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The Battle of
Puthukkudiyirippu was an armed confrontation over control over the AGA division of Puthukkudiyirippu in Sri Lanka between the 55, 58th and 53rd Division of the Sri Lankan Military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the Sri Lankan civil war, fought from the first
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where more than 600 LTTE carders and an array of top leaders were killed in five days. A major tiger offensive was met with a counter offensive, outflanking and encircling an entire division of LTTE in an area of 2 square kilometers.
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The battle of
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months of 2009 till the end of April 2009. Puthukkudiyirippu was the final LTTE base held by the LTTE during the
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LTTE lost all their best fighters they ever had in one single battle.
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