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LTTE Planned To Attack Colombo With Plane From Chennai: Sri Lankan President
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that the LTTE militant group had planned to attack Colombo with an aircraft flying from Chennai in 2009. "No one knew it better than me," said Sirisena, who was the acting defence minister during the last two weeks of the civil war with the LTTE in May, 2009 when the rebels were eventually defeated...
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104 LTTE Cadres Poisoned To Death In Rehab Camps: Sri Lanka's Tamil Leaders
Sri Lanka's Tamil politicians have alleged that over 100 former LTTE cadres at rehabilitation centres were injected with poison leading to their deaths, prompting the government in Colombo to reject their claims today.
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Sri Lanka Lifts Ban on Pro-LTTE Groups, Wants Them to Shun Violence
Sri Lanka today said it has lifted a ban imposed on eight Tamil diaspora groups for their links with the LTTE as part of efforts to reconcile with the ethnic minority community.
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Sri Lankan Leader Writes to President Sirisena for Release of Tamil Inmates
A day after inmates began a hunger strike demanding their release in Sri Lanka's Tamil dominated Northern Province, the chief minister has demanded expediting of pending cases against over 200 Tamil political prisoners languishing in several jails.
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Tamil Political Prisoners in Sri Lankan Jails Go on Indefinite Hunger Strike
Tamil political prisoners lodged in several jails in Sri Lanka, many of them without trial since 2009 when the civil war ended, today began a hunger strike, demanding their release.
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Tourists Replace Rebels as Sri Lanka National Park Blooms
Lokaiya Peremadasa shudders as he recalls the havoc Tamil rebels used to wreak on his beloved wildlife park during Sri Lanka's brutal 37-year-long civil war.
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Sri Lanka Claims Biggest Post-War Tiger Ammo Find
Sri Lanka's military said on Saturday it had unearthed the biggest cache of pistol ammunition buried in the former war zone amid government claims that Tiger rebels are trying regroup.
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Sri Lanka troops kill three men in search for Tamil Tigers
Sri Lanka's military on Friday shot dead three men during an operation against suspected Tamil separatist rebels, in the first major confrontation since the end of the island's war nearly five years ago, a spokesman said.
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Excavation at mass grave in Sri Lanka suspended
A Sri Lankan court today suspended the excavation at a suspected mass grave found in a former conflict zone where LTTE remains will now be scrutinised by archaeologists.
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Arrested Indian national to be deported by Sri Lanka
An Indian journalist, who was arrested in Sri Lanka while filming a military installation in a former LTTE stronghold, is set to be deported.
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LTTE Planned To Attack Colombo With Plane From Chennai: Sri Lankan President
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has said that the LTTE militant group had planned to attack Colombo with an aircraft flying from Chennai in 2009. "No one knew it better than me," said Sirisena, who was the acting defence minister during the last two weeks of the civil war with the LTTE in May, 2009 when the rebels were eventually defeated...
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104 LTTE Cadres Poisoned To Death In Rehab Camps: Sri Lanka's Tamil Leaders
Sri Lanka's Tamil politicians have alleged that over 100 former LTTE cadres at rehabilitation centres were injected with poison leading to their deaths, prompting the government in Colombo to reject their claims today.
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Sri Lanka Lifts Ban on Pro-LTTE Groups, Wants Them to Shun Violence
Sri Lanka today said it has lifted a ban imposed on eight Tamil diaspora groups for their links with the LTTE as part of efforts to reconcile with the ethnic minority community.
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Sri Lankan Leader Writes to President Sirisena for Release of Tamil Inmates
A day after inmates began a hunger strike demanding their release in Sri Lanka's Tamil dominated Northern Province, the chief minister has demanded expediting of pending cases against over 200 Tamil political prisoners languishing in several jails.
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Tamil Political Prisoners in Sri Lankan Jails Go on Indefinite Hunger Strike
Tamil political prisoners lodged in several jails in Sri Lanka, many of them without trial since 2009 when the civil war ended, today began a hunger strike, demanding their release.
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Tourists Replace Rebels as Sri Lanka National Park Blooms
Lokaiya Peremadasa shudders as he recalls the havoc Tamil rebels used to wreak on his beloved wildlife park during Sri Lanka's brutal 37-year-long civil war.
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Sri Lanka Claims Biggest Post-War Tiger Ammo Find
Sri Lanka's military said on Saturday it had unearthed the biggest cache of pistol ammunition buried in the former war zone amid government claims that Tiger rebels are trying regroup.
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Sri Lanka troops kill three men in search for Tamil Tigers
Sri Lanka's military on Friday shot dead three men during an operation against suspected Tamil separatist rebels, in the first major confrontation since the end of the island's war nearly five years ago, a spokesman said.
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Excavation at mass grave in Sri Lanka suspended
A Sri Lankan court today suspended the excavation at a suspected mass grave found in a former conflict zone where LTTE remains will now be scrutinised by archaeologists.
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Arrested Indian national to be deported by Sri Lanka
An Indian journalist, who was arrested in Sri Lanka while filming a military installation in a former LTTE stronghold, is set to be deported.
