Wanni Operation

India’s ‘hidden hand’ in Sri Lanka war

Wanni Operation — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:31:28 +0000

India played a critical, albeit covert, role in the success of Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil Tigers, with the Indian Navy providing vital intelligence in locating and destroying at least a dozen LTTE rogue vessels laden with arms, says the first such detailed account of the operation. India’s covert support to Sri Lanka in the [...]

Operation KP’ remains a Mystery

Wanni Operation — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:51:34 +0000

Sri Lanka’s Secret Mission to capture the newly appointed LTTE Leader Kumaran Pathmanadan, aka KP, remains to be a mystery. The Mystery continues because The Malaysian hotel from where the KP was arrested conducted its own investigations and found that there were no signs of such an arrest in the hotel premises. According to the Storyline [...]

TID seeks Public help to Track Female Suicide Bomber

Wanni Operation — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:33:30 +0000

The Terrorist Investigation Division(TID) has urgently sought public assistance to track down a female suicide bomber identified as Abdul Shalam Fatima Yasmin (ID No: 857835641v) who is believed to have frequented the Old Moor Street, area in Colombo 12. The particulars are given below. Name : Abdul Shalam Fatima Yasmin Address : Old Moor Street , Colombo 12 ID [...]

‘KP’ brought in to Colombo

Wanni Operation — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 07:12:24 +0000

Kumaran Pathmanathan also known as KP is now being questioned in Colombo. The Hindustan Times today quotes MP Basil Rajapaksa as saying KP was flown down to Colombo following his arrest although details of how arrest was conducted was not revealed. Pathmanathan had met with two visitors from London, England at a hotel room in KL [...]

Game’s Over for ‘KP’

Wanni Operation — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:06:46 +0000

The new Tiger chief, Selvarasa Pathmanathan known as ‘KP,’ was arrested in a foreign country and brought to Colombo on Thursday for questioning. According highly reliable sources here, he was picked up and flown down to the capital. However, there were no details of the circumstances under which he was taken into custody. Selvarajah Pathmanathan was wanted [...]

Shavendra becomes youngest Major General in SL Army

Wanni Operation — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:12:29 +0000

With the recent promotion from the ranks of Brigadier to Major General, Shavendra Silva (45) becomes youngest Major General in SL Army. Major General Shavendra Silva was born in 1964 and joined SL Army as a cadet officer in 1985. When the Humanitarian Operation starts he was serving Gajaba Regiment as Lieutenant Colonel. Based on [...]

Three Battle Field Commanders Promoted to the Ranks of Major General

Wanni Operation — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:20:28 +0000

Sri Lanka Armr today promoted three senior battle field commanders namely, Brigadier Prasana De Silva [ then Commander of 53 Division ], Brigadier Shavendra Silva [then Commander of 58 Division] and Brigadier Chagi Gallage to the ranks of Major General. WanniOperation.com wishes our heartiest congratulations to these commanders who played a key role in the recent war on the LTTE Terror. [...]

Major changes in the Military

Wanni Operation — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:07:56 +0000

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed Army Chief Sarath Fonseka as the Chief of Defence Staff, Maj. Gen Jagath Jayasuriya as the new Army Commander, Navy Chief Wasantha Karanagoda as the National Security Advisor and rear Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe as the new Navy Chief to take effect from July 15.

Makings of an LTTE suicide bomber - The inside story

Wanni Operation — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:26:06 +0000

I was seated face to face with a Human Suicide Bomber once the dreaded weapon of destruction so often utilised by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to create mayhem in public life, in its failed dream of a Tamil homeland of Eelam. He is a self-confessed LTTE Black Tiger suicide bomber. But I [...]

Doctors served in the LTTE controlled areas say the Tamil people faced immense hardships due to LTTE atrocities

Wanni Operation — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:00:12 +0000

Several doctors who served in the LTTE controlled areas during the last days of the humanitarian operation say that the Tamil people faced immense hardships due to LTTE atrocities at that time. The LTTE that experienced severe shortages of cadres to face the advancing troops used to abduct teenagers between 11 years to 14 years [...]

