TIGER NAVAL BASE????
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| Sri Lanka |
| Sri Lankan jets bomb Tiger naval base |
| 2007-01-05 |
| Sri Lankan jets bombed a Tamil Tiger naval base in the north of the island on Thursday in a third consecutive day of air strikes despite United Nations calls for an end to the fighting. The military said the Tiger base in the rebel-controlled Mullaittivu area had been destroyed in the bombardment, which followed a similar raid in the east on Wednesday. It has vowed to dislodge the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from their eastern stronghold, accusing the rebels of firing on them despite a 2002 ceasefire that international monitors say now exists only on paper. The aerial bombings have become the latest flashpoint in the fighting between military and Tiger rebels who want to carve a separate homeland for minority Tamils in the north and east. On Tuesday, the UN urged both sides to stop fighting and to protect civilians after it said an air strike by government forces earlier in the day in northwestern Sri Lanka had killed 14 people. Six of the dead were children, the rebels said. But the military denied hitting civilian settlements in that raid in Mannar district, and accused the Tigers of spreading false information to win international sympathy. |
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| Posted by: BigEd 2007-01-05 12:33 |