More importantly, the Elephant Pass military base, was the only land route for Jaffna.
He was severing as the Brigade commander 54-1 brigade of the 54 Division based at Elephant Pass at the out set of the Second Battle of Elephant Pass in 2000.
Military analysts said that with the fall of Elephant Pass the Charles Anthony Brigade established the Tigers as the only non-state military force in the world capable of complex military maneouvres.
However in a major military defeat, the Sri Lankan Army lost control of the pass to the LTTE on April 22, 2000 in the Second Battle of Elephant Pass.
The First Battle of Elephant Pass was a battle fought in July 1991 for the control of the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass, which was of strategic importance as it linked the northern mainland known as Wanni with the Jaffna Peninsula.
In the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War he was appointed Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Jaffna, during which his command resisted several attacks on the Jaffna peninsula by the LTTE until a successful offensive by his divisions pushed the LTTE out of the Jaffna peninsula and recaptured the statistic Elephant Pass.
Operation Trishul, along with Operation Viraat, was an anti-insurgency operation launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in April 1988 in Northern Sri Lanka, in the provinces of Maannar to Mullaitivu and Elephant Pass to Vavuniya.
Operation Viraat, along with Operation Trishul, was an anti-insurgency operation launched by the IPKF against the LTTE in April 1988 in Northern Sri Lanka, in the provinces of Mannar to Mullaitivu and Elephant Pass to Vavuniya.
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:*First Battle of Elephant Pass, fought in July, 1991, for control of the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass
:*Second Battle of Elephant Pass, fought in April, 2000, for control of the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass