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Ranil WIJAYAPALA] The situation in Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi, the narrow stretch of land where the LTTE has been entrapped along with a 200,000 civilian population is now becoming more sensitive with the Tiger outfit making desperate attempts to defend themselves from the pending definite defeat at the hands of the Security Forces. False propaganda has become the main tool of the LTTE especially aiming to mislead the civilian population entrapped in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts who have turned out to be their saviour at this moment. LTTE bunkers at Jeevan Base Intelligence reports indicate that the LTTE has been engaged in an intense campaign to convince the civilians that troops have been withdrawn from Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu battlefront. The most aggressive campaign is going on at the Mannar front where troops attached to the 58 Division under the command of Brigadier Shavendra Silva who has already entered Kilinochchi district passing the Mannar- Kilinochchi boundary, a...

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More than 100 bunkers captured The army on Saturday reached the western edge of the Nayaru lagoon in Welioya and overran another key LTTE base north of Andankulam with more than one hundred bunkers after a fierce battle, in the south of Mullaitivu in the North-eastern region, the military said. “‘Jeevan Base’, as it was called, that came under army control on Saturday evening had been used by the LTTE as a large underground training facility,” military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said adding that “on the side of the training base, located about 1.5 km southwest of the western edge of the Nayaru lagoon, troops found a graveyard in with 67 tombs of LTTE cadres.” He said four buildings with an area of about 1250 square metres, one hundred underground bunkers, thirty five lavatories, two concrete bunkers of 15 x 15 feet, two wheelbarrows, forty empty barrels, and a heap of slippers were found inside the base which consisted part of their 14-Base Complex in the Welioya area. Acco...

Security forces inching to Pooneryn, Kilinochchi Female Tiger cadres removed from battlefront, replaced by Charles Anthony units On August 1 after many reversals on the battle field, the Tigers hit back. The attack was anticipated and its ferocity took a toll on the security forces. Elite fighting units of the LTTE, the Charles Anthony and Imran Pandian Brigades launched a major counter attack against the army’s 57 Division, which was consolidating the newly captured areas south of Mallavi. The troops were busy digging trenches and bunkers when they were confronted by waves of guerrilla fighters of the battle hardened fighting formations of the LTTE. Two weeks back, the military monitored a heavy build up of LTTE cadres in Mallavi and Thunukkai, following the rout of a unit of a Charles Anthony “regiment” in Vannikulam. The Tiger cadres retreated from Vannikulam towards Mallavi and Thunukkai, two strategically important towns with a sizable civilian population. Intelligence so...