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Sri Lankan military: Battle kills 2 Tamil rebels
AP - 48 minutes ago
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan police commandoes attacked and killed two Tamil Tiger rebels on Sunday in the country's east, an area captured by government forces a year ago, the military said.
Police Special Task Force officers attacked a group of guerrillas in a jungle in Batticaloa district, said military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara.
He said troops recovered the bodies of the two rebels along with an assault rifle, ammunition and a large quantity of anti-personnel mines.
The government said it drove the rebels out of the east last year, though pockets of resistance remain.
Fighting has escalated in recent months in the 25-year-old civil war after the military captured a series of rebel bases and large chunks of territory in the north. Forces have been locked in intense battles with Tamil separatists on the edge of the rebels' de facto capital of Kilinochchi for weeks, despite recently predicting the city's "imminent fall."
Officials have pledged to crush the guerrillas by the end of the year.
Rebel spokesmen could not be contacted for comment because all communications to the north have been severed. It is difficult to obtain independent accounts from the battlefield because journalists are barred from the war zone.
The Tamil Tigers have fought since 1983 to create an independent homeland for ethnic minority Tamils, who have suffered marginalization at the hands of successive governments controlled by ethnic Sinhalese.
More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.
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