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Sri Lankan Troops reach Elephant Pass
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Thivya
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 7 Jan 2009 05:28:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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oh ok may be,so you got married also in UK? or in SL?
Impi, you are too nosy.
I married in Toronto, reception in California, honey moon in Europe and in India. My husband still in California because of his work and I am at my parents house for few weeks. Are you happy now. Can you leave me alone now on. :)))
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 7 Jan 2009 05:30:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty,
U were taken to courts..paid the cost of the case and what was rightly owed to the University and allowed to go home..
Revealing your ignorance of Public Facts? Keep going. One day your children would compare with the published official facts and know what an imagination their father had!
I went to prison - for refusing to sign bail conditions that denied me my right as an Australian. You obviously would have begged them to let you go if you manage to be in such a 'protest' situation along with others.
Also, as my husband pointed out this morning, the University of NSW heard my warnings and they have not gone ahead with the legal costs in the appeal. They are not likely to pursue the costs if I did not pay the primary and the only one - but I agreed because I needed the money for my projects in Jaffna. I honour that word and keep paying. They will face their own karma - if they have not already done so. My returns have already come from other sources. That's higher level balancing - that Jesus was talking about.
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 7 Jan 2009 05:31:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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I married in Toronto, reception in California, honey moon in Europe and in India.
Thivya Baby
oh ok np,so you never been to SL for honey moon? |
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7 Jan 2009 05:32:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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I married in Toronto, reception in California, honey moon in Europe and in India.
Major Road trip! |
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7 Jan 2009 05:33:30 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty/Andylau,
guys when ever we take a animal to the vet...those guys want advice on this food cata...as Berty signals...we feed them without a limit sometimes and it over load them..makeing them lazy and fatty out of shape.
skin as Bert said many reasons...vet always give a injection and forget it..which will return after few weeks or a month.
but I have by experience Kohomaba Thel works well with dogs cats and even cattle. |
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7 Jan 2009 05:34:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tigers take to the jungle
By Sudha Ramachandran
BANGALORE - The New Year has been far from happy for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). On January 2, the LTTE lost its 'administrative capital', Kilinochchi, to the Sri Lankan armed forces. With the fall of Kilinochchi, the Tigers have lost their long-standing image of being militarily invincible and are now cornered in the jungles of Mullaitivu.
The loss of Kilinochchi is a huge blow to the LTTE. However, it might be too early to write the obituary of the rebels. Within hours of their loss of Kilinochchi, the Tigers struck back with their legendary ferocity. A suspected LTTE suicide bomber struck the air force headquarters in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, killing three airmen. A day later, a bomb blast in a busy commercial
area of Colombo left three injured. More such attacks in Colombo and other cities are expected in the coming weeks.
With Kilinochchi in their pockets, the armed forces are now advancing on Elephant Pass, a strategic land bridge linking the mainland to the Jaffna Peninsula. Some media reports say that the army has already captured portions of the causeway, which has been under LTTE control since 2000. Its loss would allow the armed forces to link the Jaffna Peninsula with the mainland along the A9 road. Previously, the government has had to send supplies and troops to the peninsula by air or sea. The fall of Elephant Pass would be yet another blow for the beleaguered Tigers.
Until Friday, it was the LTTE's flag - a roaring tiger against a red background - that flew over Kilinochchi. Situated 350 kilometers north of Colombo, Kilinochchi was the LTTE's de facto capital, the town where the Tigers had established all the trappings of a 'Tamil Eelam state' - courts, police, a tax collection apparatus and even a bank. It was in its Peace Secretariat at Kilinochchi that the Tigers received diplomats and journalists after the ceasefire in 2002.
Kilinochchi has changed hands several times. The LTTE took control of the town when the Sri Lankan army withdrew its garrison here following the departure of the Indian Peacekeeping Forces (IPKF). The army gained control over it in September 1996, only to lose it to the LTTE two years later. The LTTE has held Kilinochchi for the past 10 years, but that changed on Friday when the Sri Lankan army marched in.
The Sri Lankan flag is flying today over Kilinochchi, but it waves over a ghost town. The only signs of life in Kilinochchi are stray dogs. Journalists who have visited Kilinochchi say that the LTTE left the city in ruins before withdrawing.
'Asbestos roofs, doors, windows and all conceivable fittings of every house and establishment in the town had been ripped apart and carted away. The civil and administrative apparatus had been razed to ground. The city's 40-foot-long main water tank was reduced to pieces with powerful explosives. The wires which supplied power had been slashed across the city and through the 8-km length of the town not many electric polls were seen,' wrote B Muralidhar Reddy, The Hindu's correspondent in Colombo.
Of greater concern than ruined Kilinochchi is the fate of its 100,000 residents. But for some 30 remaining civilians, there is no trace its population. While it is likely that they fled in anticipation of the fighting between the armed forces and the LTTE for control of the town, the possibility that the Tigers would have forcibly taken them to Mullaitivu cannot be ruled out.
