Sri Lanka captures Tiger command

[oberliner]

Source: Al Jazeera

The Sri Lankan military says its troops have captured a command centre for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, finding maps and briefing rooms vital to the separatist movement's operations.

"We have captured the main LTTE command centre in Dharmapuram," Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, an army spokesman said on Thursday, adding that troops were conducting clearance operations in the area.

"We think it is a very significant place because they had maps of our brigade-level camps," Nanayakkara said. "This must have been a key centre they used."

Ground troops have pushed further into rebel-held territory in the north of the country over the past few weeks, and claimed to have taken the Dharmapuram facility on Thursday.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/2009122115126296997.html

[Alhena]

1. Seems like that war has been going on forever ...

not sure who the good guys and bad guys are, but that war has killed a lot of people.

[kirby]

2. Sometimes there are no good and bad guys...

The tigers themselves are listed as a terrorist organization. They kidnap and force children to fight, they directed tsunami relief money to their war effort, they use suicide bombers, etc.

And the gov't side is massively corrupt with people having to bribe officials (especially the Polic) to get basic services or to be left alone.

It really is a tragedy.