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What after LTTE?

Using force against terror right of the state: Lanka Prez

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that using force to 'eradicate terrorism' was the right of any state.

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Sri Lankan army, soldiers searching a boat used by Tamil Tiger rebels.
Sri Lanka says it is still fighting rebels

Tuesday , 28 April '09

The Sri Lankan military pressed ahead on Tuesday with its offensive against the Tamil Tigers.
Sweden recalls Lanka envoy after restriction on Minister

Tuesday , 28 April '09

Sweden has recalled its ambassador to Sri Lanka after Colombo barred Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt from participating in a mission there.
Sri Lanka suspended combat operations in the northern parts of the island.
Prabhakaran's game is over: Sri Lanka

Monday , 27 April '09

Amid de-escalation of military operation in Sri Lanka's war zone, the Government underlined its determination to prevent LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran from escaping from the island.
Chidambaram welcomes Lankan announcement of end of offensive
India welcomes Lanka's move to cease hostilities

Monday , 27 April '09

Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday welcomed the Sri Lankan government's announcement that combat operations in the northern parts of the island nation.
Forces missed Prabhakaran by whisker: Lankan army

Saturday , 25 April '09

Tamil Tigers supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran and his top aides were recently missed by a whisker by the security forces, a top Sri Lankan commander said.
Thousands of refugees are languishing in the blazing tropical sun awaiting transportation.
India presses for Sri Lanka truce as casualties rise

Saturday , 25 April '09

Indian envoys met Sri Lanka's president after New Delhi demanded a truce in the closing phase of a 25-year war which UN data says may have killed almost 6,500 people in the last three months.
Lankan Tamils have 'legitimate' issues: Anand Sharma

Friday , 24 April '09

India said that the Tamil minorities in the island nation have some 'legitimate issues' and asked Colombo to work for a political solution.
India presses for truce in Lanka as casualties rise

Friday , 24 April '09

NSA M K Narayanan and Foreign Secretary S S Menon are in in Colombo for a meeting with Lanka Prez Rajapaksa to press for cessation of all hostilities in the island.
According to intelligence sources, Prabhakaran is present in the no-fire zone along with his son.
Prabhakaran may escape in a submarine: SL Army

Friday , 24 April '09

Cornered LTTE chief V Prabhakarn, who is still holed up in a small strip of land in embattled north, may flee from the island using a submarine, a top Sri Lankan army official said.
Lankan Army Chief said the troops knew the 'general area' where Prabhakaran could be hiding.
Lankan troops encircle Prabhakaran’s lair

Friday , 24 April '09

Sri Lankan forces encircled a small strip of land in the north — where Tiger chief Prabhakaran is believed to be hiding.
India, which has already dispatched 40,000 family packs for the Tamil civilians, is planning massive humanitar...
India works on post-war aid plan as NSA heads for Lanka

Friday , 24 April '09

With Tamil Nadu on the boil over loss of Tamil lives in the Sri Lankan fighting and political parties calling for either a ceasefire or cessation of hostilities....
India had asked the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE to stop the hostilities.
SL, LTTE not heeding to India's request: Chidambaram

Thursday , 23 April '09

Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said that both LTTE and Sri Lanka were not paying heed to India's request to end hostilities.
'Cong said the blueprint for a solution had been worked out by the then PM Rajiv Gandhi.'
Cong asks Sri Lanka to end humanitarian crisis

Wednesday , 22 April '09

Congress called upon Sri Lanka to declare a ceasefire so that the humanitarian crisis in the island nation can be resolved in a demonstrable way.
Evacuated from the war zone, Tamil civilians wait at a transit camp north of Colombo.
Two top LTTE leaders surrender

Wednesday , 22 April '09

Sections of top Tamil Tiger leadership began to surrender before rapidly advancing Sri Lankan forces, signalling an imminent collapse of the LTTE after a two-decade long relentless battle.
The President is sending his special advisor Basil Rajapakse to discuss the situation.
Sri Lankan President to dispatch special emissary to India

Wednesday , 22 April '09

Mahinda Rajapaksa is dispatching a special emissary to India to discuss the relief and rehabilitation of Tamil refugees coming from Lankan conflict zones.
LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran was inside the no-fire zone, said.
'LTTE will never surrender'

Tuesday , 21 April '09

The Tamil Tiger rebels will never surrender, said the head of the separatists' peace secretariat despite their being outgunned in an apparent final offensive by the Sri Lankan army.
Civilians stream out of the last sliver of land held by the rebels in Mullattivu Region of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka troops move in on Tigers, 49,000 flee

Tuesday , 21 April '09

Sri Lankan forces launched new offensives and captured more territory from the Tamil Tigers as thousands of trapped civilians continued to flee the northern war zone.
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