norway Wants Lankan Money
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 10 02:24 AM: Norway's interest in Sri Lanka was not wholly attributable to unselfish concern for the welfare of the troubled Indian Ocean island nation and the Norwegians were also interested in profit making out of it, reported the London based weekly, The Economist. Full Story

Bishop Wants to Deny the Sinhalese Time to Protest
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 15 05:39 AM: Repeating similar fears expressed by the Tamil National Alliance, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Jaffna Thomas Soundranayagam in a letter to the Norwegian Ambassador in Colombo said the delay in holding face-to-face talks between the LTTE and the government could topple the peace talks. Full Story

Tigers Want Army Camps Removed in Jaffna
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 14 08:42 AM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has directed its political wing, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to organize public agitation through varied civic organizations to weaken the Sri Lanka Army in the Jaffna peninsula by forcing the security forces to remove many of their camps from the vicinity of schools. . Full Story

LTTE posters in Colombo, Demand separate state
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 13 05:08 AM: A Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam website reported the appearance of Sinhala language posters in Colombo preaching 'self -determination for the Tamils or let them separate from Sri Lanka' and sources in Colombo immediately attributed the posters to the handiwork of hundreds of LTTE cadres who are believed to have flocked into Colombo safe houses after the Ranil Wickramasinghe government removed security barriers in and around Colombo. Full Story

LTTE Man Slams Govt." Hooligans" over Jayalath
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 12 04:40 AM: This is the first time any writer has complained that Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena, who is believed to be very close to the terrorist group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and often praised to the sky by the pro-LTTE politicians has faced opposition from within the government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Full Story

LTTE should never be allowed in India Says TOI
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 11 03:35 PM: Reminding the Indian government of the bitter lessons learnt in the past of the risks of riding the Tamil Tiger, India's well circulated newspaper, the Times of India in a leader editorial severely warned, New Delhi should nip in the bud any attempt by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to use India or Indian territory for negotiations with Colombo. Full Story

LTTE fascist terrorists want respect syas Hindu
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 10 09:48 PM: In a strongly worded leader editorial India's influential daily the Hindu said by proposing to have India as the host country for the LTTE- Sri Lanka peace talks the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a notoriously fascist terrorist organization was looking for arguably innovative ways to overcome its predicament and gain some respectability despite the ongoing global campaign against all forms of terrorism. Full Story

LTTE demands more cement and fuel
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 10 00:51 AM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) backed Tamil National Alliance (TNA) expressed its dissatisfaction over the manner the government was taking steps to lift the embargo of certain goods in the LTTE occupied areas and said the restriction on cement and fuel the government was imposing was really unnecessary. Full Story

Ranil will lift the ban on LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 09 09:45 AM: The United National Front government of Ranil Wickremesinghe "will once again make a unilateral gesture in lifting the ban" of the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka said Jehan Perera , the Media Director of the National Peace Council.
Jehan Perera has started whipping up the foreign funded NGO's latest campaign to lift the proscription of the Tamil Tigers imposed by the previous government immediately after the terrorist group bombed the sacred Dalada Maligawa in January 1998. Full Story

Police raid sacrificed a nation's security for political expediency
Jan 07 06:31 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam may have been very jubilant recently when over enthusiasm usually prevalent after a formation of a new government and dire disregard by self seeking politicians for the nations security led the police to raid last Wednesday night a safe house of the Sri Lanka Army at Athurigiriya falsely claiming they have discovered a major part of a conspiracy to kill newly elected Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe. Full Story

Tiger agent wants govt. to hurry up talks
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 07 07:05 AM: M. Sivasithambaram, the President of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and the LTTE led Tamil National Alliance has chided the Sri Lanka government for delaying the peace talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and warned that the delay would give enough time for Sinhala hardliners to whip up mass agitation against the talks. Full Story

No response from tamil parties on LTTE's call
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 06 06:42 AM: Not a single Tamil political party in India has responded positively to the call of Sri Lanka's Tamil National Alliance backed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to lift the proscription of the LTTE in India, where 60 million Tamils live. Full Story

Tamil Tigers Are Smuggling Narcotics From Karachchi
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 05 06:58 AM: The Deccan Herald, one of India's most respected dailies reported that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of Sri Lanka had been using the Pakistan city of Karachchi as a nerve center for smuggling narcotics, arms and ammunition for their murder and mayhem in Sri Lanka. Full Story

LTTE Attacks Marapana and Praises Jayalath
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 03 07:03 AM: The Tamil Tigers provoked by a statement of Sri Lanka's Defense Minister Tilak Marapana vowing to wipe out the LTTE lodged its vehement protests to Sri Lanka through the Norwegian government.
The official journal of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Tamil Guardian, said the rebel group registered a strong protest over a statement made by the Defense Minister Tilak Marapana vowing his government to do its utmost to wipe out the LTTE. Full Story

Mass rallies by the LTTE against Supreme Court Decision
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Jan 02 06:41 PM: Front organizations of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Canada are busy organizing mass rallies against an expected Canadian Supreme Court decision to deport Manickavasagam Suresh, a member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and a fundraiser for the now banned terrorist organization in Canada. Full Story

Dr Jayawardena in hurry to bypass president
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 31 01:25 PM: Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena, the Minister for Refugees, Rehabilitation and Resettlement would by pass the Essential Services Commission to flood the LTTE held areas with food and other "essential goods".
Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena, who is at loggerheads with President Chandrika Kumaratunga who is in charge of the Essential Services Commission empowered over the transportation of goods to the war-torn areas held by the terrorist group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam severely criticized the President for what he called the shortage of goods and essential items in the rebel held areas. Full Story

Editorial reminds Ranil's promise year ago
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 29 07:50 PM: The Los Angeles based independent bi-weekly, Sri Lanka Express in an editorial told Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that his assurances of a full investigation into the Susanthika Jayasinghe assault reminded a promise given by the UNP just over year ago that when the UNP came to power former Sports Minister S.B. Dissanayaka would be arrested. Full Story

Ranil advances the day of lifting of embargo
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 28 07:35 AM: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of Sri Lanka has promised the LTTE backed Tamil National Alliance to advance the date of lifting of the ban of certain items now restricted to the rebel held areas to January 1, 2002, the New Year day. Full Story

Ranil has pledged to lift the ban on the LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 27 02:43 PM: The Boston Globe, a premier newspaper of the United States in its leader editorial said the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickramasinghe has pledged to lift a ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam within a month from coming to power.
In an editorial entitled, 'Hope for Sri Lanka', the Boston Globe said that Ranil Wickramasinghe "pledged to lift a ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - the armed group that has used terrorist tactics in the war against the government -and begin peace talks with the Tigers within a month of taking office." Full Story

Eelam would be permanent Ally of India say Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 27 02:41 AM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam website Eelamnation in an editorial, December 26, said that India should remember that when an independent Tamil Eelam came into being it would be a permanent ally of India.
Apparently written to allay fears of India that the rebel group and its putative separate state carved out of Sri Lanka would be a threat to India's territorial integrity the rebel website said India played a negative role in the past because of misinformation by anti-LTTE movements. Full Story

EPDP is allowed to carry guns, UNP minister is upset
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 26 04:18 PM: The United National Party Member of Parliament from Jaffna and Minister of Hindu Affairs of the Sri Lanka government warned of a stern decision if the Ranil Wickramasinghe administration allowed the arch enemies of the Tamil Tigers, the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) to carry arms any longer as a paramilitary unit. Full Story

LTTE was voted to stop the forced recruitment of children
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 23 07:00 PM: Despite the well known internal brutality of living under the LTTE the Tamil National Alliance backed by the same brutes swept to electoral victory in the North and the East because through the election the voters wanted to stop an impending Jaffna war that would lead to the forced recruitment of their children said an election analyst who served as a monitor at the last general election in Jaffna. Full Story

Govt admits an “economic embargo" to North ?
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 20 06:50 PM: The official Information Department website of the Government of Sri Lanka announced the government would soon lift the ban of certain items, restricted allegedly for security reasons to the LTTE rebel held areas. Full Story

LTTE says India can't become a peace broker
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 19 01:21 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam showing their first opposition to the Sri Lankan proposal to make India a peace broker in the island nations separatist war said Sri Lanka's Northern neighbor was an unlikely candidate because India's own proscription of the rebel group in that country. Full Story

