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Report: Tamil rebels kill 51 Sri Lankan soldiers
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 17 - 01 - 2009


Tamil Tiger separatist rebels
killed 51 government soldiers in fierce fighting in Sri
Lanka's north, a pro-rebel Web site reported Saturday, according to AP.
Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said, however,
that only seven soldiers and 20 rebels were killed in the
clashes near Dharmapuram village after the military
launched an offensive Friday.
TamilNet quoted the rebels' media unit as saying 51
soldiers were killed and another 150 were wounded.
It was not possible to verify the battle details because
journalists are barred from the northern war zone. The two
sides in the quarter-century civil war routinely exaggerate
the other's casualties while playing down their own.
Government troops recently captured Kilinochchi, the
capital of the rebels' de facto state, and the northern
Jaffna peninsula _ the cultural center of the country's
ethnic minority Tamils.
On Saturday, soldiers captured Ramanathapuram village _
which lies east of Kilinochchi _ while the air force bombed
a defense line in the remaining rebel-held district of
Mullaittivu, the military said. No casualty details were
given.
Facing intense pressure from advancing government troops,
the rebels are now squeezed into a dwindling territory in
the northeast. Authorities say they will crush the rebels
and retake their remaining territory in months.
Separately, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa
discussed how to bring a permanent end to the civil war in
a second day of talks Saturday with Indian Foreign
Secretary Shivshankar Menon in the central city of Kandy.
The conflict is of special concern to India, which is home
to some 56 million Tamils.
Rajapaksa told the Indian diplomat that he would deal with
the rebels «firmly and militarily as the situation
required,» the president's office said in a statement.
Menon said India would cooperate in Rajapaksa's efforts to
«eliminate terrorism from Sri Lanka and the region,» the
statement said. It did not elaborate, but India is already
assisting Sri Lanka by providing defensive equipment and
sharing intelligence.
Tamil Tiger rebels have fought since 1983 to create an
independent homeland for the country's ethnic minority
Tamils, who have suffered marginalization by successive
governments controlled by majority ethnic Sinhalese.
More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.


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