We have finally defeated the LTTE, says President

President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared yesterday that the Sri Lankan armed forces had “finally defeated the LTTE militarily.”

“I will be going back to a country that has been totally freed from the barbaric acts of the LTTE,” the President said addressing the G-11 Summit in Jordan.

President Rajapaksa said that many in the world believed that the LTTE was invincible, but the government with the total commitment of the Armed Forces, had in an unprecedented humanitarian operation, finally defeated the LTTE militarily.