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| Sri Lanka |
| 'Sri Lankan troops close to finishing off Tigers' |
| 2009-03-05 |
| Sri Lankan security forces are on the verge of establishing complete control over territory held by Tamil rebels after killing "scores" of guerrillas, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Government forces were consolidating their position in the last urban area held by the Tamil Tigers, the small town of Puthukkudiriruppu in the northeast, following heavy fighting on Tuesday, the ministry said. "Scores of terrorists were killed in the fighting and as many injured," the ministry said in a statement. Government forces fought their way into Puthukkudiriruppu last week despite heavy resistance from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Separately, suspected Tamil Tiger rebels gunned down a policeman on Wednesday in country's south, the military said. Underscoring the potential for the LTTE to carry out low-level insurgent attacks, a band of suspected Tigers fired on a police post in Butalla and set off a gunbattle, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said. "Suspected LTTE fired at a police picket and one police constable was killed," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 2-3 Years now. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-03-05 13:04 |
| #1 How long has it been that we have seen headlines that Sri Lankan troops are about to finish off the Tigers? |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-03-05 10:10 |