President Keeping Defense Angers LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 12 01:21 PM: Supporting the United National Party position in the current constitutional crisis the rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who hold sway over the majority of Members of Parliament in the Eastern and Northern provinces said President Chandrika Kumaratunga' S tussle over the defense portfolio represent an immediate problem to the impending peace talks with them. Full Story

Most Enthusiastic Suicide Bombers are Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 11 06:30 PM: A signed editorial by Robert Fulford in The Canadian Daily, National Post says that suicide terrorism doesn't need religious justification and of the 15 organizations in 12 countries that have used it since 1983 the most enthusiastic are the Tamil Tigers-and their goal is secular establishing a Tamil state in Sri Lanka. Full Story

TNA to Meet Ranil Soon
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 10 01:21 AM: The Liberation Tigers backed Tamil National Alliance which won the majority of seats in the Northern and Eastern provinces announced that it would soon meet the Prime Minister elect Ranil Wickramasinghe and the victorious United National Party to insist upon the lifting of the ban of the Tamil Tigers and other demands. Full Story

Tamil Alliance not interested in Joining Govt. in Sri Lanka
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 09 01:25 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam backed Tamil National Alliance, a coalition of political parties who won the majority of seats in Northern and Eastern provinces announced they were not interested in joining the government or in the formation of it, reported the LTTE website the Tamil Net. Full Story

UNP to Disarm EPDP and Lift Ban on Items
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 08 06:11 PM: The newly elected UNP parliamentarian from Jaffna District told the Tamil language service of the BBC that Sri Lanka's newly elected government would disarm the arch enemy of the Tamil Tigers, the Eelam People's Democratic party and lift the ban on goods to the Tamil areas, reported the LTTE website, the Eelam Nation. Full Story

LTTE Says They Didn't Drop Separatism
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Dec 06 05:35 PM: The viewpoint of some observers that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had climbed down from the goal of separate state was absolutely wrong declared the rebel group in a leader editorial published in their main organ the Tamil Guardian. In the Heroes Day address LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran "obliquely raised the possibility of the two communities co-existence, a statement erroneously seized upon by some observers as a climb down from the goal of a separate state," said the editorial of the rebel journal in its issue dated December 5, 2001.
Full Story

THE Anti National Activities of Ranil
By Dr.Rangajeeva Rajakaruna :
Dec 02 02:01 AM: The current election campaign in Sri Lanka has unfortunately become a debate not on the conduct of the government but on the conduct of the Leader of the main Opposition party. The enemies of the country, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has become audacious enough to issue statements asking the people to vote him into power or in the failure of that face severe consequences. This is a grave situation any country could face. Full Story

Tamil Tigers Want UNP elected or warns dire consequences
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Nov 28 08:03 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam directly appealed to the voters of Sri Lanka to cast their ballots for the United National Party on December 5 elections and warned of severe consequences in the event of the failure to do so. Full Story

No Peace Talks, If The Ban Not Lifted
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Nov 28 04:35 AM: The chances of restarting peace negotiations with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were absolutely nil if the Sri Lanka government did not lift its ban on the rebel movement, declared Velupillai Prabhakaran, supremo of the Tamil Tigers in an eagerly awaited heroes day message. Full Story

Tamil Tigers Charge SL Army getting ready to Kill Ranil
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Nov 27 03:05 PM: Despite the fact, the rebel group has assassinated two UNP leaders in the past, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organ, Tamil Guardian, reiterated an already denied charge by the Sri Lanka Army that it was training a squad to assassinate the UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe. Full Story

UNP Would Never Give a Place to Douglas Devananda- TW
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Nov 26 06:07 PM: The Liberation Tigers website, Eelamnation quoting UNP sources said if the UNP were to form a government after December 5, the LTTE arch enemy EPDP would not be given any position in the cabinet.
The Eelam People's Democratic Party is led by Douglas Devananda , the Minister of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction. Full Story

Prabhakaran support to Ranil
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Nov 25 07:33 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Tigers backed Tamil political party alliance will help the United National Party, the rebel group announced.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s main organ, The Tamil Guardian, said, favourable conditions proposed by the UNP compelled the Tamil Tigers backed Alliance of Tamil Parties to throw its growing weight behind the country’s main opposition party, the United National Party . Full Story

Canada Stops Millions To Eelam Society
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Nov 24 09:10 AM:Dealing another body blow to the Canadian financial empire of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Citizenship and Immigration Canada announced that it would stop paying federal taxpayer money to the Tamil Eelam Society of Canada that has received such funds in millions of Canadian dollars in the past. Full Story

Press Commission Says London Times was Biased Against Sri Lanka
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Nov 23 06:16 PM: Nov 23 06:15 PM: The British Press Complaints Commission giving a verdict in an inquiry held against the writings of the US born controversial reporter, Marie Colvin, who got injured while crossing enemy lines of Sri Lanka’s civil war said her writings in the Sunday Times were inaccurate and biased towards the Tamil rebels, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

The opposition of the Canadian Parliament clashes with the PM
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles:
Nov 22 02:13 PM: The opposition of the Canadian Parliament took the Liberal Party government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien into task for still allowing fronts of terrorist organizations including those of the Tamil Tigers to raise funds on the soil of Canada even after the organization has been named a terrorist group. Full Story

LTTE Welcomes Ganjendran Ponnambalam
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 21 02:29 PM: The Tamil Tiger scribe wrote the piece to welcome Gajendren Ponnambalam, in their daily electronic bulletin since the third generation Ponnambalam is the candidate of the LTTE approved Tamil Party Alliance and he wrote, “Tamil people should welcome the entry of Gajendren Ponnambalam.” Full Story

Canada Bans LTTE Mahaveer Day in Toronto
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 21 03:39 AM: Canada has cancelled the Mahaveer Day of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which was scheduled to be celebrated on a grand scale at the National Trade Center auditorium in the city of Toronto.
Organized by the World Tamil Movement the organizers claimed of getting an estimated crowd of 30,000 Canadian Tamils for the annual event of the Sri Lankan terrorist group, The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

Front organizations defeats purpose of the LTTE ban
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 01 08:45 PM: While Canada’s decision to name the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is commendable it would be a meaningless exercise if front organizations of the terrorist group were allowed to function in the country declared the Sri Lanka United National Association of Canada (SLUNA). Full Story

Prabhakaran Wants Talks with Ranil Directly
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 19 06:25 AM: K. Sarveswaran, a research scholar attached to the New Delhi based think tank, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies said the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was willing to discuss directly with the United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickramasinghe without a facilitator if he came to power.
Sarveswaran announced the LTTE leader’s political ambitions in a paper published in the think tank’s web site and which was also later reprinted in the Bangladesh newspaper, the Daily Star, November 16, 2001. Full Story

LTTE Friend Forest Brigand Veerappan Wants to Surrender
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 18 06:50 PM: One of the main Indian collaborators of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and South India’s notorious poacher turned sandalwood smuggler, forest brigand, Veerappan has once again offered to surrender, Indian news websites reported.
The elusive Tamil forest brigand has expressed his willingness to turn himself in, in an audio cassette message sent to a journalist. In the message he laid out pre-conditions for the surrender requesting that the Tamil Nadu and Karnataka police who are on his trail should be withdrawn. Full Story

LTTE Conditions For Peace Talks With The UNP
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 17 00:35 PM: While the People’s Alliance is vowing to “defeat LTTE terrorism and safeguard Sri Lanka’s unitary status,” the main opposition United National Party on the other hand is promising to aggressively pursue peace talks with the LTTE, declared The Tamil Guardian, the main official organ of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The leader editorial of the London based organ, also posted on the World Wide Web, in its issue of November 14, 2001 said the United National Party was doing that despite the risk of disillusionment amongst the Sinhalese. Full Story

Treaty Banning Child Soldiers in Three Months
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 16 05:17 PM: An international treaty banning the use of child soldiers for which Sri Lanka was among the earliest backers will take effect in three months, the United Nations announced in New York, November 12.
The New York based Human Rights Watch while welcoming the new treaty banning the use of children in combat would take effect early next year said Sri Lanka is a country where the rebel group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been sending children “on suicide missions” Full Story

Countries told Us to Negotiate When our Airport was destroyed says Kadirgamar
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 15 06:24 PM: Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar addressing the 56th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, November 13, said when half of Sri Lanka's national airline was wiped out by terrorists the advise of governments to the island republic was to negotiate with the terrorists because violence only begets violence but that attitude had changed dramatically today. Full Story

