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Ellalan Force claims bombing responsibility
Tuesday, 10 June 2008 - 9:31 PM SL Time
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A little known Sri Lankan rebel group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for recent bomb attacks on transport vehicles as revenge for what it said were government attacks and aerial bombings on innocent Tamil civilians.
The military has blamed Tamil Tiger rebels for a series of train and bus blasts in capital Colombo and central Sri Lanka in which at least 32 people were killed and over 100 wounded.
`We want to claim that we are responsible for the bomb attacks on the transport vehicles and other attacks,` Ellalan Force, which the military says is a Tiger-linked group, said in an e-mail to Reuters.
The attacks have been carried out as a `stern reply` to the government forces` Long Range Reconnaissance Petrol (LRRP) attack and aerial bombing on innocent civilians, the Ellalan Force said in the mail.
`The LRRP attacks and the aerial bombings on Tamil innocent civilians must stop. The Sinhalese must understand (the) situation clearly and think about why the `Ellalan Force` continue their attacks.`
Twenty-six Tamil civilians have been killed in three LRRP attacks and an aerial bombing in rebel stronghold of the Mullateevu area in the north since May 23, the group claimed.
The mail also urges Sri Lanka`s majority Sinhalese ethnic group to put pressure on the government to stop killing innocent Tamils.
The military strongly denies any LRRP involvements in killing Tamil civilians.
`Our LRRP never attack innocent civilians. LRRP is doing their attacks targeting LTTE cadres with arms,` military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told Reuters.
`Ellalan Force is some LTTE-connected group. They wanted to somehow attack civilians, and get the provocation from the civilian forces and get the international attention for their work,` he said.
A roadside bomb exploded near a crowded passenger bus in the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 47, while an evening bomb in the central Sri Lanka killing two and injuring 20, the military said [nCOL263016].
On Wednesday, a claymore mine targeting a Colombo bound passenger train wounded 27 civilians, while a train bomb blast had killed at least eight people in the capital Colombo on May 26.
The fighting between the government forces and rebels, has intensified since early this year, after the government annulled a 6-year Norway brokered truce.
The protracted 25-year bloody civil war has killed more than 70,000 people.
The military say they have killed over 4,046 rebels this year alone while losing 460 of their soldiers so far this year, and that the Tigers have killed 205 civilians so far this year.
The rebels, who are fighting for an independent state in the north and east, were not immediately available for comment on the claim by the `Ellalan Force`.
Analysts say the military has the upper hand in the latest phase of the long-running war given superior air power, strength of numbers and swathes of terrain captured in the island`s east. But they still see no clear winner on the horizon.
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chinthanaya
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 10 Jun 2008 14:35:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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Anyone can send e-mail to Reuters with the name of Ellalan Force!
Edited By - chinthanaya - 10 Jun 2008 14:37:45 GM |
costa
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 10 Jun 2008 14:37:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Anyone can send e-amil in the name of Ellalan!
Hope sombody will send email to deny it too. :) |
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10 Jun 2008 14:41:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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Time to Time LTTE sends this Ellan cat out of the bag..
This is Terror lesson number one: Keep change names of organizations
Everyone knows this trick..
JVP did this in 1989..
Edited By - TrueFactor - 10 Jun 2008 14:44:47 GMT |
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10 Jun 2008 14:41:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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Elalan force little known??? We all know that it is nothing but LTTE.
Edited By - Dewey - 10 Jun 2008 14:42:57 GMT |
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10 Jun 2008 14:42:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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Costa Alumni,
Hope sombody will send email to deny it too. :)
It is very easy. Just open an account in yahoo or Gmail and send. :)) |
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10 Jun 2008 14:48:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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ELaan force should stop spending time on Emails and forcus on capturing 1/3 of land expecting the rest of the country to sleep.
Ellan force is Ellan kanawa ! |
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10 Jun 2008 14:49:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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It is very easy. Just open an account in yahoo or Gmail and send. :))
Hope Reuters won't report stuff which they can't verify.
Chinthanaya, just send an email as you said, Reuters will withdraw their article and may apologize to you, LOl :)) |
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 10 Jun 2008 14:49:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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to the government forces' Long Range Reconnaissance Petrol (LRRP) attack, the Ellalan Force said in the mail.
LRRP gave heart attacks to Wanni - civilians. |
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reply is on the way
Tamil abducted in Modara
A Tamil named Thambirasa Sudakaran who was employed at Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation was abducted by an unidentified gang in Modara today.
white vans are back in action
this is just the begining.. hope to see burning tyres all around south
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