Is the end near for Sri Lanka’s Insurgency?

Is this the end of the road for Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers? Reuters’ clients would be better placed than any others to tell thanks to our insightful coverage of a fierce military offensive that has hemmed the separatists into a fast-shrinking wedge of the island. As the battle turned dramatically against the Tigers at the end of 2008, the rebels’ political head told Reuters in an exclusive interview that there would be no surrender. Reuters coverage was as unrelenting as the Sri Lankan army’s advance, spelling out that troops were poised to enter the Tigers’ de facto capital, Kilinochchi, and then illustrating the significance when the town was captured Jan 9. Reuters twinned the fall of Kilinochchi with a Colombo suicide bombing to underline the risk of the Tigers returning to their guerrilla roots. The story stood out for spelling out the impact of defeat of the Tiger for investment and the South Asian island’s economy.