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    RAWAYA - General Sarath Fonseka is the   person who earn most  appreciation and received  highest dignity from the public in an unbelievable manner by following  historical war victory.  After defeating the LTTE General Fonseka had several plans on national security for the future and had requested for at least two to three years to implement such strategies. However, the President decided  to remove him as the Army Chief by appointing him  as the new Chief of Defence Staff.As soon as celebarating  war victory  Mahinda Rajapaksha commenced  unleash  attack on the JHU, who built an ideology backing the war against the LTTE,In publicaly he stressed to Campaka Ranawaka "people who opposed free to leave" subsequently Wimal weerawansa faced same destiny.  now treating same way   General Sarath Fonseka, who played a key role in the war, similar manner by removing him from the top post in the army.Now it is evidenced  the powers vested with the Chief of Defence Staff  has been curtailed in order to make it an ineffective post.  Further Fonseka’s staff and security has  already been slashed, the powers and perks promised to him have also not been offered to him. The gazette notification that gives effect to the posting had also not been made.

RAWAYA - Wayamba Provincial Council member and former MP district Soma Kumari Tennakoon passed away today by sudden heart attack.She had been campaigning in Hambantota at the time of her death. Ms. Tennakoon was a former Member of Parliament and also the chairperson of Laksala some time ago. She was also the chief SLFP organizer for Nikaweratiya.Recently it was reported she was removed from the position of the Nikaweratiya  chief SLFP post and it remarked  the signs of appointing Lakshman Hulugalla to the vacant.Her close associates cite she was totally dipressed on that issue.

RAWAYA -Kumaran Pathmanathan's (KP) arrest, interrogation, and subsequent investigations have revealed Eritrea's involvement in aiding the Tamil Tigers.Eritrea is a African nation bordering Ethiopia, and has long been a safe haven for terrorist networks and pirates. Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda has been operating from the impoverished African nation for a decade, or more.With information obtained by Pathmanathan, Sri Lanka's intelligence agency has been preoccupied, of late, with destroying the Tigers' arms networks and financial networks overseas.12 Tamil Tiger (LTTE) aircraft have been located parked at the Eritrea airport. Sri Lanka hopes to open an embassy in Eritrea, and is also in talks with the Eritrean government in order to confiscate the planes. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were set to get 10 new aircraft through an Eritrea-based arms smuggling network as the war against the Sri Lankan army was reaching its climax.The aircraft had been dismantled and were to be shipped to the north-eastern coast of Sri Lanka when the war reached a decisive stage, a senior army officer told on condition of anonymity. ``The LTTE calculated that the war would stretch but it didn’t happen; the aircraft could not be delivered,’’ he said. The longest running internal military conflict in Asia came to an end on May 19.Sri Lanka is now looking at opening an embassy in Eritrea to counter LTTE’s international network, said to be still active. Information about the aircraft and the network was revealed by Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, anointed LTTE chief days before his arrest.A US Senate Foreign Relations Committee report in December 2006 stated that the Eritrean government provided direct support to the LTTE.

The LTTE, according to news reports, had established a presence in Eritrea primarily to operate in the informal arms market.The army officer said while waiting for the aircraft to arrive, LTTE had got pilots trained from training schools in Malaysia and Indonesia. ``Trained instructors were also present here (in Sri Lanka). We recovered a pilot training simulator from the jungles of Mullaitivu. At least a dozen pilots had been trained. Two among them have been arrested. The rest could be hiding among the internally displaced persons (in refugee camps),’’ the officer said .The officer added they had also come across a conversation between KP and LTTE chief V Prabhakaran’s son, Charles Anthony two weeks before the war ended on May 19. It revealed that the LTTE were facing a shortage of rifles."Charles told KP to send more rifles. KP then asked Charles whether he was worried. "'No, I am not. Neither is father (Prabhakaran),'" Charles told KP," the officer said, adding that the LTTE leadership had pinned hoped on the US taking a side.Hundreds of satellite phones have been recovered in the continuing search operations by the SLA. "Besides satellite phones and advanced communication systems, we have recovered scores of radars, at least 10 152 mm guns and a dozen 130 mm guns," he said.