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THE LAST DAYS OF THIRUVENKADAM VELUPPILLAI PRABHAKARAN

DBS Jeyaraj - TamilWeek, May 22. Thiruvenkadam Veluppillai Prabhakaran is no more! Discuss this storyThe body of the 54 year old supreme leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) was found on Tuesday May 19th near the Mullaitheevu lagoon known as “Nanthikkadal” (sea of conches). He had gunshot wounds in the head and forehead.Thus ended the life of the man who was once described by the LTTE’s political strategist, Anton Stanislaus Balasingham, as both “the president and prime minister of Tamil Eelam”. Army commander Sarath Fonseka announced the death officially at 12.15 pm on the 19th.The ephemeral nature of power was illustrated vividly by the death of Prabhakaran who controlled what was perhaps the most powerful guerilla organization in the world and was raised to divine status as “Sooriyathevan” (Sun God) by his sycophantic followers. More...

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Headline Summary

·	Lanka ignored warning of Tamil separatism in 1970
·	Catastrophy for Sri Lanka to take triumphant position
·	Sri Lanka hit back in Galle Test
·	Visiting the Vavuniya IDP camps: an uplifting experience
·	Sri Lanka travel advisory revised
·	Hatton Bank Targets Sri Lanka North, Infrastructure as War Ends

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Lanka ignored warning of Tamil separatism in 1970

IE, July 4. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s terrorist problem, that claimed 100,000 lives, including 1,500 Indian soldiers, could have been nipped in the bud three decades ago, if only Colombo had heeded a warning by a Tamil police officer in 1970, writes Gen Cyril Ranatunga, a former Army Commander and Defence Secretary.

In his just released book From Peace to War, Insurgency to Terrorism Ranatunga says that in a letter dated November 16, 1970, the Superintendent of Police of Jaffna district, R Suntheralingam, had told the then Inspector General of Police at Colombo that smugglers operating between Jaffna and Tamil Nadu were bringing in magazines propagating Tamil nationalism. More...Discuss this story

Published: Fri Jul 3 16:50:28 EDT 2009

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Catastrophy for Sri Lanka to take triumphant position

hindu.com, July 4. London (PTI): A noted historian has warned that it would be catastrophic for Sri Lanka to take a triumphant position on its victory over LTTE and it is time the country gave democracy and pluralism a chance. "In the aftermath of defeat of Tamil Tigers, it would be catastrophic if the Sri Lankan Government were to take a triumphant position. I am told there is a proposal to build statues of a Sri Lankan King who died 2,000 years ago to commemorate the victory," Ramachandra Guha, the Bangalore-based historian and biographer said while delivering the fifth Nehru memorial Lecture 2009 on "Democracy and Violence in South Asia and Beyond" at the Nehru Centre here on Friday night. More...

Published: Sat Jul 4 00:44:37 EDT 2009

Sri Lanka hit back in Galle Test

bbc.co.uk, 4 July . Sri Lanka were reduced to 292 all out by Pakistan on the first day of their first Test but hit back by reducing the visitors to 15-2 by the close of play. Pakistan's pace debutants Mohammad Aamir (3-74) and Abdur Rauf (2-59) had given their side the upper hand. Sri Lanka had been 21-2 but Tharanga Paranavitana (72) top scored to give them more of a total to defend. More...

Published: Sat Jul 4 13:09:58 EDT 2009

Visiting the Vavuniya IDP camps: an uplifting experience
hindu, july 3. Colombo: The last phase of Sri Lanka’s low-intensity military conflict saw the elimination of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as a military force...

Sri Lanka travel advisory revised
Telegraph, July 3. The areas to which British travellers are now free to travel include the main part of the Yala National Park, Arugam Bay and Trincomalee harbour (described by Admiral Nelson as the finest in the world)...

Hatton Bank Targets Sri Lanka North, Infrastructure as War Ends
bloomberg.com, Jul 03. July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Hatton National Bank Ltd., Sri Lanka’s second-biggest non-state lender by assets, plans to add branches and finance rebuilding in the island’s north and east following an end to three decades of civil war. Hatton aims to open three new branches next year in the northern Wanni region, where the military fought its final battles against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Chief Executive Officer Rajendra Theagarajah said in a phone interview from Colombo yesterday...