Police has released the photograph of the female suicide bomber who had exploded herself targeting the vehicle convoy of Minister Maithripala Sirisena in Boralasgamua on Thursday (Oct 9).

Prabhakaran should have no worries when there are enough people to help him get away after committing the worst of crimes. The whole nation is mourning Maj. Gen. Janaka Perera (retd), his wife, the genial Dr. Rajah Johnpulle, UNP Manager of the Anuradhapura District, his wife and others who were killed in a recent LTTE suicide blast in Anuradhapura.

Colombo: Marking another milestone in the annals of the Sri Lanka Army, Army Commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka, in his address on Army Day, yesterday and its 59th anniversary, commended all his soldiers on achievements made by the Army for the sake of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Shanaka Jayasekara - Associate Lecturer, Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (PICT) Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia . The recent battlefield success of the Sri Lankan Security Forces has dramatically changed the ground realities and dynamics of the Sri Lankan conflict. The Tamil Tigers have been dislodged from areas they dominated militarily for many years in the North and East of the island.

The need for unorthodox action to combat the LTTE propaganda war was not lost on Maj.Gen.Perera as he pushed back boundaries to state the case for Sri Lanka.“They were the golden years of the Sri Lanka High Commission,” Phillip Stonehouse, a senior Australian Official of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) used to comment when speaking about the period when Major Gen. Janaka Perera held office as the High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Australia.

 Sri Lanka is at a decisive phase in its history. All Sri Lankans, whether living in Sri Lanka or abroad, have an unprecedented opportunity to contribute to ending the two decade old conflict and ushering in an honorable peace - the unrealized dream of many.

COLOMBO: Agriculture Development and Agrarian Services Development Minister Maithripala Sirisena narrowly escaped an LTTE attempt on his life yesterday afternoon in Pirivena junction, Boralesgamuwa.A female suicide terrorist blew herself targeting Minister Sirisena’s motorcade at Pirivena junction around 1.15 p.m.

 Minister  of Agricultural Development & Agrarian Services Development and General Secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Maithripala Sirisena had a narrow escape from an LTTE assassination attempt this afternoon (Oct 9).

Hindustan Times - The Sri Lanka government has reacted firmly to the message sent by India on Monday that it was both concerned and unhappy at the plight of Tamil civilians in the north of the country, where armed forces are locked in battle with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).  Foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama read out a carefully worded statement in Parliament on Tuesday.

Washington D.C., 10 October, (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lankan Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya addressed several prominent opinion makers and young leaders of the Asia-Pacific region including Sri Lanka and the United States participating in the New Generation Seminar (NGS) organized by the East-West Center, on current developments in Sri Lanka at the International Institute for Education (IIE) on Saturday October 4, 2008.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the Cabinet last evening that the government had received information about an LTTE plan to send suicide bombers to Colombo in the guise of patients transferred from the Vavuniya hospital.

The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Sri Lanka expressed its profound condolences to all bereaved family members of those mercilessly killed and injured as a result of barbaric suicidal terrorist act committed in Anuradhapura on the 6th of October

It has been a proven fact that the LTTE never tolerated any unity in the Southern polity. Their attempts always aimed at disturbing the South once they observed signs that the South is uniting against LTTE terrorism. The LTTE observed that Southern polity is reaching towards consensus at this decisive juncture as the military defeat of the LTTE is nearing.

Can the fool(s) among you who wrote that the Canadian “National Post is a ‘racist’ newspaper and thus, should be taken with a pinch of salt?  Average Canadian knows this fact and thus, ethnic communities avoid any connection with them.  They live in a world of ‘white supremacy’ attitude and deserve no attention”

MEP Robert Evans attempts to sully Sri Lanka’s good name in the European eye, while scoring brownie points with UK local constituency  - Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the EU, Ravinatha Aryasinha has said that contradictory messages communicated to different audiences by Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Robert Evans, Chairman of a visiting European Parliamentary Delegation to Sri Lanka in July 2008, were "an attempt to sully the good name of Sri Lanka in the European eye.

Statement of H.E. Mr. Ravinatha Aryasinha, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the EU at a discussion on Sri Lanka at the Session of the South Asia Delegation of the European Parliament  - Mr. Chairman, I thank you for affording the Government of Sri Lanka an opportunity to be heard, as you exchange views on the 5^th European Parliament/Sri Lanka Inter Parliamentary Meeting (IPM) which took place on 20 – 26 July, 2008. I do so in the context that Sri Lanka values the cordial relations it has with all European Institutions and, as you are aware, has in recent times intensified its engagement with the European Parliament.

