A police officer stands guard as Red Cross workers bury the bodies of Tamil rebel fighters in a cemetery in Vavuniya, about 210 kilometers (131 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Sri Lankan air force jets bombed Tamil Tiger artillery guns and key rebel positions Tuesday, a day after ground troops captured a rebel base and training camp in their march toward the insurgents' last stronghold in the north, the military said. (AP Photo/Sanath Priyantha)From the Guardian:
International concern is intensifying over the fate of around 350,000 civilians trapped in a rapidly shrinking rebel-controlled pocket of land in Sri Lanka's north east, as the military steps up its campaign to end the civil war by crushing the Tamil Tiger forces.
The Sri Lankan army this week announced that it had seized new swathes of territory from the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), forcing the dwindling guerrilla forces to retreat to their last remaining stronghold, the small coastal town of Mullaitivu.
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My Comment: The end game in a war always brings about the worse in people .... we are now witnessing the worse in this war.