Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the dreaded LTTE, was controlling over 50% of the Sri Lankan country just two years back. The support it was receiving from the western world indirectly through arms and funding started vanishing in the last few years, due to the concerted anti-terror operations carried out by US and Europe together.

The Sri Lankan army in the meanwhile continued its stock pile of weapons and slowly but steadily it was encroaching into the LTTE territories ever since 2008 beginning. The offensive was accentuated in the last six months, and is claiming major victory over the LTTE. It is said that the LTTE is only controlling 15% to 20% of the coastal area in the northern tip of the country. Sri Lankan Military experts are confident that the LTTE will be reduced to nothing before the end of 2008.

Sri Lanka has assured its neigbor India, that it will be handling the Tamils with dignity and equal rights, which needs to be seen. The fall out of LTTE would mean two things to India. First, select cadres of LTTE would sneak into Tamilnadu which is the border state and could create major hurldes in the entire southern India. Second, the hundreds and thousands of Tamils who will be seeking refuge in India, need to be tackled with care by India, which can also pose long term problems.