Sri Lanka Army 'completes Jaffna takeover'

by Sanjay Jha | January 15, 2009 at 03:51 am

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Sri Lankan government forces are progressing forward in rebel held areas after sucessfully capturing two major strategic vantage points. And now the last remaining strip of rebel-held land on the northern Jaffna peninsula is now in government hands.

The peninsula and its capital, Jaffna, have long been regarded as the symbolic heart of their 25-year-old separatist insurgency.

Sri Lanka Army 55 Division soldiers this evening (Jan 14) liberated Chundikulam, the landmass that links the Jaffna peninsula with the mainland.

According to the defence sources, Sri Lanka Army has liberated the whole Jaffna peninsula from terrorist clutches with this victory. Heroic troops of 551 Brigade (1 Gemunu Regiment, 1 Sri Lanka Light infantry and Commandos) joined in accomplishing this mission and it is observed that large number of vehicles including dozers, buses, tractors, canters and boats have been destroyed by exploding most of them by the fleeing LTTE terrorists.