Sri Lanka deadlier than Afghanistan: Time

[AtulaSiriwardane]

Sri Lanka deadlier than Afghanistan: Time

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=35672
By Dinidu de Alwis
Time Magazine Online in a recent special report states that judging by the death toll the Sri Lankan conflict is deadlier than the war in Afghanistan in the year 2008.
In its special “Top 10 Underreported News Stories of 2008”, Time reports following the Sri Lankan government pulling out from the 2002 ceasefire in January this year, the war has claimed more lives than the US-led war in Afghanistan during the same period.
The watchdog organization iCasualties.org puts the number of Afghan fatalities for this year at 283, more than half of it being US troops stationed in Afghanistan.
Time states the conflict in Sri Lanka has “raged largely under the radar, because the Government has banned from the war zone foreign journalists as well as most aid groups”.
The number of displaced due to the conflict stands at more than double of that in war torn Afghanistan, according to International Displaced Monitoring Centre (IDMC). According to estimates by IDMC, Sri Lanka has over half a million internally displaced people, compared to 200,000 in Afghanistan following the US invasion.

 

[AtulaSiriwardane]

Sri Lanka:


145 Dead in Northern Battles

By AP / KRISHAN FRANCIS Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008



(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — A bloody day of fighting near a northern Tamil rebel stronghold left 145 combatants dead Tuesday, Sri Lanka's military said. The guerrillas said government forces retreated after suffering heavy losses in nine hours of fighting.






Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said clashes broke out in the northern Jaffna peninsula, as well as in areas to the north, west and south of the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital of Kilinochchi.(Read "Sri Lankan conflict deadlier this year than Afghanistan".)
Soldiers marched into rebel-held Kilali and Muhamalai villages in Jaffna early Tuesday, attacked the guerrilla's positions then returned to their bases, Nayakkara said.
He said troops also fought insurgents close to three villages along the main highway connecting Jaffna to the rest of the country — from Paranthan just north of Kilinochchi to Iranamadu some six miles (10 kilometers) to the south. Nanayakarra said

about 120 rebels and 25 soldiers were killed

in the clashes and 10 more soldiers were missing.
Later a military fighter helicopter bombed and destroyed a rebel boat preparing to attack soldiers near Kilali lagoon, Nanayakkara said. He said casualty details were unavailable.
The Tamil Tiger rebels could not be contacted for comment because communication lines to their territory have been severed, but the rebel-affiliated TamilNet Web site said insurgents

killed 40 soldiers and wounded 120 more

in Kilali alone. It said rebel fighters forced the government troops to retreat after a nine-hour battle.
It did not report any rebel losses or details of the other clashes.
Military spokesman Nanayakkara said the TamilNet report exaggerated the soldiers' death toll. Journalists are barred from the war zone, making it difficult to verify battlefield reports released by either side.
The government has vowed to crush the rebels and end their decades-old separatist campaign. Government troops have made rapid progress in recent months, seizing large chunks of rebel-held territory and forcing the insurgents into a dwindling territory in the northeast.
However, the rebels have offered stiff resistance for nearly two months at the edge of Kilinochchi despite the government earlier predicting the town's "imminent fall."
The Tamil Tigers began fighting in 1983 to create an independent homeland for ethnic minority Tamils who have suffered marginalization by successive governments controlled by the majority ethnic Sinhalese. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.


http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1866741,00.html

 

[RajNOX]

too much to read... im sleepy bro... going to bed!

 

[NoName]

too much to read... im sleepy bro... going to bed!

Dats a good one!!

 

[craze]

..............

Sri Lanka:


145 Dead in Northern Battles

By AP / KRISHAN FRANCIS Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008



(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — A bloody day of fighting near a northern Tamil rebel stronghold left 145 combatants dead Tuesday, Sri Lanka's military said. The guerrillas said government forces retreated after suffering heavy losses in nine hours of fighting.






Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said clashes broke out in the northern Jaffna peninsula, as well as in areas to the north, west and south of the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital of Kilinochchi.(Read "Sri Lankan conflict deadlier this year than Afghanistan".)
Soldiers marched into rebel-held Kilali and Muhamalai villages in Jaffna early Tuesday, attacked the guerrilla's positions then returned to their bases, Nayakkara said.
He said troops also fought insurgents close to three villages along the main highway connecting Jaffna to the rest of the country — from Paranthan just north of Kilinochchi to Iranamadu some six miles (10 kilometers) to the south. Nanayakarra said

about 120 rebels and 25 soldiers were killed

in the clashes and 10 more soldiers were missing.
Later a military fighter helicopter bombed and destroyed a rebel boat preparing to attack soldiers near Kilali lagoon, Nanayakkara said. He said casualty details were unavailable.
The Tamil Tiger rebels could not be contacted for comment because communication lines to their territory have been severed, but the rebel-affiliated TamilNet Web site said insurgents

killed 40 soldiers and wounded 120 more

in Kilali alone. It said rebel fighters forced the government troops to retreat after a nine-hour battle.
It did not report any rebel losses or details of the other clashes.
Military spokesman Nanayakkara said the TamilNet report exaggerated the soldiers' death toll. Journalists are barred from the war zone, making it difficult to verify battlefield reports released by either side.
The government has vowed to crush the rebels and end their decades-old separatist campaign. Government troops have made rapid progress in recent months, seizing large chunks of rebel-held territory and forcing the insurgents into a dwindling territory in the northeast.
However, the rebels have offered stiff resistance for nearly two months at the edge of Kilinochchi despite the government earlier predicting the town's "imminent fall."
The Tamil Tigers began fighting in 1983 to create an independent homeland for ethnic minority Tamils who have suffered marginalization by successive governments controlled by the majority ethnic Sinhalese. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.


http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1866741,00.html

Sri Lanka deadlier than Afghanistan: Time

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=35672
By Dinidu de Alwis
Time Magazine Online in a recent special report states that judging by the death toll the Sri Lankan conflict is deadlier than the war in Afghanistan in the year 2008.
In its special “Top 10 Underreported News Stories of 2008”, Time reports following the Sri Lankan government pulling out from the 2002 ceasefire in January this year, the war has claimed more lives than the US-led war in Afghanistan during the same period.
The watchdog organization iCasualties.org puts the number of Afghan fatalities for this year at 283, more than half of it being US troops stationed in Afghanistan.
Time states the conflict in Sri Lanka has “raged largely under the radar, because the Government has banned from the war zone foreign journalists as well as most aid groups”.
The number of displaced due to the conflict stands at more than double of that in war torn Afghanistan, according to International Displaced Monitoring Centre (IDMC). According to estimates by IDMC, Sri Lanka has over half a million internally displaced people, compared to 200,000 in Afghanistan following the US invasion.

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[sri_lion]

Ofcourse!!! SL ARMY kill more terrorists than US Army annually!!

 

[NoName]

Ofcourse!!! SL ARMY kill more terrorists than US Army annually!!

Ubath patta talk ne machan idala idala denne,

mama me ude idan innawa, oka 10 parak withara baluwa, eth oya wage ekak gana oluweta awe naa nowa!!!