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2009-04-24 Sri Lanka

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The news agencies keep talking about "jungle", but there isn't any jungle where the Tamils are holed up. They're on a narrow strip of land, less than a mile wide, that is bordered on one side by the ocean and the other by one of several lagoons. There are houses and small fields all along the peninsula, and three bridges that link the peninsula with the mainland - one at the lower end that links the peninsula with Mullaitivu to the south, and two that link the peninsula to the mainland across the lagoon. There are the equivalent of about eight divisions surrounding the Tamils, and an ever-shrinking piece of ground for them to stand upon. You can't fire artillery from six feet of water - it just doesn't work. It looks very likely that the Tigers are about to be defanged.

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