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Air force says it bombs Tamil Tiger base; rebels say 15 civilians killed
Wednesday, 3 January 2007 - 12:23 AM SL Time
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Sri Lanka`s air force said it bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel naval base in the country`s northwest on Tuesday, but a guerrilla spokesmen said the air raid killed 15 civilians, including four children, in a fishing village.
Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan said the bombs fell on the village of Padahuthurai near Iluppaikkdavai in northwest Sri Lanka`s Mannar district, killing at least 15 civilians _ including four children _ and wounding 35 others. Ilanthirayan spoke from the rebel headquarters of Kilinochchi.
An air force spokesman, Grp. Cap. Ajantha Silva, told a news conference that the planes targeted a base of the Sea Tigers, the naval wing of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.
``We are very sure about the target, that it was a Sea Tiger base, in fact the area`s main Sea Tiger base,`` Silva said.
``Whenever we attack their camps and bases they come up this type of story,`` Silva said of the rebel claim that the victims were civilians and not Sea Tiger members.
The air force also targeted rebel mortar positions in eastern Batticaloa district, Silva said.
Rebel spokesman Ilanthirayan said the death toll in the Mannar raid was likely to rise because 26 of the 35 wounded people were in serious condition.
He said 25 of the 30 houses in the village had been destroyed.
There was no way to independently verify the conflicting claims.
Silva said the planes had successfully hit the rebels` mortar positions in the air raids in Batticaloa, a hotbed of violence between the rebels and military.
In a separate incident, two Sri Lankan police officers were wounded when suspected rebels detonated a roadside bomb in northern Vavuniya on Tuesday, military spokesman, Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said.
The rebels have been fighting for an independent homeland in the north and east for the country`s 3.1 million ethnic Tamils, who have suffered decades of discrimination by the majority Sinhalese.
Sri Lanka`s civil war eased in 2002 when Norway brokered a cease-fire, but the truce has recently come under serious threat with near-daily violence. At least 3,689 combatants and civilians were killed in fighting last year, according to the Defense Ministry`s latest figures.
Before the cease-fire, the conflict claimed the lives of about 65,000 people and displaced another 1.6 million. Discuss this story
Published: Tue Jan 2 07:47:06 EST 2007
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3 Sri Lankan military officers to face court-martial for allegedly aiding rebels
Associated Press, Tue January 2, 2007 04:56 EST . COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Three Sri Lankan military officers have been taken into custody and will face a court-martial for helping separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. In June, a Tamil suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka`s third-highest ranking military general in Colombo, and then in December, the country`s Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse was the target of a suicide bomber. He escaped unhurt, but two of his security guards were killed.
All of the attacks occurred while the officials were in moving motorcades, leading the military to speculate that information about VIP convoys was being passed on.
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sivaraj
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 2 Jan 2007 18:27:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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An air force spokesman, Grp. Cap. Ajantha Silva, told a news conference that the planes targeted a base of the Sea Tigers, the naval wing of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels.
''We are very sure about the target, that it was a Sea Tiger base, in fact the area's main Sea Tiger base,'' Silva said.
''Whenever we attack their camps and bases they come up this type of story,'' Silva said of the rebel claim that the victims were civilians and not Sea Tiger members.
Silva is 100% correct in his comments, here you can see the sea tiger commander also injured in this areial bombing, please see the pics. I think sea tiger headquaters fully destroyed.
http://www.sankathi.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=38 |
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 2 Jan 2007 18:32:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Govt. should simply disband SLAF since according to rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan single bomb has not hit a LTTE target. |
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 2 Jan 2007 18:35:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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May God bless my grandparents who live five Km near to the bombed areas, in Iluppaikkdavai..
Protect them and the inhabitants, thanks God.
Why the barbaric army bomb-attack farmers, fishermen, school girls and boys, and elders ?
Edited By - KURAL - 2 Jan 2007 18:38:10 GMT |
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| MR is following the footsteps of Sadam. Soon MR and his gang will face the justice. |
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2 Jan 2007 18:37:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Eskimo,
I think there is a sneaky dude in the Pilots' mess, who keeps taking the Pilots mission orders for Sea Tiger Bases and replacing them with different orders for 'Orphan kids learning First Aid' or 'Hospitals' or 'Innocent children picking flower petals off a rose bush' or something like that. At least when you read TamilNet, that is the impression I get. |
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2 Jan 2007 18:39:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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Snake2,
Just look the photo shared by sivaraj.. Surely that they all are terrorists (as they all are Tamils evidently)
Edited By - KURAL - 2 Jan 2007 18:41:37 GMT |
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Tamil Tiger Terrorist Leader Prabakaran is hiding in a 40 feet underground bunker and using civilians as a shield to protect his installations.
This is a well known tactick used by many terrorists around the world to put the government forces in immense difficulty and to attack the forces with ease.
Western media always fall for this trick untill Muslim Terrorists oneday conquer them and take away everybody's rights.
It is unfortunate to see it happening. A legitimate government can not fight terror effectively until the world wise up to their tacktics
Edited By - Kusum - 2 Jan 2007 18:44:19 GMT |
KURAL
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2 Jan 2007 18:44:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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Kusum,
And Sinhala terrorists bomb civilians (even if LTTE is hided behind the population).
By principles the priority should be the civilians not LTTE !
I know you don't share this view taught by the Lord himself !
Edited By - KURAL - 2 Jan 2007 18:46:03 GMT |
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Sister Priya,
Sorry my memory is very limited ,lol. |
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Why the barbaric army bomb-attck the farmers,fishermen,School girls,boys and elders.
Because they are cowards and they know that they are quite safe at 35,000 feet up in the sky.
NAtional LEader/EELAN. |
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