foreign observers are alarmed at the attack , given the recent advances that the royal lanka artillery has made , keeping the ltte from their former territories . " it is very significant that the rebels have laid out such an imaginative attacks when the government say that they are all but finished , " opined bbc ' s sinhala editor , priyath liyanage . " it confirms thing these of us recently knew ― the rebels may be enduring southeasterly on the battle fields but they are not simply just starting to disappear . "
LTTE stands for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.