Eight districts out of a total of 25 were under LTTE control.

八区总有25名猛虎组织的控制之下。

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If not for these innocent Tamils we should have crushed LTTE within hours, he said.

如果没有这些，我们应该在几个小时内粉碎泰米尔猛虎组织无辜的，他说。

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But Sri Lanka says, with some justification, that this is more the result of the LTTE having been defeated earlier this year.

但是斯里兰卡，需要一些理由，说这更多的是在今年早些时候击败LTTE的结果。

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Military officials say troops are not using artillery against the rebels because the soldiers are committed to rescuing the civilians being held as "human shields" by the LTTE.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

The LTTE,in a statement, says 150,000 civilians, on the verge of starvation in the sliver of coastal land they still control, can only be helped by a halt in the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

"In lieu of the LTTE releasing people the U.N.Secretary General has called upon the government of Sri Lanka to exercise maximum restraint as it carries the fight to the LTTE in order to protect civilian lives,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

Later Premadasa himself initiated dialogue with the LTTE which went on for more than a year.

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If the LTTE is to pull out at any stage it will have to come up with another reason.

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It says the LTTE's failure to understand the changing tactics of the security forces eventually led to their defeat.

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