Blast from the past - අතීතයේ දවසක... (11/02)
2007.11.02
Reuters:
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in a Sri Lankan air force bombing raid early on Friday, the rebels said, in what analysts warned was a body-blow to any hope of ending the conflict soon.
The raids came amid near daily land and sea clashes, ambushes and air strikes that have killed an estimated 5,000 people since early last year alone.
"With deep sorrow we announce to the people of Tamil Eelam, the Tamil people living all over the world and the international community, that at 6 a.m. (0030 GMT) today ... head of our organisation's political wing Brig. S.P. Thamilselvan was killed by the Sri Lankan air force aerial bombing," the rebels said on their Web site www.ltteps.org.
Rebel aide Bawan, who works at Thamilselvan's peace secretariat in Kilinochchi, confirmed the news by telephone. Sri Lanka's stock market rose on the report.
Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, welcomed the news, and said the military would pick off the rest of the Tigers' leaders one by one.
"This is just a message, that we know where their leaders are. I know the locations of all the leaders, that if we want we can take them one by one, so they must change their hideouts," he told Reuters.
"When the time comes only, we take them one by one."
https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-30292520071102
2007.11.02
Sri Lanka jets kill LTTE leader Thamilselvan
Reuters:
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in a Sri Lankan air force bombing raid early on Friday, the rebels said, in what analysts warned was a body-blow to any hope of ending the conflict soon.
The raids came amid near daily land and sea clashes, ambushes and air strikes that have killed an estimated 5,000 people since early last year alone.
"With deep sorrow we announce to the people of Tamil Eelam, the Tamil people living all over the world and the international community, that at 6 a.m. (0030 GMT) today ... head of our organisation's political wing Brig. S.P. Thamilselvan was killed by the Sri Lankan air force aerial bombing," the rebels said on their Web site www.ltteps.org.
Rebel aide Bawan, who works at Thamilselvan's peace secretariat in Kilinochchi, confirmed the news by telephone. Sri Lanka's stock market rose on the report.
Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, welcomed the news, and said the military would pick off the rest of the Tigers' leaders one by one.
"This is just a message, that we know where their leaders are. I know the locations of all the leaders, that if we want we can take them one by one, so they must change their hideouts," he told Reuters.
"When the time comes only, we take them one by one."
https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-30292520071102
තමුන්නාන්සෙල අලිමංකඩ යනව කියල යන්නෙ පාමංකඩ
කිලිනොච්චි යනව කියල යන්නෙ මැදවච්චි
අද මෙහෙම කියපු උන් වීරයො වෙලා
ඉන්න තැන් දන්නව එලියට ආවෙ නැත්තං එකා එකා බාවනව කියපු උන් කොටින්ට කිරි පොවපු කොටි වෙලා
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