TNS Corner
Sri Lanka: Heavy Fighting in Manaar Kills 10 SF injures 20

May 2, 2008, 15:13

Manaar – The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan security forces (SF) clashed in two separate attacks in Mannar,  when the SF troopers tried to advance into the LTTE held area using heavy tanks, artillery and mortars from Karukkaikulam and Thiruketheecharam area.  At least 10 SF troopers were killed and at least 20 SF troopers were wounded within past twenty four hours and attacks by SF was repulsed, according rebel sources in Mannar.

Sri Lankan government early this year, unilaterally scrapped the truce pact which was signed between the LTTE and the GoSL in February 2002 under the Norway mediation. 

The civil war in Sri Lanka killed at least 80,000 people in which vast majority of them were ethnic Tamils while half a million Tamil people internally displaced and over million Tamil people externally displaced. At least 5,800 people have been killed in last two years alone, a right group said.