Sri Lankan government troops on Tuesday captured a key Tamil Tiger defence line on the Jaffna peninsula, killing scores of rebels, the defence ministry said.
A statement said the rebels were “in total disarray following concentrated armour and infantry assaults backed by heavy artillery attacks.”
It said government troops pushing south from the top of the peninsula were able to advance 500 metres (yards) into Tamil Tiger territory after breaching the line — which featured some of the toughest rebel fortifications.
There was no immediate comment from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam …

The capture of Paranthan and Kilinochchi confirms that remaining strongholds of the LTTE Elephant pass and Mullaithivu would fall within a short period. This assessment also confirmed by many experts following events in the security section.
It is widely believed this may lead to the collapse of the LTTE as a fighting force after 25 years. Unprecedented rains in the North have delayed military advance by nearly 1 1/2 months and with improved weather conditions the above would be a reality.
Lanka recorded an increase over 50 per cent in rice production …

One has heard about the ‘beginning of the end’ of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) so many times in the past that one can be forgiven for wondering what the fuss about the ‘fall of Kilinochchi’ is all about. But this time around, the LTTE is not only in retreat and facing meltdown, but it is in the ‘middle of its end’. The town of Kilinochchi had been the Tamil Tigers’ operational headquarters since 1995 after Sri Lanka’s government forces had overrun Jaffna. In 2001, a ceasefire between …

The Tamil United Liberation Front very strongly condemns the dastardly act of causing extensive damage to the buildings and causing immense damage to the most Modern Equipments belonging to very popular TV and Radio Stations, the Sirasa, Sakthi and the MTV. These Stations are so popular among all sections of the people that they put the people to sleep peacefully in the night and put them up afresh early in the morning. These stations have now become public property and the loss is ours, the people of Sri …

News filtering from LTTE controlled Vanni and from the northern town of Vavuniya give light to information that were not covered in the media due to government imposed media sanctions and suspension of NGO’s to work in the north.
According to information gathered, the LTTE had moved the entire civilian population to Vanni way back from early October 2008 and the town remained empty of people since Deepavali. The LTTE had used its manpower to remove the roofs, windows and furniture from the properties and had set the town to engage …