Tamil Tigers Capture Elephant Pass: Sri Lanka Suffers Military Defeat
Tamil Tiger fighters overran the strategic Elephant Pass military base after a prolonged assault, inflicting the worst defeat in Sri Lankan Army history. The base's fall gave the Tigers control of the only land route to the Jaffna Peninsula, a position they held for eight years and used to consolidate their de facto separatist state.
April 22, 2000
26 years ago
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