Jaffna District Commander Sathasivamillai Krishnakumar alias ‘Col’ Kittu was regarded as the uncrowned king of Jaffna in the ...

The Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) was a specialised military intelligence unit of the Sri Lankan army that was ...

In the first part of this article on Sathasivampillai Krishnakumar alias “Col” Kittu published last week in the “Daily Mirror”, I had written about my interviewing the LTTE Jaffna district commander ...

Basic modus operandi of the LRRP was for small groups to clandestinely infiltrate territory controlled by the LTTE and target senior Tiger leaders and key operatives. LRRP operations were undertaken ...

The Sri Lankan army defeated Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009 after 26 years of bloody conflict. The war divided Sri Lanka along ethnic lines - pitting the majority Buddhist Sinhalese-dominated ...