LTTE Mad Over JVP for censuring Ranil
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 14 06:12 PM: A Canadian LTTE front –ranker and the President of the World Tamil Creative Writers Association, a front organization of the Tamil separatist rebel group, severely condemned the Janatha Vimukthi Preramuna (JVP) as a racist outfit for attacking the United National Party Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe on his promise to grant an interim administration for a merged Northern and Eastern Province of the country. Full Story

How Come Fact is not Listed by Canada?
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 11 06:34 PM: Nov 11 06:23 PM: Canada’s main opposition party The Canadian Alliance challenged the Liberal Party government of Prime minister Jean Chretien for not including a well known front organization of the Tamil Tigers, the Federation of Associations of Canadian Tamils in the list of terrorist organizations outlawed November 7 Full Story

Canada Bans Tamil Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 09 01:40 PM: Canada's Liberal Party government of Prime Minister Jean Chretien placed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in a list of 83 individuals and organizations linked to terrorism and ordered their property be frozen. Full Story

LTTE Associates in Tamil Nadu Banned
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 08 01:31 AM: The Tamil Nadu provincial government has decided to ban the LTTE-trained Tamil Nadu Retrieval Troops and its associate Tamil Nadu Liberation Army, several Indian news websites reported. Full Story

LTTE speals of Muslims with a forked tongue
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 08 03:47 PM: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam while accusing others for attempting to drive a wedge between them and whom they proudly call “the Tamil speaking Muslims” organized a “hartal” against the establishment of Koralai Pattu Central Pradeshiya Sabha, which they accused is “Muslim dominated”. Full Story

LTTE very unhappy with Vaiko
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Nov 06 03:35 AM: Velupillai Prabhakaran’ S troubles theses days seem to be endless. As if the problems brewing about the threat of or actual freezing of his millions in Washington, London or Toronto are not enough even his closest political ally in South India, Vaiko Gopalasamy is not as supportive as before. Full Story

Plote-Ltte clash
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam website, The Tamil Net, while reporting the killing of two PLOTE cadres by “unknown gunmen” accused PLOTE of operating with the Sri Lanka government troops.
The November 3, 2001 issue of the news website said two armed cadres of the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) were shot dead by “unidentified gunmen” at Poonthoddam in Vavuniya around 10.30 p.m., Friday November 2. Full Story

LTTE falls into further disaster
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Bringing further disaster to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil who are attempting to improve their world image by the formation of an Alliance of Tamil Political Parties the United States included them in a combined list of foreign terrorist groups like Lshkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e- Mohammad, related to Osama bin Laden, whose assets would be frozen in the wake of the terrorist attack on September 11. Full Story

Jaffna's UNP Praise for Prabhakaran
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
T. Maheswaran, ex M.P. and Chief candidate of the United National Party in Jaffna District praised ?the struggle led by the leader of the Tigers? Velupillai Prabhakaran and all the sacrifices made for its progress, reported the Tamil Net, official news website of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Full Story

Tamil alliancs wants to change the image of LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Pressure will be brought upon the international community to recognize the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, now branded as terrorists by many countries in the world and employers of child soldiers by human rights organizations and the United Nations, as freedom fighters said leader of the Eelam People?s Revolutionary Front (EPRLF) Suresh Premachandran, reported the LTTE controlled website Eelamnation Full Story

LTTE jubilant over their ruination of lanka economy
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
The Eelamnation, a website controlled by the Tamil Tigers boasted about the economic ruination the Sri Lankan terrorist group , the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were able to bring about by its Katunayaka attack joined with the attack on New York’s WTC by the terrorists of Osama bin Laden on the tiny island nation’s fragile economy. Full Story

The USA adopts a tough terrorism law
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
President George W. Bush signed an anti-terrorism bill, October 26, that gave unprecedented powers to law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap phones, monitor internet traffic, and conduct varied other surveillance in pursuit of suspected terrorists in the United States. Full Story

Plote begs for seats from Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Siddharthan Dharmalingam, the leader of People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam(PLOTE) and former parliamentarian from Vanni has virtually begged for few parliamentary seats from the LTTE controlled Tamil Political Party Alliance, reported the Tamil Tiger controlled Eelamnation website. Full Story

