Sri Lanka launches fresh strikes against LTTE positions
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Aug 7, IRNA
Sri Lanka-LTTE-Fresh Attacks
Sri Lankan military today resumed shelling Tamil Tiger positions in the island's embattled northeast, a day after the rebel warned that such strikes could lead to a full-scale war.
Troops were keeping up their offensive code-named "watershed" to open a rebel blockade of an irrigational canal, in the district of Trincomalee, PTI report said here quoting military spokesman Upali Rajapakse.
"The operation is underway. There is shelling as and when ground troops request it to move in that area", he said.
The shelling came a day after the Tigers offered to lift the water blockade.
The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said 15 more civilians were killed in the latest artillery attacks carried out by the military today.
"The government of Sri Lanka action by implication not only rejected LTTE's goodwill gesture but also shows that the government is paying scant regard to Norway's peace efforts", the LTTE said.
"The very next day, at 7.30 a.m on the morning of 7 August, 15 civilians were killed when government forces shelled the civilian areas in the LTTE administered section of Muttur", the Tiger statement said.
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