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| Tamil Tigers being pushed into the sea |
| 2009-03-28 |
| A good rundown of the current situation, including a good map. Pottu Amman and Soosai directing Tiger cadres in battlefront With the Sri Lankan Army advancing into their last stronghold, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are facing grave difficulties in their attempt to slow down the army's progress in what could be safely termed the last phase of the Eelam war. Among the many difficulties assailing the LTTE are shortage of arms and trained cadres, lack of proper military planning and especially the weak leadership. With the rapid advance of the troops, the LTTE leadership has become very weak, in the recent past, according to the former LTTE cadres, who fled to the cleared areas. Due to the situation, several leaders were reportedly under house arrest including former LTTE military spokesman Ilanthariyan and Peace Secretariat Head Pulidevan. Now no one knows the whereabouts of these two senior leaders. It was learnt that they were captured while attempting to flee the area Also it has been reported that the health condition of LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was getting worse as he was under severe mental stress due to the current war situation. Several senior LTTE cadres who surrendered to the military have stated that none of the LTTE leaders could prevent the successive defeats suffered by the LTTE and this had weakened their leadership prowess. According to those surrendered cadres who had seen Prabhakaran on several occasions last week, before they fled, believed he was now hiding inside the government declared 'Safe Zone' mingling among the civilians. Surprise, surprise. Much, much more at link. |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #5 "Prabhakaran ... is completely changed as his illness has made him fat and heavy..." Perhaps vertical cammo stripes would have been a better slimming-fashion choice. |
| Posted by: Hyper 2009-03-28 22:23 |
| #4 Good riddance. Sri Lanka can't kill them fast enough in my opinion. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2009-03-28 21:02 |
| #3 cool map, OP. Looks like the UN, Norway, et al, better quicktime their demands for a ceasefire or it will shortly be over... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-03-28 17:44 |
| #2 Here's an even better map, from Sri Lanka Maps. It shows even more troops, and is interactive. It looks like the LTTE's days are numbered, and in low double digits. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-03-28 17:36 |
| #1 also, nice map of Mario's health ills. Perhaps cut back on the Linguine? I don't think he'll die of natural causes or disease, unless you consider getting dead at the losing end of a civil war "natural causes" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-03-28 15:56 |