The SLDF are keeping up the pressure and have literally boxed the tamil tigers into approx 25 square miles of jungle and beach in the Puthukudirippu area. And a systematic war of attrition is on, carried out using various means, both conventional and unconventional.
In desperation the tigers have resorted to innovative barbarism even against the unarmed tamil civillians held hostage in the area under their control. In one incident involving a failed attampt to forcibly recruit a 12 year old boy the LTTE shot dead the parents and then the reluctant child himself. Following this incident the infuriated tamil civillians attacked a self-styled 'police' post which usually describes a location occupied by a bunch of baton weilding illiterate goons and set fire to the building and a number of vehicles belonging to the LTTE. In retaliation the LTTE is said to have responded with overwhelming violence injuring and killing a number of civillians in the area as a lesson to others.
In other happenings, the LTTE leadership has ordered a shoot at sight to prevent any further civillian movement out of the 'safe area' designated by the SLDF, within which the LTTE itself has taken refuge. Anti-LTTE infilterators and escaping tamil civillians have identified LTTE fortifications, arms caches and under-ground bunkers built among civillian tents, which would make it definitely easier for the SL Defence Forces to effectively target them.
Sri Lankan battle planners also should evaluate other options available to them from a psy-war perspective. It is a well known fact that the LTTE leadership is now easily identifiable and more easily accessible to the civillians among whom they now are corralled. An offer of significant monetary value and the promise of a new life elsewhere, could make most tamil youth look at the prospect of assasinating these thugs. Even if it doesn't come to that, such as offer would definitely increase pressure on the already paranoid tiger leaders.
Similarly, it a good time to induct hit squads from other anti-LTTE tamil groups such as Karuna's TVMP etc, who have long wanted an opportunity to strike back. In any case it is more than likely that SL's own military intelligence operatives have already penetrated or been planted within the civillian enclave for the dual purposes of target identification and assisting in civillian retrieval. A decisive decapitation strike at this point could easily lead to prevention of further unnecessary bloodshed.
In desperation the tigers have resorted to innovative barbarism even against the unarmed tamil civillians held hostage in the area under their control. In one incident involving a failed attampt to forcibly recruit a 12 year old boy the LTTE shot dead the parents and then the reluctant child himself. Following this incident the infuriated tamil civillians attacked a self-styled 'police' post which usually describes a location occupied by a bunch of baton weilding illiterate goons and set fire to the building and a number of vehicles belonging to the LTTE. In retaliation the LTTE is said to have responded with overwhelming violence injuring and killing a number of civillians in the area as a lesson to others.
In other happenings, the LTTE leadership has ordered a shoot at sight to prevent any further civillian movement out of the 'safe area' designated by the SLDF, within which the LTTE itself has taken refuge. Anti-LTTE infilterators and escaping tamil civillians have identified LTTE fortifications, arms caches and under-ground bunkers built among civillian tents, which would make it definitely easier for the SL Defence Forces to effectively target them.
Sri Lankan battle planners also should evaluate other options available to them from a psy-war perspective. It is a well known fact that the LTTE leadership is now easily identifiable and more easily accessible to the civillians among whom they now are corralled. An offer of significant monetary value and the promise of a new life elsewhere, could make most tamil youth look at the prospect of assasinating these thugs. Even if it doesn't come to that, such as offer would definitely increase pressure on the already paranoid tiger leaders.
Similarly, it a good time to induct hit squads from other anti-LTTE tamil groups such as Karuna's TVMP etc, who have long wanted an opportunity to strike back. In any case it is more than likely that SL's own military intelligence operatives have already penetrated or been planted within the civillian enclave for the dual purposes of target identification and assisting in civillian retrieval. A decisive decapitation strike at this point could easily lead to prevention of further unnecessary bloodshed.
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