Sri Lanka has officially declared the war.

Press konferentsiiBoris Volhonskiy29.04.2009Chem the battle between the Sri Lankan authorities and the separatists? Defense Minister of Sri Lanka Gotabhaya Rajapakse (Gotabhaya Rajapakse) May 18, broadcast on national television reported his brother, President Mahinda Rajapakse that the military operation against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has been successfully completed. Reported AFP.
After the ceremony, the country's leaders and military leaders met behind closed doors. Expected that the May 19, the president will make a formal address to the nation.
The authorities also told journalists that the body of slain rebel leader Velupillaya Prabhakarana (Velupillai Prabhakaran) will be subjected to DNA examination, as well as the body and other leaders of the "Tamil Tigers".
On the Elimination of Prahabkarana, as well as his son, heads the political wing grouping, the director of its peace secretariat and the military leader of the Tamils, it was announced the morning of May 18. The Ministry of Defense said that the group leader was killed during an attempted escape from government troops. Reportedly, however, that the body is severely burned and should be subjected to examination.
The grouping of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was founded in 1976 and since 1983 she has been civil war for an independent Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka.
The large-scale military operation against the "Tigers" began in January 2009. As a result of it not less than 6.5 thousand civilians were killed and another 200 thousand people became refugees. By mid-May, a group of rebels pushed to a small area north-east of the country. On 16 May it was announced that the Tamils almost defeated, and the continued resistance to a small group of rebels planning to suicide.