(April 05, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Offensive formations of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) delivered yet another killing blow to the LTTE as the tigers lost the entire Puthukuirippu area today. SLA has recovered close to 250 bodies of slain LTTE cadres along with a large haul of weapons of ammunition in today and yesterday’s fighting alone. Several high profile LTTE leaders have also perished in battle. According to our information female LTTE leader Vidusha, black tiger leader Durga, former eastern leader Nagesh, PTK east commander Theepan and Prabhakaran’s personal bodyguard Gadafi are among the LTTE leaders slain by the army. According to reports yet to be confirmed, senior LTTE leader Bhanu has also suffered injuries.
Troops surrounded the last 700 square meters held by LTTE in PTK three days ago and fierce fighting have been raging in the area since then. Close to 450 LTTE fighters were trapped by the army’s tactical maneuver however the LTTE leader Prabhakaran managed to flee into the No-War zone hours before the army moved in for the kill. A total of 420 bodies of slain tigers have been recovered by the army from PTK in the last three days.
SLA formations that surrounded LTTE in PTK include the 58 division, 53 division, Task Force 8, 1 Special Forces (1SF), 2 Special Forces (2SF) and Air Mobile Brigade.
Next phase of SLA operations will take the form of a massive hostage rescue mission aimed at rescuing several thousands civilians who are being forcibly held in the No-War Zone by the LTTE.- DefenceNet-Sri Lanka Guardian
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Entire PTK area captured, Senior LTTE leaders killed
By Sri Lanka Guardian • April 05, 2009 • • Comments : 2
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annihilate the tigers.words used by a former army commander on his farewell address.It shows political guts were not forth coming by the previous goverments.
Weldone Srilankan Army.We appreciate you.
The real problem starts now.
a. In Jan, 09, it was said that about 400 tigers ( LTTE) are left and the rest killed.If you count the tigers killed as per military figures, it would have exceeded 1200 by this time? How comes the difference in nos.
b. Since,we have won Militarily, what next?Where do we go from here?
As per South the latest victories, say in about 2 months we should be able to any place in Srilanka without any fear in our minds.A Sinhalese should be able to travel from Matara to Jaffna, Mannar, Trinco, similarily, Tamil should be able to travel from North, West, East to thes war will continue for another 30 yrs.
south.An honest answer will be "
NO". Because this war will continue in a typical Gurellia style, hit and run tactics.
The GOVT OF SRILANKA, has no plans for solution to the real problem.
THe current problems have moved from Srilanka to Australia and New Zealand, where the Sinhalese are taking on the Tamils, so really the problems are spreading....
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