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Sri Lanka seizes coast and tightens noose on Tigers | World | Reuters

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops on Saturday seized the entire coastline for the first time in a 25-year war with the Tamil Tigers, the military said, cutting off escape for separatist rebels now facing annihilation.

Two divisions marching from north and south sealed the coast, while a third completed the encirclement of the Tigers and their leaders, now trapped in barely a square kilometre (0.5 sq mile) of land without their umbilical access to the sea.

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat May 16th, 2009 at 06:41:50 AM EST
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