Sri Lankan troops hunting down East for stray tiger terrorists

by israeli.agent | June 5, 2009 at 11:07 pm

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Having convinced tat the saying " A good terrorist is a dead terrorist" Sri Lankan army is hunting down the remaining stray LTTE terrorists in the Eastern part of the country.

The military in Sri Lanka said Saturday that at least two Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a search operation in the east on Friday.

Officials from the Ministry of Defense said the two members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were killed Friday afternoon in eastern Ampara district's Pottuvil area.

The troops are on the hunt for LTTE rebels who are believed to have escaped into eastern jungles from the northeastern Mullaittivu district during the final battles at the end of last month.

Elsewhere at Valaichchenai in the eastern Batticaloa district, the troops, during a search operation, had found weapons and ammunition hidden by the rebels, the officials said.

The government on May 19 announced the end to the 30-year-old armed conflict in the island.

Most of the eastern rebels have surrendered to the government with the announcement of the death of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. The LTTE began to fight for an independent homeland for the minority Tamils in the 1980s based on claims that the Tamils were being discriminated by the majority Sinhalese-dominated governments.