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BATTICALOA AND ENVIRONS

The second largest town on the east coast, Batticaloa stands on a long, sandy spit of land pointing northward and separated from the mainland by a large brackish lagoon which extends southward for many kilometers. This location made it easy for the LTTE, which seized control of the town in the 1980s, to defend it against government forces, and the guerrillas were not expelled until 1991. As in the area of Jaffna, the larger Tamil stronghold in the extreme north, the security forces succeeded in retaking the town, only for the LTTE to fade into the countryside, which remains highly unsafe for travelers.