Critics say Sri Lanka targeting civilians
231346
Nearly everyone in this seaside hamlet &amp;#151; the old women bent from a lifetime of toil, the fishermen weathered from days at sea, the children in tattered hand-me-downs &amp;#151; fled to the church Sunday as soon as they heard a police patrol was coming.
547132
The bodies of 16 civilians beaten to death in northern Sri Lanka have been found, after fighting between rebels and government troops left 31 dead, the Sri Lankan military said today.
39472
A caller claiming to be from a rebel group Sri Lanka's military says is a wing of the Tamil Tigers on Monday warned of bomb attacks on Independence Day celebrations due to take place in the capital Colombo within hours.
150506
Sri Lanka's government said on Wednesday it suspects some state security service personnel have been involved in abductions and murders that have mushroomed amid renewed civil war.
181245
Sri Lanka has vowed to wage more attacks against Tamil rebels but analysts warn it faces the prospect of devastating retaliation and risks international isolation over rising rights abuses.
640511
Military officials in Sri Lanka say two soldiers and a civilian have been  killed in a roadside bomb attack.
325181
International cease-fire monitors   blamed Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday for the killing of 17 aid   workers during fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels this month.
479348
Sri Lanka's military on Friday accused Tamil Tiger rebels of murdering nine civilians in the island's south as violence between the two sides escalated after the formal end of a ceasefire.
707294
Sri Lankans trying to come to terms  with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the  actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented  scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an  ethnic war.
413145
Thailand's insurgency is becoming a brutal conflict where the majority of victims are civilians, a rights group say.
640806
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels bombed a civilian bus in north-east Sri Lanka on Monday, killing at least 12 people, the military said.
75196
Sept 29, Colombo: The Norwegian government has expressed serious concern over the political killings in Sri Lanka. Norwegian Ambassador in Colombo Hans Brattskar made this statement when he met SP Tamilselvan
676093
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels fatally shot 10 ethnic Sinhalese civilians in southern Sri Lanka, the Defense Ministry said Friday, amid escalating violence following the government's withdrawal from a cease-fire.
387347
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United Nations said  on Friday it had received reports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers were  recruiting children displaced by Asia's tsunami and had told  the rebels to leave under-age survivors alone.
536837
Sri Lanka's military on Wednesday accused the Tamil Tigers of using a U.N.-led aid convoy as a smokescreen to move rebel fighters and munitions toward their defense lines.
275369
Sri Lanka's government has invoked tough anti-terror laws targeting Tamil Tiger rebels but stopped short of banning them to deal with spiralling violence, a top official source said.
282078
Sri Lankans trying to come to terms with piles of corpses left by a tsunami may never know the actual death toll because of the disaster's unprecedented scale, different methods of counting and the politics of an ethnic war.