Surrender to advancing troops - Army Chief tells LTTE leaders [October 04 2008]

With the Eelam dream of the LTTE fading Army Chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka has called upon the LTTE leaders and other cadres to surrender to the advancing troops as the fighting intensifies into the Tiger heartland. The soldiers have nearly two more miles to reach the LTTE's administrative capital.

Gen Fonseka told the Observer Online that the LTTE leaders - Soosai, Theepan, Banu, Lakshman, Vidusha, Swarnam and Nadeshan - can surrender with their cadres to the army. He has called upon all ordinary LTTE cadres to lay down their arms and cross over to the liberated areas.

Instead of Velupillai Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman we can give protection to all cadres who are willing to surrender. Prabhakaran has been given a 200-year imprisonment term and he is wanted by the Indian government.?

He said Pottu Amman, is also a wanted man under the law and added that they would otherwise have to die in fierce battles as the security forces have intensified their offensive in Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu.