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Lankan army captures rebel training base

31 Tamil Tigers, 9 troops killed in fighting

AP, AFP, Colombo
Sri Lankan troops captured a massive Tamil Tiger training base with underground bunkers, lecture halls and a cemetery as government forces pushed ahead with their offensive against the rebels, the military said yesterday.
A series of raging battles across the northern war zone Saturday killed 31 Tamil Tiger fighters and nine government troops, the military said.
TYoops have broken through the rebels' defences in recent weeks and seized a series of key towms and bases. Government officials say they hope to rout the Tamil Tigers by the end of the year and end the Indian Ocean island nation's 25-year-old civil war.
On Saturday evening, soldiers took control of a rebel training base in Andankulam in the Welioya region after Tamil Tiger fighters fled
the area, said military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara.
"Earlier they had given resistance, but afterward they had withdrawn," he said.
Troops uncovered about 100 underground bunkers, four lecture halls, water wells, toilet facilities and a cemetery for fallen fighters with 67 buried bodies, he said.
Fighting throughout the day in Welioya killed eight rebels, while battles in Vavuniya killed nine others and two soldiers, the military said. Other front line battles killed 10 other rebels and five sol diers, the military said.
Meanwhile troops moves closer to die rebels' political capital of Kilinochclu, 330 kilometres (200 miles) north of Colombo, with the ministry saying 31 Tigers and nine soldiers were killed in clashes on Saturday.
Repeated attempts in recent days to reach rebel spokesmen by
e-mail, telephone and satellite phones have been unsuccessful.
Both sides routinely exaggerate enemy casualties and underreport their own. Independent verification of the fighting is not possible because most journalists are barred from the war zone.
The ministry's statement came a day after London-based rights group Amnesty International warned that tens of thousands of lives in the north were under threat due to heavy fighting between troops and the LTTE.
Restrictions on travelling to rebel-held areas had blocked the flow of food and medical supplies, Amnesty said.
Government bombardments and artillery shelling since May have forced thousands to flee their homes, mainly in the Kilinochchi and Mullaittivu districts, the group added. UN aid agencies working in conflicthit areas say 112,000 people have been displaced in the past two months and warn the figure could rise to 200,000 in the coming weeks.
Colombo has poured a record 1.5 billion dollars into this year's war efforts and pulled out of a Norwegian-brokered truce with die LITE, saying it believes soldiers are on track to militarily crush the rebels.
The Tamil Tigers have been fighting for an independent state in the nordi and east since 1983, following decades of marginalisation of ethnic Tamils by governments dominated by the Sinhalese majority. The fighting has killed more than 70,000 people.
International aid groups have said the recent fighting forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes.