Sri Lanka this year tightly controlled media coverage of fighting that led to the defeat of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

斯里兰卡今年收紧媒体对战事的报导。泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织在战斗中被打败。

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Sri Lanka is preparing for a major celebration following the battlefield defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending a quarter-century civil war.

斯里兰卡正准备举行结束长达四分之一世纪内战的盛大庆祝活动。此前泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织在战斗中被击败。

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Sampur fell within an area demarcated during the war as a "high-security zone", in an effort to keep fighters from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam at bay.

战争期间，萨姆·布尔被划分到一个“高安全区域”内，该区域用以保护海湾的泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织的战士。

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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam once controlled a large area of the north and east.

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India's soldiers withdrew in humiliation three years later after failing to neutralize the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

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Sri Lanka's defense minister, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, is rejecting the cease-fire declared by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

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But since it crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam its government has found itself in an unfamiliar position.

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The only Tamil group now fighting the Sri Lankan armed forces is the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

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The group fighting the government for a separate state, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, has rejected the proposals.

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