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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka hit the Tamil Tigers on Wednesday with a terrorist designation it lifted as part of ill-fated 2002 truce, as soldiers pressured the separatists' last stronghold on the Jaffna Peninsula.
The Sri Lankan government officially outlawed the Tamil Tiger rebel group Wednesday, a formality that ruled out the possibility of restarting peace talks any time soon to end a brutal quarter-century of civil war. The Cabinet...
Veluppillai Prabhakaran, the founder leader and supreme chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is again in focus. The tigers though they call themselves the freedom fighters for a free and independent Tamil...
COLOMBO, Jan 7 (IPS) - It was typical of what Sri Lankan media has been facing over the years: a pre-dawn raid on a media house, employees beaten up and costly equipment destroyed. Maharaja TV, the latest victim, was also...
AFP – Sri Lankan security officials inspect a railway track damaged by a bomb blast on the outskirts of Colombo. … COLOMBO (AFP) – A loud explosion was reported from the suburbs of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, police said....