In 1995, when the LTTE lost Jaffna it took around 350,000 residents into the Vanni region in a bid to show the world that the Tamil people wanted to remain under LTTE rule. Thousands returned to Jaffna in the months that followed. If Kilinochchi's residents have been taken to the Mullaitivu jungles, it is possible that the LTTE will use them as human shields to defend its last bastion.
The Sri Lankan army chief, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, has said that about 1,700 to 1,900 Tiger fighters remain. Since the fall of Kilinochchi, there are holed up in an area of around 40 square kilometers in the Mullaitivu district. 'We will be able to see the end of these remaining terrorists within this year,' he said. 'It will not take one year.'
Noted Sri Lankan defense analyst Iqbal Athas cites 'well-informed intelligence sources' who put the LTTE's strength at 'anything between 10,000 and 12,000. This is said to include 'policemen' and civilians trained in combat'. The LTTE is far from finished as a fighting force. The battle for Mullaitivu can be expected to be far bloodier than anything to date.
In the past, the LTTE has recovered from huge setbacks to deal severe blows on the armed forces. In 1996, six months after it lost Jaffna Peninsula to the armed forces, the LTTE struck back to capture an important army base at Mullaitivu.
Military astuteness and skilful maneuvering have helped the LTTE crawl out of tight situations. On at least two occasions it has escaped from the brink of defeat.
In May-June 1987, the LTTE was boxed into the Vadamarachchi region, when India's 'humanitarian intervention' gave it a fresh lease of life. Then in 1989-90, when the Tigers were on the run under pressure from the IPKF, it was the Sri Lankan government that jumped in to bail them out. On both occasions, the Tigers emerged stronger.
Will the badly wounded LTTE receive a similar lease on life now? It does seem unlikely. In the 1980s, relations between the Indian and Sri Lankan government were troubled. That has now changed. Unprecedented military cooperation is going on between the two. For all the noise emanating from Tamil Nadu state calling for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, the Indian government has not yet pressured its Lankan counterpart much on this score.
Internationally, too, the LTTE's position has changed remarkably. In the 1980s, it was the Sri Lankan government that was in the doghouse and the LTTE had considerable support overseas. That has changed since the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi by a Tiger suicide bomber in 1991. Its string of suicide bombings has earned it the terrorist tag in several countries, including India, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union. But for its support among the economically powerful Tamil diaspora, the LTTE has few supporters in the international community today.
There are reports suggesting that the government is considering banning the LTTE again. This will rule out the possibility of negotiations. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has been exercising the military option alone in dealing with the LTTE. His government has refused to see that it is only a political settlement that will end the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Energized by the military victories of his armed forces, he is likely to continue to pander to Sinhalese hardliners and persist with the war against the LTTE. The problem with this strategy is that thousands of Tamil civilians are getting killed.
The Sri Lankan armed forces are already on their way to Mullaitivu. The 'big prize' they will be eyeing is LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, who is believed to be holed up there in superbly fortified underground bunkers. The question Sri Lankans are debating now is not whether the Tiger supremo will be captured but how - dead or alive. The latter seems unlikely as he wears a suicide capsule around his neck like all Tigers do and in all likelihood will swallow it to avoid capture. India's Congress Party has already demanded his extradition to face trial for masterminding Rajiv Gandhi's killing.
Aerial bombing of Mullaitivu is on. This will be intensified in the coming days as the armed forces close in. The elimination of Prabhakaran in one of these raids cannot be ruled out.
The political and military decline of the LTTE over the past few years has been dramatic. It was its writ that ran through all of the northern and eastern provinces until 2005, when the territorial losses began. By July 2006, it was ejected from the last of its strongholds in the east. Then it began losing territory in the north as well. Today, the ground held by the Tigers is a fraction of what it once was.
The Sri Lankan armed forces must be credited for the LTTE's decline. But if today the LTTE is a shadow of its former self, it is because of the exit in 2004 of 'Colonel Karuna', the LTTE's eastern commander. It was that event that set off the hemorrhaging of the LTTE that continues today. It was a Tamil, and a high-ranking Tiger as well, who should be credited for the decline of the LTTE.
Will it be a Tamil again who will eliminate Prabhakaran? The possibility of one of his deputies rising against him cannot be ruled out.
Sudha Ramachandran is an independent journalist/researcher based in Bangalore.
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7 Jan 2009 05:34:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja I gave respect to you,since our age gap is around 40 i guess )Looks like you dont like the idea.SO I roll back my words.
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7 Jan 2009 05:35:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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Today there is a Cover Story on Prabha published by Junior Vikatan & it seems all the Family of Prabha including his old Parents are there too along with the IDPs While Charles anthony is on the Warfront ...
In the Concluding part the writer mentions that Tamil People have given their Destiny in the hands of Prabha !
Makes compulsive reading !
http://www.vikatan.com/vc/2008/nov/vc.asp |
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7 Jan 2009 05:36:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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oh ok np,so you never been to SL for honey moon?
Dimwit,
I have been to Sri Lanka 2007 summer and if I come again, We will definitely meet you and arrange someone to beat the crap out of you. I am sure, we can hire some army deserters. :)))
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