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Pakistan Assists Sri Lanka In War Against Tigers

Biggest Hostage Rescue Operation Successful: 35,000 confirmed escaped on the first day : 65,000+ in 2 days

20th April 2009

The LTTE had been deceived into thinking that the armed forces will launch a full fledged operation in the Mullivaaikkaal area adjacent to the Nandhikadal lagoon.

The Paranthan-Mullaitheevu road known as the A-35 highway proceeds south through Puthukkudiyiruppu and then veers east near the lagoon and again turns south to reach Mullaitheevu via the Vattavaagal bridge.

The 53 division under Gen. Kamal Gunaratne and Task Force 8 led by Col. GW Ravipriya were placed north and west of Nanthikadal. A joint operation in two stages was conducted before and after the April new year to take the small stretch of A-35 near the Irattaivaaikkaal junction.

There are two roads at this point leading to Karaiyamullivaaikkaal and Vellamullivaaikkaal.The 53 and TF 8 broke through the “Bund” “Trench” constructed across the A-35 and advanced close to the junction.
Further progress in this direction would have resulted in the army interdicting the littoral strip into two thus dividing the population here in two segments.

The LTTE expected a third stage of this particular military push and tiger cadres had constructed another bund and were awaiting the Army. The commander of Imran-Pandiyan regiment “Col” Velavan was in charge here with the bulk of remaining cadres.

On the 19th night the armed forces had conducted an artillery barrage in this area thereby making the tigers think that another offensive was about to be launched.
But in a surprise move some soldiers of the 58 division along with commando and special forces had struck at 2 am in the northern part of the Karaithuraipatru AGA division.

The 11th SL Light infantry, 9th Gemunu Watch, 9th Gajaba along with battalions from Special Forces one and Two Commando regiments stormed and broke through the 2-3 km long Bund cum Trench constructed in the Puthumaathalan-Ambalavanpokkanai area.

The Bund was 8 ft in height while the trench was 10 ft in depth.
The 11th SLLI, 9GW, GR, SF 1 and 2CR are commanded by Colonels , Kithsiri Ekanayake, Lal Chandrasiri,Chandana Wickremasinghe, Athula Kodippili and Ralph Nugera respectively.

After some tiger resistance in which around 12 soldiers were killed and scores wounded the Army succeeded in breaching the LTTE defences in the Pokkanai area.

Once this breakthrough was effected the soldiers moved into tiger territory and began spreading out.They also moved right down to the coast , established a beachhead and bisected the tiger controlled littoral in two.

Thereafter announcements were made asking the people to move out so that they could be rescued and evacuated. What began as a trickle soon turned into a flood.

Thousands of civilians long held in bondage by the LTTE began rushing to breathe the air of freedom. The LTTE got alarmed and tried to block the people.
According to security sources the tigers fired upon the people trying to escape. Still the people kept on moving. When columns of civilians were walking on a causeway tigers began firing intensely.

The people then got down into the water and started wading. At this juncture three woman suicide bombers ran towards them and exploded themselves. Many civilians were killed and injured.

There was terrified pandemonium but soon the people rallied and began running towards the 58 division soldiers . Some did so in neck deep water.

Meanwhile the 55 division stationed at Challai also moved some distance to the South near Pattiaddy. Thousands of people from Palammaathalan began moving in large numbers through swampy land to reach the 55 division soldiers.
There were only a few LTTE sentries here and they could not prevent the large crowd exceeding 5000 from going towards the Army.

In another development 24 people from six families walked through the Nandikkadal lagoon and surrendered to the 53 division.

In a separate development thousands of civilians used the disorientation within tiger ranks due to the fighting and attempted to escape by sea. More than 2000 people in 92 boats sailed out from Valainjarmadam
When the sea tigers gave chase the Navy got into action and provided protection to the fleeing boats. The people were escorted safely by the navy to Point Pedro and Pulmoddai.

Visuals of the events provided by the Defence ministry and state television lend much credence to the Govt version of what happened.

The sight of tiger sentries trying to prevent large numbers of people from moving and the sight of streaming civilians braving much hardship to reach safety conveyed the real picture to most viewers. It was indeed a harsh indictment of the LTTE.

