SRI LANKA: SRI LANKAN AIR FORCE TO STEP UP ITS BOMBING RAIDS ON TAMIL TIGER GUERRILLAS

Record ID: 979806

  • Title: SRI LANKA: SRI LANKAN AIR FORCE TO STEP UP ITS BOMBING RAIDS ON TAMIL TIGER GUERRILLAS
  • Date: 24th April 2000
  • Summary: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (APRIL 24, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 0.06 2. SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) SRI LANKAN ARMY COMMANDER SIRILAL WEERASOORIYA: "One of the things that we have to ensure is that the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) at this stage is not able to get to Jaffna. That is the stage we are at now; we had to have to have a timely decision, there was the possibility of being surrounded, and if we were surrounded, it would have been very difficult to maintain a large force like that." 0.39 3. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 0.45 4. MV: JOURNALISTS 0.49 COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (APRIL 25, 2000) (REUTERS) 5. WIDE OF INTERIOR OF HOSPITAL 0.54 6. SV: PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL GIVING BLOOD 1.01 7. CLOSE-UP OF BLOOD PACK 1.08 8. VARIOUS OF PATIENTS IN BED (4 SHOTS) 1.30 JAFFNA, SRI LANKA (FILE - 1997) (REUTERS) 9. MV/SV: SRI LANKAN ARMY SOLDIERS SEARCHING AREA FOR LANDMINES AFTER IT RECAPTURED CITY FROM REBELS (2 SHOTS) 1.41 10. VARIOUS: SRI LANKAN ARMY SOLDIERS DEPLOYING ON MOTORCYCLES AND ON FOOT (3 SHOTS) 1.59 11. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED BUILDINGS (4 SHOTS) 2.18 UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION, SRI LANKA (FILE) (SLRC) 12. VARIOUS: SRI LANKAN ARMY TANKS BEING DRIVEN ALONG (3 SHOTS) 2.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: COLOMBO AND UNIDENTIFIED LOCATIONS, SRI LANKA
  • Country: Sri Lanka
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