Sri Lanka seizes coast, tightens noose on Tigers

2009/05/16 07:25:37 @Reuters: International News

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops on Saturday seized the entire coastline for the first time in a 25-year war with the Tamil Tigers, the military said, cutting off escape for separatist rebels now facing annihilation. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=nc9LauT_R9A:UrbKoZui9Iw:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=nc9LauT_R9A:UrbKoZui9Iw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=nc9LauT_R9A:UrbKoZui9Iw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=nc9LauT_R9A:UrbKoZui9Iw:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=nc9LauT_R9A:UrbKoZui9Iw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/nc9LauT_R9A" height="1" width="1"/
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