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...Sri Lankan military authorities predicted a swift end to the country's 25-year civil war after tens of thousands of civilians who had been trapped in a narrow combat zone in the country's north for over two months escaped the iron grip of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on April 20. But more fighting is in store before that end can be reached. It will take weeks, if not longer, to capture or kill the over 500 hardcore Tigers - including leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who is holed up deep inside the zone - ready to fight...
...meters high, around a narrow 12-km (7.5-mile) no-fire zone on the eastern shores of the Mulaithivu lagoon and, according to reports from the area, had set up gun encampments every 30 meters (98 feet) or so along it. According to Laxman Hulugalle, Director General of the Sri Lankan defense ministry's Media Centre for National Security, after overnight fighting, troops captured a small stretch of the fortified earth bund on the morning of April 20, and between 25,000 and 30,000 civilians trapped behind the bund streamed through. (See pictures of Sri Lanka: Tiger Territory...
...More than 60% of the killings, assaults and kidnappings are concentrated in just three places: Somalia, Sudan's Darfur region, and Afghanistan. Together with four other countries - Sri Lanka, Chad, Iraq and Pakistan - they make up three-quarters of the 270 attacks against aid workers recorded last year. That's hardly a surprise to big international aid organizations, whose workers in those places remained long after the risks had driven out almost all other Westerners. (See pictures of the perils of childbirth in Afghanistan...
...Indians can capture Prabhakaran and his chief lieutenants, then at most the separatists will only be capable of residual terrorism. But if they fail, then Prabhakaran will live to regroup and fight another day." - A Sri Lankan defense official, during the late 80's Indian assault against the Tamil Tigers. That was 22 years ago. (The Washington Post...
Already, New Delhi and Beijing seem to be focusing their naval strategies on each other. China is constructing naval stations and refueling ports around India, including in Burma, Sri Lanka and India's nemesis Pakistan; India has transformed a beautiful bay in the southern state of Karnataka into an advanced naval installation. Chinese strategic planners look jealously on the fact that India has an aircraft carrier (the recommissioned H.M.S. Hermes, purchased from the British Royal Navy and now called the I.N.S. Viraat...