Tamil Tigers call for international help
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels say Sunday&#39;s tsunami killed nearly 10,000 people in areas under their control and they are still trying to locate hundreds of missing fishermen.
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Sri Lanka appealed for international aid after declaring a state of disaster, as tsunamis unleashed by an undersea earthquake yesterday left more than 5,000 people dead and half-a-million homeless in the Indian Ocean island.
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader said Saturday the rebels would be compelled tolaunch the freedom struggle for the Tamil nation if peace talks were further delayed, the pro-rebel website TamilNet said.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s feared Tamil Tiger rebels has threatened to resume a two-decade war for self-rule that has killed more than 64,000 people if the government does not agree to discuss their demands soon.
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The Sri Lankan government urged separatist rebels Monday to resume stalled peace talks before the country descends into all-out civil war.
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Truce monitors in Sri Lanka from European Union member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden must leave the country by September 1, a top Tamil Tiger rebel leader told AFP.
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An international group urged Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels to leave animals out of the country's civil war after the guerrillas were blamed for a grenade attack at a zoo.
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Tamil Tiger rebels said Thursday they were ready to revive a dying ceasefire abandoned by Sri Lanka's government and urged Norway to maintain its role as peace broker.
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[World News]: Colombo, Dec 31 : Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels appeared to be willing to join the government in relief work for Tsunami victims as President Chandrika Kumaratunga said a war with them was &quot;remoter&quot; now.
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Sri Lanka urgently needs an international  rights monitoring mission following Colombo's decision to pull out of a ceasefire pact with Tamil rebels, a London-based rights group said Saturday.
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The United Nations and Nordic truce monitors have voiced grave concern for 35,000 &quot;desperate civilians&quot; caught in the crossfire between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels.
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The Tamil Tigers declared on Monday they now saw no other option than to push for independence in what analysts said was notice to Sri Lanka's government they are resuming their struggle and renewed civil war will deepen.
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Sri Lanka's feared Tamil Tiger rebels threatened on Saturday to resume a two-decade war for self-rule that killed more than 64,000 people if the government does not agree to discuss their demands soon.
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Truce monitors in Sri Lanka from European Union (EU) member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden must leave the country by September 1, a top Tamil Tiger rebel leader has told AFP.
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A dispute develops in Sri Lanka over whether the government has given enough aid to tsunami-hit Tamil areas.
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Members of Sri Lanka&#39;s cricket team, who are touring New Zealand, tried desperately to contact their families after tsunamis battered their homeland Sunday, reportedly killing over 1,000 people.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said they had put aside their political struggle to deal with the tsunami disaster, as peacebroker Norway urged all parties to work together to rebuild the battered country.