Tamil Separatists Threaten More Violence in Sri Lanka
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The separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas declared Saturday that they would renew fighting unless the government immediately agreed
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KANNAPURAM EAST, Sri Lanka  - Tamil farmer Sabaratnam Somaratnam abandoned his home in east Sri Lanka fearing it might be shelled.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s government has rejected demands from Tamil Tiger rebels to unconditionally resume peace talks. The rebels threatened at the weekend to return to military action unless discussions based on their blueprint for self-rule began again.
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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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Sri Lanka's troops and Tamil rebels were locked in fierce fighting Sunday in the island's north, the two sides said as the top military chief vowed to kill 3,000 guerrillas by June.
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COLOMBO : Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger guerrillas declared they will renew armed struggle unless the Colombo government immediately agrees to revive peace talks based on a rebel blueprint for self-rule.
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Sinhalas and Tamils clash again in eastern Sri Lanka after a grenade attack on a bus leaves one person dead.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 8 -- Sri Lanka's highest court ordered police on Friday to stop expelling ethnic Tamils from the capital, a lawyer said, after rights groups warned that the recent removal of hundreds of Tamils could further fuel a 24-year ethnic separatist conflict.
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"This comes on top of the increasingly frequent and brutal acts of violence perpetrated by both parties, and I am deeply concerned that the violence and hostilities will now escalate even further"  Sri Lanka Thursday formally told peace facilitator Norway and the Nordic truce monitors that it would withdraw from the Ceasefire Agreement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from Jan 16. via Nerve News
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Thailand&#39;s Prime Minister has vowed to continue arresting ringleaders of separatist attacks in the southern provinces. Thaksin Shinawatra says police will issue a further 60 arrest warrants for suspected separatists.
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Heavy artillery exchanges rocked northern Sri Lanka as the European Union, after banning the Tamil Tigers earlier in the week, promised further action to push the rebels and the government back to the negotiating table.
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Sri Lanka poured thousands more security forces into the Sinhalese-dominated south on Tuesday after a string of Tamil rebel attacks left 37 civilians and three police dead, officials said.
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Sri Lanka's military fought mortar and artillery duels with Tamil Tigers in the island's north and east on Friday as the rebels warned of low expectations at peace talks due later this month.
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The military attacked Tamil rebels from land and air Thursday, and they retaliated with artillery and small arms fire in heavy fighting that left 13 combatants dead, officials said. A cease-fire monitor warned that the situation was worsening.
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A caller claiming to be from a little known Sri Lankan rebel group warned of bomb attacks on Independence Day celebrations on Monday due to take place in the capital Colombo within hours.
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Sri Lanka announces tough anti-terror laws amid worsening violence between troops and Tamil rebels.
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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.