Sri Lankan soldiers on patrol (Photo from Camp Steel Wire )From The Telegraph:
The Sri Lankan army has won control of a strategic town from the Tamil Tiger in a move that could signal an end to the country's 25-year old civil war.
Helicopter gunships and fighter jets attacked defence lines of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on the Jaffna Peninsula hours after the military recaptured Pooneryn after nearly 15 years from the separatists following months of fierce fighting.
Soon after seizing the town in the north of the island, President Mahinda Rajapakse urged the rebels in a nationwide televised address to lay down their arms and surrender.
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My Comment: This war keeps on grinding .... but the momentum favors the Sri Lankan military.