LTTE Leader Prabhakaran SHot Dead???

The news from srilankan military camp was that the LTTE Leader Prabhakaran was shot dead although there is no confirmation yet. The military said the body was found in a lagoon. A blue cloth covered the top of the head, which appeared shorn off. The video showed a copy of a military ID tag written in Tamil, bearing the number "0:01," and what appeared to be an LTTE identity card with his photograph.

The army's commander, General Sarath Fonseka, moments earlier had gone on state TV and radio to announce that the body had been found on Tuesday and positively identified. "The good news from the war front is that the body of the leader of the terrorist organization which destroyed the country for the last 30 years, Prabhakaran, has been found this morning by the army. We have identified the body," he said.

Fonseka's announcement came after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) made a statement on a pro-rebel web site saying Prabhakaran, 54, was still alive. "I wish to inform the global Tamil community distressed witnessing the final events of the war that our beloved leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is alive and safe," www.TamilNet.com quoted LTTE diplomatic head Selvarajah Pathmanathan as saying.

Fonseka did not give an account of where Prabhakaran' body was found, nor how he was killed.
Sri Lankan troops finished off the last of the LTTE resistance on Monday, wrapping up a three-year offensive to destroy the separatists and win an 25-year-civil war.

Lankan Trops Attacking Tamil Tigers

The dispute between Srilankan government and Tamil tigers seems a never ending issue. SriLankan soldiers battled into the last redoubt of the rebel Tamil Tigers as the exodus of people fleeing the war zone surpassed 62,000.The International Committee of the Red Cross warned the situation was "nothing short of catastrophic" and urged both sides to prevent further mass casualties among civilians, saying hundreds had been killed in the past 48 hours.

Senior U.S. diplomat Sri Lanka to allow the international community to monitor what was happening and assure help for trapped civilians. The 26-year-old conflict is at a decisive point and we see the potential for major developments within the next 48 hours, Owen told reporters, urging restraint on all sides.The operation gathered speed after the military's noon deadline for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to surrender passed without any word from the separatists, in what appears to be the final act in Asia's longest-running war.

The LTTE hours later vowed no surrender, despite being massively outgunned by a military built up to wipe them out and finish a conflict that has percolated since the early 1970s but erupted into full-blown civil war in 1983. LTTE will never surrender and we will fight and we have the confidence that we will win with the help of the Tamil people.

Sri Lanka's military, in what it dubbed the world's largest hostage rescue operation, went in to keep the stream of people moving and give troops a clear shot at the LTTE and its elusive leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran. So far 62,600 people have come out and still they are coming. The Tigers' Puleedevan said Prabhakaran, the guerrilla who since the 1970s has single-mindedly led a fight for a separate nation for Tamils, was directing the fight in what the army set up as a no-fire zone, but is now a last battleground.

Colombo says No Question of Indian Involvement in Lahore attack

On account of terrible incident that took place at Lahore which affected the Lankan players both physically and mentally, Srilankan govt. insisted pakistan to display truth behind that incident. Srilanka has officially conveyed that there is absolutely no reason to suspect any sort of Indian involvement in the Lahore terror attack. Srilankan government has asked for an independent enquiry to get to the truth behind that horrible incident.

Srilankan Foreign Affirs minister has officially told pakistan's top leaders that India is fully with srilanka and there is no question of India being involved in the terror attack. The minister also told to convey the condolences and deepest sympathies to the families of the pakistani security officers and civilians who were killed in this attack. The srilankan government has also said that they were totally unhappy with the security arrangements at Lahore.

Srilankan Government stated clearly to Islamabad that there is no question of Indian involvment.Srilanka also feels that whether this attack might be caused by LTTE which considers to be unlikely yet srilanka has not ruled out the possibility.