LTTE attacks Canada's Opposition Leader
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
Velupillai Thangavelu, the handpicked leader of the Canadian Tamil Tigers by the LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, has made a scathing attack on Canada’s Leader of Opposition describing him as a neo-fascist. Full Story

Pandara Vanniyan dictates terms for policies
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Pandara Vanniyan Force, another front organization of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has directed that those who clamor for seats in the coming parliamentary elections in Tamil areas should toe the separatist lines of the rebel group. The directive has been issued to indicate as to what line the alliance of Tamil political parties should follow after they are elected to the Sri Lanka parliament in the forthcoming general elections full Story

Canadian Tamil Gang Members Arrested are Refused bail
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Many of the fifty one members who were arrested in a pre-dawn crack-down on Tamil Gangs in Canada with suspected connections to the LTTE do not seem to be getting bailed out by the courts as usual.
In a Scarborough court, a 20-year old accused, Amal Rajesvaram , like many of his co-accused , was refused bail by the court at a bail hearing. In this particular case he faced six weapon charges full Story

Over 60% of all forced recruitment are children: UTHR(J)
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

A well respected human rights group of Tamil university teachers charged that the Tamil Tigers are continuing with the conscription of child soldiers using methods of abduction and the proportion of minors among recruits are above sixty per cent of the total forced recruitment to the guerilla army full Story

Tamil parties reached to an "agreement" due to LTTE pressure: LTTE
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

The Tamil Tigers official news website, the Tamil Net announced the main opposition Tamil political parties of Sri Lanka have reached an "agreement" to contest the general elections under an alliance "largely due( to) the efforts of pressure groups."
According to the LTTE website, The Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), and the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) due to pressure groups in Colombo, Batticaloa and Trincomalee reached "agreement" Wednesday October 17, 2001 night to fight the forthcoming elections under an electoral alliance. full Story

LTTE should be designated as terrorist group: NP
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

When Canada's government using new terrorism laws designate groups as terrorist organizations it should include Tamil Tigers said the country's widely circulated National Post.
Commenting on the Liberal government's new legislation presented in the parliament the Canadian daily said in its leader editorial that the definition of terrorism of the new laws would seem to cast a wide net and include, as it should, such terrorist groups as the Tamil Tigers and the Irish Republican Army as well as al- Qaeda cells and other terrorist groups based in the Middle East. full Story

Canadian Tamil Tiger leader attacks US and UK
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

A local Canadian Tamil Tiger leader and office bearer of many front organizations of the terrorist group in Canada accused the United States and United Kingdom governments of considering thin evidence to hang Osama bin Laden and acting as prosecutor, jury and judge in their crusade against the accused. The local Tamil Tiger leader said the United States and the United Kingdom, whom he called, the arch-imperialists, think, "any straw is good enough to hang bin Laden." full Story

LTTE wants all tamil politicalparties to unite against "Sinhala Hegemonists"
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Indicating the line the pro-Tamil Tigers political parties in Sri Lanka should adopt at the upcoming General elections in Sri Lanka in December a front organization of the Tamil Tigers said the TULF, the ACTC and TELO should forge an alliance and fight the elections as a united front. The statement recognized the Tamil United Liberation Front, the All Ceylon Tamil Congress and the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization as pro-LTTE parties. full Story

Canada now understands that they got to do better: Canadian envoy
By a special correspondent in Los Angeles

"Canada now understands that they got to do better" in combating terrorist financing in the country said Colin Robertson, Canadian Consul General in Los Angeles addressing a one man delegation of Sri Lankan-American protesters in front of his office who were demonstrating against, what they said, Canada's lax policies in dealing with international terrorism.
The Canadian Consul-General was speaking to Walter Jayawardhana; President of the Los Angeles based Sinhala Defense League who met him in delegation of the protesters who were marching in a noisy three and half hour demonstration under a huge banner that declared, "Canada, Stop Harboring Terrorists" full Story

The USA redesignates LTTE as a foreign terrorist group
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

The United States Secretary of State Colin L. Powell re-designated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a foreign terrorist group with 24 others under the powers given to him by the US federal law.
The US Secretary of State in a statement issued in Washington DC said he was re-designating the 25 groups as Foreign Terrorist Groups since the initial designations of these groups in 1997 and 1999 are due to expire on October 8. full Story

