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...near. There have been hundreds of news stories written and broadcast about Sri Lanka in the last few weeks, but all of them have been written under tightly controlled conditions. The Army has arranged two recent trips, taking journalists first to the former Tiger political headquarters in Kilinochchi, which has been under Army control since Jan. 1, and then to Putumattalan, just west of the current combat zone. One group had time to speak to with some of the civilians fleeing the fighting. "We need to monitor the entire thing," says Keheliya Rambukwella, a spokesman and minister...
This is not the first time that the LTTE, which is fighting for a separate homeland for ethnic Tamils, has targeted the Sri Lankan Air Force headquarters. On Jan. 1, the same day that the Army announced the capture of Kilinochchi, the Tigers' de facto capital in northern Sri Lanka, a suicide bomber killed three military personnel in the building, which sits among a cluster of government offices in Colombo's Fort neighborhood, one of the busiest in the city. This is also not the first time that the LTTE has struck Colombo by air. The Tigers started using aerial...
...government failed to reach a meaningful political compromise and returned to war. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised a "military solution" to the Tamil question. He is almost there. After months of intense fighting in the LTTE-controlled areas of the Tamil-majority north, the army has captured Kilinochchi, the rebels' administrative capital, and it is moving toward their last strongholds in the jungles around Mullaitivu...
After the government's triumph in Kilinochchi, Wickrematunge feared that his enemies might feel emboldened to carry out the threats he had been receiving for months. "He felt the euphoria was at a high, and he felt vulnerable," his brother Lal told...
...Lankan government, brokered by Norway in 2002, was constantly broken and the government officially pulled out of it in January 2008. In the past year, the federal forces have tried to forcefully put down the Tigers, pushing into their strongholds and leading up to the January 2 capture of Kilinochchi. In a speech announcing the takeover, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa called on the Tamil Tigers to surrender. Hours later, a suicide bomber struck the air force headquarters in the country's capital, Colombo, killing at least...