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Sri Lanka victory march bogged down in fog of war
Most definitely, we can say that we are winning,' army spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told AFP. 'But we have never said that we will finish them off. We have never set deadlines.
Doesn't this moran know the Funseka's 6 months dead-line and MR's 18 months dead-line?
But military sources say that the attacks on three fronts against rebel-held territory have failed to produce a breakthrough
Only breakthrogh is the total number of LTTE members killed so far.
Now Funseka says...
'I don't conduct the war looking at deadlines and timeframes,' the lieutenant general said. 'Can a war that has been going on for more than 25 years be completed by March?' But Fonseka had repeatedly given deadlines before, claiming the war would be won by mid-2008.
Senior defence officials have also boasted that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran will soon be dead, if he is not already.
Another Fun..
Fonseka corrected himself on the numbers of LTTE combatants on February 10, noting the LTTE had 5,000, or 2,000 more than he had announced in December.
Military sources note that while the army announces repeated offensives leaving high numbers of enemy dead, on the ground the rebels melt away under attack and the army pulls back when real resistance is encountered.
'The LTTE is offering formidable resistance on three fronts,' said military analyst Iqbal Athas.
'We have never seen a government like this. Sinhalese newspapers carry only government propaganda. People believe in a military solution more and more.'
A coolie who could not get even few hundreds votes in the last election says...
For Darmalingam Sithadthan, head of the Democratic People's Liberation Front, the army can critically weaken the LTTE and impose a political solution. |
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