Short Sri Lanka truce over, doors open to final fight

allesennogwat · 04-15-2009, 04:27 PM

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's two-day holiday fighting pause ended on Wednesday with the Tigers saying soldiers had begun an offensive, which the military denied but said it was now free to begin a final assault to crush the 25-year war.

The Sri Lankan military says only 1,000 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels remain, and accuse the fighters of holding around 100,000 civilians as human shields.

In less than three years, the military has retaken 15,000 square km of coastal coconut groves, where commanders expect to end a war that began in 1983.

The rebels' website TamilNet.com on Wednesday said the military had unleashed an assault with rockets, artillery and gunfire in the morning hours.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/200904...r-bd5ae06.html

04-15-2009, 04:27 PM	#1
allesennogwat Curio & Relic AKaholic #: 3738 Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 32,452	Short Sri Lanka truce over, doors open to final fight COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's two-day holiday fighting pause ended on Wednesday with the Tigers saying soldiers had begun an offensive, which the military denied but said it was now free to begin a final assault to crush the 25-year war. The Sri Lankan military says only 1,000 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels remain, and accuse the fighters of holding around 100,000 civilians as human shields. In less than three years, the military has retaken 15,000 square km of coastal coconut groves, where commanders expect to end a war that began in 1983. The rebels' website TamilNet.com on Wednesday said the military had unleashed an assault with rockets, artillery and gunfire in the morning hours. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/200904...r-bd5ae06.html __________________ Daraclor: A brand of anti-malaria pills which we had to drink every week while on the border. Legend had it that these would make you turn yellow and that you wouldn't be able to tan.

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