SRI LANKAN Defence Forces yesterday overran Vellankulam, yet another mile stone on the western sea-board.
Map found here;
From Vellankulam the SLDF has access to the A-32 highway and our boys will be soon visiting their friends and cousins couped-up in Pooneryn.
The SLDF planners need to recognize several facts and keep them firmly in mind as they get closer each day to the decisive battles in this sorry episode in our history;
- the LTTE has retained majority of its strike capability and holds in excess of 100 artillery pieces and substantial stocks of ammunition
- a large number of well trained, experienced and heavily armed cadres are still available for deployment
- the closer the SLDF gets to the main heavy weapon deployments such as Killinochchi, Mullaitivu and Pooneryn, our personnel present a sitting target to the LTTE artillery
- LTTE leadership will not be averse to an attack where large numbers of civillian casualties are caused. In such an outcome, any time lapse during which the government is unable to place the blame indisputably on the LTTE, would provide them a lifeline propaganda event to bring in overwhelming pressure from the International community to stop operations. The government should assume that the support structure for such a media and pressure campaign is already locked, loaded and ready to fire. There are plenty of cases from our recent history with Tamilnadu's maritime interests.
This may be a good time for the government and especially the President to make well publicized political speeches re-stating the justifications for the military effort and a genuine appeal to the Tamil people in the affected areas to move over into liberated land.
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