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Sri Lankan troops capture rebel town Jayapuram
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 - 7:06 PM SL Time
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Sri Lankan troops captured a small village in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, pushing ahead with their offensive against the Tamil Tigers hours after the rebel group launched a brazen airstrike on the capital, the military said.
Soldiers fought for hours with the rebels, known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, before taking control of the town of Jayapuram and cutting off yet another small part of the rebels` de facto state in the north, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said.
`The LTTE have retreated due to the resistance of the army,` he said.
The government, which has pushed deep into the Tamil Tigers` heartland, has vowed to destroy the rebel group by the end of the year and win the 25-year-old civil war plaguing this Indian Ocean island nation.
However the rebels have repeatedly shown they retain the capacity to carry out startling attacks on the government.
Late Tuesday, the Tamil Tigers` rudimentary air force bombed a power station on the outskirts of Colombo, taking the fight to the government. The military raked the sky over the capital with anti-aircraft fire and scanned the skies with searchlights.
The attack marked the first time rebel planes bombed the capital in more than a year.
The bombing damaged some turbines at the power station, officials said. A worker hospitalized after the attack died on Wednesday, said Nanayakkara.
The military, embarrassed by the continuing bombing runs by the rebels` tiny fleet of small planes, said it was searching for the attacking aircraft, which apparently escaped back into rebel-held area after the attack.
`We are of course targeting the locations where they are having their aircraft, and at the same time, whenever they are airborne ... we send our aircraft to engage,` Nanayakkara said.
The attack began late Tuesday when rebel aircraft dropped three bombs on an army base in the Mannar district in the north, injuring three soldiers, the military said.
About an hour later, aircraft struck the power station in Colombo, far to the south of the initial strike.
It was also not clear if the plane that attacked Colombo was the same aircraft that attacked Mannar or if there were two planes, Nanayakkara said.
Such attacks are a huge morale boost for the reeling rebels.
The Tamil Tigers have fought since 1983 to create an independent state for minority Tamils, who have suffered marginalization at the hands of successive governments controlled by the Sinhalese majority. The conflict has killed more than 70,000 people.
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Ruhunu
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 29 Oct 2008 16:10:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Another great achievement by our brave soldiers ! Only question is whether Prabha gets this news or is he kept in dark |
alwaysalion
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 29 Oct 2008 16:25:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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| He is high on ganja in his bunker with few underaged boys..... |
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 29 Oct 2008 18:48:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lankan troops capture rebel town Jayapuram
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Nachchikuda falls to troops - Kilinochchi
Adding another huge setback for the LTTE terrorists in Wanni battlefront, troops of Task Force 1 captured Nachchikuda, the LTTE's major strong point in northwestern costal border in the Island, this evening, 29 October, the latest defence report received from the forefront said. |
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 29 Oct 2008 21:47:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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SLIPPERY SLOPE OF EEEEELAM
Office of World Tamil Organisation raided in Canada ------- EU freezes LTTE assetts-------Bala dies ----------.Indian fisherman killed by LTTE ---------Lost Sampur--------- US agents caught----------. Lost Mavil Aru -------- Lost Varakai-------- Lost 3 ships--------Toppigala falls ----------Britain arrests LTTE leaders ----------Whole of Eastern province falls ------- France arrests LTTErs---------Tamil TV station off air -----------Soosai is injurred and infighting of leadership----------.Silvathura falls----------KP arrested -----------3 more ships blasted ----------Tamilselvam killed Madu falls .. Charles Killed .. Balraj dies Selvi killed . .. Parts of Adampan falls .. WTM in Canada outlawed .. .. Italy arrests LTTErs .. 5000 Tigers killed .. 54 base falls ...Manner falls ... SLA enters Killinochchi district . .Munagam, Sugandan, Micheal, .Jeevan bases fall .. Nechchikudah too has fallen
And
Next will be Killinochchi .. .. and the
the final BYE BYE to ---------- EEEELAM |
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 29 Oct 2008 22:11:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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Joseph,
You forgot Mullaithivu in your long lasting song ! May be that's how much you know about EEEELAM. |
GrassT
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 30 Oct 2008 02:30:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Not yo put you guys in a sad slipper,
but you know sinhala always lies about this and that,
they said the same thing how they destroyed the plane, and it's still running around...
They say that Tamil Tigers are terrorist, and yet in UN meeting and EU Union meeting, only Tamil Eelam agreed and Sinhala government denied,
thats why slowly all countried decline to give money to them, because they lie...
they have no more money,
Central Bank is declining them,
US ambassador just said Sinhala has failed in political solution for past 25 years...
This is just the begining the world to see that Sinhala Government are un educated ! |
GrassT
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30 Oct 2008 02:32:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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And not to mention...
you guys been saying bye bye for the past 25 years... LOL !!
remember Chandirikabakabuku, she said 90 percent of tamil tigers are dead, well if thats the case, we are still a soldiers, hahha |
GrassT
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30 Oct 2008 02:34:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sinhala will never win,
they said that for the past ten years and its still going...
hahahah |
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