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No.
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Date
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Description
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1
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January 6, 2007
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Police raided the Colombo office
of the TRO, but finding only a caretaker in the building searched
the premises. The raid follows similar search operations in
Trincomalee and Vavuniya a day earlier.
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2
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February 4, 2007
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Troops recovered a claymore
mine hidden in a three-wheeler by the LTTE
which reportedly planned to attack Colombo on the eve of 59th
Independence Day celebrations.
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3
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February 6, 2007
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A passenger bus, traveling from
Colombo to Batticaloa was waylaid and robbed by LTTE cadres
in the general area of Karuwankerni.
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4
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March 3, 2007
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Police found five bodies in
a marsh at Kandana near Colombo and suspect that they are victims
in a renewed civil war with LTTE.
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5
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April 4, 2007
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The unidentified dead body of
a youth was recovered at Sapuskanda in the Kelaniya area of
Colombo district.
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6
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April 29, 2007
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An LTTE aircraft bombed oil
and gas storage facilities in and around capital Colombo at
1.45 am. It dropped two bombs at the Muthurajawela gas storage
facility of Shell and two more bombs at the main oil storage
depot at Kolonnawa. The defence ministry said, "The suspected
LTTE aircraft have (dropped) four improvised bombs. One of the
two bombs dropped on Muthurajawela caused minor damage to the
fire guard equipment of a private gas company and the other
damaged water supply," adding, the two bombs dropped on
the Kolonnawa, which houses the offices of the Ceylon Petroleum
Storage Terminals Limited in which Lanka IOC, a unit of Indian
Oil Corporation, has one-third stake, failed to explode.
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7
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May 24, 2007
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A suspected LTTE suicide bomber
on an explosive laden motor bicycle rammed a bus carrying army
personnel on the first cross street in capital Colombo at around
9:00 am killing two soldiers and wounding five persons.
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8
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May 28, 2007
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Seven civilians were killed
and 42 persons, including 36 civilians and six STF personnel,
sustained injuries in a LTTE-triggered remote-controlled claymore
mine explosion targeting STF vehicle at Belekkade Junction in
the Rathmalana area of Colombo district. The STF vehicle moving
towards Colombo was slightly damaged with its windscreen completely
smashed.
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9
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May 29, 2007
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One STF personnel injured in
the LTTE-triggered claymore mine explosion targeting STF vehicle
at Belekkade Junction in the Rathmalana area of Colombo district
succumbed to his injuries, raising the death toll to eight.
Meanwhile, the Media Centre for National Security informed that
21 persons have been taken into custody under suspicion for
the attack and they are being interrogated.
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10
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June 3, 2007
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Forty-seven people were arrested
in the capital Colombo for suspected LTTE links during a special
24-hour search operation which ended at 6 am local time on June
3. The police feared that LTTE cadres may have infiltrated the
capital among those who have sought temporary accommodation
in the city.
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11
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June 7, 2007
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Police started eviction of Tamils
from the capital Colombo as part of a crackdown against LTTE
suspects. Tamil men, women and children, lodged at low-budget
hostels, were forced out of their rooms, ordered into buses
and driven off under armed escorts, residents said. The move
followed an announcement by the Inspector General of Police
Victor Perera last week that Tamils "loitering" in Colombo were
a threat to national security and that they will be given transport
to return to their villages.
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12
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June 8, 2007
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Police recovered a claymore
mine, weighing about 7-kg, laid at the foot of a lamp post near
the Police Quarters in the Maligawatta area of Colombo town.
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13
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June 10, 2007
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Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickramanayaka
disclosed that the LTTE had sent another truck with over 1,000
kilograms of explosives. "We are searching for another
lorry, which can cause a major damage. The explosives in that
truck were enough to blow up half of Colombo," the Prime
Minister said without giving any details.
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14
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June 12, 2007
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Suspected LTTE cadres destroyed
a transformer using explosives in the Orugodawaththa area of
Colombo district.
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15
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June 13, 2007
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A powerful claymore mine, weighing
12-kg, packed in a school bag was found near the Colombo-Matara
railway track in the Wellawatta area of Colombo district. Police
said that the claymore mine was hidden among bushes on the sea
shore near the Nelson Lane off the rail road in Wellawatta.
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16
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June 16, 2007
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Sri Lankan police has intensified
security measures in the capital Colombo. Rohan Abeywardena,
Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Colombo security,
said that special plans are underway to check possible infiltration
by the LTTE cadres to carry out attacks in the city, adding,
at least three suspected LTTE cadres had been arrested in the
city since June 14.
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17
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June 27, 2007
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The government defence affairs spokesperson,
Keheliya Rambukwella, said that a number of suspects involved
in abduction for ransom have been arrested during the last week.
A time-bomb was found at Delkanda
Market along a road leading to a conference venue in Maharagama,
near capital Colombo, where President Mahinda Rajapakse was
addressing the 17th General Assembly of the SLFP. Rajapakse
reportedly used a helicopter to come to the convention centre
and return to Temple Trees.
