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சிறீலங்கா இராணுவத்தின் 59வது படையணி புதுக்குடியிருப்பு கிழக்கு ஊடாக முன்னேறி அப்பகுதியின் 6 கிலோ மீட்டர் பரப்பையும் மருதம்பூவல் பகுதியையும் தமது கட்டுப்பாட்டுக்குள் கொண்டுவந்துள்ளதாக படையினர் தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.

Sri Lanka military: Troops take another rebel camp

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan soldiers captured a Tamil Tiger rebel camp and a factory in the war-ravaged north as government forces closed in on the beleaguered rebels, pushing them into a shrinking enclave, the military said Sunday.

A defense ministry statement said soldiers seized "a highly fortified camp" in the village of Maruthampuvel in the rebels' last stronghold of Mullaittivu on Saturday.

It did not provide details of casualties, but said soldiers found eight bodies of rebel fighters killed in fighting elsewhere in the region.

The military has vowed to destroy the rebel group this year. Government forces in recent weeks have captured the guerrillas' de facto capital of Kilinochchi and say they have boxed the insurgents into a small pocket of territory in the northeast.

Also Saturday, soldiers captured a rebel boat-manufacturing factory near Maruthampuvel where troops found two fast attack vessels and seven small boats used by rebels for suicide attacks, the statement said.

The Tamil Tigers have a naval wing that rams small vessels packed with explosives into government naval ships in suicide attacks.

Rebel spokesmen could not be contacted for comment because communication to the north has been severed.

With reporters banned from the war zone, Sri Lanka's media must rely largely on government and rebel statements for information about the war.

Meanwhile, the pro-rebel Web site TamilNet reported that an army artillery attack on a rebel-held village in Mullaittivu killed four civilians Saturday.

Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara denied the rebel claim and said the military attacks only identified rebel positions.

Human rights groups have warned that casualties among civilians living in the shrinking pocket of rebel territory are likely to mount as the government closes in on the insurgents.

An estimated 250,000 civilians remain in the war zone, many of them having fled from other areas ahead of advancing troops, according to aid groups.

The rebels said they are protecting civilians who voluntarily moved to the district, but Human Rights Watch has accused the rebels of preventing people from fleeing.

Meanwhile, neighboring India has expressed concerns at the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka's north, India's External Affairs ministry said in a statement Sunday.

Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, who held talks with top Sri Lankan officials on Saturday, conveyed India's concerns and "the need to ensure the safety and security of the internally displaced civilian population," the statement said.

The rebels have been fighting since 1983 to establish an independent state for minority Tamils, who have suffered marginalization at the hands of successive governments controlled by the Sinhalese majority.

More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.
Associated Press

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Velupillai Prabhakaran

The rest of the world might never understand the violence Velupillai Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. For 26 years, the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had waged war with the government to win an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority. The struggle claimed more than 70,000 lives--including, on May 18, Prabhakaran's. The government says he was killed, along with 17 of his trusted lieutenants, while fleeing an army ambush.

Prabhakaran, 54, was born to a middle-class family on the Jaffna Peninsula. Incensed by discrimination against Tamils and radicalized by a militant grade-school teacher, Prabhakaran founded the LTTE in 1976, a year after a group he headed claimed responsibility for killing Jaffna's mayor. By 1983 the guerrilla movement--which pioneered suicide bombings and the recruitment of child soldiers--escalated the fighting into a civil war.

At the height of his power earlier this decade, Prabhakaran led a de facto government that controlled vast swaths of territory and boasted its own systems of taxes, roads and courts. As the army closed in, he allegedly used thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields. By the final days, just 250 LTTE members remained. They died too, along with the dream of eelam.

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