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Soosai, the Sea Tiger leader and his closest cadres have been attacked by a group of Wanni Tigers, reliable sources reported. As a result of a clash took place between the loyalists of Pirabhaharan and Susai, the leader of Sea Tigers has got injured and admitted to Kilinochchi hospital for treatment.

Soosai having received, injuries, and the four of his men injured fled Kilinochchi hospital after receiving initial treatment restarted the submerged clash between Tiger leader and eastern leaders in the Tiger outfit. The clash has reportedly occurred when an exchange of words started to heat up and explode as a dangerous situation poiting fire arms at each other. This has happened as a result of Ramesh, Soosai's brother in law, appointed as the military leadership simultaneous to the defeat that Thoppigala was captured.

However the Wanni tiger leader has spread the news as Susai was injured following a clash with armed forces to cover the clash among Tiger members.

Kollupitiye Wickrem-esinghe might KNOW a thing or two about politics, having diddled in the field for some years. But judging by the stream of accidents that have been flying out of his mouth since the Thoppigala victory, one might wonder what he has LEARNT from this experience.
To use a quaint Sinhala-ism, one might even say Ranil has been edagena nanawa for the past few weeks. Anagannawa, kela-wa gannawa or illang kanawa. None of which is very cool.
Somewhere along the way, our Ranil appears to have missed the whole point of his decades-long political exercise. A successful opposition leader typically aims to become president one day. He does not usually aspire to be the kind of marksman who keeps shooting himself in the foot.
Not long ago, Chandrika Kumaratunga too had issues with her runaway tongue. Her media team would often follow with a mop and bucket to clean up the mess. The difference between Chandrika?s boo-boos and Ranil?s verbal catastrophes, however, is that some of his ones remain fit for consumption well after their expiry date. (The ?bracelet, gold chain and chewing gum? speech is still lovingly invoked in some quarters while Parakrama-bahu has been reborn several times over).
Now... there?s this Thoppigala-is-a-jungle business. Something went seriously amiss there. Ranil won?t get even a crumb from the cookie jar for attempting to trivialise the dramatic capture of Thoppigala even before troops had completely cleared the area. The timing, you chump, was so not right.
Heck, of course Thoppigala is a JUNGLE. We could have told Ranil that. But it was Tiger turf, nevertheless. And unless Prabhakaran and his cats decide to shift themselves from their current jungle address to Ranil?s cozy Colombo 3 pad, the wresting of any territory from their control will always be touted as a significant military achievement.
Meanwhile, just as everyone had finished making a mockery of the Thoppigala statement... Ranil went and said something about the Buddhist clergy. So, Lakshman Kiriella is now carting around the mop and bucket but he?s doing a lousy job of the cleaning. One might say there?s a bigger mess now than before. Pol mess, in Sinhala.
At a UNP press conference, Kiriella - who is the party?s new official spin doctor after Tissa Attanayake was told to shut his gab and do something else - launched a missile at a journalist who asked a pertinent question. The reporter wanted to know what Ranil had meant by calling Thoppigala a jungle. Kiriella (who had clearly tumbled off the wrong side of his bed that morning) fired back that only five thousand people lived in Thoppigala.
?It is important to know the population of the area to understand Mr Wickrem-esinghe?s comments,? he huffed. ?Journalists should be better informed before asking questions. Just taking down notes won?t do.?
And that wasn?t the only unsolicited Kiriella sermon we were given during the last ten days.
On a separate occasion, he ripped into another journalist, accusing him of trying to raise questions planted by others.
Oh the fickleness of these Kiriella types. There was a time - not so long ago - when Kiriella and his cohorts did not complain that journalists ?just took down notes?. They desired it. Journalists who did not ask difficult questions, planted stories in newspapers, sang hosannas to the leader and swallowed every word dished out by the UNP were considered assets. Just for the record, Mr UNP Spokesman: If you don?t like what Ranil Wickremesinghe is saying - and cannot mop up the mess - for God?s sake, take it up with him.
Don?t slay the journalists.

'The two Sri Lankans who started the hunger strike on July 9 have not had water or food and their health is deteriorating.

Saturday a further 27 Sri Lankan Tamils at the same detention centre joined in the strike further complicating the issue for the British authorities.