Peacekeepers leave as all-out war looms

still_one

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Sun Jul-30-06 09:06 AM
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Peacekeepers leave as all-out war looms

ThE four-year ceasefire between Sri Lanka’s government and the Tamil Tiger rebels looks to be dead in all but name, peacekeepers said yesterday.
Yesterday, in a fourth day of low-intensity battle, Sri Lankan air force jets killed eight Tamil Tiger fighters and injured several others in aerial bombings, in a bid to wrest back control of a reservoir in the east of the country.

The jets raided the eastern districts of Batticaloa and Trincomalee in an effort to clear access to a sluice gate, which the government accuses the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of blocking in order to choke water supplies to farmers on government land.

http://www.sundayherald.com/56990

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Sun Jul-30-06 09:17 AM
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1. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2422559

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