Proved again, seeing as that incident is forgotten in ANOTHER BRIEF!!!
"Sri Lanka: Last Tamil stronghold falls
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan forces captured the Tamil Tigers' last major stronghold yesterday, confining the rebels to a narrow slice of jungle and ending their decade-long domination of the country's north. Army commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka said the bloody ethnic separatist war that has plagued this island nation since 1983 was nearly over.
But analysts warn that it is simply shifting from a conventional fight between two armies to a guerrilla war likely to be fought among the estimated 250,000 displaced civilians reportedly trapped in the northern jungles with the rebels. In recent weeks, the Sri Lankan army drove the rebels from their administrative capital of Kilinochchi and forced them to retreat from most of the de facto state they controlled across a wide swath of the north.
Yesterday afternoon, troops entered the coastal town of Mullaittivu, the last major town under the rebels' control and drove off the fighters remaining inside, the military said. "The Sri Lankan army captured the Mullaittivu bastion completely today," Fonseka said in a speech broadcast yesterday evening.
--more--"Nothing about the shelling of a civilian safe area, huh?