Combing operation against LTTE in TN

Wanni Operation — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:59:14 +0000

A massive combing operation was on Tuesday launched by Tamil Nadu police aided by intelligence and Coast Guard personnel in nearby islands and all the coastal districts of the state to verify whether any LTTE militant had infiltrated into the areas in the aftermath of the outfit’s defeat in Sri Lanka. The operations, ordered by the [...]

Time period to handover arms for Eastern Muslim Armed groups extended

Wanni Operation — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:24:10 +0000

The time period granted for armed ‘Jihad’ groups operating in the Eastern Province to handover their weapons, which was to expire on July 02, has now been extended to July 04 by the police. Police say these groups have been involved in several criminal activities in the area.

Security Forces to be strengthened by 50,000

Wanni Operation — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:21:47 +0000

Another 50,000 personnel will be recruited to the Security Forces to maintain the administrative areas liberated from the LTTE. Addressing the media at the Media Centre for National Security yesterday, Defence Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said that the LTTE had been holding and controlling over 600 sq km in the North and the Vanni, as well [...]

Will the Real Sri Lankan Tamils Stand-up and be Counted?

Wanni Operation — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:48:25 +0000

By Prof. Hudson McLean Devolution, Discrimination be damned! The Terrorist LTTE is no more. However the Real Troublemakers who are sitting in their high chairs in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia are still going on pumping their bellows. Its about time, the Tamils who wish to continue being Sri Lankans stand up and tell their Diaspora, “Either Put-up or [...]

Tamil Diaspora Should Lay Down The Ideology “EELAM”

Wanni Operation — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:54:59 +0000

By Dr Raju Selva I am a Tamil living outside Sri Lanka hence by mere definition unfortunately I belong to Tamil Diaspora which I am ashamed of myself of being one of them and I am making this appeal again to the misled pro-LTTE Tamil Diaspora to lay down the ideology “Eelam”. I have been very critical [...]

100 kg. jewellery found from LTTE occupied areas: Army

Wanni Operation — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:48:16 +0000

Sri Lankan security forces have recovered 100 kg. of gold jewellery and a large amount of cash from an area in Wanni in north of the country where senior Tiger leaders were hiding. A sum of Sri Lanka Rupees 64.91 lakhs in cash and a few boxes containing about 100 kg. of jewellery were found during [...]

‘Prabhakaran’s surrender could have saved 500 LTTE cadres’

Wanni Operation — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:47:06 +0000

The lives of at least 500 Tiger rebels would have been saved had LTTE Supremo V Prabhakaran surrendered during the last phase of the battle after the army encircled the top rebel leaders in Nandhikadal Lagoon in Mullaitttivu, a defence ministry report said. After the special forces encircled Prabhakaran, Intelligence Chief Pottu Aman and Sea tiger [...]

Lorries Enter Jaffna Along A-9

Wanni Operation — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:31:03 +0000

Heralding a new era of North-South relations and a blueprint for the future of civil transport sector, twenty-five private lorries with consumer commodities, bound for Jaffna crossed Omanthai Wednesday (17) afternoon along the Kandy-Jaffna (A-9) Highway. The Army provided security to the convoy. In addition, ten more lorries, acquired under the government’s ongoing “Uthuru Wasanthaya” project [...]

Who really wanted Tamil Eelaam & why?

Wanni Operation — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:54:07 +0000

More & more we are made to wonder the connotations behind the quest for a Tamil Eelam. Was it an ideology that was not meant to go beyond conceptual phase, was it a past time for those who had everything in life & wanted a little excitement, was it a seed planted to create regional [...]

War Crimes: Trial of Adele Balasingham: From a Pub in Sydney becoming the Queen of Cyanide in Wanni

Wanni Operation — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:11:40 +0000

By A Sri Lankan Child Protection Professional One way by which we can demonstrate the absolute correctness of the use of power to destroy the inhumanity of terror is to subject the captured to the judgement of law. This is the ultimate tribute that the victorious power can offer to Reason. As written in the [...]