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| Sri Lanka |
| Lankan military kills 9 rebels |
| 2007-08-28 |
| Fresh fighting between troops and separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas has killed nine insurgents and wounded five soldiers in the island’s northwest, the military said on Monday. Troops fought two separate battles with rebels on Sunday in the northwestern district of Mannar and on the border of neighbouring Vavuniya, where fighting is now focused after the fall of the rebels’ last bastion in the east. “Our troops confronted two batches of LTTE cadres coming towards their front line,” said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe. “Nine of their cadres were killed. Five soldiers were injured.” Samarsinghe said 1,258 military personnel, police and village guards have been killed since December 2005 and more than 2,000 Tiger fighters have died as the island slid back into a two-decade civil war that has killed nearly 70,000 people since 1983. Sunday’s fighting came as security forces defused three suspected Tamil Tiger rebel bombs, including one in the ancient central hill capital of Kandy where thousands of people are attending a Buddhist pageant. |
| Posted by:Fred |