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Link to the youtube video"Escaping civilians from the NFZ" - youtube.com/watch?v=NkOWdjyQiE8

Link to the vedio showing "how the LTTE is keeping the civilians at gun point" - defence.lk/videos/Civilians20090420.wmv

(add www at the front of each link pls)
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Update : How the Arti launching Pad was taken out

The details of yesterday's operation are coming to light. One magnificent attack was launched by a 12-man team of the Special Forces immediately after the Puthumathalang LTTE bund was breached.

Their objective was to destroy a mortar and artillery launching pad positioned adjacent to a densely populated civilian settlement. This gun position had been a headache to the Army for quite sometime as its WLR systems could not engage the target for concerns of civilian safety.

The LTTE gun operators had detailed coordinates to the earth bund as was obvious in the first 1/2 hour of the operation. Military planners knew that the guns could destroy elite units attacking the earthbund in minutes. So the Special Forces were sent in.

The 12-man team from 1 SF infiltrated the NFZ immediately after the first attack on the bund. Carrying GPS equipment and trained to locate the position based on satellite and UAV images, the unit had no problem locating the guns.

The Tigers manning the position, totally unaware of their fate, had fired only 5 rounds when the SF stormed in. No one and no-thing was spared. The threat to the units attacking and securing the earth bund was completely neutralized.

The military planners had in mind to dissect the NFZ, thus securing the release of around 50,000 civilians in one clean swipe and squeezing the LTTE to a narrow corner south of the NFZ. This move had proven to be highly effective and much credit has to go to the Director of Military Planning as well as all ground commanders.

LTTE is now trapped to the south of the NFZ. The 53 Division is also inside the NFZ and Task Force 8 is marching along the A-35 road towards the last remaining corner of the NFZ where the LTTE is hiding behind some 25,000 civilians. This area is called Mullaivaikkal and Vellamullaivaikkal.

TF-8 has to now cross a narrow causeway and is around 500m from this narrow patch, which is the southern edge of the NFZ separated by the Nanthikadal lagoon to the south. Below the lagoon is Mulaitivu Town occupied by the 59 Division. The bridge connecting Mulaitivu south from Mulaitivu north is booby trapped.

The area south of the current position of the 55 Division upto where the NFZ was dissected yesterday will soon be in complete Army control. The civilians who ran towards this area were the lucky ones. But the other remaining 25,000 will also be rescued. The Army expects the entire operation to end in victory by the end of the weekend.

source: defencewire.blogspot.com, dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/365#comments
 
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All parties messed up terribley, don't blame India alone


Dream on....yaawn

West European Whites (including American) and India enjoy destabilize China, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.


Tibet, Taiwan, Kashmir pro-Indian power, Tamil Tigers are the examples.

Saxon-Anglos and their minion states subsidize such anti-Pak, anti-China and anti-SL to destabilize China and his friends. :sniper::usflag:
 
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ejaz007 Bahi,
where are u , need some information about this thread.
there are many many developments in Sri Lanka ?
 
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Thank you Pakistan:pakistan: for helping us. Pakistan is true friend of Sri Lanka.

yes army deals need to be less publicized.

Brother, taking some small credit here. Bangladesh did also played
some good role in training SL military in its military school. Present
COAS of Srilanka was of graduate of BD staff college.

We do not have a ordance factory to supply ourself let alone some other country !!
 
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Brother, taking some small credit here. Bangladesh did also played
some good role in training SL military in its military school. Present
COAS of Srilanka was of graduate of BD staff college.

We do not have a ordance factory to supply ourself let alone some other country !!

Yes, sri lanka certainly thanks you..:blah::blah::blah:

Pakistan has helped Sri Lanka in a tremendous effort and finally the LTTE could be defeated, A Win for the good and a Loss for India
 
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Yes, sri lanka certainly thanks you..:blah::blah::blah:

Pakistan has helped Sri Lanka in a tremendous effort and finally the LTTE could be defeated, A Win for the good and a Loss for India

How come a loss for india..??? Did anybody in india condemn prabhakarans death??? only some tamil people with sympathy to ltte have issues.. not india brother..!!!
 
