Sri Lankan government forces have pushed north in a crackdown against LTTE fighters [File: AFP]From International Herald Tribune:
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan soldiers captured a town straddling crucial rebel supply routes Monday and crossed a highway that had served as a symbolic barrier between the Tamil Tigers and the advancing troops, the military said.
The capture of the crossroads at Mankulam was the latest sign of the military's battlefield success against the rebel group after 25 years of civil war. Just two days earlier, troops overran the last rebel fortifications on the west coast, forcing the retreating insurgents into a shrinking corner of territory in the island's northeast.
The fall of Mankulam is seen as an important victory for the government because of its location along main roads to the rebels' two major strongholds — Kilinochchi to north and Mullaitivu to the east.
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My Comment: The slow march to take Tiger territory continues. This war is going to go on till the bitter end.