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tigerforce
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in an attack on a sla patrol in pullimalai in amparai /
ltte have killed 2 sla in injured 10 more .
the full interview given by illanthariyan was on raj tv last night.
one drova was destroyed at it tried to flee from ltte attack
and got stuck in a reef /sea tigers finished it off.2 more
boats were damaged.
35 sln were counted on delfts island and 8 more on the drova.
most important was that ltte able to capture the surveillance radar on delfts intact.
latest usa says give tamils substantial autonomy/britain says tamils have right to self determination.
BRITAINS HOME SEC john reid HAS TOLD TAMIL GROUPS that they can appeal to him to have the ban on ltte lifted.
200'000 tamils in uk /most in london and they now dominate
the retail and gold trade /and in the financial times report
it is ststed that tamils own assets worth more than 30 billion pounds in uk .in politics money talks |
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THE INDIAN NAVY and Coast Guard have deployed six warships in the Gulf of Mannar, Palk Strait and Palk Bay to prevent infiltration from, and smuggling into, Sri Lanka from Tamil Nadu.
Naval officials told reporters in Ramanathapuram port town in Tamil Nadu state today that the Indian Navy?s Khukri class (K class) ship, which can launch surface-to-surface missile attacks, has been positioned in the Gulf of Mannar. Another ship is now moving towards Palk Bay/Palk Strait.
The International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) between India and Sri Lanka is being patrolled by INS Bharatang and a Coast Guard Ship in the Gulf of Mannar. Two inshore patrolling vessels have also been pressed into service, they said.
The sources explained that the main aim behind deploying these ships is to strengthen the security cover along the coastal area.
In the recent past, a couple of incidents had occurred in this sensitive area that have alerted the Indian security establishment to further tighten safety measures in the sea that separates this country from Sri Lanka.
Five fishermen from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu were killed by by Sea Tigers. A trawler, owned by Indian fishermen but forcibly seized by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on May 12 along the India-Sri Lanka maritime boundary for smuggling arms, was sunk by the Maldivian Naval authorities in the Maldivian territorial waters on May 18. OVER |
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During the last 36 hours 12 Wanni Tigers were reportedly killed at separate incidents at the FDL of Omanthai.
10 of them were killed at the result of an Army assault. The Army launched a search operation in the area following the confrontations. |
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25 May 2007 09:29:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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200'000 tamils in uk /most in london
United Kingdom of Jaffna??
and they now dominate the retail and gold trade
that is the problem with THEM. They want to DOMINATE, not just live and let live!!
/and in the financial times report it is ststed that tamils own assets worth more than 30 billion pounds in uk .
Queen Elizabethlechchumi also a Tamil, married to Prince Phillipan.
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rasak
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25 May 2007 09:31:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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the full interview given by illanthariyan was on raj tv last night.
things the RAT forgot to tell
Naval troops successfully completed the cordon and search operation which was carried out on the Delft island to flush out the LTTE infiltrators this morning.
The LTTE had unsuccessfully attempted to infiltrate the Naval Deployment located on the southern tip of the Delft island this morning. They had come in a flotilla of twelve (12) sea tiger boats and six (06) suicide boats. On detection of the enemy craft, the naval troops immediately deployed the Dvoras, the Navy?s fast attack craft, to confront the enemy. In the ensuing sea battle, two (02) sea tiger boats were completely destroyed and another was damaged. Naval troops inflicted heavy damage on the LTTE cadres who were forced to flee in the face of the Navy?s fierce attack. Monitored LTTE communications revealed that eighteen (18) sea tiger cadres were killed in the sea battle.
Amidst the Navy?s fierce attack, a few sea tiger boats had attempted to land the island. Their desperate attempt was made futile by the grounds troops who were on the alert to engage the enemy attempting to infiltrate. |
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Terrorists Face More Setbacks
VAVUNIYA: AT LEAST TWELVE TIGER TERRORISTS while trying to inflict damages on the Security Forces were killed during the past twenty-four hours ending Friday (25) noon bringing further setbacks to the terrorist organization.
In the first incident troops killed ten Tiger terrorists in areas west of OMANTHAI, VAVUNIYA Thursday (24) when Tigers after infiltrating into cleared areas were trying to attack the Security Forces.
Some of those Tigers fled the area as the troops directed a massive attack on the terrorists who were lying in ambush.
Just three hours after the previous attack troops again confronted another gang of terrorists close to MUKKARAYANAMKULAM, west of OMANTHAI and killed two more terrorists who were armed with grenades.
Meanwhile, a foot patrol of the troops was attacked by a gang of terrorists in NAVUNDAIYAMBU in BATTICALOA late Thursday (24) evening.
Troops promptly responded and killed two terrorists.
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25 May 2007 09:36:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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200'000 tamils in uk /most in london and they now dominate
the retail and gold trade /and in the financial times report
it is ststed that tamils own assets worth more than 30 billion pounds in uk .
what abaut the petrol sheds and the credit card business!
