Lankan troops ready for the final assualt
Colombo, May 16: Sri Lankan troops seized the entire coastline area for the first time with the Tamil tigers from past 25 years.The two divisions of the Sri Lankan's troops marched from the north and south covered the coast, now the tigers and their leaders are trapped in a square kilometer.
Sri
Lanka's
military
said
that
it
wont
take
more
than
48
hours
to
free
thousands
of
people
from
the
Tigers.
Military
spokesman
Brigadier
Udaya
Nanayakkara
said,
"Now
we
have
linked
up
on
the
coastline
and
the
Sea
Tigers'
activities
are
no
more," He
also
added
that
the
troops
were
still
closing
in
on
the
rebels
and
more
civilians
were
fleeing
from
the
battle
zone.
The
Tigers
refused
to
surrender
and
free
the
civilians,
whereas
the
government
rejected
the
calls
to
stop
its
assaults
to
protect
the
people.
This
signaled
the
military
troops
to
finish
the
war
despite
the
strong
urgings
from
the
UN
Security
Council
and
US
President
Barack
Obama.
The military spokesman Nanayakkara said that military intelligence indicates, Prabhakaran and other senior Tigers are in the remaining LTTE territory.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) warned that a conventional victory would lead to a new phase of conflict. Futhur, S. Pathmanathan said, "Colombo's approach to finish the war in 48 hours through a carnage and bloodbath of civilians will never resolve a conflict of decades. On the contrary it will only escalate the crisis to unforeseen heights."
OneIndia News