Who is winning Sri Lanka's war? / BBC News, 25 May 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6690633.stm
Roland Buerk
"A joke used to do the rounds in Colombo, during a previous phase of Sri Lanka's interminable civil war - that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) must surely have already been wiped out entirely, given the numbers of rebels the military said it was killing."