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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teron" data-source="post: 536516" data-attributes="member: 31121">Tamil Tiger rebels have launched a sea attack on a Sri Lankan naval base on the Jaffna peninsula in the north of the country, says a navy spokesman. In a co-ordinated land and sea attack, 15 boats targeted the base on Delft island, but one was sunk. The fighting is continuing, according to the spokesman. Despite a truce still being in place on paper, Sri Lanka has been sliding back towards civil war, with more than 4,000 people killed in the past 15 months. "We are confronting the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) on land and at sea. There were 15 boats, including three suicide boats, off Delft island in Jaffna," said navy spokesman Commander DKP Dassanayake. "We have destroyed one boat." He gave no casualty figures, and there has so far been no comment from the Tamil Tigers. The government says more than 500 rebels have been killed in the last four months in confrontations in and around rebel-held territory in the north of the island. But the Tigers dispute the figure and the Sri Lankan monitoring mission set up to observe the ceasefire says both sides routinely exaggerate the other's losses, says the BBC's Roland Buerk in Colombo. The rebels have been fighting for decades for a homeland for the Tamil minority. Senior government figures have said they aim to defeat them on the battlefield within two to three years. -BBC News-</blockquote>

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