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18
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July 23, 2007
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The MCNS said the
intelligence sources had revealed information that LTTE had
dispatched two bomb laden trucks to the Colombo and suburbs
to create sabotage.
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19
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August 15, 2007
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Two claymore mines (weighing
about 9-kg and 5-kg), three hand grenades and one detonator
were recovered by the troops from the Ideal Guest Inn at Sinasabha
Road in the Wellawatta area of Colombo district. Deputy Inspector
General of Police Jayantha Wickramaratne said the LTTE may have
been using the guest house as a transit point to transport the
claymores to their intended target.
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20
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August 20, 2007
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A Tamil journalist, Sathyavel
Prabhash, who was abducted in Colombo several months ago was
found in Kandy. The journalist told police that he was abducted
by the LTTE and threatened not to supply pictures to Sinhala
newspapers.
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21
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August 22, 2007
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The LTTE demanded a rupee one
million ransom from the owner of the Ideal Guest lodge in Wellawatte
as compensation for the loss of two claymore mines detected
at the lodge on a tip-off by the owner.
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22
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August 23, 2007
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A high security alert for a
possible LTTE attack in an immediate suburb of capital Colombo
led to the arrest of 14 suspects. SFs raided Nugegoda, a popular
residential suburb east of Colombo, and arrested 12 Sinhalese
and two Tamils. The search was conducted on information that
the LTTE may carry out a bomb blast in and around Nugegoda.
The Colombo Magistrate ordered
the release of a Tamil Hindu priest accused by the authorities
of helping LTTE cadres. The priest and the trustee of the Hindu
temple in the Kayts island of Jaffna peninsula were arrested
by the Sri Lankan Navy in May 2007 after explosives belonging
to the LTTE were found hidden in the temple premises. They had
been detained by the Terrorism Investigation Division in the
capital Colombo since their arrest resulting in their filing
a fundamental rights petition seeking release.
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23
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September 5, 2007
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Police recovered nine kilograms
of explosives near the railway track at two different locations
in the Dehiwela coastal area of Colombo district, informed Deputy
Inspector General of Police, Jayantha Wickramaratne. Seven-kg
of C-4 explosives concealed in 14 small packets and a mobile
phone were recovered by the Dehiwela police at around 9.40 am,
he said. Hours later, the Dehiwela police also recovered two-kg
of C-4 explosives hidden in a thicket around 100 meters away
from the coastal area. "The high powered explosives were packed
in four boxes each weighing 500 g. The police recovered a total
of 18 boxes with 500 g C4 explosives in each box," Wickramaratne
disclosed.
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25
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September 14, 2007
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Police and security forces launched
a cordon and search operation in the High Security Zone area
close to the oil tanks in Kolonnawa in the outskirts of Colombo
and arrested 47 suspects, police sources said. The majority
of the arrested are Indian origin ethnic Tamils from areas such
as Vavuniya and Hatton.
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26
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September 19, 2007
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Sri Lankan police claimed that
they had found a dozen bombs hidden in a building in Colombo
and arrested two people in connection with the incident. "We
did a search operation in Kotahena Jampettah Street Tuesday
night and found the bombs hidden in a building," a police spokesman
said. The police said that LTTE may have transported the bombs
to the capital.
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27
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October 3, 2007
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Troops on foot patrol at the Lake House roundabout
in Colombo found an unattended bag containing explosives and
other accessories from the inside of a shop. The recoveries
included 125-gm of explosives, five smoke bombs, one mobile
charger, 15-ft of flexible wire, 2-ft of safety wire, one non
electrical detonator, eight ration packets and one air force
camouflage uniform.
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28.
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November 28, 2007
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The EPDP leader and Minister
for Social Welfare, Douglas Devananda, escaped unhurt when a
polio affected woman suicide cadre of the LTTE blew herself
up at his office at Isipathana road in the Narahenpita area
of Colombo. While the Minister was in his office waiting to
see members of the public, the woman was allowed to get into
the office complex unchecked considering her disability but
the PRO of the Minister conducted checking on the physically
challenged woman along with others who had come to see the Minister.
However, the disguised LTTE woman cadre blew herself up when
the physical checking was being done by the PRO. The blast critically
injured the PRO, one Ministerial aide and one officer of Ministerial
Security Division, who succumbed to his injuries later.
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29.
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November 28, 2007
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At least 19 civilians were killed
and 35 others injured as a suspected parcel bomb exploded near
a popular fashion store at Nugegoda junction near Colombo around
5.55 pm. Police believe that the bomb had been placed in one
of the parcel counters at the No Limit clothing store by a suspected
LTTE militant who had left the incident site.
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31.
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December 3, 2007
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Security forces recovered a
bomb from inside an unattended parcel detected near a telephone
post opposite the house of Tamil National Alliance Jaffna District
Parliamentarian M.K. Shivagilingam at Jawattha around 8:40 am.
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