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。
2
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.
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.