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(9 Sep 2006) SHOTLIST 1. Two soldiers in front of LTTE (Liberation Tamil Tigers Eelam) building entrance 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Sarath Wyjesingha, Sri Lankan Army : "Trincomalee was influenced by the LTTE artillery fire from the Sampur area. So therefore we wanted to destroy this position and capture Sampur." 3. Special forces soldiers 4. Tilt up from machine gun to close-up of soldier 5. Mid of armed soldier standing in front of Tiger base 6. Street scene 7. Military vehicle 8. Wide of lighthouse on beach, with soldiers in the distance 9. Tighter shot of lighthouse 10. Soldiers on the beach 11. Mid of heavily armed special forces soldiers 12. Various of soldiers approaching camera and walking past 13. Various shots of soldiers with Sri Lankan flag 14. Mid of soldiers 15. Armoured car STORYLINE Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have indicated that they are preparing to retaliate following the government's capture of a key rebel enclave in the east of the country. Sri Lanka has been convulsed by three decades of conflict between the Sinhalese-dominated state and ethnic Tamil rebels who have been fighting for a separate homeland for the country's Tamil minority in the north and east. The conflict - one of Asia's longest running - killed about 65,000 people before a 2002 cease-fire that has all but shattered amid the last six weeks of tit-for-tat shelling and bombing in the north and east. Recent battles, including the military's capture on Monday of a Tiger-held enclave in the east, have killed hundreds more and forced about 220,000 people from their homes, according to the United Nations. Most are now living in squalid refugee camps in the Tamil-majority northeast where food and medicine is running low and movement across rebel and government lines has been curtailed. The government maintains its Sampur push was to protect its strategic Trincomalee naval base, and that it wants peace with the rebels. "Trincomalee was influenced by the LTTE (Liberation Tamil Tigers Eelam) artillery fire from the Sampur area. So therefore we wanted to destroy this position and capture Sampur," said Colonel Sarath Wyjesingha of the Sri Lankan Army. Large-scale conflict between the Tigers and security forces broke out in 1983, although ethnic strife between the country's largest minority and the majority Sinhalese has existed for centuries. The latest open fighting began in late July over a rebel-controlled water supply near Trincomalee. It then spread to other parts of the east and north. Analysts had warned that the military's push on Sampur could harden the insurgents' resolve and invite retaliation on the battlefield and in relatively peaceful parts of the island, like Colombo, where the rebels have repeatedly set off suicide and roadside bombs. A senior Tamil Tiger leader warned that it would be the majority Sinhalese who pay the price for the "absolute misery" ethnic Tamils have suffered due to weeks of government airstrikes and shelling. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...