[TamilNet, Monday, 18 May 2009, 07:25 GMT]
Monday early hours around 3:00 a.m. Vanni local time, the LTTE Political Chief B. Nadesan and LTTE Peace Secretariat Director S. Puleedevan telephoned their contacts in Europe and informed them to tell the ICRC Head Office that only around 1,000 wounded cadres, civil officials of the LTTE and civilians remained in the so-called safety zone and there was no firing from the LTTE side. They urged the ICRC to evacuate the wounded. A few hours later, Colombo's Defence Ministry website claimed finding the dead bodies of Mr. Nadesan, Mr. Puleedevan, Mr. Ilango (Tamileelam Police Chief), and LTTE Leader V. Pirapaharan's son Mr. Charles Antony. The LTTE is yet to confirm, but initial reports indicate a determined massacre by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA).
On Sunday, SLA Commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka told AFP that he will not allow the LTTE to 'regroup' and will ensure that there is 'no future' for the Tigers.
He also said that "the firm decision of the political hierarchy not to go for talks with the LTTE terrorists until they lay down arms had contributed significantly to all these war victories."
During the last week both Nadesan and LTTE's International Relations Head S. Pathmanathan were welcoming the call by the US President Barack Obama and were expressing the willingness of the LTTE to heed his request.
However, Colombo has decided not to allow any opportunity for the LTTE to negotiate and to annihilate its leadership.
Both Obama's call and the LTTE's favourable response were not honoured by Colombo.
SLA spree of massacre in Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal
[TamilNet, Monday, 18 May 2009, 07:43 GMT]
In a spree of massacre, the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) is killing the wounded civilians in large numbers in the so-called safety zone, according to a reliable telephone call from Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal Monday forenoon. There are still civilians hiding in the bunkers the phone call said.
None of the international agencies, insistently advocating the evacuation of civilians, were present at the scene, either to monitor or to remedy the catastrophe.
TamilNet doesn't have any communication with its independent correspondents in the field on the current situation.
Mahinda’s accounts crime
[TamilNet, Monday, 18 May 2009, 07:33 GMT]
Before his murderous assault on the so-called safety zone, Mahinda Rajapaksa has always been maintaining that the number of civilians there was only 70,000. But after the first bout of the capture of civilians last month, until Thursday, 247,908 civilians from the safety zone were registered in the internment camps of Vavuniyaa, Pulmoaddai, Mannaar and Jaffna. After the first bout, the Sri Lanka president was saying that only 15 to 20 thousand were remaining in the safety zone. Sunday evening Colombo’s militarised civil administration head of internment camps, Chandrasiri admitted more than 80,000 crossing after the latest onslaught. According to aid officials, some more thousands are still remaining.
The figures admitted now, added with the dead, disappeared and those who have given the slip to the SLA, crosses well over 350, 000.
Ever since the beginning of the creation of the so-called safety zone, TamilNet has been reporting a figure of 360,000, based on local official records and the accounts of its own independent correspondent. It has always been quoting a modest a figure of over 300,000.
But the world bodies and the so-called international media were neither prepared to believe accounts coming from what was labelled by them as ‘pro-LTTE website’, nor had their own accounts correct, even by counting from the sky.
By quoting very low figures, Rajapaksa’s aim was to minimise the food and medicine supply in order to starve the civilians for a prolonged time. Starvation was a crucial weapon and a serious war crime deployed by Colombo to capture and incarcerate civilians claimed by it as its own citizens. Mahinda Rajapaksa will now be using the actual number to get aid money.
The Indian Establishment has gone on record in openly abetting Colombo in this war crime by endorsing the number 70,000, quoted by Colombo.
The UN also to a large extent abetted the war crime by officially quoting a figure far less than the actual number. The UN estimated only 200,000 civilians in the beginning, roughly 50 percent of the actual number. In the later stage it quoted 50,000, again less than half of the actual number, while TamilNet quoted 120,000, based on the accounts of its correspondent.
Perhaps typical of its approach to the crisis by equating the attacked and the attackers, the UN was balancing the figures also. Its failure in both will go into history.
Tamil circles fear that such accounts crimes are likely to be committed in future also when it comes to the dead, disappeared and to several other matters affecting the oppressed further.
The international community is fully responsible for this accounts crime, by allowing Colombo to wage the war without any witnesses, but how to indict them, the Tamil circles ask.
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