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In the Third Battle of Elephant Pass, Elephant Pass was recaptured from the Tamil Tigers by the armed forces of the Sri Lankan Army.
Third Battle of Elephant Pass | |||||||
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Part of the Sri Lankan civil war | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | |||||||
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M. Rajapaksha | V. Prabhakaran |
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, declared that Elephant Pass was captured by the army on January 9, 2009.
The base got overrun by the LTTE at the end of the Second Battle of Elephant Pass during the third Eelam War. The base was a stronghold for LTTE until it was recaptured.
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