Human rights agencies have warned of an imminent bloodbath

Seevaratnam Puleedevan, secretary general of the Tamil Tiger peace secretariat, urged the international community to intervene to force a permanent ceasefire, a move Sri Lanka has ruled out. "LTTE will never surrender and we will fight and we have the confidence that we will win, with the help of the Tamil people," Puleedevan told Reuters by telephone.

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