Sri Lankan Army captured the leader of the bunker "Tamil Tigers".

KommentariiVyigrat mir03.02.2009Armiya Sri Lanka almost won "Tamil Tigers," Sri Lanka army captured an underground bunker leader "Tamil Tigers" Velupillaya Prabhakarana (Velupillai Prabhakaran), transfer agency AFP, citing representatives of the Ministry of Defense of Sri Lanka.

Equipped with two electric underground bunker, located near the town of Mullaitivu, hold about twenty Tamil separatists, they were all killed.

Most Velupillaya Prabhakarana could not be found. Lankan authorities suggest that the 54-year-old leader of the "tigers" have already fled to the island. Also reported that government troops have seized equipped "Tamil Tigers" runways.

Recall that as a result of a massive offensive Lankan army in 2008 and 2009, she actually managed to defeat the "Tamil Tigers", who for 25 years led an armed struggle for the establishment in the north-east Sri Lanka, an independent Tamil state.

Army was able to discourage the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam "vast areas occupied by them in the previous period. The area occupied by the rebels, fell from 18,000 square kilometers to 300 square kilometers.

The army has all the fortified settlements, including the informal capital of the Tamil State - Killinochchi town, as well as the port of Mullaitivu, which was the main channel of supplies separatists. "Tigers" have been marginalized in the jungle.