Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan troops seize rebel HQ
02 Jan 2009
Sri Lanka's military has seized control of the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto capital of Kilinochchi.
A pro-Tamil website confirmed the news, but said government troops had entered a "virtual ghost town" as rebel headquarters had been moved north-east.
The town is of huge symbolic importance to the Tigers, who had assembled there the trappings of a separate state they want for the ethnic Tamil minority.