Sea piracy
The LTTE are reported to hijack ships and boats of all sizes, and it is common practice for them to kidnap and kill the crew members on board the hijacked vessels.88
The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels in waters outside Sri Lanka including the Irish Mona (in August 1995), Princess Wave (in August 1996), Athena (in May 1997), Misen (in July 1997), Morong Bong (in July 1997), MV Cordiality (in Sept 1997) and Princess Kash (in August 1998). When the LTTE captured the MV Cordiality near the port of Trincomalee, they killed all five Chinese crew members on board. The MV Sik Yang, a 2,818-ton Malaysian-flag cargo ship which sailed from Tuticorin, India on May 25, 1999 was reported missing in waters near Sri Lanka. The ship with a cargo of bagged salt was due at the Malaysian port of Malacca on May 31. The fate of the ship's crew of 15 is unknown. It is suspected that the vessel was hijacked by the LTTE and is now been used as a phantom vessel. A report published on June 30, 1999 confirmed that the vessel had been hijacked by the LTTE.88
MV Farah III incident
In a notable incident since the signing of the Ceasefire Agreement in 2001, the crew of a Jordanian ship, MV Farah III that ran aground near rebel-controlled territory off the island's coast, accused the Tamil Tigers of forcing them to abandon the vessel which was carrying 14,000 tonnes of Indian rice and risking their lives.89 The crew said that LTTE fired four times to force them out of the vessel after failing to explode it in choppy seas three days ago. The skipper of the vessel said;
'First they tried to set up a bomb and explode the anchor cable and when it failed they ordered us to weigh anchor'
He also said that the Tigers dismantled and removed all radio communication equipment and radar from the vessel.89 Later in May 1, 2007 Sayed Sulaiman, the chairman of the ship's owners, Salam International Trading Company gave an interview to the BBC Tamil service said;
'We hear from the parties who are concerned with the ship, the insurance company etc, that... everything that could be taken - like the rice, lights, generators - has been taken from the ship. The ship is now bare.' 90
Pilferage of tsunami donations
In May 2007, two Tamils with connections to the LTTE were arrested in Australia for raising thousands of dollars in Australia under the presence of being for charities and aid for those affected by the 2004 Asian Tsunami, which killed 35,000 people in Sri Lanka, but instead using the money to fund the LTTE.91 Australian Federal Police conducted raids across Melbourne and Sydney and charged the two men with 'being members of a terrorist group, financing terrorism and providing material support for terrorism'.91 They are said to have provided significant funds as well as electronic and marine equipment to the Tamil Tigers since July 2002. Commenting on the possibility of the LTTE engaging in other similar incidents, Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Kieran Walshe said 'We are concerned that that sort of thing is taking place in Australia, that Australian citizens are being duped into making contributions to what they believe to be honest fundraising activities in terms of relief for people in distress.'91
Human Smuggling
Most of the smuggling of Tamil people to Western countries is done under the permission of the LTTE. The LTTE benefits greatly from smuggling of Tamil people for example, to Canada. It usually costs between $10,000 and $40,000 for a Sri Lankan Tamil to be smuggled to Canada illegally, with the usual cost running around $20-25,000 dollars. Also, the people who are leaving Sri Lanka from Tamil Tigers controlled are ordered to pay a few hundred dollars for an 'exit visa' by the LTTE. In addition to this, people with special skills or a greater wealth than ordinary Tamils may have to pay thousands of dollars to be entitled to leave.92
Allegations of prostitution
Another industry the LTTE has been implicated in is the forced prostitution of Tamil women who are being smuggled to other countries. In the mid 1990s some Sri Lankan women were abused or raped while being smuggled towards Canada by the LTTE, and some were deliberately stranded in Thailand and forced into prostitution there.92
Passport forgery
A passport forgery scheme uncovered in Canada in 1990 which was the first one to result in a Canadian conviction has also been linked to the LTTE. The perpetrators were Canadian Tamils who produced around 1,000 doctored travel documents before being caught. Another forger was uncovered in 1991, and was proven to have dealt with the LTTE after the phone number of Ontario?s World Tamil Movement was found to be listed under ?LTTE? in his date book.92
Drug trafficking
A number of international organizations and intelligence agencies have accused the LTTE of involvement in drug trafficking,93 94 95 96 97 98 99 and its history of drug smuggling that runs back to 1970s when Tamil smugglers (a group from which the leader of the LTTE and some of his key lieutenants originally emerged) started carrying heroin from India to Sri Lanka. When the traditional smuggling routes used by many Afghan/Pakistani opium and heroin producers became severely disrupted due to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Fundamentalist revolution in Iran, the Sri Lankan Tamils soon provided a new way of getting their drugs to markets elsewhere in the world.92
In addition to this, Tamils also started selling drugs in the Western Europe by 1984. Many Tamil heroin smuggling activities have been reported in many countries in the Europe including Italy, Switzerland, Poland, and France. One LTTE operative who was jailed in France for two years for heroin smuggling has later become the chief of their international operations.92
