A tank crew is seen as they drive their way some 1 km away west to the current fighting front line in Puthukudiyiruppu, which was captured in recent days by the Sri Lanka army after fights with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), February 23, 2009. Tamil Tiger rebels told the U.N. and international community on Monday that they are willing to accept a ceasefire with the Sri Lankan government, as Asia's longest-running civil war may be nearing an end. (REUTERS/Nir Elias)/Boston.comFrom The Washington Post:
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Conditions in Sri Lanka's overcrowded war zone have rapidly deteriorated as stranded families packed fields filled with human waste, water supplies dwindled and a makeshift hospital ran out of essential medicines, the top health official in the region said Wednesday.
Aid groups estimate more than 200,000 people are trapped in a small strip of rebel-held territory along the northeast coast as the government wages an all-out offensive to destroy the Tamil Tiger rebels and end this country's 25-year-old civil war.
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My Comment: My father served in the Russian Army during the Second World War from the summer of 1941 to the end of the war. He told me that the worse time for him were the last three days.
For Sri Lanka, the last few daysof their war is going to be very bloody.
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