Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (L) inspects weapons which the army claim to have captured from Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) forces, during a visit to the defence force base in the northern Sri Lankan town of Kilinochchi April 16, 2009. Sri Lanka's two-day humanitarian truce ended on Wednesday and the military announced it was now free to begin a final assault to end the 25-year war against the rebel Tamil Tigers. The Sri Lankan military says only 1,000 LTTE rebels remain, and accuse the fighters of holding around 100,000 civilians as human shields