//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>106 : Sri Lanka: What Next?
S. D. Muni, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISAS
30 April 2009
Sri Lanka's war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has reached its conclusion. The security forces may still take a few days in the last stage of mopping up of the war zone. The area is heavily mined, some 30,000 to 50,000 civilians are still suspected to be trapped in the war zone and there are last ditch attempts by the remaining Tigers to kill as many Sri Lankan soldiers as they can.