News Source: NewKerala
| 6 months ago
The pre-scheduled seminar that opened Thursday comes days after the Sri Lankan military won a decisive victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels and will focus on Practical Cooperative Mechanisms for Technical Support as part of the Indian Ocean Naval...
News Source: The Boston Globe
| 6 months ago
In this undated handout photo released by the Sri Lanka army, Wednesday, May 20, 2009, confiscated weapons from Tamil Tiger rebels lay down on the ground in Mullattivu, Sri Lanka. Aid groups and the U.N. appealed to be allowed to survey the aftermath...
News Source: Zaman.com
| 6 months ago
Rajapaksa telephoned Gül to tell him about “the positive phase that has been reached in the fight against terrorism in his country,” the Presidential Press Office said in a written statement on Tuesday. “Our president has expressed his...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 6 months ago
Vilupillai Prabhakaran's body was recovered, for weapons, bodies or any rebels who might have slipped through the army dragnet. "More than 400 dead bodies of rebels have been recovered from the scene of their desperate last stand including many...
News Source: CNN
| 6 months ago
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, flashing a broad smile, declared victory Tuesday in the country's 25-year civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels. "We are celebrating the defeat of terrorism," he said in a nationally televised speech before...
News Source: Telegraph India
| 6 months ago
Rajapaksa addressed parliament a day after the government information service sent a text message to cellphones across the country saying that Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the elusive chief of the Tamil Tigers, had been killed. State television also...