From The Washington Times:COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Rebel forces were retreating Wednesday from the town of Kilinochchi and the government expected to capture the Tamil Tiger's administrative capital imminently, a senior official said.
The fall of Kilinochchi would be devastating to the separatist group, which once controlled a large de facto state in northern Sri Lanka but has been forced into a rapid retreat in the face of a massive military offensive.
Though the town has little military importance — and the rebels would almost certainly fight on without it — it is seen as one of the most significant symbols of the rebels' decades-long fight to create an independent state in the north and east of this Indian Ocean island nation.
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