Sri Lankan Civilians Trapped By Tamil Tigers 'Last Stand' -- Christian Science Monitor
As the fighting has shrunk to a three-square mile strip of rebel-held land, Sri Lanka's military has framed its offensive as the world's 'largest hostage rescue mission.'
Putumattalan, Sri Lanka - On the far shore of a brackish lagoon, white Brahmin cows stoop to drink. Behind them, over a muddy embankment, palm trees frame a row of abandoned shelters on a sandy beach. Just two weeks ago, this was a Tamil Tiger stronghold.
A few miles south, hundreds of Tamil rebels are making a final, desperate stand in Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war. Held there, as pawns in the military endgame, are tens of thousands of ethnic-Tamil civilians. Short on food and water, and pounded by artillery shells, their plight has triggered international concern but no halt in the fighting.
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