Sri Lankan Air Force Jets Bomb Tamil Rebel TargetsSri Lankan air force jets bombed separatist Tamil Tiger Rebel targets for a second consecutive day on Tuesday, a military spokesman said.Military spokesman Sanath Karunaratne said the air force jets bombarded a base of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in the eastern Batticaloa district of the country. On Monday, the air force launched an air strike against a rebel command post in the northern Jaffna peninsula. The air force have intensified their air strikes against the LTTE rebels after the rebels launched a pre-dawn attack on the country's major airbase and its only international airport next door on July 24. A total of 14 military and civilian aircraft were damaged or destroyed and 14 Tamil rebels and seven military personnel were killed in the attack. The LTTE rebels have been fighting against government forces since 1983 in the north and east of the country attempting to set up an independent Tamil homeland there. More than 64,000 people have died in the brutal ethnic war. |
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