Tamil Rebels Press Attack On Key Sri Lankan City; Government Invokes Emergency Powers, Vows to Hold Jaffna

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 11, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Fresh attacks by heavily armed Tamil separatist rebels brought them to within a few miles of the northern city of Jaffna today, raising the possibility that the Sri Lankan army may have to surrender the strategically important site.

The assaults were the latest in a major Tamil offensive this spring that has left tens of thousands of government troops trapped near Elephant Pass, the gateway to the narrow Jaffna peninsula. The Tamil advance led the Sri Lanka government to invoke emergency war powers a week ago for the first time in the country's half-century as a democracy.

The rebel ...

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