British Tamils pressured into donating money to Tigers
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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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Sri Lanka faces a $1.3bn (Â£691m)  bill in 2005 for reconstruction after the tsunami which killed more than 30,000 of its people, its central bank says.
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Britain's large Indian and Sri Lankan communities scrambled to rush relief aid to the victims of the monster tidal waves which devastated a broad stretch of south Asia coastline at the weekend.
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The Indian Ocean tsunami which battered Sri Lanka has opened up a window of opportunity for a renewal of dialogue between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels but has also exposed the tensions that exist between the two sides.
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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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Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed on Saturday to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce fighting in the country's north.
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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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Colombo, Nov 28 : The Sri Lankan government today asked the Tamil Tigers to work for a negotiated political settlement to the decades-old ethnic strife, a day after LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran threatened to go back to war.
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Sri Lanka evicted hundreds of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital on Thursday and sent them back to the war-torn north citing security concerns, as the military battled Tamil Tiger rebels in the east.
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âThe brother leader issued an appeal to the kidnappers saying: âWe request the release of this poor Briton since his family had requested our help ... and if they have any conditions, convey them to us in any way possibleâ,â JANA said.
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The killing of a top Tamil Tiger rebel political leader raises fears that Sri Lanka could return to civil war.
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A Tamil Tiger assault on a strategic naval base in northern Sri Lanka was part of an attempt to re-capture their former bastion on the Jaffna peninsula, a state-run daily reported Friday.
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Sri Lanka's threadbare truce has come under further pressure following decisions by Finland and Denmark to remove their monitors as Tamil rebels and government troops braced for a showdown.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s army Sunday blamed theTamil Tigers for failing to attend a meeting Saturday which they had agreed to attend during a meeting with the international trucemonitors and the government troops.
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British relief organisations have been swamped with cash following the December 26 tsunamis and intend to spend part of the money on alleviating other disasters, The Times reported.
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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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The Tamil film industry has rushed to the help of tsunami-affected people in the state.