posted May 24, 2000 11:12 AM            

The Sri Lankan army suffered another serious military debacle in the war for the liberation of Jaffna peninsula as Chavakachcheri town, the capital of Thenmarachchi division, fell to the armed forces of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This strategically important town situated in the heart of the Jaffna peninsula came under the control of the Tamil Tigers after 12 hours of ferocious fighting.

Columns of heavily armed commandos of the Tamil Tigers supported by artillery and mortar fire launched a multi-pronged attack on the Chavakachcheri town in the early hours of the morning today. Intense fighting continued through the day. Unable to sustain the power and fury of the Tiger assault the resistance of the government troops collapsed late in the evening around 6p.m culminating in a chaotic withdrawal. Defeated and demoralised, the troops are fleeing toward Kodigamam town, the last defence position of the Sri Lankan army in the Thenmarachchi sector.

In the bloody battle of Chavakachcheri the Sri Lankan army suffered heavy casualties. Dead bodies of soldiers are scattered all over the town area. The LTTE fighters have also recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition.

In the heavy fighting that continue yesterday and last night, the combat formations of the LTTE overran military bases at Maduvil, Nunavil and Sarasalai junction and brought under their control vast tracts of territory in the Chavakachcheri sector. With the fall of Chavakachcheri town and its surrounding villages to the Liberation Tigers, Kodigamam town stands as the last bastion in the Thenmarachchi division of the peninsula for the fleeing Sri Lankan army.

Taking cover under the iron curtain of draconian censorship laws, the Sri Lankan Defence Ministry has been shamelessly denying all the humiliating military defeats and heavy casualties suffered by the Sri Lankan army during this week and has been propagating false and distorted versions of war news to the world media.

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posted May 24, 2000 12:57 PM         

"They will start hunting down people who have cooperated with the government in bringing back normalcy to Jaffna. The Tigers will certainly resort to revenge killings, eliminate people linked to other Tamil political parties," Siddharthan said.

Most businessmen in the peninsula would become targets of the LTTE. They would be accused of siding with the government, after its troops chased out the rebels from the peninsula in 1995.

As a large number of families in the peninsula depend on remittances from their relatives living overseas, they fear that the LTTE might squeeze them for money. Also the basic facilities like telephone and electricity provided by the government, will disappear, cutting them off from the rest of the world.

posted May 25, 2000 07:28 PM         

if you can come to Jaffna, kariya.

posted May 28, 2000 07:15 AM         

Go and ask the slut Chandrika to blow you and ask that one leg bastard to blow your dirty sinhala bitch.