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Sri Lankan president nervously assesses military stalemate
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 7 Apr 2008 00:16:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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With so much of fortifications & more than 15,000 soldiers & lot of fire power still GOSL could not withstand the LTTES onslaught & the defenses crumbled like a pack of cards.
What was the use of fortification of Elephant pass when water supply was from out side wells, the first thing LTTE cut off.
Today SLDF do not sit in camps as lame ducks but in the offense.
Commanders are battle hardened and experienced and been given better weapons and well coordinated air and support and back up. |
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They have a clear advantage over the SLDF as they are well entrenched and know the terrain better than SLDF.
This is BS. It is shrub jungles intermix with some thick forest. This is not a terrain like in Afghanistan. The land mines are in between defense lines in open fields. In between defense lines for movements LTTE use trenches . In the the jungles randomly putting land mines is a disadvantage to LTTE it self for their movements especially when they have to withdraw from enemy advance and fire. When withdrawing, no time to lay land mines as they are not stored in bunkers for safety reasons. When it rains of course Army has to slow down advancing, since their supply vehicles get stuck in the mud. Army depends on the continues flow of supplies , food and water brought to them than LTTE who has storages in various places in the jungles it self. However continuous supply of water is a problem to them too, as wells dug are not always close to bunkers . LTTE has not invested much on canned food as it is expensive and do not have the facility to do that either locally. so the carders starve for days before they withdraw.
The more the sldf are going to be bogged down in this hostile terrain of vanni, fatigue & boredon will set in.
If some one thinks that either SLDF or LTTE gets bored fighting then that person never had a taste of a battle.
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Though they are unable to bring all the areas what they want under their control they are fully capable of carrying on this armed struggle for generations to come.So expecting a quick end to LTTE like Mahha thinks is day dreaming of highest proposions.
If LTTE had a land route connecting to south India under their control as well as a population of youth continuously joining LTTE it is a possibility. The child recruitment it self showed how hard for LTTE to bring youth over the last decade to their side. Die hard LTTE carders are aging. South Indian Tamils do not become LTTE carders. Tamil Diaspora in the west only give money not their children to LTTE. poor Tamils in the East do not fight for an Eelam , they want peace and a place to live. India could never export Hindu extremists for Sri Lankan Tamil cause to die here. Tamil population in Sri Lanka drastically dropped. So had the Birth rate in the North and East because of displacement of people and less marriages.
The bottom line is LTTE is in the down ward spiral. Be realistic. |
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 7 Apr 2008 23:59:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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| I wonder MR ever read this forum which is full of top War strategist. And they give brilliant analysis on how to win the war. And it sound so simple when I read these sitting in my comfy armchair. |
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| If intention is only to capture the territory then carpet bombing will give the result. That was how WWII was fought. However SLDF is not invading another country but trying to liberate Vanni from LTTE. And in Vannni, Tamil civilians live, they can not leave the territory as how usually people would have done in a war, because LTTE does not let them leave. So it is not an easy task for SLDF not because LTTE is the greatest terrorist army but they use civilians as human shield. They used civilians of Jaffna when retreating to vanni in 1995. How ever they have no place now to retreat from Vanni. Only to Tamil Eelam grave yard. |
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My word.. I'm impressed with this darn LTTE. They first of all have been fighting against 150,000 strong SLDF for thirty years, facing the wrath of international community with bans and what have you and to top it all keeping hundreds of thousands of people under their custody as human shield. But this darn LTTE is only 10,000 strong..! My word...!!
P.S.: The same darn LTTE recruits it members from the very same human shield. Ironically, once the forced recruit joins them, they are miraculously brain washed to become a loyal terrorist..! :O)) |
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P.S.: The same darn LTTE recruits it members from the very same human shield. Ironically, once the forced recruit joins them, they are miraculously brain washed to become a loyal terrorist..! :O))
That is what is called under the clutches of LTTE. LTTE does not allow civilians to leave, threaten who leave LTTE that they will harm families. Recruit by force at a young age so it is easy to brain wash kids than grown up to die for the security of Schizo Prabha under the disguise of Tamil Eelam dream. The kids belong to a generation who were born under the Cannon fire who had never seen a peaceful situation and never met an ordinary Singhalese or a Singhalese child.
I have watched in England a documentary in early 90's by LTTE where one speaker address a group of young LTTE carders in the jungle. He said that Singhalese Schools in Colombo have marble floors in their lavatories when a Tamil student does not have a school to go. I went to a top school in Colombo and did not see such toilets.
Jaffna district had the highest number of Schools concentrated in a district before 1983. The Tamil morons had reduced it significantly by the war they have brought to their door steps.
Only Moronic Tamils can be proud and be impressed with what had LTTE done to them. |
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10 Apr 2008 12:58:30 GMT Report for Abuse
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That is what is called under the clutches of LTTE.
This is a famous cliche, which many a moron have fallen for. How on earth a 10,000 strong force, while fighting with a 150,000 strong army on one hand, can keep hundreds of thousand people under their clutches? Where are the resources for them to do it? If the people are under any sort of clutch, they can flock together and simply march towards Omanthai. LTTE can do nothing about it. Will they shoot at their innocent fathers, mothers, sisters and brother? The reality is the Tamil people are the back bone to LTTE. So do they need SLA to free them?
On the other hand, What SLA is doing in Jaffna is what's called keeping people under the clutches. They are 40,000 strong controlling around perhaps a 200,000 civilians. Anyone defecting their orders can be shot and killed with impunity.
As for your LTTE training methods, I agree with you. But the main training asset they have are the proofs of atrocities committed by SLDF and sinhala thugs on Tamils. They have scores of pictures and documentaries.
The main drawback you folks have is that you haven't lived in LTTE controlled areas to know the reality. If someone says this, the famous reply would be that LTTE would kill them if they do so, which is a hogwash in itself. How many people moved into Wanni when CFA was intact at least in the first two years? Surely, no one would have stopped them..! The truth is no Sinhalese wants to live in Wanni unless there is an opportunity to make a living.
That aside, how people can assess a group of people like those in Wanni, without never having lived in there or having no media access to the area is a million dollar question..!
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 10 Apr 2008 14:16:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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They have scores of pictures and documentaries.
Many thousands of cooked up stories to brains wash morons like you..
Edited By - rswkv - 10 Apr 2008 14:17:31 GMT |
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10 Apr 2008 14:43:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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Many thousands of cooked up stories to brains wash morons like you..
I, unlike you punnakku eating wastrels, have seen all those atrocities by SLA by myself..! Stop eating GoSL crap for long as it may harm your single living cell.
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