By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 10 August 2006 A Sri Lankan army soldier injured in an early morning battle with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels near Tincomalee, 10 August 2006 Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels are engaged

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 January 2006 In Sri Lanka, at least 13 sailors have been killed in an attack on a naval vessel by suspected ethnic Tamil rebels. Soldiers of Sri Lankan Air Force stand

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 01 September 2006 The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is stepping up humanitarian assistance to thousands of civilians in eastern and northern Sri Lanka, as fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebe

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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 30 August 2006 Government soldiers patrol on the Mavilaaru reservoir tank bank in Mavilaaru, close to Muttur, Sri Lanka, Monday, August 28, 2006 International ceasefire monitors have blamed the Sri Lankan military for the

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 26 April 2006 Soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the Sri Lankan army headquarters Sri Lanka's military has launched fresh strikes on Tamil Tiger rebel areas in the co

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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 25 January 2006 Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to hold new talks in Switzerland aimed at shoring up their deteriorating peace agreement. Norwegia

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By Suzanne Presto New Delhi 24 January 2007 A leading human-rights group says Sri Lanka's government is ignoring a militant group's use of child soldiers and forced conscripts in battles against Tamil rebels. VOA's Suzanne Presto in New Delhi report

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By Suzanne Presto New Delhi 22 January 2007 Displaced ethnic Tamils at a government camp in Kiran, Sri Lanka, 21 Jan 2007 Sri Lanka's military says it is driving out Tamil Tiger rebels from key areas in the island's east, following intense fighting.

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In Sri Lanka, the military says it has captured key areas held by Tamil Tiger rebels, in the north of the country. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the Sri Lankan army is on a major offensive to crush the rebels, who have been fighting for

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Sri Lankan military officials say Tamil rebels carried out an aerial bombing raid in the capital of Colombo late Friday. A military spokesman said that shortly after the bombing, Sri Lanka's air force chased two rebel light aircraft and shot down on

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The U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he will leave Friday for a two-day visit to Sri Lanka to see first-hand the damage done by the fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Mr. Ban, who spoke to reporters at the U.N. Europea

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Tamil Tiger rebels say Sri Lanka's military has renewed shelling Tuesday of the only remaining combat zone. The top government doctor in the rebel-controlled territory says at least 45 patients died when a mortar hit the admissions ward of the only

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The quarter-century civil war in Sri Lanka has come to a dramatic end. The army has apparently wiped out the entire leadership of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, including the leader who founded the rebel group. Ror the first time in 26 years,

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Sri Lankan officials say the new leader of the vanquished Tamil Tiger rebels is in their custody following his arrest in an undisclosed South East Asian country. Details of the rebel leader's arrest are, so far, unclear. But it is a blow to efforts

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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 02 August 2006 A civilian wounded in shelling by Tamil Tiger rebels receives treatment in a hospital in Trincomalee, about 230 kilometers (144 miles) northeast of Colombo In Eastern Sri Lanka, government forces are exchan

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By Catherine Maddux Washingtion 12 December 2006 In the latest edition of its magazine, the human rights group Amnesty International focuses attention on the status of human rights in three countries: Iran, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and S

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By Steve Herman Washington 17 January 2007 Hopes for a political solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict appear to have suffered a new setback. Media in the region report that Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse has rejected an appeal by former p

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Pakistani officials say at least six people are dead after 12 gunmen attacked the police-escorted convoy transporting the Sri Lankan cricket team. Officials report five police officers and one driver were killed and six players and their British ass

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In Sri Lanka, aid agencies say a crowded hospital in the northern war zone has been shelled, killing at least nine people. The attack on the hospital comes amid growing concerns for an estimated 250,000 civilians caught in the fighting between the g

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 18 September 2009 A boy stands in a Menik Farm displaced persons camp in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (May 2009 file photo) Sri Lanka has pledged to send home nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamils being held in refugee camps. The assuranc

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