Los Angeles Demonstration Against Canada's Harbouring of Terrorists
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

A great mass of Sri Lankan Americans will join other American compatriots in a protest demonstration in front of the Canadian Consul General's office in downtown Los Angeles, to raise a cry against, and vehemently oppose, what they call, Canada's continued policy of harboring terrorists, injurious to USA and other countries in the world.
In a four hour demonstration at 550 S. Hope (cross section 6th street) beginning 2. p.m, Friday, October 5, in front of the Canadian Consul General's office, they will demand that the Liberal Party Government of Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, should immediately put an end to the fund raising activities, on the soil of Canada, of terrorist groups, which are already banned in the United States full Story

Dead Tiger Leader was trained in Canada
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Tigers Air Wing leader, who was killed recently was specializing in teaching suicide bombing by micro light aircraft and was educated in aeronautical engineering and flying scools in Canada , intelligence reports show.
Vythilingam Sornalingam, who was identified as "Colonel" Shankar in Tiger literature was killed by a claymore mine , September 26 in deep Wanni and was a close confidante and relative of Liberation Tiger Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The Tiger leader, Prabhakaran placed great importance in his relative's work and had purchased many micro light aircraft to train the flying Tigers to be used as suicide bombers, reports say. Micro light aircraft filled with explosives were to be used to explode large buildings with people under the alleged plans. full Story

Foreign Relations Chairman of US Congress knows All LTTE Atrocities
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

"Please know that I am aware of the many atrocities that have been perpetrated in Sri Lanka by terrorists and know that you understand the grief and sadness of the American people at this difficult time ," said Congressman Henry Hyde.
The powerful US congressman who is the Chairman of the Committee on International Relations of the United States House of Representatives was replying to the expression of the sympathy and the condolences extended by President Chandrika Kumaratunga and high-ranking members of the Sri Lanka government on the tragedy of the loss of thousands of lives in the terrorist attack on September 11. full Story

Sri Lanka Offers All Her Airports and Harbours to the USA
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Sri Lanka has offered the United States the complete availability of all her airports and harbours for the declared global war against terrorism.
Sources in the island republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told this correspondent that the decision of the Sri Lanka government has been already conveyed to the Bush administration in Washington DC.
The sources said Sri Lanka's decision to commit herself in the unprecedented effort of the international community to crush terrorism was conveyed to the US government by the country's ambassador Dr. Warnasena Rasaputram and the deputy ambassador J.D.Ariyaratne Wijewardena at a special meeting with the US officials. full Story

Organized crime bankroll liberation tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Organized crime said to launder billions tied into the underworld financial nexus bankroll terrorist groups like Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers ,its ally the Kurdistan Workers Party in Turkey and the Kosovo Liberation Army , reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
Reporting from Paris the Northern California daily's staff writer, Frank Viviano said, to attack the enemies in the global war of terrorism and not merely on those responsible for the September 11 attack on America international organized crime working hand in hand with terrorists, like those mentioned above should be targeted full Story

USA has two lists of terrorists
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Now the United States has two lists of terrorist organizations. The older list, the one that was issued by the State Department in the 1990's, according to a spokesman, still has the name of the most lethal terrorist organization in the world, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam included in it and valid. But the more recent list issued by President George W. Bush , which appeared in the Washington Post on Monday September 24 does not have the name of the Tamil Tigers included despite widespread accusations that the organization was training Osama bin Laden led Al Qaeda warriors in suicide terrorism . full Story

Tamil Tigers received Arms from and shared Expertise with Taliban ruled Afghanistan
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

A special report submitted to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service by a terrorism expert has revealed that Taliban ruled Afghanistan remains one of the major areas of arms procurement for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) since its very inception.
Issued 18 months before the September 11 terrorist attack on the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center and Washington DC's Pentagon the report speculated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was able to acquire deadly and accurate US-made Stinger missiles from Afghanistan. full Story

Western Intelligence Say LTTE trained bin Laden groups
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

