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| _______________ | 2 |  | Claymore mine found - Trincoma | | Based on information received from civilian sources, Trincomalee police personnel uncovered warlike items during a search operation conducted at Abayapura in Trincomalee yesterday, January 08. | | Mon, 1 September 2008, 11:04 | |
| _______________ | 3 | | An LTTE cadre surrenders - Kalmunai | | An LTTE cadre has surrendered himself to the Kalmunai Police at 12.15 p.m yesterday, January 08. | | Mon, 1 September 2008, 11:03 | |
| _______________ | 4 | | Minister Rambukwella denies blaming EPDP | | Government Defence Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, making a statement in Parliament yesterday, said his interview with the BBC Sandeshaya had been taken out of context and used to imply that he blamed the EPDP for the assassination of parliamentarian T. Maheswaran. | | Mon, 1 September 2008, 11:02 | | |
| _______________ | 6 | | 19 LTTE terrorists killed, over 30 wounded - Mannar | | Troops forced into LTTE positions ahead of Parappakandal defences, on Tuesday (January 08) at 4.30p.m, killing at least 19 terrorists including a female LTTE leader and wounding over 30 others, initial ground reports from Wanni said. | | Mon, 1 September 2008, 4:05 | | |
| _______________ | 8 | | LTTE's heinous designs - daily news editorial | | Yesterday's killing of Nation Building Minister D.M. Dassanayake in a claymore attack unveils a pattern devised by the LTTE to engineer a backlash in the South in order to detract from the military defeats being inflicted on it by the Security Forces. | | Mon, 1 September 2008, 3:08 | | | | | | |
| _______________ | 14 | | Navy foils LTTE infiltration bid - Kuchchaweli | | Naval ground troops successfully foiled an LTTE infiltration bid yesterday (January 07) evening at around 7.30 in general area Kuchchaweli, North West of Trincomalee. | | Fri, 1 August 2008, 3:12 | | |
| _______________ | 16 | | Rally round Govt to liberate Northern masses - President | | President Mahinda Rajapaksa fervently appealed to the nation to rally round him and his Government and provide the optimum support and co-operation in the process of liberating the severely oppressed and downtrodden Northern masses who are gripped by the clutches of LTTE terrorism. | | Fri, 1 August 2008, 1:46 | |
| _______________ | 17 | | Troops Recover heavy mortar gun in Thoppigala | | Sri Lanka army soldiers continuing on the search operations in the Thoppigala area today (January 7) uncovered a large stock of weapons including one 120mm mortar gun and one 12.7mm machine gun. | | Tue, 1 July 2008, 13:00 | | | |
| _______________ | 20 | | Peace Secretariat regrets ahistorical statement of Nordic Ministers | | The Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process regrets very much the recent statement of five Nordic Foreign Ministers regarding the decision of the Sri Lankan government to terminate the Ceasefire Agreement signed in 2002. | | Tue, 1 July 2008, 7:38 | | |
| _______________ | 22 | | LTTE explosive consignment uncovered - Batticaloa | | A large LTTE explosive consignment was uncovered by the Special Task Force personnel during search operations conducted in the Batticaloa area yesterday, January 06. | | Tue, 1 July 2008, 5:46 | |
| _______________ | 23 | | Indian Police bust Tiger credit card scam | | Indian Police have busted a major LTTE fundraising scam involving the use of fake credit cards. In a major operation, a police team arrested two Sri Lankans in this connection on Saturday night in Mangalore. | | Tue, 1 July 2008, 2:24 | |
| _______________ | 24 | | Four terrorist and two soldiers killed in clashes - Jaffna | | The Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) says that two LTTE bunkers were destroyed and four LTTE cadres were killed in clashes occurred between army and LTTE around 8.40 this morning (January 6) in the Muhamalai defence. | | Sun, 1 June 2008, 14:03 | | |
| _______________ | 26 | | LTTE's 'military' intelligence head killed in ambush - Mannar | | Head of LTTE's 'military' intelligence wing Shanmuganathan Ravishankar, alias Charles was reported killed along with three other terrorists following an ambush by Sri Lanka elite forces, in the general area North of Mannar, last evening (January 05), said the defense sources. | | Sun, 1 June 2008, 4:50 | | | |
