Sri Lanka war seen escalating
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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts said on Thursday.
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Efforts are continuing in Sri Lanka to bury the thousands of dead from Sunday's sea surges.
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The number of refugees in eastern Sri Lanka climbed past 100,000 after heavy fighting in rebel-held parts of the island forced thousands of civilians to flee their homes in recent days, the Red Cross said on Saturday.
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"This comes on top of the increasingly frequent and brutal acts of violence perpetrated by both parties, and I am deeply concerned that the violence and hostilities will now escalate even further"  Sri Lanka Thursday formally told peace facilitator Norway and the Nordic truce monitors that it would withdraw from the Ceasefire Agreement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from Jan 16. via Nerve News
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Sri Lanka's army chief has renewed a vow to defeat Tamil rebels, but refused to set a deadline for ending the decades-old conflict, saying the separatists remain a potent force, a report said Sunday.
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Sri Lanka bears the brunt of Sunday's sea surges with nearly 11,000 dead and up to a million displaced.
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COLOMBO A military spokesman raised the estimated number of deaths in Sri Lanka caused by devastating waves by more than 5,000 people on Monday, increasing estimates of the death toll from the regional catastrophe to more than 20,000 people.
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Hopes for peace rose in Sri Lanka as the elusive Tamil Tigers chief planned to meet Norwegian peace brokers next week amid tension between the government and the rebels over tsunami aid.
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Rebels mounted a fierce offensive Saturday in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna Peninsula, the heart of the island's Tamil minority, military officials and the rebels said amid the heaviest fighting since the two sides signed a 2002 cease-fire.
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Sri Lanka braced for more violence as suspected Tamil rebels set off bomb attacks in the capital on the eve of celebrations to mark independence day, officials said Sunday.
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Sri Lanka&#039;s Tamil Tigers on Saturday  extended a deadline for European Union truce monitors to  withdraw from the island, while the army accused the rebels of  shooting dead two soldiers in the northwest.
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Sri Lanka's military battled Tamil Tiger rebels with tanks and fighter jets along a shared "border" in the island's east on Thursday, with each side blaming the other for the outbreak of fighting.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were engaged in sporadic clashes in the north of the island Monday, the day after fierce battles left scores dead, official sources said.
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Sri Lanka's troops and Tamil rebels were locked in fierce fighting Sunday in the island's north, the two sides said as the top military chief vowed to kill 3,000 guerrillas by June.
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The Tamil Tigers declared on Monday they now saw no other option than to push for an independent state in what analysts said was notice to Sri Lanka's government that renewed civil war will deepen.
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Aid destined for thousands of people cut off by fighting in eastern Sri Lanka finally begins to arrive.
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COLOMBO - Deadly tsunamis have unexpectedly shored up Sri Lankaâs peace process, where the government has been under pressure to open talks with Tiger rebels or risk war.