Sri Lanka’s military offensive against LTTE terror is
rapidly moving towards an end with the capture of the biggest LTTE defence
complexes in the northern theatre. The 800-metre-long and eight-kilometre-wide
‘defended area’ collapsed at about 5 a.m. yesterday following a week-long
assault carried out by 53 and 55 Divisions. The two Divisions which had been conducting small scale
incursions targeting LTTE positions launched the long awaited attack as
the Task Force I (TF I) brought Pooneryn on the Vanni mainland under its
control on November 15. Mankulam fell two days later.
Indan High Commissioner Alok
Prasad(c) with Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona and UN
Chief in Colombo Neil Bhune at the ICRC warehouse. Pic Nihal
Chandrakumara
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