Buddhist nationalism behind Sri Lanka's violent surge
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The island nation's government is receiving new support from an unusual political group.
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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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Government troops killed up to 44 separatist rebels in clashes in northern and eastern Sri Lanka while destroying three small camps in the insurgents' last eastern stronghold, the military said Wednesday. The guerrillas disputed the death toll figures.
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The killing of a top Tamil Tiger rebel political leader raises fears that Sri Lanka could return to civil war.
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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting between the foes the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts say.
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Troops and Tamil Tigers fought fierce battles in northern Sri Lanka, leaving scores killed, officials said as the rebels accused Colombo of ignoring moves by Norway to end the latest bloodshed.
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Tamil rebels and Sri Lankan troops fought fierce battles in the north at the weekend, leaving several combatants dead or wounded, according to conflicting statements from both sides Sunday.
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Heavy fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday as government troops tried to take Tamil rebel-held territory, the defence ministry said, reporting scores of guerrillas killed or wounded.
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Sri Lankan helicopter gunships rocketed Tamil Tigers in the island's far northeast on Tuesday, the military said, forecasting heavy rebel losses -- but there was no immediate word on casualties.
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As thousands of civilians join the Buddhist monks' protests against the military junta, a confrontation may not be far off
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Jeremy Bowen reports on the devastation caused by Sunday's  sea surges in parts of Sri Lanka controlled by Tamil Tigers rebels.
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A natural bridge between India and Sri Lanka, which Hindu revivalists believe is a divine legacy, has become a hot political issue
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Buddhist monks led services for the dead in southern Sri Lanka as scores of bodies from a train hit by the tsunami were laid in a mass grave.
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HENDALA, Sri Lanka -- Day after day, locked in a cement room somewhere in Iraq, the hooded men beat him. They told him he would be beheaded. ''Ameriqi!&quot; they shouted, even though he comes from this poor Sri Lankan fishing village.
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ASIA/SRI LANKA - Allarme della Caritas Internationalis: ÂCon lÂescalation della violenza, in Sri Lanka Ã¨ crisi umanitariaÂ Colombo (Agenzia Fides) - Lo Sri Lanka Ã¨ sprofondato nuovamente nella palude del conflitto che colpisce i civili e genera morte, sfollamento, incertezza. E, mentre la violenza subisce una preoccupante escalation, Ã¨ in atto una vera e propria crisi um...
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The violent suppression of protests has shattered the uneasy coexistence of the Buddhist clergy and the military junta.
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MAE SOT, Thailand - One of the main organizers of the September protest marches in Burma, Ashin Kovida, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk, escaped to Thailand last week by carrying a false identification card, dying his hair blond, and wearing a crucifix.