At the end of 1990s when the volume of heroin from Southeast Asia was increasing, the Tamil Tigers again took advantage of this source too. The LTTE set up a naval base for their use on the Island of Twante, off Burma, the world's leading source for heroin from that part of the world. The LTTE have reportedly used their very own merchant ships from the shipping line that they own, to smuggle heroin into Europe. The American government is aware of LTTE's heroin transactions inside and around southern Thailand and Burma, but in the absence of any direct threat to the US from the Tigers, the resources of their Drug Enforcement Agency are focused elsewhere.92
The LTTE operates within two separate levels in their activities in the North America and Europe. The Tiger operatives are engaged in propaganda and lobbying aspects, as well as coordinating a myriad of fronts and charities to raise cash for the war. Another group of operatives run criminal enterprises including refugee smuggling, narcotics trafficking, sophisticated frauds, and extortion rings to deliver funds to feed the LTTE.92
Arms smuggling
Another one of LTTE's most secretive International operations is the smuggling of weapons, explosives, and 'dual use' technologies to keep up with the military operations. The part of the LTTE responsible for these activities is given the nickname 'KP Branch', taking the initials of its highest level operative, Kumaran Padmanathan. The workers for the KP Branch are outsiders from the fighting wing of the LTTE, since the identities of the those fighters are recorded and available to law enforcement and counter-intelligence agencies by India's RAW, who had helped train many Tiger Cadres in the early 1980s. The KP Branch operates extremely secretively by having the minimum connection possible with the LTTE's other sections for further security. It finally hands over the arms shipments to a highly trusted team of the sea Tigers to deliver them to the LTTE dominated areas.92
In order to carryout the activities of International arms trafficking, the LTTE operates it own fleet of ocean-going vessels. These vessels only operate a certain period of time for the LTTE and in the remaining time they transport legitimate goods and raise hard cash for the purchase of weapons. The LTTE initially operated a shipping base in Myanmar , but they were forced to leave due to diplomatic pressure. To overcome the loss of this, a new base has been set up on Phuket Island, in Thailand.92
However, the most expertly carried out operation of the KP Branch was the theft of 32,400 rounds of 81mm mortar ammunition purchased from Tanzania for the Sri Lanka Army. Being aware of the purchase of 35,000 mortar bombs, the LTTE made a bid to the manufacturer through a numbered company and arranged a vessel of their own to pick up the load. Once the bombs were loaded into the ship, the LTTE changed the name and registration of their ship. The vessel was taken to Tiger-held territory in Sri Lanka's north instead of transporting it to its intended destination.92
The Western countries are the main territory for fund raising activities of the LTTE. The money raised from donations and criminal enterprises are transferred into bank accounts of the Tigers and from there to the accounts of a weapons broker, or, the money is taken by KP operatives themselves. LTTE's need for resources is mostly fulfilled by the Tamils who reside outside Sri Lanka. In 1995, when the LTTE lost Jaffna, their international operatives were ordered to increase, by a massive 50%, the amount raised from Tamils outside of the island.92
Other crimes
LTTE has also committed credit card fraud in a number of countries including India and the United Kingdom, and other similar crimes including organized crime, social security fraud and counterfeit currency trading100 101 and satellite piracy
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well rasak
what search and cordon ltte were out of delfts in 2 hours/
and the first report on the attack was on ibc at 0500 hrs
sri lanka time news.
as the sla was fiercely attacking the ltte units /ltte went around delfts base collecting weapons .
as for thoppigal fonseka said there was only 300 ltte left in east now you say there are 3000 ltte in thoppigalqa area,
so having problems counting are we.
as for tamils dominating ,our inherent intelligence and
ability for hard work always shine's to the fore and for those races who lack this it is just too bad |
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Over 60,000 of them are living with host families while the others are in over 80 camps set up by aid agencies.
Sinhalese generocity is streched to the limit to dump Tamils in the refuge camps. This was what Nazis did to Jews and Israelis to Palestinians. Sri Lankan Govt, Nazis and Israelis want the victims of pesecution in the 'comfortable' camps because they are not 'fit' to live in their own homes. |
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what search and cordon ltte were out of delfts in 2 hours/
thats not what your beloved illanthi....bla bla is saying
A spokesman for the rebels, Rasiah Ilanthirayan, said Tiger forces had killed 35 sailors and lost four of their own fighters. 'The fighting lasted only 20 minutes and we completely overran the camp,' he told the Associated Press. The rebel forces then fled the scene by boat, he said. 'Our attacking unit counted 35 bodies during the time they were in the camp but had to come back quickly.'
so who is to belive you or the ialan...bla bla
and y
but had to come back quickly. ...lol |
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