Sri Lanka Seeks Rebels' Foreign Assets

" Countries where Tamil Tiger rebels allegedly hold their assets are being urged to return them to Sri Lanka, a senior Sri Lankan government official says. Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa told the BBC the...

Beleaguered Tigers name new chief

" By Sudha Ramachandran The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have a new chief. Its former head of arms procurement, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, has been named...

New political formation of LTTE claimed

" New political formation of LTTE claimed [TamilNet, Tuesday, 21 July 2009, 16:42 GMT] Addressed as originating from the headquarters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, an Executive Committee on Tuesday,...

Sri Lanka - Eelam 2.0 the transnational government

" With the fall of the final pocket of land under LTTE control and the death of the organisation’s founder and leader, the LTTE’s visions of a separate state seem to have been consigned firmly to history. Sri...

LTTE provisional govt. just a dream: Karuna

"By Hemanthi Guruge from Batticaloa National Integration Minister Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman said yesterday that efforts by the remaining LTTE leaders overseas to create a provisional...

On the hunt for Tamil Tigers' new leader

"Rick Westhead South Asia bureau NEW DELHI–Sri Lanka's government spent much of the past...

LTTE’s Eelam without borders

" With the Sri Lankan armed forces having wiped out the LTTE and brought the war for an independent Eelam to an end, the rebel group’s international relations head Selvaraja Pathmanathan has announced a plan to...

Paris Tigers try to hoodwink diaspora

" Top LTTE fund collectors in France try to persuade Tamil diaspora to disbelieve KP’s acknowledgement that Prabhakara had died. While the top diaspora members fight over the future strategy of the Liberation...

Pathmanathan's local agent found

" Urumaran, the local agent of the LTTE’s international affairs head and its main arms dealer Kumaran Pathmanadan alias KP was arrested yesterday at a welfare camp in Vavuniya. He had come into the welfare camp...

RAW moves to arrest KP - The Gun Runner Terrorist

"India's RAW intelligence agency has launched an international operation to arrest the only remaining LTTE top ranker Selvarasa (Kumaran) Padmanathan alias KP, Divaina reports.A news article by Norman Palihawadana...

Sri Lanka's Tamils vie for leadership role

" COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Behind sandbagged walls, a driveway lined with metal spikes, a battery of security cameras and rifle-wielding bodyguards sits the man who would be the next leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil...

LTTE flip-flop hints at power struggle

An apparent power struggle between Selvarasa Pathmanathan (KP), newly appointed head of the (late) LTTE's international relations division and its overseas administration head Castro (real name, V Manivannan),...

Sri Lanka rejects LTTE offer to enter Democratic Process

" Sri Lanka rejects LTTE offer to enter democratic process May 25, 2009  07:25 am Sri Lanka’s defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has rejected the LTTE’s offer to enter a democratic process after...

We have ways to deal with people like K.P, says SL Army Commander

"A person living abroad, wearing a tie and coat, like K.P. (Kumaran Pathmanathan) cannot do what Prabhakaran and his second rung leaders did in the jungles of Mullaitivu. If K.P. tries to do that, Prabhakaran will...

Tamil Tigers admit leader is dead.

" Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have admitted for the first time that their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead. A statement issued by the Tigers said their "incomparable leader" had "attained martyrdom" and declared a week of mourning. A spokesman for the group also...

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