THOUGH the govt media won't tell us much about them, there appear to be a few pockets of resistance in places that are supposed to have been over-run by the SL Defence Forces. For instance there is still intermittant fighting going on in and around Killinochchi and Mullaitivu, even though the main thrust of the two forces are locked in mortal combat in the area of Puthukudiruppu [PTK].
A force of approx 200 LTTE cadre had been operating in Mullaitivu and have now been cornered with their leaders in a large coconut plantation area, where they were 'softened up' with artillery and mortar fire yesterday. Though such places offer cover from horizontal fire, vertical fire causes extraordinary damage from 'tree bursts'. A tree burst happens when ordnance hits a tree and explodes spewing not only shrapnel, but pieces of the tree trunk also. The wooden shrapnel from such bursting trees is said to travel at such massive speeds and can cut clean thru a human body at close range. Approx 75 of the LTTE cadre have perished in the fighting so far and the remainder are being requested by the SL forces to surrender. They will be disarmed one way or another.
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