Third Battle of Elephant Pass | |||||||
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Part of the Sri Lankan civil war | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
M. Rajapaksha | V. Prabhakaran |
In the Third Battle of Elephant Pass, Elephant Pass was recaptured from the Tamil Tigers by the armed forces of the Sri Lankan Army.
Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka, declared that Elephant Pass was captured by the army on January 9, 2009.