Troops of the 58 Division who are in Puthukudiirippu have found an LTTE high-tech satellite communication center with modern satellite relaying machines। The equipment were believed to have been used for international communications through satellite.
_DailyMirror
High-tech Tiger satellite communication center found
Address by HE President Mahinda Rajapaksa at launch of National Campaign against child soldiers
"We meet today to launch an important campaign, one of the most important campaigns for the future of our society। There are many who would say that this should have been launched earlier। But, even at this late stage this is something we owe to our children, who will be our future, and for whom we must be ready to make the biggest sacrifices
Today we launch the Sri Lanka National Campaign Against the Recruitment of Children for Use in Armed Conflict. The image of Sri Lanka, for far too long, has been stained by the presence of Child Soldiers in our country. We have been disgraced by being banded with other countries where this dreadful practice exists, and it is time for us to erase that stain on our country and nation. A stain that has not come through official policy, but through the acts of those who use terror against the state.
But, more important than erasing the stain in our image, is the need to save our children from this special horror of terror, the most savage of the chosen weapons of terror, that has been the menace of our society for nearly three decades। "
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Grieving for their friend who met with an unfortunate death.
" The remains of Udeshni Madhushika who was killed when an anti aircraft bullet hit her during the air attack on Friday night was brought to her resident in Obeysekerapura today. Her school friends and the father are seen in anguish grieving for her. Pic By Pradeep Dilrukshana "
DailyMirror.lk @ 22/02/2009 13:02
The failed Air Tiger mission
The two-light wing LTTE aircraft which attacked Colombo last night were on a suicide mission similar to the September 11, 2001 (9/11) attack in the US. The military meanwhile said that one pilot, whose body was found intact in Katunayake, had a large quantity of explosives and bombs inside the aircraft. TIGER PLANES SHOT DOWN  Two aircraft belonging to the nascent LTTE air wing were shot down by the security forces last evening when they raided the Colombo skies in their ninth mission targeting the defence sectors and the economic nerve centres in the city. The wreckage of one destroyed aircraft and the body of its pilot were found near the Katunayake Air Force base while the other crashed onto the Inland Revenue Department building. The pilot wore a cyanide capsule round his neck and hand grenades strapped to his chest. _DailyMirror |
