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59 Tigers, 8 soldiers killed in Lanka battle

AFP, Colombo
Heavy fighting across Sri Lanka's war-torn north has left at least 59 rebels and eight soldiers dead, the defence ministry said Monday.
The ministry said the latest fighting saw fierce battles along several front lines, with government troops and fighter jets appearing to step up their effort to capture the Tamil Tiger stronghold ofKilinochchi.
The clashes left 31 guerrillas and 28 soldiers wounded, the ministry said. Official figures cannot be independently verified.
President Mahinda Rajapakse's government is pushing to dismantle the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) stronghold in the north, after wresting back the east in July 2007.
Government security forces are battling close to the outskirts of Kilinochchi and are fighting their way to the coastal town and key rebel base of Mullaittivu.
The defence ministry says it has killed 6,820 LTTE fighters since January, while 669 government soldiers have died during the same
period.
Aid agencies evacuated the area last week on government orders, and the United Nations said Sunday that its abandoned offices had been looted, allegedly by Tiger fighters.
The UN did not disclose what was stolen, but local media reported that the suspected rebels took large stocks of fiiel and electricitygenerators.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse told reporters recently that his troops hoped to capture Kilinochchi by December.
Meanwhile, Sri Lankan police tackling a series of blasts in Colombo began on Sunday taking a census of ethnic minority Tamils who have fled the war-ravaged north and are now living in the city.
The defence ministry ordered the census to prevent separatist Tamil Tiger rebels from infiltrating the capital.
"Each and every Tamil is not a terrorist. But 99 percent of the terrorists are Tamils. The security forces have a major problem on their hands to identify terror-ists," defence secretary
Gotabhaya Rajapakse told local media.
Large crowds queued outside schools, clutching their identification papers, as police personnel took down their details, eyewitnesses said.
"It is impossible for anyone to identify an innocent Tamil from a terrorist until they are apprehended as they all go under the guise of Tamil civilians," said Rajapakse, who is also President Mahinda Rajapakse's younger brother.
Police said hundreds of Tamils had registered on Sunday and that a final tally would be announced later in the day.
TheTigers have been blamed for a string of bomb attacks against public transport in recent months as the military intensified pressure on the rebels' de facto mini-state in the north.
Government troops are engaged in dismantling the rebels' stronghold in the north after ejecting them from the east in July 2007. Tens of thousands have died on both sides since the conflict erupted in 1972.