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| Sri Lanka |
| Sri Lankan jets bomb rebel base |
| 2008-07-31 |
| Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed a rebel base in the far north of the island on Wednesday, the military said, as government forces continued their push against the rebels' northern stronghold. "It was a Black Tiger (suicide fighter) training centre northwest of Iranamadu tank in Mullaitivu," said air force spokesman Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara. The military said ground troops had also killed 20 Tamil Tiger rebels in day-earlier fighting. Four soldiers were also killed. The air raids on a Tamil Tiger rebel base in rebel-held Mullaitivu, and the fighting in several northern districts, came as the military blamed the Tigers for breaching their own unilateral ceasefire by firing artillery in the army-controlled northern Jaffna peninsula, which separates the rest of Sri Lanka from the rebel-held north. "They (rebels) fired about 10 rounds of artillery and two soldiers injured," said military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara. |
| Posted by:Fred |