The Ceylon News

The military in Sri Lanka said Saturday that at least two Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a search operation in the east on Friday.

Officials from the Ministry of Defense said the two members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were killed Friday afternoon in eastern Ampara district's Pottuvil area.

The troops are on the hunt for LTTE rebels who are believed to have escaped into eastern jungles from the northeastern Mullaittivu district during the final battles at the end of last month.

Elsewhere at Valaichchenai in the eastern Batticaloa district, the troops, during a search operation, had found weapons and ammunition hidden by the rebels, the officials said.

The government on May 19 announced the end to the 30-year-old armed conflict in the island.

Most of the eastern rebels have surrendered to the government with the announcement of the death of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.

The LTTE began to fight for an independent homeland for the minority Tamils in the 1980s based on claims that the Tamils were being discriminated by the majority Sinhalese-dominated governments.

More than 100,000 people were killed in the civil war, one of the longest civil wars in Asia

Despite the protest and March by the LTTE supporters in Toronto, democratic Sri Lankan/Canadians stole the thunder in Toronto and demoralized the terrorists with the display of a large banner and the use of a small plane which read “Protect Canada – Stop the Tamil Tigers”.
Reporting the counter protest which enraged the Tamil Tiger supporters in Toronto, The Toronto Star said:
“Members of Toronto’s Sri Lankan community used a banner pulled behind a plane in the sky and a banner and placards over the Don Valley Parkway today to express their fear the Tamil community will bring Tamil Tiger violence to Canada.
“We want Torontoto be safe. The Tamil Tigers are controlling the Sri Lankan community in Canada and their agenda is the only one being heard. We feel we are being controlled,” said Kumar Gunasekera, one of about 50 people who waved placards and hung a banner over the Don Valley footbridge to Riverdale during this evening’s rush hour.
The airplane pulling another banner circled over the huge Queen’s Park demonstration, enraging the protesters crowded there.
The banners read: “Protect Canada - Stop the Tamil Tigers.”
The demonstrators at the Don Valleybridge said they represent more than 50,000, until now, silent Sinhalese Canadians.
“What should be of real concern are the 1,000 cadres of Tamil Tigers in the GTA and the violence we have yet to see here,” he added.
The bridge demonstrators were members of the Sri Lankan Youth of Canadaand the Sri Lankan United National Association.
They said today’s airplane message was paid for by private citizens, and neither the Sri Lankan government nor consulate in Toronto.
“We only hear one side of the story and it is the Tamil agenda,” said Eranga De-Zoysa, a Ryerson architectural science student.
“They have ruined their motherland and now that Canada has offered them shelter they are ruining it here,” added his mother Badra De-Zoysa.