Tamil Tigers Nearing End

WONG:
Today's top story... Sri Lankan troops continue an offensive on Tamil Tiger separatists. The countrys army says its close to completely eliminating the terrorist group and its 25 year insurgency.

STORY:
On Sunday the 25th, the army announced the capture of the last big town held by the Tamil Tigers the eastern port of Mullaittivu. Rebels seized it in 1996 and it turned into a major military operations and command center.

The Tigers are now confined to 300 square kilometers of jungle on the Indian Ocean island's northeast, down from 15,000 square kilometers when the war re-ignited in 2006.

That leaves the Tigers with a handful of bases and villages scattered across the jungles where theyve been fighting from since 1993.

Sri Lankas army commander predicts total victory by mid-April.

The army has scored three major victories this month, starting with the capture of the rebels' self-proclaimed capital of Kilinochchi on January 2 and the expulsion of the Tigers from the Jaffna Peninsula a week later.

Aid agencies say about 230,000 civilians fleeing the fighting are trapped in the war zone. Rights groups and the government accuse the Tigers of keeping them as human shields.

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[naegling3]

oh brown people. Why fight about the slight differences in your "lacka lacka". It's like smurfs fighting about the correct substitution of words for the word "smurf". And that's just retarded.

[sundararavi]

very good truth

[sundararavi]

thankq

[utubemadu]

agith2005 -- get a life mate.. anybody who reads your comments would notice that you are a LTTE diaspora guy, out of thousands.. who beg for their money.. paid to LTTE and lost all of it.. trying to bring back LTTE so that they can keep their silly promises to you and people like you.. but mind you.. YOU ARE GUARANTEED NOT TO GET A PENNY WORTH ANYTHING IN RETURN FROM BACK FROM LTTE OR ANY RELATED ORGANISATION. They are so much organized and now easily could fool YOU and cry like babies.. Think!

[agith2005]

Our air force is using prohibited CLUSTERBOMB and BURNINGBOMB AGAINST TO OUR SRI LANKAN CITIZEN of TAMIL people. I WANNI they didn't have any water to drink, any food to eat or medicine to survive. They didn't have any anaesthetic medicine to use the injured INNOCENT Sri Lankan TAMIL PEOPLE. Please UN or other Supper power countries must go in the WARZOONES area and watch or SEE the truth as like GAZA.

[agith2005]

THE SRI LANKAN GOVENMENT SINGHALESE WEAPONS are NOT PAID BY OUR SINGHALESE PEOPLE. SINGHALESE MEHINDA'S BROTHERS GOVENMENT ARE travel to different foreign countries to BEGGING MONEY or FINANCIEL HELP TO wipe out OUR INNOCENT TAMIL SRI LANKAN CITIZEN. I HAVE MANY TAMIL FRIEND's THEY ARE NOT TERORIST. I HOPE IF WE ARE NEUTRAL INTELIGENT SRI LANKAN CITIZEN MUST THINK WHAT IS TRUTH OR LIES.

[agith2005]

First I will tell I am a neutral Sri Lankan Singhalese person. I didnt support any body, but I will tell the truth and "IF WE ARE THE NORMAL INTERLIGENT PEOPLE WE MUST THINK WHY THE MINORITY TAMIL PEOPLES ARE TAKING THE WEAPON TO FIGHT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT" In Sri Lanka?

[agith2005]

PS! I am a retired army officer and SHINGHALESE but EVERY NORMAL NEUTRAL SRI LANKAN CITIZEN MUST THINK or remember "THE LTTE WEAPONS ARE PAID BY OUR SRI LANKAN MINORITY TAMIL PEOPLE to fight against our SINGHALESE GOVENTMENT NOT AGAINST SHIGHALESE PEOPLE" to get equal RIGHTS to OUR MINORITY SRI LANKAN TAMIL. THIS situation is made by Mahindas brothers Government are Genocide our minority Tamil people. Pls. stop genocide minority Tamil people

[agith2005]

OUR GOVERNMENT ARMY RAPPING, KILLING young boys, young girls, the womens are sterilize by inject and the young boys are killed bury or burnt in unknown place by OUR Singhalese ARMY. Our air force is using prohibited CLUSTERBOMB and BURNINGBOMB AGAINST OUR SRI LANKAN CITIZEN of TAMIL people. IN WANNI they didn't have any water to drink, any food to eat or any medicine to survive. They didn't have any anaesthetic medicine to use the injured INNOCENT Sri Lankan TAMIL PEOPLE.

[agith2005]

Please UN or other Supper power countries must go in the WARZOONES area and watch or SEE the truth as like GAZA. WHEN THE ISRAEL MILITARY WAS BOMED IN GAZA, ALL WORLD COMMUNITY doctors and the WORLD reporters are was in WARZOONE to coverage the WAR situation IN GAZA and help the innocent injured people. BUT IN SRI LANKA WANNI WARZOONE AREA is NOBODY In THERE to coverage or help the INNOCENT injured PEOPLE in WANNI WARZOONE. One day the true will come out. Pls. stop genocide minority Tamil people