“SLAF’s Fighter Jets Targets Forest” -LTTE

File Image: Students Walk through the School corridor, at Kilinochchi Central Collage

(January 24, Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka Guardian) “In three separate sorties spread over 20 hours, Sri Lankan Air Force carried out extensive bombing over Ambalahamam forest area in Kilinochchi destroying vast extents of forests,” according to latest press statement released by the LTTE.

“At 11.30 am and at 5.20pm on Wednesday and again at 6.45am on Thursday Sri Lankan Air Force dropped more than 16 bombs over the Ambalahama forest area damaging around 10 hectares of forest land,” the statement said.

The Forest Protection Division of the LTTE has undertaken extensive forest replanting in recent times. These young plants as well as many old forest plants were destroyed in this mindless bombing of the Sri Lanka military, the statement added.

According to a statement, “speculation is strife among Kilinochchi residents about the rationale behind the bombing of forest areas which only results in the destruction of the environment.”