Monitors Say Troops Killed Aid Workers in Sri Lanka
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No group other than government security forces would have been in a position to carry out the killings of 17 aid workers this month, cease-fire monitors concluded.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.
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Almost 10,600 people were killed by the Boxing Day tidal wave in the Tamil Tiger-controlled area of north eastern Sri Lanka, an aid worker said today.
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The International Red Cross resumed work on Sri Lanka&#39;s battle-scarred front lines on Wednesday as 16 people died in fresh violence, officials said.
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Four Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and six others wounded in fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the island, the guerrillas said, claiming they lost one fighter in the battle.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Saturday troops captured rebel positions in the island's northwest killing 20 rebels, while rebels said they had killed 20 soldiers in the latest clashes in the civil war.
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(The Sri Lankan military corrected its figures on rebel deaths in fighting from 29 to 11. Changes made in headline, first and third paragraphs)    COLOMBO  - Sri Lankan troops killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers also died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continues in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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The Sri Lankan military says at least 30 Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in fierce fighting in the country's east.
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Civilian casualties have reached "appalling levels" in Sri Lanka's civil war, the Red Cross said Wednesday
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Sri Lankan troops have killed 28 Tamil Tiger rebels in a series of clashes in the island's north in 24 hours, the military said on Thursday, amid near daily clashes as renewed civil war deepens.
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COLOMBO  - Sri Lanka mounted a massive humanitarian operation after tsunamis devastated much of the island&#39;s coastline, killing almost 11,000 people of whom 70 were foreign tourists.
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Fifteen Tamil civilians working for a French aid agency were found slain in northeastern Sri Lanka after fierce battles between rebels and the government over water supplies, relief agency officials said Monday.
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Civilian casualties have reached "appalling levels" in Sri Lanka's civil war, the Red Cross said Wednesday as the military announced its troops killed 15 ethnic Tamil rebels in clashes across the island nation's restive north.
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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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Sri Lanka's army and Tamil rebels say there have been many casualties in clashes in the east.
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From Tamil Tiger rebels to Buddhist monks in saffron robes, Sri Lanka stopped to mourn on Friday as rescue workers struggled to clear bloated corpses of victims of the Indian Ocean island's worst natural disaster.
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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.