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Emerging Threats Against Sri Lanka

Times OnLine: New Tamil group People’s Liberation Army vows to start a fresh war

The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) was founded in eastern Sri Lanka four months ago and has vowed to launch attacks against government and military targets unless its demands for a separate Tamil homeland are met.
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“This war isn’t over yet,” Commander Kones, head of the PLA’s Eastern District military command, told The Times during a night meeting in a safe house in the east of the country last week.

Daily Mirror: Government aware of PLA presence in the East- Minister

Speaking to Daily Mirror, Minister Rambukwella said that he is aware of the existence of the group and that this sort of situation arises anywhere in the world. He added that since the country was in a reconciliation process after the defeat of the LTTE the government would deal with the issue politically.

Details of the emerging terrorists group called "PLA" and the leader "Kones" are sketchy at the moment. However minute the threat is, we shall never take it light. Minister Rambukwella indicates that the government would be dealing with the threat as a political issue rather than a terrorist issue. In late 70s we miserably failed in dealing with Eelam problem politically and caught unguarded for 33 years. Given the fact that we have an elite military machine second to none in dealing with terrorism and an astute political leadership with grass root level support in the East, it is likely that we can solve this problem before it gets worse. However, napping militarily or politically shall not be considered an option in dealing with this kind of threats even during an election.

U.S. Report on Sri Lanka Urges New Approach

By LYDIA POLGREEN

Published: December 6, 2009

NEW DELHI — A report on Sri Lanka to be released next week by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urges a less confrontational approach to that nation, citing strategic American interests in the region.

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But Sri Lanka is too important a country to be isolated from the West, the report argues.

“Sri Lanka is located at the nexus of crucial maritime trading routes in the Indian Ocean connecting Europe and the Middle East to China and the rest of Asia,” the report says. “The United States, India, and China all share an interest in deterring terrorist activity and curbing piracy that could disrupt maritime trade.”

It was not a secret that certain US representatives in Sri Lanka, during the final phase of war against LTTE terrorists, threatened the president with bogus war crime charges. If President Mahinda Rajapakse ever submitted to those undiplomatic requests, it is very likely that we are living under terrorist threats even today. With the help of India, China, and Russia, we successfully defeated their further disgraceful attempts in UN that followed comprehensive defeat of LTTE terrorists. As a result of such overt attempts, a US friendly nation was turned in to a nation not very positive about US. It is very important to maintain good relations with a global power like US, for commercial benefits if not for anything else. Therefore, the proposed non-confrontational approach can be beneficial to everybody. However, it will take a long time to erase the ill memories created by such hostile acts in the most crucial hour of the recent history of Sri Lanka.

Sam (ID 10084374428694513082).

DefenceWire.blogspot.com Resurrected Here!

Dear DefenceWire Bloggers,

As you may have noticed, the DefenceWire (DW) blog is inoperative, because the Patriot who was maintaining that blogsite has gone AWOL (Absent With Out Leave), and we have been unable to contact him.

Therefore, several of us long-term bloggers at DefenceWire decided to create a replacement for the DefenceWire blog, called the SriLankaDefenceForum, and to operate it with a TEAM OF ADMINISTRATORS, so that that it would never again become unavailable to the bloggers because the sole administrator goes AWOL, and there is no one available to correct the problem.

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The administrative team consists, in alphabetical order of the blog handles, of the following five bloggers: Ananda-USA, Konappu Bandara, Moshe Dayan, Sam Perera, and Sujeewa Kokawala.

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