Although the government did not make any official statement regarding the death toll in fighting to capture the LTTE forward defense line at Muhamalai, the Army Commander said to a weekend newspaper yesterday (22) that 30 state security forces personnel and over 100 LTTE cadres were killed in four days clash.
The Army Commander says, "They have publicized the names of the dead Tiger. They are retreating as we are attacking them. Operations in Muhamalai still go on."
Commenting on Mangala Samaraweera's Defense Watch analysis that over 200 security forces personnel were killed and the rumors that over 600 were killed, the Army Commander stated that This Defense Watch programme had been commenced to hoodwink the public through wrong information. Forty eight hours before we captured Punarin, the person who handles Defense Watch said to media that the war is a delusion, General Sarath Fonseka said. "For that we demolished the Tigers’ rule in a stretch 70 kilometers wide from Madu….We have shown something anyone that has vision can see. It was done after 20 years, How can it be a delusion?"
The Army Commander says, "They have publicized the names of the dead Tiger. They are retreating as we are attacking them. Operations in Muhamalai still go on."
Commenting on Mangala Samaraweera's Defense Watch analysis that over 200 security forces personnel were killed and the rumors that over 600 were killed, the Army Commander stated that This Defense Watch programme had been commenced to hoodwink the public through wrong information. Forty eight hours before we captured Punarin, the person who handles Defense Watch said to media that the war is a delusion, General Sarath Fonseka said. "For that we demolished the Tigers’ rule in a stretch 70 kilometers wide from Madu….We have shown something anyone that has vision can see. It was done after 20 years, How can it be a delusion?"
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