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Lessons from Sri Lanka
Najmuddin A Shaikh



The curtain has at long last fallen on the destructive and polarising campaign of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, which claimed more than 70,000 lives over the last 26 years. Led by Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil Tigers pioneered the use of suicide bombers and were responsible for the assassination not only of Sri Lankan leaders but also of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Prabhakaran’s ruthlessness and total disregard for human rights did not appear to dent his hold on his people in the areas he controlled or even on the Tamils living abroad.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa, as the defence minister, adopted the same ruthlessness and disregard for human rights to achieve victory. From the Sri Lankan perspective, theirs was a desperate battle for survival as a united state. Previous efforts at finding a negotiated settlement had all foundered on the rocks of LTTE intransigence. Humanitarian concern about the innocent Tamils trapped and kept trapped by the LTTE for use as human shields was understandable but for the Sri Lankan army there was, in their view, no alternative to seeking an unconditional surrender, whatever the ‘collateral damage’.

Today there is outcry in the West about the manner in which the Sri Lankan army conducted operations and about the suppression of dissent in the Sri Lankan media. There is talk of denying Sri Lanka the IMF loan it desperately needs and withdrawing the preferential trading sights that it enjoys with the European Union. Yet the need of the hour is assistance for the refugees and for the more than a quarter of a million people who were more or less held hostage by the Tamil Tigers in their “last stand”.

There is further need to provide the political backing which ensures that the reconciliation process does not become hostage to the activities of Tigers sympathisers from across the narrow strait that separates Sri Lanka from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
. Much has been written about the role that external forces — be it the national government in India or the state government of Tamil Nadu or non-state actors — had played in fomenting the Sinhalese-Tamil divide or the rise of the LTTE. The international community must play its part in ensuring that this does not recur.

This should not be too difficult. The greatly strengthened Manmohan Singh government, with a minimal dependence on the regional political parties, will have the capacity to guarantee non-interference in Sri Lankan affairs.

All that the international community should insist upon thereafter as a condition for its assistance is that a clear path for reconciliation should be set out and be acted upon.

It is perhaps true that when the government was able to establish control in eastern Sri Lanka, it did not move in this direction. Perhaps the Rajapaksa government was too preoccupied with the continuing military campaign to do so. Perhaps it was because the long years of conflict have created distrust and even hatred that will take time to overcome. Many Tamils who opposed Prabhakaran and the LTTE have not joined the Sinhalese in celebrating the Tigers’ defeat because they did not hear in Rajapaksa’s victory speech any word on what his government intended doing to move towards reconciliation. Reconciliation is, however, the only way forward.

Are there any parallels between the situation in Sri Lanka and the counter-insurgency operation that we are now waging? If there are none, is there any prospect of such parallels developing in the future?

Currently there appear to be no parallels. The Taliban in Malakand are not reflecting Pashtun or Swati aspirations. Their agenda is to push their distorted interpretation of Islam down the throat of all Pakistanis and then move further afield. Whatever the movement started as, there is no doubt that it has been infiltrated and perhaps even taken over by criminal elements.


Underneath the surface, however, lies a simmering resentment that pervades all Pashtuns, be they in Afghanistan, Pukhtunkhwa or Karachi (which has more Pashtuns than either Peshawar or Kabul). In their perspective, whatever the reasons for the conflict or its prolongation, Pashtun blood is being spilled on both sides. It is Pashtuns who are branded as extremists even though it is Pashtuns who are the principal victims of the extremists. Many in this community have become paranoid enough to suggest that the “authorities” are using them as pawns to carry forward an agenda that has little to do with the genuine aspirations of the moderate Pashtuns.

For the Pashtuns, the massive exodus from Malakand, occasioned as much by fear of military action as by the atrocities committed by the Taliban is yet another indicator of the miseries that have been inflicted upon them for no fault of their own. Many can perhaps be persuaded that the fault lay with the American invasion of Afghanistan, but too many others recall how the setting up of Taliban recruitment centres in Swat and the tribal areas, long after the Soviets had left, contributed to the radicalisation of the region.

