Colombo can no longer ignore LTTE killings: president:
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[World News] Colombo, Sep 30 : Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said Thursday that the government can no longer ignore a spate of killings blamed on Tamil Tiger guerrillas.
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A United Nations investigator said on   Tuesday that "political killings" continued apace in Sri Lanka   and called for international human rights monitors to be sent   to the island.
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In Sri Lanka the leader of the LTTE guerillas, Velupillai Prabhkaran, has threatened with resumption of the civil war unless the government agrees to new peace talks.
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Sri Lankan security forces are on red alert, officials said, as Tamil Tiger rebels remembered 18,742 comrades killed in their decades-long campaign for a separate homeland.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said, as Japan's peace envoy began a visit to the war-battered island.
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[World News]: COLOMBO, Dec 30 : Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said today that the threat of a war with Tamil Tigers was &quot;remoter&quot; after destruction of key rebel military bases by Sunday&#39;s tsunamis.
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VAKARAI, Sri Lanka  - Surveying a newly captured eastern rebel stronghold, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday vowed to tame the Tamil Tiger rebels and liberate civilians, but said the door remained open to resume peace talks.
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Sri Lanka's president insisted Monday his government was winning the war against Tamil Tiger rebels as the island marked its 60th anniversary of independence after a bloody weekend of violence.
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Sri Lanka said on Saturday it was reactivating its dormant death penalty for murder, rape and drug trafficking after a near 30-year lull following the murder of a top high court judge in the capital.
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The Tamil Tigers must decide between war and peace, Sri Lanka&#39;s president said as the government marked the capture of the rebels&#39; final bastion.
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Sri Lanka celebrated its 60th independence anniversary Monday with parades, speeches and a security clampdown that failed to prevent suspected rebels from bombing a civilian bus, killing 12 people, the military said.
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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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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has  voiced concern about the safety of aid workers in Sri Lanka  after the murder of two Red Cross volunteers, his office said,  as Japan&#39;s peace envoy began a visit to the war-battered  island.
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Troops stepped up security in eastern Sri Lanka as Tamil Tiger rebels prepared to hold the funeral of a murdered leader, officials said.
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Minority Tamils in Sri Lankan capital Colombo appeal to government for protection after a spate of abductions.
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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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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.