The Economist (US), May 11th, 1996
JAFFNA
IN A civil war that has become as much a fight about people as about territory, Sri Lanka's army appears to have gained control over considerable amounts of both in recent weeks. A big military operation against Tamil Tiger strongholds in the northern Jaffna peninsula has gone well. The government's armed forces have made dramatic territorial gains in areas under rebel control for more than six years.
With the land has come the people. When the government took the town of Jaffna last December, many Tamils fled and became refugees in Tiger-held territory elsewhere on the peninsula. N...
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