The government has dismissed suggestions that the top LTTE
leadership should be allowed surrender to a third party in an effort to
bring the final battle to an early end.Authoritative government sources told The Sunday Island
that LTTE leaders now trapped in 10 sq. km. area on the Mullaitivu
coast should surrender to the army without any further delay or prepared
to face the consequences.
Fight with people with guns, not those with pens
- Editor Vithiyatharan
The Editor of the Uthayan and Sudar-Oli newspapers, N.
Vithiyatharan, who was released from detention last week, said that he had
sought a meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa."As the editor of two national newspapers, I want to
explain my position and also obtain the views of the President", he told
The Sunday Island yesterday.
A policeman escorts ballot boxes to the D. S. Senanayake Maha Vidyalaya counting centre in Colombo shortly after voting in the Western Provincial Council poll closed at 4 pm yesterday. pic by Dharmasena Welipitiya