If we are not to return to the dreaded days of the past when many Pashtuns argued that there was no place for them in Pakistan, there are two things that must be done. First, the IDPs must be looked after not only in Pukhtunkhwa but also anywhere else in Pakistan. Equally or perhaps more importantly, the military operation must be brought to closure quickly. It is encouraging that people, at least in the thousands, have started returning to Buner and one can hope that the clearing of Sultanwas will hasten the process further. We must not, however, make the mistake of withdrawing the army immediately. The area must be cleared and then held.

We should acknowledge that the resistance has been stiffer than expected and that our present effort may need to be reinforced by further contingents from our eastern border, particularly if areas are to be held after they are cleared. The development of our civil armed forces and police will take time and the area cannot be abandoned.

I saw some evidence of a willingness to do this in the ISPR statement that the eastern border remained a long term threat while the internal threat was, at least by implication, more immediate. That resistance would be strong became evident when it was revealed that in the Peochar Valley, under the very eyes of our intelligence agencies, the militants had been able to build 80ft deep bunkers and other such defensive positions. In areas where the civil administration and the intelligence agencies were less visible, even more must have been done.


Sri Lanka does one offer one lesson. This is a war for Pakistan’s survival. It must be fought without illusions and without yielding to the temptation to believe that one has credible and willing partners with whom a negotiated peace could be worked out. The time for that has passed. The time for reconciliation will come when military victory has been achieved just as it has now come in Sri Lanka.

The writer is a former foreign secretary
 
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Sri Lanka denies Pakistani pilots flew its planes


Sri Lanka denies Pakistani pilots flew its planes - GEO.tv

Updated at: 0918 PST, Friday, May 29, 2009
COLOMBO: The Commander of the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF), Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetilleke, has said that the bombing missions in the just concluded war against the Tamil Tiger rebels were carried out by Sri Lankan and not foreign pilots.

This remark in the Sinhalese language programme ‘Thulawa’ of the state-owned ITN TV is significant in the context of rumours persistently spread by the Tamil Tigers that the Sri Lankan air force was bombing accurately this time only because its planes were flown by Pakistan Air Force pilots.

Air Marshal Goonetilleke said that the SLAF had attacked 1,900 LTTE hideouts and meeting points, and destroyed 52 large Sea Tiger vessels and several Sea Tiger hideouts in the just concluded Eelam War IV.

The commander clarified that the battle against the LTTE fought by Sri Lankan, and not foreign pilots, countering the LTTE propaganda that Pakistani pilots were doing the sorties as the bombing was remarkably accurate.
 
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Some new information i found the other day.. can someone please verify if this is correct. I was talking to one of my Sri Lankan friends here who used to be in the military and this is what he said.. so i was just curious because i thought only Pakistan was helping Sri Lanka against the LTTE



Some special forces in Sri Lanka were trained by Israel.
The main ground attack aircraft of the Sri Lankan Air Force are Israeli Kfir's.
A large number of the Sri Lankan Navy's fast attack boats are Israeli-built Dvoras.
Israel has also supplied UAVs and other military hardware.
 
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Some new information i found the other day.. can someone please verify if this is correct. I was talking to one of my Sri Lankan friends here who used to be in the military and this is what he said.. so i was just curious because i thought only Pakistan was helping Sri Lanka against the LTTE



Some special forces in Sri Lanka were trained by Israel.
The main ground attack aircraft of the Sri Lankan Air Force are Israeli Kfir's.
A large number of the Sri Lankan Navy's fast attack boats are Israeli-built Dvoras.
Israel has also supplied UAVs and other military hardware.

dont forget india's IPKF.:enjoy:
hundreds in the indian army died fighting LTTE. 4 captured indian soliers were killed by putting buring tyres around their necks.
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what india did with LTTE in the 90s is what pak army is doing to taliban today. Both created monsters that went out of control.
 
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West European Whites (including American) and India enjoy destabilize China, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.


Tibet, Taiwan, Kashmir pro-Indian power, Tamil Tigers are the examples.

Saxon-Anglos and their minion states subsidize such anti-Pak, anti-China and anti-SL to destabilize China and his friends. :sniper::usflag:

u seem to be ill informed. :disagree:
most of ur data is wrong
 
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