Word: stronghold
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...year-long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam finally ended this year after Sri Lanka's army closed in on the separatist group's last stronghold, killing Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. At least 7,000 Tamil civilians died in the offensive; another 250,000 were displaced by the fighting. In December the government moved to accelerate their resettlement...
McNiff added that he did not believe Massachusetts’ reputation for being a Democratic stronghold necessarily deterred voters of either party. “The election of a Senator is an important ballot to cast, so I think people would turn out for that reason,” he said...
...cold February night in 1951, South Korean troops moved swiftly to take a communist guerrilla stronghold on Bulgap Mountain, at a county called Hampyeong in the Korean peninsula's southwest corner. By the time they scaled the ridge, the rebels had fled. That's when the bloodshed began. Suspecting the villagers in the area had helped the enemy, the soldiers made them kneel in a trench, then shoved sharpened bamboo sticks down their throats and shot them...
...Tucked away on 300 acres of hilly jungle terrain, just north of a notorious Naxal stronghold, the college is strategically positioned to drill police forces in a strategy that until recently was reserved for training select army special forces: fight a guerilla like a guerilla. "Police are trained for carrying out normal law-and-order duties. They're not prepared for jungle combat or jungle living, but that's precisely what they must know to take on Naxals," explains the state's director general of police, Vishwa Ranjan. For decades the state had dismissed the Naxal movement's creeping ascendancy...
...those militants that pose a direct challenge to its authority on home soil. Buoyed by its successes in last May's campaign to drive the Taliban out of the Swat Valley, it has for the past month deployed some 30,000 troops to confront the militants in their main stronghold of South Waziristan, along the Afghan border. The army has steadily cleared territory eastward, seizing some of the Pakistani Taliban's most prized bases, but also sparking a vicious wave of terrorist attacks that continues to claim innocent lives on a near daily basis. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable...