OTHER NEWS Ferial passed the area minutes before Bomb kills 11 civilians Bomb blast in Ampara. Sri Lanka Dozens reported dead as Sri Lankan army pushes into rebel areas    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend Sri Lanka navy, air force strike at Tiger rebels RN 25-03-2008 Sri Lanka's navy battled a Tamil Tiger insurgent fleet early on Tuesday as troops killed 13 separatist fighters and air force planes bombed a rebel supply dump, the military said. Just days after the Tigers sank a navy patrol boat with 10 crew still missing and feared dead, the navy said fast attack ships fought a fierce battle with a small fleet of rebel boats trying to slip past off the northeast coast. "Naval attack craft on patrol off Pulomoddai sighted a cluster of terrorist boats hugging the coast at 1 a.m. (1930 GMT Monday), intercepting them in a seaborne fire attack," navy spokesman Commander D.K.P Dassanyake told Reuters. The Tamil Tigers have for been fighting for a separate homeland in Sri Lanka's north and east for 25 years. The conflict turning increasingly vicious since the military began launching fresh offensives in January 2006. The rebels use boats to land supplies of weapons and launch occasional suicide attacks against the navy, claiming the patrol boat sunk last week was destroyed by elite suicide Black Sea Tigers. The navy said it was sunk by a rebel sea mine. While unseasonal rains and flooding have bogged down the ground war, weekend fighting saw 82 rebels killed for the loss of six government soldiers, the military said. Dassanyake said one rebel boat had been disabled in the latest sea clash, although it was unclear if any crew were killed and how many boats were in the Tiger fleet. The military said 13 rebels and one soldier had also been killed on Monday in the northern Vavuniya, Jaffna and Mannar districts, along a loose frontline separating rebel from government territory. The air force said it bombed a Tiger storage base in Udayarkattukullam, also in the rebel-held north. A spokesman for The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was not immediately available for comment on the latest clashes in a bloody civil war the military has vowed to end by December. Both sides regularly inflate casualty numbers to maintain public support and demoralise opposition fighters, with more than 70,000 people killed since the 1983 start of the conflict. Print Version | Email to friend

Ferial passed the area minutes before Fri, 09-05-2008 18:00:00 Minister Ferial Ashraff had just passed through the area where an explosion had occurred in Ampara. The Minister was safe. ... |FULL STORY|

Bomb kills 11 civilians Fri, 09-05-2008 18:00:00 Defense sources confirmed that LTTE exploded a bomb inside the "New City Cafe" in Ampara town around 5.45 p.m today. Military spokesperson Brigadier Udaya Nanyakkara confirmed 11 death and 29 persons wounded. According to reports the bomb was a parcel bomb, which was kept in the café in Ampara town near the main bus stand. This is another cowardly attempt of the LTTE terrorists to disrupt the normalcy in the area as the government scheduled to head the provincial council electio... |FULL STORY|

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Bomb blast in Ampara. Fri, 09-05-2008 14:00:00 A powerful bomb blast occured in the Ampara town around 5.40 pm. Wait for details.... |FULL STORY|

Sri Lanka Dozens reported dead as Sri Lankan army pushes into rebel areas afp Fri, 09-05-2008 14:00:00 Helicopter gunships provided air cover Friday for ground troops advancing into rebel areas of northern Sri Lanka where at least 30 rebel guerrillas were killed, the defence ministry said. Airforce Mi-24 helicopters flew support as soldiers moved on Alankulam, in Mannar district, killing 15 rebels and injuring 20, a ministry statement said. The military said three soldiers died and five were wounded in the pre-dawn attack. However, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)... |FULL STORY|

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