Sri Lanka launches offensive against Tamil Tigers

Sri Lanka’s military launched a new offensive against the Tamil Tigers rebels on the island’s north-west, a military spokesman said today.

Sri Lanka launches offensive against Tamil Tigers
Sat, 01 Sep, 2007 - 10:06
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Sri Lanka’s military launched a new offensive against the Tamil Tigers rebels on the island’s north-west, a military spokesman said today.

“This operation was launched to liberate areas south of Mannar to neutralise LTTE threat,” Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said, using the acronym of rebel’s formal name, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

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