Kilinochchi liberated- Countdown to extinction begins for LTTE
The 57 Division and the Task Force 1 of Sri Lanka Army today (Jan 2)
scored the greatest victory in their noble battle against terrorism by
liberating the Kilinochchi town, the so-called administrative hub of the
LTTE terrorists.
Troops of 57 Division lead by Major General Jagath Dias have entered
into the highly defended terrorists stronghold from the South and
Southwestern boundaries while the Task Force 1 troops lead by Brigadier
Shavendra Silva have marched in from the North and Northwest.
Kilinochchi, though not very strategically located in terms of
military maneuvers, has been given a great symbolic importance by the
LTTE terrorists as their administrative "capital". In fact, the LTTE
propaganda elements used to call the town as their de facto capital of
the utopian state of "Eelam". However , Sri Lanka government has been
running all civil administrative affairs in the area, including bank and
finance, education, health, trade and welfare .
The terrorist first took hold of the town in 1990 when the Army
withdrew its garrisons from Kilinochchi. Then the area was liberated by
the Army during operations Sathjaya I, II, and III in September 1996.
The town again fell into the terrorists' hand in September 1998 and had
their administrative hub there ever since.
The LTTE is a ruthless terrorists outfit that has been engaged in a
bloody terrorist campaign against the citizens of Sri Lanka since 1983.
Lead by a psychopathic chief , the outfit has been trying to establish
an ethnically pure Tamil state on the Sri Lankan soil. The LTTE is also
the first terrorist outfit to use suicide bombers, and to develop naval
and aerial fighting capability. The outfit is listed in the UN list of
shame for using child soldiers and banned in many countries in the
world. |