Thursday, November 22, 2007

A total of 31 LTTE cadres killed in the last 3 days

Sri Lanka Army’s Special Infantry Orients trained troops and Army’s special forces infiltrated into LTTE territory and destroyed LTTE bunkers and killed 31 LTTE cadres in Vavuniya District west of Omanthi in the past 3 days, meanwhile one army soldier died and six soldiers were wounded.

Sri Lanka Army Commander Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka after assuming duties as army commander, he had given specific instructions to his officers to train soldiers in strategy and tactics. After completion of training, soldiers are mobilized to the battle front.

Well-trained officers and soldiers can combat with LTTE minimizing death and casualties to the army.

According Sri Lanka Army commander’s concept, he had insisted that there has to be minimum death and casualties to Army and maximum death and casualties to the LTTE

Sri Lanka Army spokesperson Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara rejected the recent ICRC’s situation report. Sri Lanka- ICRC report filed yesterday said that there are 22,000 people displaced in Muhamalai , Vanuniya and Mannar.

Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said Sri Lanka Army is presently engaged in battle with LTTE only in the jungle terrains. He added that there aren’t any civilians displaced in the Army control areas.

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