Sri Lanka: Heavy fighting kills 49 rebels (The Charlotte Observer)
Yahoo October 14th, 2008(By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI, Associated Press Writer) Government forces pounded rebel defenses with airstrikes and ground assaults as heavy fighting across northern Sri Lanka killed 49 Tamil Tiger fighters and seven soldiers, the military said Wednesday. The new fighting came as soldiers closed in on the rebels’ administrative capital of Kilinochchi in a campaign aimed at routing the guerrillas …
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