Tigers fight on to the last in Jaffna

From: The Independent - London | Date: November 21, 1995| Author: TIM McGIRK Colombo | Copyright information

TIM McGIRK

Colombo

After a month of fighting the Tamil Tigers, thousands of Sri Lankan troops yesterday advanced into the rebel city of Jaffna. A military spokesman in Colombo, however, said the government forces were one and a half miles from Jaffna's centre and had run into stiff resistance from the Tigers.

Even before the Sri Lankan army began its final assault on Jaffna, this was already a city disfigured by war. Two previous onslaughts against the Liberation Tigers of...

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