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Updated: 15:55, Friday, 2 January 2009
The Sri Lankan government says its military has made a significant advance in its war with the separatist group, the Tamil Tigers.
It said the military has captured the rebels' base in the town of Kilinochchi in the north.
The stronghold is the rebels' de facto capital and is said to be of significant symbolic importance in their struggle for a separate state for the ethnic Tamil minority.
The Tigers have not commented on the claims.
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