COLOMBO: LTTE Militants maintained their pressure on government forces in the north with renewed attacks on security installations, especially in the Jaffna peninsula, while the government claimed that its forces had inflicted heavy causalities on the Tigers in the flushing out operations in the east,
Unconfirmed reports said the militants Thursday night mass acted at least 62 villagers in the eastern Batticaloa district.
The killings took place in Nintavur village, south of Kalmunai.
The Jaffna fort, under seize by the militants since June 11, came under heavy attack Thursday night and Friday, as also the nearby naval camps in Karainagat and Nainativu.
The government Thursday claimed that the security forces had “liberated” all the three eastern districts of Ampara, Batticaloa and Trincomalee. But reports here said that Muttur and Dehiwatte army detachments in Trincomalee had come under sporadic attacks from the militants,
Military sources said advancing government forces in the east on the Ampara Samanthurai KaraitivuKalwanchikudi axis destroyed a large number of LTTE bunkers and recovered claymore and pressure mines and ammunition from the militant camps which had been destroyed.
Units of the elite special task (STF) specially, trained to deal with the militants, were reported to inflicted heavy causalities on the militants in two clashes in Urani and Kandikudichchiar in Pottuvil area of eastern Ampara Thursday, official sources here said without giving details,
Article extracted from this publication >> June 29, 1990
