Colombo, Apr 29: Sri Lankan Navy''s elite Special Boat Squadron (SBS) and Fast Attack Craft (FAC) on Wednesday destroyed six LTTE sea tiger boats killing twenty-five sea tigers off Mullaithivu.
A Lankan Army spokesperson informed that four suicide craft laden with high explosives and two enemy attack craft mounted with high caliber weapons were destroyed in the Naval gun fire.
Colombo, Apr. 28 : A day after declaring an end to the use of heavy artillery and aerial weaponry against the rebel Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), the Government of Sri Lanka has refused entry to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.
Bildt was to have arrived in Colombo on Wednesday with British counterpart David Miliband and France''s Bernard Kouchner to assess the situation in northern Sri Lanka.
Colombo - Tamil rebels Tuesday accused Sri Lankan government troops of breaking assurances the army would refrain from using heavy weaponry while an estimated 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the last area held by the rebels.
Both the military and Tamil rebels confirmed that fighting was continuing around the Mullaivikkal area, 390 kilometres north of Colombo, in a narrow coastal strip of about 6 square kilometers in the Mullaitivu district.
Colombo – Amid growing international pressure for a ceasefire against Tamil rebels in north-eastern Sri Lanka, the government Monday ordered the army to stop using heavy weapons to avoid civilian casualties. "Our security forces have been instructed to end the use of heavy caliber guns, combat aircraft and aerial weapons which could cause civilian causalities," a statement from the president's office said.
It said the decision was made as the "combat operations have reached their conclusion."
Colombo– Amid growing international pressure for a ceasefire against Tamil rebels in north-eastern Sri Lanka, the government Monday ordered the army to stop using heavy weapons to avoid civilian casualties. "Our security forces have been instructed to end the use of heavy caliber guns, combat aircraft and aerial weapons which could cause civilian causalities," a statement from the president's office said.
It said the decision was made as the "combat operations have reached their conclusion."
Colombo/Chennai, Apr. 27 : The Sri Lanka Government has announced a temporary cease-fire to allow for the evacuation of nearly 20,000 Lankan Tamil civilians from a no-fire zone deep in rebel LTTE territory.
Sources in Colombo said that there would be no use of aerial weaponry or artillery while the temporary cease-fire is on, and added that this was being done to enable humanitarian organizations to pursue their rescue efforts and evacuate refugees.
Colombo, Apr 29: Sri Lankan Navy''s elite Special Boat Squadron (SBS) and Fast Attack Craft (FAC) on Wednesday destroyed six LTTE sea tiger boats killing twenty-five sea tigers off Mullaithivu.
Colombo, Apr. 28 : A day after declaring an end to the use of heavy artillery and aerial weaponry against the rebel Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), the Government of Sri Lanka has refused entry to Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.
Colombo - Tamil rebels Tuesday accused Sri Lankan government troops of breaking assurances the army would refrain from using heavy weaponry while an estimated 50,000 civilians remain trapped in the last area held by the rebels.
Colombo – Amid growing international pressure for a ceasefire against Tamil rebels in north-eastern Sri Lanka, the government Monday ordered the army to stop using heavy weapons to avoid civilian casualties. "Our security forces have been instructed to end the use of heavy caliber guns, combat aircraft and aerial weapons which could cause civilian causalities," a statement from the president's office said.
Colombo– Amid growing international pressure for a ceasefire against Tamil rebels in north-eastern Sri Lanka, the government Monday ordered the army to stop using heavy weapons to avoid civilian casualties. "Our security forces have been instructed to end the use of heavy caliber guns, combat aircraft and aerial weapons which could cause civilian causalities," a statement from the president's office said.
Colombo/Chennai, Apr. 27 : The Sri Lanka Government has announced a temporary cease-fire to allow for the evacuation of nearly 20,000 Lankan Tamil civilians from a no-fire zone deep in rebel LTTE territory.
