"Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!"(Troy)
The ICRC delegation are expected to bring the bodies to Vavuniya this evening and hand them over to the SLA brigade headquarters in the town.
Meanwhile independent reports indicated that more than thousand SLA soldiers may have been killed in the fighting. Unconfirmed reports said that the figures might be even higher.
Sources said the Liberation Tigers are yet to gather all the bodies of the soldiers as they are strewn over more than fifteen kilometers of bunkers and shrub jungle.
Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not always have.
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own.
And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind."
