Sri Lankan army measures end of 25-year war in days

First of all how the hell are you supposed to pronounce this "PUTHUKUDIYIRUPPU"
I'm sure it's a lovely place !!! Anyhow , this war may be over in a few days , but seeing how all militant separatists , (Terrorists) deal with defeat , this will not be the last anyone hears of these guy's .
They may give up the fight (for now ) , but they definitely will not give up the Cause !

PUTHUKUDIYIRUPPU, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - After 25 years of war, Sri Lanka army Brigadier Shavendra Silva is measuring the last of the fighting in days.

Standing not far from where he expects a final showdown with Tamil Tiger separatists in the Indian Ocean island's northeast, the 58th Division commander ordered in his armored units as Tiger mortar bombs exploded on the nearby frontline.

Three T-55 tanks and an armored personnel carrier with a 30 mm cannon raced down the A-35 road, throwing up clouds of fine red dust, the thump of their 30 mm cannon heard within a minute.

Just a few hours earlier, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) peace secretariat had issued a letter addressed to the United Nations and others saying the separatist guerrilla group would accept a truce but not surrender.

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"We have a job to do. We are not bothered about any truce at the moment," Silva told Reuters Monday on a visit to a frontline usually closed to outside observers.

Sri Lanka's military has cornered the LTTE in less than 60 sq km (23 sq miles) of palm-dotted coastal scrubland and expects to end one of Asia's longest-running wars shortly.

"How long it will take is not in weeks. I am talking in days," Silva told Reuters earlier at his headquarters in Kilinochchi in the three-storey former LTTE Peace Secretariat where the Tigers once hosted diplomats and journalists.