No firing by SL Navy

Tamil Nadu’s top Navy Officer says:

Commodore P E Van Halteren, the top Naval Officer in Tamil Nadu yesterday categorically denied allegations that the Sri Lankan Navy was straying into Indian waters and firing at Indian fishermen.

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LTTE bid to regain Vavunikulam foiled

55 Tigers including two senior leaders killed in fighting:

The Army yesterday recovered the bodies of 29 LTTE cadres including those of two senior leaders from Vavunikulam. The bodies were found after the troops successfully repulsed a LTTE counter-attack on Vavunikulam tank bund south of Mallavi, which the troops captured earlier.

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Tigers should disarm before talks -EU

The LTTE should disarm and come to the negotiations table for a peaceful solution as terrorism has no place or legacy anywhere in the world, the visiting European Parliament delegation leader Robert Evans said.

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Anti-LTTE rally in Berlin today

Sri Lankans in Germany and all who reject LTTE terrorism will hold a demonstration today in Berlin to protest against the LTTE intimidation of Tamils living in Germany, Germany’s failure to ban the LTTE as a terrorist organisation and the recruitment of child soldiers.

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