Sri Lanka Says It Captured Key Rebel Base -- Yahoo News/AP
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan forces captured the strategic Elephant Pass base from the Tamil Tigers on Friday, ousting the rebels from their last stronghold on the Jaffna peninsula and boxing them into a shrinking pocket of land in the northeast.
In a nationally televised address, President Mahinda Rajapaksa praised the victory.
"Our soldiers by this evening have been able to totally liberate Elephant Pass from the clutches of the" rebels, he said.
The capture of the base gives the government nearly full control of the northern peninsula, the Tamil's cultural capital, for the first time since 2000. It also puts the country's major north-south highway completely under its control for the first time in 23 years.
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