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eight officers, killed in the fighting, and another four officers and 396 soldiers missing in action, since presumed dead. The Ministry of Defence records 229 killed which included 10 officers, 561 wounded and 92 missing The military claimed that over 500 LTTE cadres were killed, while the LTTE only acknowledged over 100 killed. The 3rd Gajaba had suffered 149 killed and 115 missing, which included 4 officers and its second in command Major U. Hemapala who was posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. The remaining personal 3rd Gajaba were transferred to Palay and reformed. Major
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infiltration groups were successful in capturing the mortar and armour positions in the initial phase of the assault. Within hours the forward lines were breached and the perimeter of the military base came under attack. The naval detachment was overrun and its installations including a radar station were destroyed. Heavy fire from LTTE anti-aircraft guns prevented air-support dispatched by the
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and Major General Rohan Daluwatte for their failure to prevent a major attack by the LTTE. Major General Rohan Daluwatte had claimed that five battalions from his command had been moved to the Eastern Province to conduct facilitate elections, contributed to the disaster. The transfer was ordered by
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the highest decoration awarded by the Sri Lankan military. On 14 November, badly wounded, Lieutenant Nissanka, a platoon commander in the 3rd Battalion, Gajaba Regiment, which held the forward defence line till dawn, ordered the remainder of his platoon to withdraw with its wounded and to cover the
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until the last days of the war when it was destroyed. Having captured the base armoury, the LTTE removed large quantities of other arms and ammunition, which it used for attacks it carried out thereafter. The military had suffered heavy casualties with local media reporting 241 soldiers, including
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carried out the initial landings from two inshore patrol craft securing a beachhead. This was followed with the landing of troops from the army. Troops broke out of the beachhead and linked up with surviving pockets of resistance from the original garrison. With the inflow reinforcements, the LTTE
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led the assault on Pooneryn. The garrison was taken by surprise as it had not expected an amphibious assault from the lagoon. The LTTE infiltrated a specially trained group of cadres through the forward defence lines, with the mission of overrunning the mortar positions and the two T55 tanks. The
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In mid 1996, the military withdrew its garrison from Pooneryn due to tactical reasons, leaving the LTTE to occupy the area and use it to launch attacks on Sri Lankan government controlled area in Jaffna, the Palali Airbase was subjected to artillery fire from Pooneryn. In late 2008 the
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On 11 November, around 2:00 a.m., the LTTE launched a massive attack from land and the lagoon with 600 cadres, simultaneously engaging the Nagathevanthurai naval detachment and the army defence lines in Pooneryn. LTTE leader Colonel Bhanu led the assault on Nagathevanthurai, while
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in July 1993 which had found fault with Major General Rohan Daluwatte and three others. The report of the CoI was present to the President on 31 December 1993. General Waidyaratne accepted much of the blame and stepped down as Army Commander, retiring in December 1993.
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that in the Pooneryn attack the LTTE murdered prisoners of war. The LTTE held captive several soldiers captive since the battle, subjected to tortured and ill treatment until they were released in 2001. Private D. K. Hemapala died in captivity due to poor treatment.
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visited the base on 15 November 1993. Although the LTTE failed to hold on to the area it captured and was forced to withdraw, it had inflicted considerable damage to the military. The naval detachment at Nagathevanthurai was overrun, with all five
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Following the attack, the three service commanders flew to Palaly, setting up their operational joint headquarters there to plan relief for the besieged garrison. Due to heavy anti-aircraft fire from the LTTE, air support was difficult, with one
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to eliminate LTTE boat landing sites around Kilali. The Ministry of Defense claimed 108 soldiers were killed in the operation and 350 LTTE cadres were killed, LTTE confirmed only 96 of its cadres were killed. Six weeks later the LTTE launched
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By November 1993, the military base in Pooneryn with a naval detachment at Nagasivanthurei consisted of 55 officers and 2100 men. The army garrison at Poonaryn consisted of troops from the 1st Battalion,
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expanded its presence in the Pooneryn area establishing a permanent base in 1991 to counter LTTE movements across the Kilali lagoon from the Jaffna peninsula which was under its control. The
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for preventing the complete fall of the garrison. The 1st Sri Lanka Light Infantry had lost four officers including Major Panduka Wanasinghe, who was the nephew of General
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being lost as two were sunk and three were captured by the LTTE. The navy radar station was also destroyed. The LTTE had overrun the gun and armour placements, capturing a
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appealed to the LTTE to publicly acknowledge if it had captured any soldiers during the battle and to treat any under the terms of the
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has stated the 200 security force personnel captured by the LTTE during the battle has since disappeared and believed to be dead. The
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and the two T55 tanks. The SLAF was able to destroy one of these tanks by an air strike shortly afterwards, but the other tank was
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under the command of its as its second in command Major U. Hemapala, as well as a Saber Troop from the 4th Armoured Regiment,
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withdrawal he ran at the attacking enemy with two primed grenades, killing himself and enemy fighters in the process.
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The LTTE withdrew by the evening of the 14 November and the army re-established its base in Pooneryn. The Army Commander
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to destroy the isolated military base in Pooneryn and the detachment at Nagathevanthurai. Weapons captured from
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deployed a detachment at Pooneryn to monitor and interdict LTTE movements in the Kilali lagoon.
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aircraft being damaged due to anti-aircraft fire, but the pilot managed to land the aircraft at
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second highest award for combat bravery, in 1996, Nissanka's award was elevated to the
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launched a fresh offensive in the north of the island. The units of the
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effectively blocked LTTE movements between Wanni and Jaffna. President
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Index

Sri Lankan civil war
Pooneryn
Sri Lanka

Military of Sri Lanka
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Cecil Waidyaratne
Rohan Daluwatte
T.T.R. de Silva

Theepan
Bhanu (Tamil militant)
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Eelam War II
Kokavil
Sea Breeze
Thrividha Balaya
Elephant Pass
Balavegaya
Sathbala
Balavegaya II
Janakapura
Pooneryn
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Sri Lankan Civil War
Eelam War I

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