Sri Lanka: beginning of the end for Tamil Tigers?

On November 27, 2008, Velupillai Prabhakaran, supremo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, proclaimed in his annual Heroes’ Day message that the Sinhala state was “living in a dreamland of military victory.” He promised that it was “a dream from which it will awake.” A month earlier he had declared the capture of Kilinochchi — the LTTE’s administrative hub and de facto ‘capital’ following the loss of Jaffna in 1995 — to be “a day dream of Rajapaksa.” The realisation of this dream in the New Year is a body blow from which there can be no recovery as far as anyone knows. This is true in a political as much as military sense. Militarily, the LTTE has taken a continuous battering over the past two years. More...

See also:

1. Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers lose key town, but war far from over...
2. Sri Lanka: troops enter Kilinochchi...
3. Sri Lanka: it all started, 25 years ago...