SRI LANKA war news update genocide - jaffna have become an open prison

Sri Lankan troops say they have won the final battle in a separatist
conflict against Tamil Tiger rebels. The announcement comes with news that the military have killed the leader of the rebel group.
The Sri Lankan military has said that it has won one of the world's most intractable wars and put the island nation under government control for the first time since 1983.

IState media reported that special forces troops killed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran as he tried to flee the war zone in an ambulance early on Monday May 18 .

LTTE intelligence chief Pottu Amman and Soosai, head of the "Sea Tiger" naval wing, were also believed to have been killed.

Prabhakaran had sworn he would never be taken alive.

Also killed was the rebel leader's son and apparent heir, Charles Anthony, and other top LTTE fighters and political cadres.

[Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, Army Commander]:
"We have liberated the entire country by completely liberating the north from the terrorists. We have gained full control of LTTE-held areas."

The final fight played out on a sandy patch of just 300 sq metres near the Indian Ocean island's northeastern coast, where the military said the last Tiger fighters had holed up in bunkers and surrounded themselves with land mines and booby traps.

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