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Viraj Mendis: A beacon of international solidarity and a pillar in the Eelam-Tamil liberation struggle
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SLAF fighter jets bomb Poonakari[TamilNet, Tuesday, 04 March 2008, 14:08 GMT]Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers dropped several bombs Tuesday around 10:45 a.m on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held areas in Poonakari after flying over Jaffna peninsula, sources in Jaffna said. Details of damage or casualties in the air strike are not known. In an earlier raid on 22 February on civilian settlements in Poonakari region eight civilians were killed. LTTE artillery fire on Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Palaali Main Military Base has escalated recently. In the earlier SLAF aerial bombardment on Kiraagnchi in the Poonakari division of Ki'linochchi district on 22 February, eight civilians including a 6-month-old infant, a 4-year-old boy, their mother, a 8-year-old girl and an English teacher were killed, 14 including four children and another teacher were wounded. Related Articles: 22.02.08 8 civilians killed in SLAF bombardment in Poonakari, childre..
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