Sri Lanka killings escalate
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COLOMBO: Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels gunned down another rival after Norway failed in its latest bid to end a prolonged deadlock in Sri Lankaâs peace process, officials and diplomats said on Sunday.
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Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels areblamed for yet another killing of a rival Tamil political activist here on Thursday. The 39-year-old father of three children, Somasunderam
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At least 52 people have been killed in Sri Lanka as heavy sea and land battles erupted while Tamil Tiger rebels warned that the island would plunge in a &amp;quot;fatal war&amp;quot; if the military kept up air strikes.
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Sri Lanka stepped up security in the capital and announced a special security unit for the judiciary following the slaying of a judge and his bodyguard, officials said.
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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
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NEW DELHI -- The slaying of 17 aid workers in war-torn Sri Lanka earlier this month was almost certainly committed by government troops, international cease-fire monitors said yesterday.
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Sri Lanka's luxury hotels raised their rates on Wednesday despite an escalating ethnic civil war that triggered a 20 percent drop in tourists.
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Colombo: Four people including a top renegade Tamil Tiger rebel were shot dead Thursday in growing factional fighting in Sri Lanka despite efforts to revive the peace process, officials and a pro-rebel website reported.
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Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka Monday as government forces mounted a fresh push into territory held by Tiger rebels, with the official death toll from the new clashes at more than 50.
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Sri Lanka increases security for members of parliament a day after a minister is assassinated.
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Sri Lankan government to formally withdraw from its ceasefire with rebels amid escalating violence
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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.
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Thousands of frantic Sri Lankans searched corpse-strewn rubble for relatives along the Indian Ocean island's devastated coastline on Tuesday as the nation's death toll from a deadly tsunami rose above 12,200.
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Sri Lanka's army says it has killed at least 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in continued clashes in the north.
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&#39;Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga has seized on the murder of a high court judge last Friday as the pretext to reactivate the death penalty for the crimes of murder, rape and drug dealing.
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A curfew was lifted but police patrols were increased in a Sri Lankan town Saturday as the defence ministry accused Tamil rebels of trying to provoke a breach of the ceasefire.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Thursday accused Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels of killing their opponents despite a ceasefire and warned that the government will not tolerate the murders.