It is no secret that where there is terrorism, there will always be brutality & there is no difference whether it is in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, USA, UK, EU, Philippines, Indonesia or Sri Lanka-the results are equally gruesome and gory. However, when the problem of terrorism raises its head and thrives in small countries like Sri Lanka

 7 October 2008 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today deplored the latest suicide bombing in violence-torn Sri Lanka, which has killed many people, including a retired army general, and wounded scores more.

The Hon Stephen Smith MP - The Australian Government condemns the suicide bombing in the north of Sri Lanka on 6 October which has killed over 25 and injured more than 65 people.  Among those killed was local opposition leader Major-General Janaka Perera and his wife Vajira Perera. Mr Perera was a former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia. The Australian Government sends its most sincere condolences to the Perera family and to the families of all those killed and injured in this terrible attack.

Foreign Minister warns of ploy by sympathizers of LTTE portraying misleading and false notion of the Government - Colombo, 08 October, (Asiantribune.com): Rohitha Bogollagama, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister urged the international community to pursue the front organizations of the LTTE, posing off as charities and humanitarian aid organizations, which openly engage in raising funds for the LTTE war chest.

 Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman making his first speech as a parliamentarian said today that it is time to leave aside bitter memories of the past and start building peace.

Prabhakaran has killed an incumbent President and a large number of ministers and ordinary parliamentarians. Some of his victims whose names come to mind are President Ranasinghe Premadasa, Ministers Ranjan Wijeratne, Lakshman Kadirgamar, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, C. V. Gooneratne and D. M. Dassanayake, former ministers,

Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma has cautioned the public to be vigilant as the desperate LTTE terrorists may launch unexpected suicide or bomb attacks on public transport services in the South.

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For more than three decades, the LTTE has been trying to weaken the democratically elected Government in Sri Lanka, primarily using an intelligently crafted terror campaigns and adroit propaganda campaigns, intermittingly switching into political negotiations, however, without any firm commitment, to achieve its goal of carving of a separate state for the Tamils in the North of Sri Lanka.

The Government has taken steps to provide compensation to the families of victims in the Anuradhapura LTTE suicide bomb blast which claimed 28 lives and injured more than 80 others. The Ministry of Resettlement and Disaster Relief Services has allocated more than Rs. two million to compensate the next of kin of the deceased and also the injured persons.

More than three decades, the LTTE has been trying to weaken the democratically elected government in Sri Lanka, primarily using an intelligently crafted terror campaigns and adroit propaganda campaigns, intermittingly switching into political negotiations, however, without any firm commitment, to achieve its messianic goal of carving of a separate state for the Tamils in the north of Sri Lanka.

(October 07, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) The 3rd LEAD of [TamilNet, Monday, 06 October 2008, 03:58 GMT] gives all the necessary clues – motives, the Tiger technology etc. – used to assassinate Opposition Leader of the United National Party in North Central Province, Maj. Gen (retd.) Janaka Perera and his wife, Wajira, a former Sri Lanka Army officer.

 Brussels, 6 Oct. (AKI) - European Union external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner on Monday deplored the suicide bombing in northern Sri Lanka which killed 27 people and injured over 80. "I am deeply shocked by the suicide attack at the United National Party office in Anuradhapura this morning.

The country yesterday was robbed of a brave son of the soil through yet another cowardly attack of the LTTE now gasping in its death throes. While the nation was shocked into stunned disbelief by the enormity of the loss it should also come to terms with the fact that this type of attack will be the LTTE’s staple in the coming days as it surrenders its strongholds one by one to the military juggernaut.

 A tribute to Major General (Retired) Janaka Perera, who died in a LTTE suicide bomb explosion in Anuradhapura yesterday . Jaffna was in chaos in the third week of April 2001. The LTTE was on the offensive and the troops were on the defensive. But, repeated attempts to halt the LTTE advance east of the city had failed. The Tigers were on the verge of driving the Army out of Jaffna after their success at Elephant Pass.

Geneva: The Consultative Committee on Humanitarian Assistance Chairman and Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said yesterday addressing the UNHCR’s 49th Executive Committee session in Geneva, the Government has committed itself to sending a convoy of trucks into uncleared areas of the Wanni every week, until a target of 5,000 metric tonnes of supplies which represents roughly two to three months buffer stocks is met.

