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MEDIA RELEASE August 17, 2006
The attacks launched by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on the Sri Lankan Government forward defence positions in the northern Jaffna peninsula, Kayts island and the eastern townships of Muttur and Trincomalee were effectively repulsed by the security forces inflicting heavy damage on the Tamil Tiger combatants. Reports indicate that several hundred Tamil Tiger fighters including a large contingent of child soldiers used by the LTTE perished in the attempt to overrun the government defence lines. The LTTE’s military offensives on several fronts to enlarge their terrain failed miserably on the ground.
Sri Lankan Air force fighter jets joined the battle to inflict further punishment on the Tamil Tiger Terrorists attacking their military camps and naval installations. The air raid carried out at 6.40 a.m. on August 14, 2006 on the LTTE’s military training camp and transit centre, located over 8miles from the nearest settlement in the thick jungles of Mullaitivu, was a significant blow to their operational structure. The air strike caused huge casualties estimated to be in excess of 300 Tiger terrorist cadres being put out of action. The extent of the damage could be assessed from the video footage released by the air force showing a large number of camouflaged and military type vehicles scurrying to the scene to evacuate wounded fighters.
The Tamil Tigers propaganda organs operated by their front organizations in the west are attempting to mislead the public by claiming that the bombed jungle staging outpost was a ‘Children’s Home’ that housed orphaned girls. Do these pro-LTTE propagandists think that the public is gullible enough to believe that the Tamil Tigers who abduct and forcibly conscript children into their forces, were running a weekend training camp for school girls in first aid and leadership skills in a remote jungle facility? It was not an Orphanage, a Children’s Home nor a School, but a secretive military establishment where young girls are trained in explosives and brainwashed to become Black Tiger Suicide Bombers, and other abducted children are trained to become the advance squad that leads the charge on the security forces forward defences, often ending up as cannon fodder. These child recruits who are deprived of schooling, parental care and life skills, are then laid to rest with ceremony in the LTTE’s Martyr’s land cemetery with a headstone to be remembered as a ‘Tiger Hero’, like so many other children whom these maniacal terrorist leaders have sacrificed in their pursuit of the illusive mono-ethnic racist Tamil separate state of “Eelam” to be achieved by tearing Sri Lanka apart.
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The LTTE propagandists claim
that 61 school girls died in the bombing, the Nordic Monitors said they counted
19 bodies of youth aged between 17 – 20 years and did not rule out it was a
military facility. UNICEF has
previously reported that 5368 cases of child abductions by the LTTE had been
brought to their attention, and that the actual number could be much higher as
many parents are afraid to report same fearing reprisals. David Vignati, ICRC’s head
of information has reported on 15th August 2006 that the LTTE
propagandists had mischievously included an ICRC quote dated 1999 relating to
civilian casualties at that time in their websites linking it to the air raid
carried out the earlier day on the jungle facility. The Human Rights Watch organization
in New York published a report in 2005 relating to the LTTE’s record of forcible
child recruitment which is a war crime, and called on the Tamil Diaspora to stop
funding the LTTE and help to prevent such violations. Not surprisingly, the Tamil Diaspora who
are controlled by Velupillai Prabhakaran the Tamil Tiger Terrorist leader
regarded as the ‘Sun God’ hiding in the jungles of Mullaitivu ( wanted by
INTERPOL for the killing of Rajiv Gandhi of India and other Sri Lankan leaders)
vented their anger at the HRW, stating that they cared more and knew how to
safeguard Tamil children.
Chencholai or Sencholei is the name of a Tiger Terrorist Woman suicide bomber after whom so called orphanages have been set up by the LTTE, in order to raise funds through its supposedly humanitarian wing called the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), which is a funnel for siphoning funds for its terrorist warfare. Nirupama Subramaniam writing in the Frontline Magazine of December 20, 2001, called it the farm where the LTTE’s Baby Brigade is raised. Christian Worker also reported sometime back that the Chencholai Homes were used for brainwashing children to become Black Tiger Suicide Bombers who would sacrifice their lives for the cause of “Eelam”. Amy Walden of the New York Times who visited one of these so called orphanages was not given access to the adolescent children at the centre. It certainly is not a Summer Camp where school girls gather to have fun and learn useful life skills.
Yours very truly,
Mahinda Gunasekera