Killing spree dims Sri Lanka peace hopes, foreign concern mounts
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Tiger rebels have stepped up attacks against rivals and government forces despite a truce, amid growing international concern for Sri Lanka's faltering peace process, officials and diplomats said.
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A Norwegian peace envoy is wrapping up a visit to Sri Lanka, with no sign of any breakthrough in re-starting the country&#39;s stalled peace process.
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Nordic ceasefire monitors began wrapping up their 6-year mission to Sri Lanka on Friday after the government scrapped a truce with the Tamil Tigers, and their mandate, amid a chorus of international concern.
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Colombo, Sept 23 (PTI) In growing factional fighting, four people, including a brother of renegade LTTE leader Karuna were today shot dead by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka's army pushed into Tamil Tiger territory to neutralize artillery and mortar fire in the island's east on Friday, military sources said, as the rebels warned of low expectations at peace talks due later this month.
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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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Sri Lanka&#39;s main foreign donors warn some members of the country&#39;s ruling coalition are undermining the shaky peace process aimed at ending the decades-long civil war.
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Sri Lanka's peace hopes dimmed further as Norway failed in a secret attempt to save a stumbling initiative to end three decades of ethnic bloodshed, officials close to the process said.
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Sri Lanka signalled Friday it wanted to end Norway's position as the island's main peace broker as international concern mounted over Colombo's decision to end a truce with 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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Death of opposition leader raises fears of expanded violence in the unstable South Asian nation.
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Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels, deadly foes for two decades, worked together on tsunami relief efforts &#151; but hopes are fading that the disaster will help heal the animosity.
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Sri Lankan rebels warned of a "bloodbath" if international mediators are unable to restrain government forces, after holding talks on Monday with Norway's ambassador in the strife-torn northern part of the country.
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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts said.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger  rebels said on Saturday they had put politics aside to clear up  after the Asian tsunami, but added that swifter, fairer  government aid distribution could boost peace prospects.
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International truce monitors say they are "convinced" Sri Lanka's military killed 17 aid workers earlier this month.
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Three rebels, a policeman and a security guard were killed in Sri Lanka's restive eastern province as Britain's junior foreign minister Kim Howells toured projects in the area funded by the former colonial power.