The chief procurement officer for the terrorist group, Liberation Tigers who is based in Thailand was dealing closely with Osama bin Laden's Al-Queda network.
The chief procurement officer of the liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ,Tharmalingam Shanmugam Kumaran alias Kumaran Padmanabhan or 'KP' who is based in Thailand visited Afghanistan via Dubai and Karachchi climaxing a growing link between the Tamil terrorist group and bin Laden's shadowy Al-Queda network the Sunday Times of India, reported. full Story

Taliban gave weapons to Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

National Police Agency said Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has been supplied with weapons by Afghanistan's Taliban regime which is guarding Osama bin Laden now.
Osama bin laden is the main suspect in the September 11 terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC.
The Taliban, Afghanistan's conservative regime of mullahs has been cited as a source of weapons for the Sri Lankan terrorist group in a white paper issued by Japan's National Police Agency, reported, Yomiuri Shimbun, a prestigious newspaper in Japan. full Story

Canadian Intelligence Report Cites Three Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Canada's Intelligence Service has published a report on leading international terrorists described as harmful to the country that contains the names of three leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
The list prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CISIR), an equivalent of the American CIA mentioned three names of the leaders of the Tamil Tigers among twelve that were cited as examples to illustrate the activities of the international terrorists adversely affecting Canada.
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Two thirds of all Suicide Bombings are by Tamil Tigers
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Two thirds of all suicide bombings in this whole world have been committed by the Tamil terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and not by any fundamentalist religious group said terrorism expert Jason Pate.
Pate, attached to the prestigious Monterey Institute of International studies told reporter Nanette Asimov of the San Francisco Chronicle that the Tiger suicide bombers committed those acts of violence not for any fundamentalist cause but to carve out a state exclusively for the Tamils. full Story

Tamil Tigers Lead in number of suicide bombings
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Palestine groups generate the most number of suicide bombings in the whole world the suicide bombers who hit New York and Washington DC on September 11 dwarf all others in their planning, complexity and success reported Jane's Terrorism and Security Monitor. Writing in the September 17 2001 issue of the Jane's Security and Terrorism Monitor, an authoritative journal on the subject, terrorism expert, John Daly said, suicide bombers, the most feared weapons in the arsenals of political activists, though engaged against military targets at times are mostly carried out against civilians. full Story

Sri Lankan Americans to Protest Against Terrorist presence in canadian cities close to the US border
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Sri Lankan Americans will march in a protest rally to demand an end to the menacing and horrifying presence of Tamil, Tale ban and other terrorists on the soil of Canada in the cities close to the US border.
The demonstration which is scheduled Friday October 5 at 2 p.m. in front of the Canadian Consul General's office at 550 Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles, California 90071 will demand an end to the lax policies of the Liberal Party government of Canada which allows the nurturing of, according to the organizers, more than fifty terrorist organizations in Canada.
The organizers of the rally said the terrorist presence in Canadian cities is posing a devastating threat as amply demonstrated by the recent terrorist attack on the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center and Washington DC's Pentagon. full Story

Presence of Afghan and Sri lankan terrorists in Britain makes the country a haven for world terrorism
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

Due to the tolerance offered to terrorists in Britain the country has a reputation as a safe haven for world terrorism and terrorist groups from Sri Lanka , Afghanistan, Egypt , Algeria, Turkey and Kashmir still raise funds , forge links and disseminate propaganda in the United Kingdom charged Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor of London's Sunday Telegraph.
Though proscribed under the British law, the Sri Lankan terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) still uses London as their de facto headquarters . The group publishes their main organ , The Tamil Guardian in the country and the chief advisor , Anton Balasingham operates from London. full Story

Tamil tigers do fund raising and operational cells near US border in Canada: Boston Globe
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

According to Canadian intelligence reports , more than 50 terrorist outfits from the shadowy loyalists from Osama bin Laden , the prime suspect in the terrorist attack on America to Sri Lanka's "blood stained Tamil Tigers", who are proscribed in the US have fund raising and operational cells in Canada's major cities , all near the US border, reported the Boston Globe.
The widely circulated US daily in a story filed by the Globe's Montreal correspondent Colin Nickerson in the aftermath of US history's biggest terrorist attack which killed nearly 10,000 innocent civilians said the carnage next door will finally compel Canada to toughen its anti-terrorist policies at home and force the country and scarify a degree of national sovereignty. full Story