Crippled by a series of daring deep sea operating by the Sri Lankan Navy, the Sea Tigers the naval wing of the LTTE, have been avoiding open confrontations, according to reliable sources.
The LTTE had about 25 large attack craft and 30 to 40 medium sized attack craft. But now, their large attack craft fleet has been reduced to six or seven vessels and the medium size attack craft to 10 or 12.
The number of sea Tiger cadres was around 2, 000 or 2, 500. Presently, their estimated strength is between 1500 and 750, which includes Sea Tigers who are fighting on land.
The Sea Tigers are keeping off the seas. As a result, the number of encounters came down from 21 in 2006 to 11 in 2007 and to 3 in 2008.
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