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| Sri Lanka |
| Lankan forces captureTiger base |
| 2008-12-27 |
| The Sri Lankan army, backed by artillery, fighter jets, and helicopter gunships has reportedly captured a Tamil Tiger training base. On Friday, Sri Lankan soldiers fought a fierce battle with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) over the town of Mulliyawalai near Mullaittivu, the main military headquarters of the rebels, the defense ministry said. The military added that heavy fighting was going on in the area but failed to give details of the number of the soldiers killed in the battle. Earlier military reports claimed that soldiers have killed at least 40 rebels in the clashes that erupted Thursday along at least three fronts outside the town of Kilinochchi, the besieged political capital of the LTTE. In the recent months, government forces have cleared most of the land held by the rebels, pushing them into a small area in the jungles of the northeast. Kilinochchi and Mullaittivu are the two remaining big towns still under rebel control in the north of the island. |
| Posted by:Fred |