KOTTE: TMVP Leader V. Muralitharan popularly known as Karuna Amman in his maiden speech in Parliament yesterday said he warmly welcomes the responsibility entrusted upon him by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on behalf of the Tamil people.

What Velupillai Prabhakaran missed in late 1980s at the conclusion of the India-Sri Lanka Agreement (Indo-Lanka) and take the Tamil cause to the halls of democratic discussion and governance his erstwhile deputy Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan has achieved and this augurs well for Sri Lanka even if it can only be a bubble of hope in the current circumstances.

President of the National Freedom Front (NFF) Parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa has in a press release, vehemently condemned the LTTE suicide bomb attack on North Central Province Opposition Leader Major General Janaka Perera and several others in Anuradhapura last Monday.

Sirasa TV reporter Mohamed Rashmi was among 27 persons killed in this morning's suicide bombing that took the life of General Janaka Perera, Opposition Leader of the North East Provincial Council.

K.P.P.Pathirana , the Deputy Inspector General of Police , in charge of the North Central Province under whose guidance all the police investigations into the assassination of the late Major General (retired) Janka Perera are being investigated said the evidence bared so far indicate the brutal killing of the opposition leader of the North Central Provincial Council , his wife and twenty five others carry the hall marks of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist group.

SPUR NZ condemn the brutal act of terrorism carried out by the LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists at Anuradhapura, assassinating Major General (Retd) Janaka Perera, Leader of the Opposition, North Central Provincial Council, his wife Mrs Vajira Perera along with 28 other civilians and injuring scores of others. See details and Phtotos

Colombo, 07 October, (Asiantribune.com): Five Sri Lanka media organisations expressed their deep sorrow over the sudden demise of TV journalist Rashmi Mohamed, who was killed in a bomb blast, yesterday morning in Anuradhapura. Rashmi, the provincial correspondent of Sirasa TV, was killed when he was covering the opening ceremony of the new office of the United National Party (UNP) in Anuradhapura, close to the old bus stand.

The opposition leader of the North-Central provincial council, Maj General Janaka Perera (Retd) and many others were killed when an LTTE suicide cadre blew himself inside the United National Party (UNP) office near the Old Bus Stand in Anuradhapura this morning, 6 October.

Colombo, 06 October, (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse while condemning the covertly and brutal act of terrorism carried out in Anuradhapura today morning in assassinating Major General Janaka Perera, pointed out that the attack was further proof of the need for everyone to unite for the success of the ongoing campaign to eradicate terrorism in the country.

 Colombo, 06 September, (Asiantribune.com): A bomb blast occurred around 8.45 a.m. this morning in Anuradhapura, killing Maj. General (retd.) Janaka Perera, Leader of the Opposition, North Central Provincial Council , his wife Mrs. Wajira Perera who was also a retired Major in Sri Lanka Special Forces and 20 others, in a suspected suicide bomb attack said to have been carried out by an LTTE suicide cadre.

Elections Commissisoner Dayananda Dishanayake has announced that Vinayagamurthy Muralitharan has been appointed as a member of the 6th Parliament. Accordingly, he is due to take oaths as a Parliamentarian. The announcement has been made in a Special Gazette Notification. He is popularly known as Karuna Amman. It will grant him an opportunity to represent the voice of the Eastern Tamil polity. He joined the LTTE in 1983 and was once even a bodyguard of the Prabhakaran and the armed leader of the outfit.

The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attack on October 6 in Anuradhapura that claimed the lives of Major General (retired) Janaka Perera and Dr. Raja Johnpulle and their spouses. Also killed in this heinous suicide bombing

 Major General Janaka Perera has gone the tragic way which has become the dreadful and appalling trend in Sri Lanka ever since the Mayor of Jaffna Alfred Duryappah was gunned down by the LTTE gunslingers in the temple premises of Varatharajah Perumal of Ponnalai in the Jaffna District July 1965.

“The charge of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Mr. Karunanidhi against AIADMK leader Ms. Jayalalitha that she keeps changing her stand on the Lanka Tamil issue is completely baseless and appears to be motivated out of jealousy at the credibility that Ms.Jayalalitha has on this issue,” Dr. Subramanian Swamy a leader of the Janatha Party in Tamil Nadu said in a press statement.

