2 130 MM taken away by Tigers
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SLA faces tough choices
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[TamilNet, October 01, 1998 09:36 GMT]
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The Liberation Tigers' Operation Unceasing Waves II has completely
destroyed the basic protective stratum of the gateway to Jaffna. The
massive Elephant Pass base complex of the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) is now
the sole barrier between the Liberation Tigers and the Jaffna
peninsula.
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The SLA base complex that fell to the Liberation Tigers on Monday lay
spread across a fifteen kilometre expanse from the northern part of
the Kilinochchi town to Kunchipparanthan, Uruththirapuram and other
villages to the west and south west of the highway to Jaffna.
The SLA's Paranthan base now stands completely exposed to barrages
from the LTTE's heavy artillery units that have grown more powerful
with the acquisition of several big guns from the Kilinochchi base
complex on Monday.
Unconfirmed reports said that the Tigers may have removed two 130 mm
artillery pieces among other weapons. The 130 mm guns are the most
powerful long range artillery in the SLA's arsenal.
As the Liberation Tigers themselves admitted, they had to bring in a
large number of civilians on Monday night to help remove weapons,
ammunition and vehicles from the Kilinochchi base, as the task was so
formidable as to be beyond their capacity.
The quantity of heavy weapons that they seized from the SLA is
unprecedented, said an informed source in the Vanni.
In these circumstances, many SLA defence planners appear to feel that
the Paranthan camp, located in the premises and buildings of the
Chemical Corporation, should be pulled back soon into the Elephant
Pass base.
They say that the LTTE can simply overrun this camp that juts out from
the gateway to Jaffna, like a narrow promontory in dangerously hostile
terrain.
But this throws the planners on the horns of a dilemma; pulling back
the Paranthan camp will expose the Elephant Pass base - or at least
one of its key sectors - to the Liberation Tigers.
The problem facing the Sri Lankan government now is that the LTTE may
overrun at least part of the Elephant Pass base with its greatly
enhanced fire power, which could eventually bring the Thenmaradchi
division of the Jaffna peninsula under the LTTE control.
Solving this problem by retaking Kilinochchi is currently impossible
given the logistical difficulties of launching another massive thrust
from the air and sea supplied peninsula.
But saving Jaffna's strategic gateway by attempting to push north with
greater speed on the A9 highway is quite evidently an impossible task,
judging from the fierce resistance put up by the Liberation Tigers at
Mankulam junction yesterday.
The Sri Lankan army claimed it had captured the town but the Voice of
Tigers radio said that there was heavy fighting near Mankulam junction
yesterday.
One informed analyst in Colombo said that if the army had indeed
captured Mankulam yesterday morning, the LTTE would not have been able
to arrange the handing over of the six hundred bodies of SLA troops to
the ICRC at Mallavi which is eight kilometers west of the town.
Related stories:
* 30.09.1998: TamilNet:
Tigers hand over 600 SLA bodies
* 30.09.1998: TamilNet:
Mankulam captured - Radio
* 30.09.1998: TamilNet:
Kilinochchi base captured - LTTE
* 30.09.1998: TamilNet:
MoD says 'in control'
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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
A COOLIE is trying to be ambitious before running out of Kilinochchi.
he he he he he he he he he he he
Umberto Gui
Pon Kulendiren
It is not ambitious.. It is a fact. You will see the fire works soon. Prepare
coffins for another 2K soldiers. Count your name also
Umberto Gui wrote:
> > [TN/98100101] ŠTamilNet 1998
Umberto Gui
>
> Adai madaiya Umbatta gooo
>
> It is not ambitious.. It is a fact. You will see the fire works soon. Prepare
> coffins for another 2K soldiers. Count your name also
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
LTTE COOLIE News Item This FEBRUARY
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Kilinochchi military complex
overrun - Radio
[TamilNet, February 02, 1998]
The LTTE has overrun the defences and destroyed
the camps and minicamps of the Kilinochchi military
base complex, said the Voice of Tigers (VoT) in its
night broadcast today.
The radio said that the LTTE's attack began in the
early hours of
yesterday around 1.30 a.m. and that Tigers had
broken through the
army's heavy defences into the base and overrun the
large camps
and mini camps in the Kilinochchi military complex.
The Tigers took away a large quantity of military
hardware and
documents from the areas which they have captured in
Kilinochchi
thus far, said the radio.
http://www.tamilnet.com/reports/98/02/0209.html
LTTE COOLIE News Item this September
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Kilinochchi base captured - LTTE
[TamilNet, September 28, 1998 19:47 GMT]
The Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio said this evening
that the
LTTE had taken 'complete control' of the Sri Lanka
Army
(SLA) base at Kilinochchi following heavy fighting
over the
past two days. The Tigers have recovered the bodies
of
hundreds of SLA troops the radio said.
SLA defence lines and bunkers in the Kilinochchi base
had been completely
destroyed in the assault, the radio said.
The SLA artillery positions and armouries at the
Elephant Pass Base and
Iyakachchi were also destroyed by the Tigers, said
the radio.
SLA reinforcements from the Elephant Pass and
Paranthan SLA bases which
had rushed to rescue the Kilinochchi base had also
come under heavy Tiger
attack and been forced to withdraw, the radio added.
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ha ha hah aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hh aha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha hha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah
The intelligent LTTE COOLIES who are an ancient peoples have captured
the Kilinochchi base in February and then decided to capture the base
from themselves again in September..
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
So These LTTE COOLIES MODAYANS in February sacifise Tamil children and
women, making them run over razor wire and minefields and tell the Tamil
FOOLS in the West, that they have captured the Kilinochchi base, claim
great victories and then in September, they are again capturing the
same base, again making Tamil children and women run over minefields and
razor wire and again claiming great victories...
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha h ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha h ha
What a bunch of FOOLS.
Umberto Gui