EU nations slam Tiger rebels as fresh killings dim Sri Lanka peace hopes
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European Union nations criticised Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels for killing rivals and recruiting child soldiers, appealing to the guerrillas not to undermine the Island's Norwegian-led peace bid.
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Harsh words flew Monday between the European Union and Turkey, which announced it had dropped reforms to ban honor killings, The Times of London said.
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The European Union&#039;s &amp;quot;shocking&amp;quot; move towards blacklisting Sri Lanka&#039;s Tamil Tigers will push the peace process to a critical stage, the head of the rebels&#039; political wing has said.
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COLOMBO: A curfew was slapped on north-eastern Sri Lanka on Friday as pro-government activists clashed with Tiger rebels commemorating 17,800 comrades killed fighting government forces, police said.
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The European Union put Sri Lanka&#039;s Tamil Tigers on its list of terrorist groups, despite a warning from the rebels that the move could force them back to war.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels shot dead three civilians and a government soldier in separate incidents, the defence ministry said.
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Sri Lanka's rebel Tamil Tigers have commemorated thousands of fighters killed in battle amid sporadic clashes with government forces in the island's embattled northeast, the rebels said.
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Sri Lanka on Tuesday welcomed a European Union ban against the island's Tamil Tiger rebels that diplomats said would freeze the their assets, saying it hoped it would convince the rebels to resume peace talks.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels dismiss new government proposals to restart peace talks.
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Norway's ambassador held talks with Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka on Monday and three military personnel were killed in clashes in the Jaffna peninsula.
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Heavy fighting raged in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the defence ministry said, reporting that 49 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers were killed in weekend battles.
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Sri Lanka's ceasefire hung by a thread as Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces traded artillery fire and Finland and Denmark announced their truce observers would leave the country.
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Tamil Tiger rebels Sunday accused Sri Lankan forces of killing at least six civilians in the embattled north-east as police investigated the &quot;execution-style&quot; murders of five men near the capital.
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Sri Lankan troops killed at least 20 Tamil Tigers in heavy fighting near a "border" that separates government and rebel-held terrain in northern Sri Lanka overnight, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
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Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have killed four people, including a leader of a renegade guerilla faction, in growing factional violence that is threatening the country&#39;s fragile cease-fire.
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For a second time in a week, protesters dumped the coffin of a Tamil politician killed by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels outside the Norwegian embassy in the Sri Lankan capital.
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Truce monitors in Sri Lanka from European Union (EU) member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden must leave the country by September 1, a top Tamil Tiger rebel leader has told AFP.