Amid Chaos, Sri Lankans Struggle to Survive
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On the hard-hit eastern coast of Sri Lanka, small groups have found shelter in schools and temples, kept alive by small donations.
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The year 2004, already full of turmoil, instability and uncertainty for Sri Lanka, is ending on a tragic note. A year of man-made political quakes is winding up with a nature-made disaster.
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Ethnic Tamils living in Britain are being pressured into donating money to support Tiger rebels in their native Sri Lanka, facing harassment if they refuse.
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Thousands abandon their homes as fighting between Tamil Tigers and the army worsens in eastern Sri Lanka.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka -- Members of the Tamil Tigers, separatist rebels who control large swaths of Sri Lanka's north and east, are appealing to international organizations to bypass the central government and send aid directly to the tsunami-devastated regions within their territories, saying they have received little help in the 10 days since the disaster.
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Braving ponderous bureaucracies and corrupt officials, Rizwan Mowlana of Gaithersburg has gathered more than $1 million in cash and donated goods for his native Sri Lanka, which was devastated by last month's tsunami.
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Heavy sea and land battles have erupted in Sri Lanka with the military reporting the recovery of 22 bodies of Tamil rebels after a Norwegian envoy failed to secure a deal to re-launch peace talks.
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Besieged by Tamil Tiger artillery fire and surrounded by 40,000 troops in what must be the world's most heavily guarded jail, hard time has taken on a new meaning for jailbirds in north Sri Lanka.
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Women in northern Sri Lanka who survived the tsunami need help to pick up the pieces, reports the BBC's Frances Harrison.
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In Sri Lanka's war-torn north and east, where killings happen every day and work is nearly nonexistent, it doesn't take much to entice a man to leave.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- With aid flowing in unprecedented amounts to tsunami survivors, murmurs of discontent are surfacing among impoverished Sri Lankans who were spared losses and do not expect to benefit from the international outpouring.
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While Sri Lanka's government and Tamil rebels trade daily accusations of truce-breaking and threaten each other with all-out war, observers and reporters keen to understand what is really happening are forced to try and read between the lines.
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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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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lankans have made huge  progress in clearing the rubble left in the wake of the deadly  Indian Ocean tsunami and thousands of displaced people have  left camps for the homeless, officials and aid groups say.
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They are no strangers to death. In more than 20 years of war, the Tamil Tigers have lost thousands in a bloody conflict that has plagued the north of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka appealed for international aid after declaring a state of disaster, as tsunamis unleashed by an undersea earthquake yesterday left more than 5,000 people dead and half-a-million homeless in the Indian Ocean island.
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The Sri Lankan government says a wave of killings blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels is undermining confidence in the peace process, which has been stalled since April 2003.