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Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran turns 52 on November 26. His birthday coincides with the rebels' 'Heroes' Week,' which commemorates the 18,500-plus guerrillas killed in the three-decade-old conflict for a separate homeland for the Tamil minority in the Sinhalese-majority nation.

when he sees a woman on a Sri Lankan passport is that she's a housemaid.

Lanka Truth :
Tigers utilize the small boats to transport the weapons distributed by NGO's



According to Intelligence reports, tiger organization is transporting weapons to Verugalaru, and Vakarai. They use these dingy boats distributed to them by N.G.O.s to fisherman in north.

Tiger Vessals in international sea is in this business of unloading weapons to small boats and they carry them in disguise of fishing, to the tiger wanted areas.

The most of these boats are distributed by the N.G.O.s during tsunami to fisherman in North. Further reports that they have been advised to do so by higher up of tigers in order to mislead patrolling Vessals of Navy.

Abductions and disappearances continue in Sri Lanka despite government efforts
Friday, November 3, 2006, 14:06 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.

Nov 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka's human rights activists expressed desperation over the unending disappearances and abductions reported in the country despite the government assurances and the intervention of the international human rights bodies. Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission is now investigating five abductions that took place within three days of this month.

Civil Monitoring Committee (CMC) Chairman Sirithunga Jayasooriya said that there have been 54 abductions in Colombo city alone and of these, 36 are missing, 09 have been killed and 09 have been released after alleged payment of ransom money.

Except a few Sinhala and Muslim persons almost all the affected persons are Tamils. Sivanandan, a leading Colombo activist of the government ally Upcountry People's Front is also among the disappeared.

Around 500 parents, relatives and friends of the disappeared persons staged a protest in front of the Colombo Fort railway station on Wednesday asking the government to mediate immediately to stop the disappearances and abductions.