Many Lankans believe victory imminent - National Post

Walter Jayawardhana

Starting a six part series on the military situation in Sri Lanka, Toronto’s National Post writer Stewart Bell in a story filed from Vavuniya says most of the people in Sri Lanka have started believing in a military victory for Sri Lankan Security Forces against the tigers by recapturing the only surviving Tiger strong hold.

Bell wrote: “Many in Sri Lanka are talking about victory, possibly by the end of the year.

Government Forces have been steadily advancing into rebel-held territory, capturing one town after the next, and are now only a few kilometres from Kilinochchi.” The government has granted the National Post to enter the frontline areas and Bell has interviewed many leaders including the President, the Defence Secretary and Tamil leaders in the six part series.