Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

That`s pretty cool, wonder if it can be done articificially, could be used to increase yield...

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A coconut tree with five branches at Wetakoluwewa in Boraluwewa has become the cynosure of large crowds that flock to the coconut estate to see the unusual phenomenon. The owner of the estate W.V.Senaratne said the tree which was affected by an unidentified pest that retarded the growth about fifteen years ago had been abandoned without any attention. He said as the time passed five branches emerged from the top of the tree to his utter amazement. Senaratne pointed out that all the branches are bearing and that the nuts are of the normal size.

Thanks to poster cruzer for alerting us to this.

I assume he was a Brigadier General before being posthumously promoted to a Major General? Anyway a good catch indeed.

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Caption Text:

Sri Lankan army soldiers carry the coffin of Major General Lassantha Mhaesh Kumara Narangoda during a funeral procession at Ragama suburb of capital Colombo December 27, 2008. Narangoda was killed by Tamil rebels on December 20 during a battle at separatist Tamil Tigers` self-proclaimed capital in Kilinochchi.

As I said before when the SLA was making a big deal about the LTTE female cadre they `rescued` the LTTE have often done the same...

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Following excerpts from poster `Jet` at the defencenet blog:

Nishantha Ranasinghe of 53rd Commando division was caught alive by the LTTE. He is a 22 year old young recruit from Kalnawa (or Galnawa ), Anuradhapura.

Excerpts:

I was abandoned in the field by the SLA after I was wounded. I was lying amongst the dead soldiers when the LTTE found me, treated me and eventually saved my life.

One set of artists protested to save lives, so the converse is that this set are protesting to kill Tamils. Just remember they are united to kill us, never forget it, from the lowliest garbage man to so called `artists`, they only want us Tamils dead and off the island so they can steal our homes, achieving what 2,500 years and some brits still couldn`t do for them.

Reuters Caption:

Sri Lankan (Sinhala) artist sits during a silent vigil in Colombo, November 13, 2008. The artists staged the peaceful demonstration in response to South Indian artists who were protesting against military operations in northern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan artists also signed a letter to the Indian government, explaining that the military operations targeted rebels, not ethnic Tamils

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Stella, 13, Manipuram

Stella is among tens of thousands of people displaced by fighting between troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka. Her village was bombed by the air force in January 2007.
`The ground was shaking and shrapnel flew everywhere. That`s how I lost my leg.`

Stella and her family have fled more shelling since then. `I felt sad for my family that I was slowing them down... I do not know of any safe place anymore.`

The fire in their eyes is lit, they are ready to hunt the invaders, good hunting boys.

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Piyal
10 Jun 2008 23:28:38 GMT
Pictures please !
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Rest in peace brave worrier.

also disapointing that there were no UN rice bags used here :(

and this major supply base had all of ONE T-56 :(:(

poor LTTE short of everything it seems :(

Amazing striped icebergs

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.

Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melt water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.

When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe.

Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.

In this series Cedric Delsaux adds Star Wars characters to otherwise mundane cityscapes, highlighting their alien nature.

There`s more at his official website:

http://www.cedricdelsaux.com/cedricdelsaux.html

go to `series`

Thank you for your long years of service in protecting our homeland. Especially at EP where you made victory possible by the landing and then holding the A9 against all odds. Take your well earned rest sir.

So as is the stated pattern now of this failed state everytime they attempt an assault and fail they claim it was an LTTE assault that was thwarted by the SLA, they still haven`t answered how, if that were the case, all these bodies are littering LTTE trenches and bunkers.

Or is it that the LTTE have captured SLA defences, either way you lose.

So the MoD has decided that the A-520 was a worthless rust bucket totally unimportant, so it doesn`t matter, that the tigers sunk her, why actually they did them a favor.

This is what they had to say about the ship:
[A-520 was a merchant vessel built in 1970`s and handed over to the Sri Lankan Navy, following a court order after it was apprehended while transporting 254 illegal migrants off Tangalle in 2003]

You see back on 18 Sep 2007, they didn`t really mean it when the following occured: