Ongoing Tamil protests in Toronto have disrupted downtown traffic as a means of pressuring the Canadian government to act over the war in Sri Lanka. Overseas Tamil communities have taken up positions on the front lines of the propaganda war. Given the absence of journalists and aid workers in the war zone, there is no way to consistently verify the claims of either party. Likewise, the Sri Lankan government attempts to minimize and reverse such characterizations long enough so that they can finish off the Tigers before an international intervention can stay their hand. In an effort to ferment international outrage, LTTE representatives report on the conflict in the most gruesome and inhumane terms possible. Upon the arrival at such a delicate military situation, both sides subsequently turned their attentions toward winning the international propaganda war. An estimated fifty thousand refugees are also trapped inside the Sri Lankan Army encirclement. A far cry from 2006 when the Tigers controlled nearly one third of Sri Lanka, they are now penned in from all sides.
The Sri Lankan Army has driven the Tigers back into a swathe of land about the size of Central Park in northeast Sri Lanka. As such, their survival now hinges on a worldwide propaganda war. “He must have already escaped through the sea.” He declined to speculate on where the Tamil Tiger leader would have fled to.įonseka said Tiger founder and leader Velupillai Prabhakaran would neither commit suicide as he exhorts his followers to do with cyanide capsules worn around their necks, nor allow himself to be captured like former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.įonseka said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now hold an area of 30 km (18 miles) by 15 km (9 miles), and said troops had marched 17 km toward Mullaittivu in as many days.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) find themselves up against a wall with no hope of launching a conventional counter-attack against the Sri Lankan Army. “Prabhakaran is a man who loves food, a man who loves his family, so I don’t think he would wait until the military got so close to him,” Fonseka told reporters late on Saturday. Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka, commanding the most successful army offensive in the history of one of Asia’s longest-running wars, also predicted victory in a matter of months as the Tigers’ resistance was weaker than expected. Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, attends the annual "Heroes' Week" statement at rebel-held territory in Kilinochchi November 27, 2007.
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