Sri Lanka accused of ethnic cleansing of Tamils
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Armed Sri Lankan police today packed hundreds of ethnic minority Tamils into buses and drove them from the country's capital to war-torn northern and eastern districts - an effort, say police, to clear the city of "terrorists".
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Sloshing through eastern Sri Lanka's flooded jungles, about 3,000 ethnic Tamils crossed Saturday into government-held areas to escape violence that is pushing the country closer to an all-out war between separatist rebels and the government.
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Mass funerals were underway in Sri Lanka yesterday as volunteers pulled decomposed corpses from washed out trains, cars and smashed buildings.
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COLOMBO  - Thousands of tsunami victims were buried in mass graves as the death toll neared 18,000 and Sri Lanka&#39;s president called for ethnic unity to tackle the crisis.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka declared Friday a day of national mourning for the thousands of victims of the tsunami which lashed three-quarters of the islandâs coastline and left a massive trail of death and destruction.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Friday troops had killed 29 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes over 24 hours, as the death toll from renewed civil war continued its inexorable climb.
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Sri Lanka's government said on Tuesday  more than 18,700 people are confirmed dead two days after a  tsunami battered the island and officials fear the toll will  hit 25,000.
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The Sri Lankan military claims it has killed 26 separatist rebels in four different clashes.
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BATAPOLA, Sri Lanka -- Police have arrested a 63-year-old Sri Lankan man on charges of trying to sell his two young granddaughters after their home was destroyed and their mother killed by the Asian tsunami -- a case that highlights the vulnerability of children following the disaster.
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Civilian casualties have reached "appalling levels" in Sri Lanka's civil war, the Red Cross said Wednesday as the military announced its troops killed 15 ethnic Tamil rebels in clashes across the island nation's restive north.
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Under fire amid a rash of civil war  human rights abuses, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has  turned the tables on the United Nations, questioning its  efficiency, and ability to help tackle terrorism.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Supreme Court on Friday ordered a halt to the eviction of ethnic Tamils from the capital, as the United States and the European Union condemned Colombo&#39;s treatment of the minority community.
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Monsoon flooding has forced more than 30,000 people in eastern Sri Lanka from their homes, with many taking refuge in temporary shelters like huts, schools and mosques, officials said on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Sunday it had driven Tamil Tiger fighters from jungle camps in the island's restive northeast and inflicted heavy losses.
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Sri Lanka's navy destroys two Tamil Tiger boats and kills at least 12 off the north-eastern coast, defence officials say.
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Two hand grenades hurled in a clash between Christians and Hindus killed at least three people and wounded 37 in a part of eastern Sri Lanka where international aid workers are helping tsunami victims, police said.
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Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 34 Tamil Tiger rebels over the last two days, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, as heavy fighting in the restive north deepens the island's renewed civil war.