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Sri Lanka Rebels Seek Jaffna Boost
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DILIP GANGULY, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
04-30-2000
Sri Lanka Rebels Seek Jaffna Boost
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Jaffna doesn't look like a place worth dying for.
After 17 years of war, most homes in Sri Lanka's second biggest city are marred by bullet holes. There are landmines in the school playgrounds. Food and power are scarce. The city is surrounded by miles of dry, flat landscape.
But retaking Jaffna from the government would be a huge morale boost for ethnic Tamil rebels who have mounted an advance toward the city that in four months has so far left more than 1,380 dead.
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