Victory Assured is the code name for the government effort, started in May 1997, to gain control over the entirety of the Jaffna road, linking the tip of the northern peninsula with Colombo and the south. But with the LTTE taking the key town of Kilinochchi in September 1998, victory, it seems, is hardly assured. In that attack, the army lost some 600 men; 400 others were injured. Sri Lanka's military said there were 1,200 deaths in the battle. The government claims to now control more than two-thirds of the highway. It may seem like a boast of sorts, but what it really means is that vital supplies, equipment and food for the forward units can only get about two-thirds of the way to where they actually need to go.
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