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 KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka (AP) - Separatist rebels vowed Thursday to hit military and economic targets across the country in retaliation for the army's capture of eastern Sri Lanka, even as government leaders planned a party to celebrate that victory.
The government announced Wednesday that it had routed the last organized Tamil Tiger resistance in the east, taking control of the province for the first time in 13 years. The rebels still maintain a de facto state in parts of northern Sri Lanka.
S.P. Tamilselvan, the head of the political wing of the Tamil Tigers, said Thursday that the group will attack military and economic targets that help the government carry out its war on them.
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