COLOMBO: Sri Lankan soldiers fought a series of fierce battles with separatist Tamil Tigers as troops advanced further into the rebels’ shrinking territory, the military said Sunday.
Government forces have won a string of major victories against the insurgents in recent months, capturing their administrative capital of Kilinochchi and seizing their main bases in the north. The government says it is on the verge of crushing the rebel group– which is cornered into a 58-square mile (93-squarekilometer) strip of northern coastal land in Mullaittivu—and ending the Indian Ocean island nation’s 25-year-old civil war.
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