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Sri Lanka soldiers seize rebel camp in north
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI,Associated Press Writer AP - 1 hour 9 minutes ago
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan troops seized another Tamil Tiger training camp as government forces pressed ahead with their offensive against the separatist rebels in the island's north, the military said Saturday.
The military has said it has won a string of major victories in recent months, including the capture of the Tamil Tigers' administrative capital of Kilinochchi, and that it has effectively boxed the remaining rebels into a pocket of land in the northeast.
The government has vowed to crush the rebel movement and end the Indian Ocean island nation's 25-year-old civil war in the coming months.
In the latest fighting, soldiers pushed deep into the rebels' last stronghold of Mullaittivu district on the northeast coast on Friday and seized a training camp in the village of Puthukudiyiruppu, the military said in a statement.
It did not provide casualty details.
Separately, soldiers clashed with rebels in Chundikulam village in the same district and hours later recovered the bodies of two rebel fighters, the statement said.
Rebel spokesmen could not be contacted for comment because communication to the north has been severed. Journalists have been banned from the northern war zone.
The rebels have fought since 1983 to establish an independent state for minority Tamils, who have suffered decades of marginalization at the hands of successive governments controlled by the Sinhalese majority. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.
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