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Sri Lanka rebel toll passes 5,000 for this year: official figures
Monday, 21 July 2008 - 3:47 AM SL Time
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Sri Lanka`s defence ministry said Sunday it has killed dozens more Tamil Tigers in the latest ground and sea clashes, bringing a tally of reported rebel deaths so far this year to more than 5,000.
Sri Lankan Navy spokesman D.K.P. Dassanayake said eight rebel boats, carrying at least 16 guerrillas, were either destroyed or damaged on Sunday in an attack off the northwestern coast.
Elsewhere in the north, ground troops killed 18 rebels and lost one soldier during fighting on Saturday, the defence ministry said.
The deaths bring to 5,060 the number of rebels the ministry claims has been killed since the start of the year, when the government pulled out of a Norwegian-brokered ceasefire.
The ministry has reported the loss of 447 of its own soldiers in the same period.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are fighting for a separate homeland, do not release casualty figures and seldom respond to government claims.
The government figures cannot be independently verified as journalists are barred from reporting from front line areas.
Sri Lankan troops are escalating their effort to dismantle the de-facto separate state the rebels maintain in the north of the country.
Army chief Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka Saturday said forces had wiped out two-thirds of the LTTE`s military capability and put its current strength at 5,000, with around 200,000 civilians forced to provide logistic support.
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whatreallyhap
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 20 Jul 2008 21:28:08 GMT Report for Abuse
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Last year the total LTTE strength was 5000 according to GoSL.
Which now would seem to be totally wiped out?
So has the GoSL won the war?
Singlecellese with their singlecelled brains keep to keep forgetting their own lies |
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 20 Jul 2008 22:02:45 GMT Report for Abuse
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Last year the total LTTE strength was 5000 according to GoSL.
Which now would seem to be totally wiped out?
No. that is not how it works. Tigers keep recruiting while the army keeps eliminating them. Ninety percent of these killed are newly recruited, inexperienced young fools. Most of the real hard core is still there concentrated in Vanni.
The SLDF strategy seems to be reducing Tiger recruites, and it seems to work so far. When tigers lose town after town, they lose the size of the pool to recruite from. So in a years time, you will see drastic reductions in Tiger force.
Edited By - Ruhunu - 21 Jul 2008 03:38:00 GMT |
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 20 Jul 2008 23:45:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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Everyday Tamils are absorbed to killing spiral by LTTE...It's for the best of Diaspora dream...70 million Tamils waiting to achieve it.
But they need your kids at this hour...any plans to visit vanni..? |
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Sri Lanka - LTTE Heroes's Department Lists 21,261 as Fallen Heroes
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Killinochchi - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a latest release by their Heroes's department claimed that they have lost 21,261 carders in their quest for a separate state for the Tamils in the Island nation of Sri Lanka.
The 21,261 carders include 16,668 males and 4,593 females, Hero s department further said. The period sited for the numbers from November 27, 1982 to 30 June 2008. The Tamil Tigers lost their first carder Lt. Shankar on November 27, 1982. That s the day widely celebrated by the Tamils as Heroes' Day.
The Number includes 356 Black Tigers as well. Among them were 259 male black Tigers and 97 Female black Tigers. 102 of them died in land operations and 254 died on sea operations, the release said. The Tamil Tiger sea arm, the Sea Tigers considered being an effective conventional arm capable of crippling Sri Lanka s sea operations.
279 auxiliary forces members, 47 Police personals who died on operational duties also included in the number. Another 490 civil society members who were killed by the government forces or the Para military forces for their commitment for the Tamil Cause also listed as Heroes, including 19 Mamanithar.
In 2008, the past six months the Tamil Tigers lost 1128 carders, we never hide our numbers. As its happen we announce our heroes name over our radio broadcast. Further on monthly basis we release our updated list of our fallen heroes, said a person belong to the Hero's department to TNS.
The ministry has reported the loss of 447 of its own soldiers in the same period.
to get the actual loss of sla multiply 447 by 4. |
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 21 Jul 2008 07:58:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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This is a question of life and death but not figures. Many dragged into war due to poverty but not of patriotism irrespective to camps.
During the time of King Rajasinghe many nobles in king's court spoke Tamil.If not of British we all are by now Tamils. We are Sinhalese simply because of we speak Sinhalese.This war is against our own blood.Stupid idiots.
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 21 Jul 2008 09:33:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gachula99,
Interesting theory. But is it true? war is mainly has affected the Tamils in the North as LTTE is killing their own, by sending them to a war that can not be won and by killing who appose the ruthless prbakaran and his authority. If he was so interested in Tamils and their struggle (so called) why did LTTE wiped out all the other teams that were operating in the early 80s. He would have combined them and would have made a larger force by giving the right leadership. without doing so he killed all of them and made him the man of the hour. Genocide is not caused by Army it's by own man parba. |
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21 Jul 2008 09:37:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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No way of stopping this without taking VP.
LTTE's Heroes Department going busy these days..24 hours |
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21 Jul 2008 12:55:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sam007,
During JVP hay days they killed many political prominent figures and professionals.Can you remember the many terrorizing events took place during those days.
Your posting is universal and could be apply to any society.Simply substitute the following Words such as Tamil, LTTE, Prabakaran, respectively with Sinhalese, Wijeweera,South.Can you see any difference ?
My theory was based on history books written by Professor Wimalananda Tennakoon.
Edited By - gchula99 - 21 Jul 2008 12:59:00 GMT |
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 21 Jul 2008 18:27:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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| We have to kill more to catch up with the number's killed released by the Tamil scum so just shoot anything that moves the gap is around 15000 so the armed forces have plenty of room to add up the number's. |
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