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Sri Lanka: LTTE Repulses Paalamodai Attack in Vavuniya

Feb 1, 2008, 18:26

Vavuniya - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan security forces (SF) clashed in Paalamodai in Vavuniya area when SF troopers tried to advance into the LTTE held area using heavy artillery and mortars on Friday. LTTE repulsed the attacks by the SF troopers, at least 3 SF troopers were killed and 7 SF troopers were wounded, according rebel sources in Vavuniya.

The SF troopers and LTTE also clashed in Padivirichan Mannar area as SF troopers used heavy artillery fire but faced the stiff resistance from LTTE cadres and SF troopers incurred heavy losses and retreated to their original positions, casualties are not known yet, informed sources from military said.

Meanwhile, informed military sources in Colombo said that large numbers of dead soldiers, except officers, were being buried in Mannaar. The numbers of SF troopers losing legs in LTTE laid booby traps have increased, forcing SF to transport only the wounded from the battle zone. Recently, a high ranking officer was killed in a heavy fighting with the Tigers in Paalaikkuzhi area.

Sri Lankan government recently 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 while half a million people internally displaced and over million people externally displaced. At least 5,800 people have been killed in last two years alone, a right group said.