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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Sri Lanka troops overrun last Tiger town: army chief AFP - 1 hour 36 minutes ago COLOMBO (AFP) - - Sri Lankan troops on Sunday overran the last town controlled by Tamil rebels, army chief Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka said, striking a significant blow in Asia's longest-running ethnic conflict. "We have completely captured Mullaittivu," the army chief said in a televised address to the nation. The fall of Mullaittivu is a major loss to Tiger rebels who were dislodged from their political capital of Kilinochchi three weeks ago. Since July 2007, the Tigers have been steadily losing territory. "We have cleared 95 percent of the work (to defeat the Tigers)," Fonseka said. "The end of terrorism is near and we will definitely win. The Tiger garrison of Mullaittivu was destroyed today." He said troops fought their way through 40 kilometres (25 miles) of thick jungle and climbed over earth barriers erected by the Tigers in their drawn-out offensive to take Mullaittivu. He said the offensive began almost a year ago. "The Tigers are now confined to a small strip of between 20 kilometres by 15 kilometres (300 square kilometres, 115 square miles)," he said. Earlier in the day, small groups of special forces backed by 50,000 soldiers and helicopter gunships entered the rebel garrison town of Mullaittivu amid heavy rebel resistance. The advance was the latest in a series of successes for the government in a massive military assault aimed at ending the separatist conflict led by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Troops in small groups used boats to enter the western side of Mullaittivu, the only remaining urban stronghold of the LTTE, a military official told AFP on condition of anonymity. The Tigers had blown up a dam and flooded surrounding areas on Saturday in a bid to stall the military's progress towards Mullaittivu town, but troops used the boats to reach the town's outskirts, the official said. After retaking the rebels' main city of Kilinochchi earlier this month, the army vowed to capture rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran as troops stormed into territory long under the complete control of the guerrillas. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said in a New Year's address that 2009 would be the year of "heroic victory" over the Tigers, who have been waging war since 1972 to establish an independent homeland for ethnic Tamils. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since the conflict began but Rajapakse's government pulled out of an on-off ceasefire last year and launched a fresh campaign to crush the Tigers once and for all. The guerrillas are known to maintain their main military facilities in the lagoon and jungle district of Mullaittivu, from where security forces were ejected in 1996. Since then, the Tigers have had a free run of the northeastern coastline to smuggle in arms and ammunition. The Tigers have not commented on the latest fighting, but Prabhakaran said last year that he would fight on. The group became known for their trademark suicide bombings. The army chief said his forces would free hundreds of thousands of civilians who were still being held hostage by the Tigers. Yasushi Akashi, a senior Japanese peace envoy to Sri Lanka, on Sunday urged the government and rebels to allow aid workers access to civilians caught up in the violence. "It is an urgent humanitarian issue," Akashi told reporters at the end of his five-day visit representing Japan, which provides nearly two-thirds of all foreign aid to the island. "There is a need for more frequent access for aid agencies, to get more food convoys behind the front lines, to evacuate those wounded and ill," he said. Human rights groups have criticised the Tigers for forcing children to fight as soldiers, and the LTTE has been labelled a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union and neighbouring India. 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