The LTTE keeps losing ground as the fighting is getting more intense, and at this rate, the army's prediction that the LTTE will be crushed this year, appears on schedule said Strategy Page website yesterday (April 15).

More and more of suicide cadres both men and women of LTTE are teenagers, conscripted from among the half million Tamils still living in uncleared areas, the site said.

“The LTTE is trying to regain some psychological ground with a propaganda campaign portraying themselves as victims. This no longer works very well. With over 70,000 dead from two decades of LTTE violence, most Sri Lankans just want it all to stop”.

The site also said that the LTTE fund raisers are making increasing demands on Sri
Lankan Tamils who are living in the West. The "collectors" are basically running an extortion scheme, and an increasing percentage of the money taken stays with the collectors. Tamil businessmen fear reporting this to the police, lest they be disowned by their own community. Despite that, police are finding out who the collectors are, and arresting them for extortion, coercion and whatever.