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I'm also curious about Tigresses prayer.
Maybe she is implying that Tigers are conducting their war ops much more humanely than SLA?
:)))

3 submarine internet cables has been damaged out of 4. services disrupted

those civil war type days..

Lanka-e-News, Dec.20, 2008, 10.40 PM) Sri Lanka Navy destroyed a medium-size LTTE logistics vessel carrying a large quantity of war like materials seventy (70) Nautical Miles North-east of Mullaithivu during the early hours today (20).

The Navy also intercepted a cluster of LTTE boats and destroyed four enemy attack craft, which were abortively attempting to support the enemy logistics vessel, in a separate confrontation off Mullaithivu.

The medium-size enemy logistics vessel had been detected by the Navy's Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) on surveillance mission in deep sea around 0130 hrs and subsequently, the Navy's patrol craft were deployed to intercept and destroy the enemy logistics vessel which was approximately 30 - 40 meters in length. In the ensuing naval fire that lasted for around 30 minutes, the enemy logistics vessel was completely destroyed. It is believed that the enemy vessel was carrying a large quantity of war like materials to the LTTE since it sank engulfed in a ball of fire under the heavy naval fire.

Four more LTTE attack craft, which were fleeing after having been abortively attempted to provide support to the enemy vessel, were also intercepted and destroyed by the Navy off Mullaithivu in a separate confrontation.

The 11-year-old boy (name withheld) is a resident of Arnaganvila. He has been a Buddhist Novice at the Rotawewa Temple at Inamaluwa in Dambulla.

On 19 November 2008, a woman connected with the temple had taken the boy to the Dambulla Hospital for treatment. At first, he was taken due to asthma he had been suffering from. However, while at hospital, it was later discovered that he had also been a victim of sexual abuse and was exposed to sodomy.

The boy's health condition has been examined and the result of which was also released by a Judicial Medical Officer (JMO). After concluding their findings on the boy's condition, the hospital authorities have immediately notified the Dambulla Police Station about the boy's case and who now investigates the case.

As of December 17, it is learnt that since having been admitted for treatment at the hospital, the boy has already refused to go back to the temple because of the person allegedly responsible for sexually abusing him, Venerable Dammananda Himi, who was also the monk in charge of the Rotawewa Temple.

After the boy's condition had come to light, there are serious concerns now about the welfare of the 20 other Buddhist Novices who also stay in the same temple. Some of them had already been ordained as monks.

On 1 December 2008, a letter of complaint has already been made to the chairman of Child Protection, Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of Women and Children's Bureau and the chairman National Human Rights Commission for them to take immediate action about the boy's case.

According to the latest information from a reliable source, the police had already arrested Venerable Himi. However, the details of his arrest and the progress of the complaint against him are yet to be known. It is also learned that there is the likelihood that other Buddhist Novices inside the temple may have suffered the same abuses thus, there is also a need to have their conditions examined with urgency.

After Venerable Himi's arrest though, there are serious concerns that unless proper police investigations are carried out to ensure he is effectively prosecuted, the complaint may be undermined as what has happened in previous cases wherein members of the clergy are involved
-http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2008/3087/