Sri Lankan army soldiers ride a battle tank in the Tamil Tiger rebels' fallen administrative capital of Kilinochchi Photo: APSri Lanka Pushes Into Rebel-Held Jungles
-- International Herald Tribune
-- International Herald Tribune
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Small teams of Sri Lankan soldiers have pushed ahead of the front lines in the north to root out rebels from their heavily mined jungle hide-outs, the military said Wednesday.
The thrust into the northern jungles came amid a military offensive that drove the rebels from their administrative capital of Kilinochchi and forced them into a shrinking pocket of territory in the northeast roughly the size of Los Angeles.
The government has said it aimed to crush the rebel group and end this Indian Ocean island nation's quarter-century-old civil war.
Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said Wednesday that soldiers in groups of four to eight were slipping over the front lines into the thick jungles east of the captured town of Kilinochchi to flush the Tamil Tigers from their extensive network of bunkers there.
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