The Special Task Force yesterday registered a major victory when it overran the Ampara district Tiger main camp - Stanley Base in Kanjikudichcharu - after a fierce battle, the military said.
“STF personnel overran the Tigers main camp in Kanjikudichcharu yesterday afternoon forcing the surviving Tigers to retreat,” military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe said.
He said the STF recovered a large haul of weapons, ammunition and other military items left behind by the fleeing Tigers.
The spokesman also said the police elite force personnel had found a hospital within the LTTE camp. “This camp had been built by a Non-Governmental Organization and we are investigating into the matter seriously,” Brigadier Samarasinghe claimed.It is considered as a significant and a strategic step forward as the Tiger terrorists were posing a major threat to the security forces from this camp. Continuous targeting of the security forces position in the area by the LTTE provoked the STF to clear the area and bring it under its control.
LTTE was also housing a large number of child soldiers conscripted by them in this camp, the spokesman charged.
(http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/01/09/front/03.asp)
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