| _______________ | 29 | | CFA abrogation unmasks LTTE - TULF leader | | The Tamil United Liberation Front leader Veerasingam Anandasangaree welcoming the decision to abrogate the Ceasefire Agreement said that the agreement only helped the LTTE to expand its terrorist activities and to blindfold the international community. | | Sun, 1 June 2008, 2:15 | | | | |
| _______________ | 33 | | Tiger sentenced to five years jail in US | | A LTTE suspect received five years in federal prison in the US on Thursday on charges of conspiracy to provide support to a foreign terrorist organisation and the attempted exportation of arms and munitions. | | Thu, 1 May 2008, 4:54 | |
| _______________ | 34 | | Terrorists target STF personnel - Ampara | | LTTE terrorists have triggered off a claymore mine targeting Special Task Force (STF) jeep this afternoon around 02.30 (January 04). | | Tue, 1 April 2008, 14:20 | | |
| _______________ | 36 | | Five terrorists killed in clashes - Wanni | | Defence sources in Wanni battlefronts say that five terrorists were killed in two separate clashes occurred in Vavuniya and Weli-oya fronts today (January 4). | | Tue, 1 April 2008, 13:57 | | |
| _______________ | 38 | | Six LTTE bunkers overran, warlike items uncovered - Mannar | | The security forces personnel engaging in continues consolidating operations overran six LTTE bunkers at Parappakandal in Mannar this morning, January 04, defence sources in Wanni battlefront said. | | Tue, 1 April 2008, 12:56 | |
| _______________ | 39 | | Death toll rises to five in LTTE bomb blast -Slave Island | | Death toll of the Slave Island bomb blast on January 02 has risen to five as an army personnel succumbed to injuries while being treated at the National Hospital Colombo this morning, January 04. | | Tue, 1 April 2008, 12:20 | |
| _______________ | 40 | | STF uncovered warlike items - Batticaloa | | On information received from civilian sources, Special Task Force (STF) personnel uncovered a sizable quantity of warlike items including anti-personnel mines, mortar rounds and hand grenades, during search operations conducted in the Batticaloa area yesterday, January 03, Media Center for National Security said. | | Tue, 1 April 2008, 6:43 | |
| _______________ | 41 | | CFA, SLMM cease to operate by Jan 16 | | President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government Thursday evening informed Norway of its decision to quit the CFA. Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama handed over the formal document to this effect to the Norwegian ambassador in Colombo Tore Hathrem. | | Tue, 1 April 2008, 2:59 | |
| _______________ | 42 | | CFA abolition no bar to talks | | The Government's decision to abrogate the Ceasefire Agreement was based on a policy decision and the doors are yet wide open for a peaceful and negotiated political solution to the ethnic conflict, Cabinet Spokesman and Media and Information Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said yesterday. | | Tue, 1 April 2008, 2:37 | | | | | | |
| _______________ | 48 | | Three LTTE bodies, weapons recovered- Ampara | | Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel while conducting a route clearing patrol at general area Thurenilavani, Ampara, yesterday (02) came under an LTTE indiscriminate hand grenade attack at around 8.45p.m. | | Sat, 1 March 2008, 3:31 | |
| _______________ | 49 | | 'Mines and mindless violence'- Island Editorial | | The first blast in the New Year has happened. One soldier and three civilians were killed in an LTTE claymore mine explosion yesterday at Slave Island. | | Sat, 1 March 2008, 2:49 | |
| _______________ | 50 | | Eight suspects arrested into assassination of MP Maheswaran | | Speaking to local media, the Police spokesperson DIG M.K Ilangakoon said, eight suspects were arrested into the assassination of Colombo district UNP parliamentarian T. Maheswaran, since Tuesday (01). The Colombo Crime Division is probing into the assassination he further said. | | Sat, 1 March 2008, 1:33 | |
