During the LTTE offensive on Elephant Pass, in March 2000, Commander Balraj, gave the lie to the assumption that no rear depth of defence of a state's conventional army can be seriously threatened by anyone except an armed force with strategic air power, when the Sea Tigers fought their way through a sea barrier formed by a large Sri Lanka Navy flotilla in rough seas to land 1200 troops and their supplies at Kudarappu-Maamunai, in the SLA's rear.
Tamilnet bluffing again. There were no such strategic air power . We did not have precision bombing capability which could infact had prevented many collateral damages to Tamil civilians. (I was personally told by foreign mercenaries hired by the GOSL who carried out these devilish napam bombing on the North soil after one of their missions in late 80'S.) President CBK also did not allow the purchase of MBR from Czech republic , the order placed by UNP government in 1992 since no commission will be paid for her and the Uncle who was the defense secretary.
In 48 hours MBRs were brought from Czech republic thanks to efforts of Brigadier Sanath Karunarathne who threatened to nullify the multi million dollar contract if Czech republic fail to deliver the goods in time and the LTTE offense towards Jaffna was successfully repelled by our battered SLDF. |
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