Sri Lankan civil war spreads to Colombo
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As a raging civil war killed thousands in the country's northeast, Sri Lankans in Colombo and other southern cities shopped, held picnics and cheered their children at soccer matches.
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Minority Tamils in Sri Lankan capital Colombo appeal to government for protection after a spate of abductions.
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Thousands are fleeing villages in eastern Sri Lanka amid fighting between Tamil Tigers and government forces.
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People call for help after tidal waves destroyed their homes and left them stranded in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2004. Massive sea waves, apparently triggered by oceanic earthquakes, crashed into
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Sri Lanka's military said on Friday troops had killed 35 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes in the island's north in 24 hours as the death toll from renewed civil war climbs inexorably higher.
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Sri Lanka Special Task Force soldiers conduct a search operation on suspected vehicles and people entering the capital Colombo.Comment
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A curfew was lifted but police patrols were increased in a Sri Lankan town Saturday as the defence ministry accused Tamil rebels of trying to provoke a breach of the ceasefire.
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Sri Lanka braced for more violence as suspected Tamil rebels set off bomb attacks in the capital on the eve of celebrations to mark independence day, officials said Sunday.
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At least 26 people, including two security personnel, were killed in a fresh wave of violence in Sri Lanka&#39;s embattled north, the defence ministry said.
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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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Three Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in a clash in northern Sri Lanka early on Monday, the military said, the latest confrontation in a renewed civil war.
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Sri Lankaâs botched tsunami reconstruction efforts are aggravating political violence.
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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were engaged in sporadic clashes in the north of the island Monday, the day after fierce battles left scores dead, official sources said.
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MANGANTHODUWA NAWATKUDA, Sri Lanka  - Saundrarajan Kannakai has been displaced by Sri Lanka's civil war over a dozen times in the past 16 years.
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Heavy fighting raged Sunday in northern Sri Lanka where Tamil Tiger rebels said they lost a key leader, as Norwegian-led monitors began pulling out before the formal end of a tattered truce.
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More than 20 Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the military said, the latest in a rash of confrontations amid renewed civil war.
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Tamil rebels and Sri Lankan troops fought fierce battles in the north at the weekend, leaving several combatants dead or wounded, according to conflicting statements from both sides Sunday.