Event
Fall of Kilinochchi, January 2009
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- What
- The government said its forces captured the LTTE’s political capital on 2 January 2009
Connections (2)
- Sri Lanka Army / Said by the government to have captured / Fall of Kilinochchi, January 2009
- A cabinet minister and ruling party spokesman said forces captured the LTTE’s political capital on Friday. The report says the army used a two-pronged offensive from the north and south, the LTTE had not replied, and the claim could not be verified because journalists were barred from the area.2 Jan 2009 · Al Jazeera · Sri Lanka troops 'capture' LTTE HQ
- Mahinda Rajapaksa / Called the capture an “unparalleled victory” / Fall of Kilinochchi, January 2009