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Government announce that The military capatured the Poonakari.

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டயலொக் குறுஞ் செய்தியில் புநகரியை இராணுவம் கைப்பற்றியுள்ளதாக இராணுவத் தளபதி ஐனாதிபதிக்கு அறிவித்துள்ளார்.

பூநகரியை முழுமையாக கைப்பற்றிவிட்டதாக ராணுவத்தினர் தெரிவித்துள்ளனர்.

Sri Lanka army says seizes entire west coast

COLOMBO, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military on Saturday said it had seized the entire western coast of the Indian Ocean island, capturing the strategic Pooneryn area where Tamil Tiger artillery had kept soldiers at bay.

"We have completely taken over Pooneryn. We have gone up to the town, and control the roads from Pooneryn to Paranthan," military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said. "We didn't find any artillery, because they must have taken those pieces away or hidden them." (Reporting by Bryson Hull; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)

http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews...15?rpc=401&

Sri Lanka troops take key town from Tiger rebels

COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lankan security forces on Saturday captured the strategically important northern town of Pooneryn from Tamil Tiger rebels after months of heavy fighting, the defence ministry said.

"Troops of army Task Force One have entered LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) bastion of Pooneryn this morning (Saturday)," the ministry said in a statement. It gave no further details.

Tigers had been occupying Pooneryn after dislodging the main military base there in November 1993.

There was no immediate comment from the Tigers, who had conceded that security had moved deep into territory held by them in the northern parts of the country since the middle of last year.

Security forces in recent months stepped up their offensive in a bid to capture the town of Kilinochchi, the political capital of the Tamil Tigers, but rains and rebel resistance had slowed those operations.

However, with the fall of Pooneryn, the military has taken the north-western seaboard of the island and are poised to open a new land route to the Jaffna peninsula, which had so far been supplied by sea and air routes.

The military has stopped releasing its own casualties figures in daily bulletins since last month, but official figures tabled in parliament show that 1,269 troops had been killed in the first 10 months of this year.

The military had claimed killing over 7,500 Tiger rebels this year since the military pulled out of a Norwegian-arranged truce in January.

The LTTE has been fighting since 1972 to carve out a homeland for minority Tamils from the majority Sinhalese community. Tens of thousands have been killed in the conflict.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081115/wl_st...esttownpooneryn

பூநகரி பகுதி இராணுவம் வசம்

11/15/2008 10:24:02 AM - விடுதலைப்புலிகளின் கட்டுப்பாட்டில் இருந்த பூநகரி பகுதியை இன்று காலை படையினர் தம் வசப்படுத்தியுள்ளதாகப் பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சகம் செய்தி வெளியிட்டுள்ளது.

http://www.virakesari.lk/news/head_view.asp?key_c=8385

Sri Lanka military seizes key Tamil stronghold

The Associated PressPublished: November 15, 2008

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's government says it has established a land link to Jaffna, the heartland of the country's ethnic minority Tamils, by seizing a key rebel stronghold on the west coast.

Lakshman Hulugalle, the chief of the government security information center, says soldiers seized control of Pooneryn village on Saturday.

He says the military will be able to access the previously isolated, government-controlled Jaffna peninsula by land now they have Pooneryn.

Jaffna has been accessible only by air since 2006 when the government closed another major road citing security reasons. That road cut through rebel territory.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/15/...a-Civil-War.php

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