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While civilians flee for safety, many of the soldiers fighting the war are dying.

About an hour away from Madhu, in the government stronghold of Medawachchiya, mourners sat quietly on plastic chairs amid the dust and trees in the yard outside C. Priyadarshna's house, hours after the Special Forces soldier was buried with full military honors. His comrades bowed in turn before his grieving mother.

The death of the 22-year-old lance corporal cast doubt on the government's account of the toll the war is taking on the military as it slowly pushes its way into the de facto state the rebels have set up in the north. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said he hopes government forces will capture the rebels' administrative capital of Kilinochchi by the end of the year. But it's impossible to tell at what cost.

The military says the war killed 856 government troops and 6,290 rebels from January until the end of August. Analysts and diplomats reject those numbers as a gross exaggeration of rebel fatalities and a drastic undercount of its own. The rebels give only sporadic death tolls, which many question as well.

On Sept. 15, the day Priyadarshna was killed, the government announced the deaths of three soldiers. But his comrades said Priyadarshna and six other soldiers from his unit were killed in an intense battle in the Kilinochchi district.

One soldier said the troops were hit by what appeared to be a chemical weapon, perhaps a burn agent, loaded into a shell or a rocket-propelled grenade. Three of the bodies, including Priyadarshna's, were so badly disfigured they had to have closed casket funerals, he said.

Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara denied the rebels were using deadly chemical weapons, saying six soldiers suffered minor breathing problems from inhaling tear gas.

Other battles in the area that day killed eight more soldiers for a total of 15 military fatalities, or five times the official death toll, according to an official involved in the transfer of bodies from the war zone. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.

Every single SLDF dies, his family entitles for his salary to the age of 55 of the dead person.

The thousdand who get injured/disabled also get the same.

The cost of war is going to be there for another 25 yrs atleast.

http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20081007/news01.htm

Sri Lankan Tamils are paying $ 30,000 if they were smuggled to Papua new guinea and a job is provided.

Chennai is re-posting the same news repeatedly