I find your statement on the Sri Lankan situation as the Liberal Party’s Foreign Affairs Critic just two weeks prior to Canada’s General Election to be political posturing with the obvious intention of trying to retain the 100,000 odd votes of the Canadian Tamil community spread across the Greater Toronto Area. 

COLOMBO: Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe yesterday urged displaced civilians living in the Wanni to follow suit making use of the proposed humanitarian corridor following the re-location of aid agencies from Kilinochchi to Vavuniya.

“It was noted that the LTTE is not permitting the civilians to come out of Mullaitivu and Killinochchi. This is a very unfortunate situation. We ask the LTTE not to hinder the innocent civilians from proceeding to safer areas as the war is escalating and the lives of these innocent civilians are greatly endangered. Innocent civilians must not be used as human shields.” said the Catholic Bishops’ Conference In Sri Lanka in a Press Release dated the 23rd September 2008.

Kilinochchi : The battle in Kilinochchi would be the final battle in eliminating the LTTE from the North and the Wanni as all Tiger strongholds including Mullaitivu are within the artillery range of the Security Forces, Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka said on Saturday.

Expat Tamils furious over Tigers’ arrogance: The Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) leader Rajanathan Prabhakaran charged that the LTTE was responsible for the current humanitarian crisis that has emerged due to the displacement of civilians in Kilinochchi and Wanni at large.

While reiterating that the minorities enjoy equal rights as majority Sinhalese, the Army Chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka said that no minority can divide Sri Lanka like how the LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran is dreaming of. The outspoken Army Chief said that he was not a communalist, but a military man who had undertaken the task of eliminating LTTE terrorism to liberate the people and the country from the decades long war.

 By Leon Berenger - The UN has sought more security assurances from the authorities following the discovery of some explosives and banned material in a lorry that was to be a part of a convoy carrying food and other essential items for civilians caught up in the fighting in the Wanni.

(October 05, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) Pakiasothy Sarawanamuttu (PS), the head of the Centre for Policy Alternative, has gone on the offensive against the Army Commander, Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, in his latest column published in the Sri Lanka Guardian. He has “taken him on” obviously because the Army Commander has said some home truths which have irritated not only him but also the hired NGO hacks and the usual claque of anti-Sinhala-Buddhist ideologues, including some left-leaning loonies.

Oct 05, Colombo: Government of Sri Lanka has created a special police task force to protect the Colombo and its suburbs from possible terrorist attacks as the LTTE is facing losses to the military in the North. This new force,a brainchild of Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, is strengthened with a team of 800 policemen. It will be directly commanded by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Nimal Lewuke.

Holy Moses!  “Booo!”, I say to you all.  I just read your ‘NEW DEMOCRAT STATEMENT ON SRI LANKA’, which was astounding for the lack of factual honesty and you all seem to be behind by at least 12 months in what is going on in Sri Lanka. Hey! Just hold on to your horses and just keep on reading.

With the Eelam dream of the LTTE fading Army Chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka has called upon the LTTE leaders and other cadres to surrender to the advancing troops as the fighting intensifies into the Tiger heartland. The soldiers have nearly two more miles to reach the LTTE's administrative capital. Gen Fonseka told the Observer Online that the LTTE leaders - Soosai, Theepan, Banu, Lakshman, Vidusha, Swarnam and Nadeshan - can surrender with their cadres to the army.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military battled within 2 km of the separatist Tamil Tigers' headquarters town and allowed civilians to flee before a final siege, the army said on Saturday. Battles raged just outside Kilinochchi, seat of the Tigers' quasi-government in the north of the Indian Ocean island, with Mi-24 attack helicopters rocketing a bunker line while ground troops fought insurgents, the military said.

There are several contentious issues and misrepresentations of facts in Kumar David’s (KD) reply to Victor Ivan (VI) (Sunday Island – 07.09.2008) that need to be clarified. KD has identified four cardinal points in VI’s theses, which according to KD is "a departure from his usual positions". VI in keeping with his assumed anti-racist posture,

Sri Lanka’s proposal to the Commonwealth to hold a terrorism conference in Colombo is still in the balance. Although Commonwealth leaders have endorsed the idea in principle, it was decided in New York to call a meeting of the Commonwealth Committee on Terrorism (CCT) to decide whether such a conference should be held and if so what its modalities should be.