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Feb 24, 2008 (AFP) – A suspected Tamil rebel suicide bomber killed two rival militants in eastern Sri Lanka on Sunday, officials said, as the government stepped up security in the capital to prevent new attacks. The suspected suicide attacker crashed his motorcycle into another motorbike carrying two members of a breakaway rebel faction in […]

Feb 23, 2008 (AFP) – A bomb went off in a bus in a Colombo suburb on Saturday, wounding at least eight people, a hospital official said. Passengers were evacuated from the bus in the town of Mount Lavinia after the crew raised the alarm over a suspicious parcel left inside the vehicle, Sri Lankan […]

Feb 23, 2008 (LBO) – A bomb exploded in a bus in Mount Lavinia, a suburb south of the Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo Saturday, police said. The office of Sri Lanka’s police spokesman said at least two bus passengers were injured. Passengers had discovered the bomb and most of them were already out of the […]

Feb 23, 2008 (AFP) – A parcel bomb exploded on a bus in a Colombo suburb on Saturday, wounding at least 17 people in the latest in a string of violent attacks, the defence ministry said.But casualties would have been far greater if an alert passenger had not spotted the booby-trapped package and shouted at […]

Feb 22, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lankan war planes stepped up bombing raids inside Tamil Tiger-controlled territory Friday, a day after intense ground battles left at least 95 people dead, the defence ministry said. Jet fighters hit a key base of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the morning after air strikes against […]

Feb 21, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s ruling party appointed a new member in place of a rebel member who died in a car crash, strengthening its clout in the legislature by one. Reggie Ranatunga, a provincial governor until his appointment, would represent the Gampaha district, north of Colombo. Updated/recast Ranatunga, the father of Sri […]

Feb 21, 2008 (AFP) – At least 13 Tamil Tiger rebels and two government soldiers were killed in an intense battle for a bunker line in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said Thursday.Government forces destroyed five bunkers held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during fighting on Wednesday afternoon, the defence ministry […]

Feb 21, 2008 (AFP) – At least 92 Tamil Tiger rebels and three government soldiers died in intense battles for a bunker line in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said Thursday. Government forces destroyed five bunkers held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during fighting on Wednesday afternoon, a ministry statement said. […]

Feb 20, 2008 (AFP) – Heavy fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka Wednesday with troops and Tamil Tiger rebels trading artillery fire that left scores of combatants dead or wounded, the island’s defence ministry said.The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) launched a major attack against military positions in the district of Mannar and […]

Feb 20, 2008 (AFP) – Suspected Tamil Tiger separatists on Wednesday shot dead three government soldiers in Sri Lanka’s restive south, the military said. Gunmen from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fired at troops guarding a road in Buttala, an area that has recently experienced several attacks, military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said. “Three […]

COLOMBO, Feb 17, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka said Sunday that Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia could set an “unmanageable precedent” and threaten world peace. The Sri Lankan government, which is battling separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, reacted swiftly against Kosovo’s independence, which it said was a violation of the United Nations charter. “This action […]