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/ 4 February 2009
Sri Lanka’s president said on Wednesday the Tamil Tiger rebels were on the verge of defeat.
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/ 3 February 2009
Patients who could walk fled one of the last functioning hospitals in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone on Tuesday after it was hit by artillery shells.
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/ 3 February 2009
Sri Lanka’s president said on Monday that the army was on the brink of crushing the Tamil Tigers — hours after artillery shells struck a hospital.
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/ 30 January 2009
Sri Lanka’s president urged the Tiger rebels on Friday to allow about 250 000 civilians trapped in the northern war zone to flee to safety.
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/ 29 January 2009
International rights groups pressed for urgent action to save up to 250 000 civilians trapped in northern Sri Lanka.
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/ 28 January 2009
A Sri Lankan health official says recent heavy fighting in the north has killed more than 300 civilians and wounded at least 1 000 others.
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/ 27 January 2009
The UN on Monday expressed concern over the fate of civilians caught in the fighting in Sri Lanka between government troops and Tamil rebels.
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/ 26 January 2009
Sri Lankan troops surged forward on Monday after seizing the last big town held by Tamil Tiger separatists.
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/ 23 January 2009
Assailants beat a Sri Lanka newspaper editor and smashed his car as he drove to work on Friday, colleagues said.
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/ 23 January 2009
The military shelled a hospital and a village inside a ”safe zone” for displaced families, killing at least 30 people, health officials said.
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/ 22 January 2009
Sri Lankan troops have seized a Tamil Tiger command centre in the island’s north as ground troops advance into the rebels’ remaining territory.
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/ 20 January 2009
Sri Lanka’s navy on Tuesday destroyed four Tamil Tiger boats and killed 16 guerrillas trying to escape, the military said.
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/ 19 January 2009
It’s being called ”the voice from the grave”, a remarkable article by a Sri Lankan journalists that was published days after he was murdered.
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/ 18 January 2009
Sri Lankan government troops have almost completely cornered the Tamil Tigers in their north-eastern jungle base, the army chief said.
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/ 16 January 2009
Thousands have fled Sri Lanka’s northern war zone in recent days, crossing the front lines amid fierce fighting, the military said on Friday.
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/ 14 January 2009
Sri Lanka censured a diplomat after he spoke at the funeral of a newspaper editor whose murder has been blamed on the government, officials say.
Assault signals Tamil Tigers are turning to guerrilla tactics as government closes in on rebel-held territory.
Sri Lankan troops captured more territory from Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Thursday, officials said.
Sri Lankan attack helicopters bombed Tamil Tiger positions on Saturday, a day after ground forces seized the rebel headquarters town of Kilinochchi.
Sri Lankan troops have captured the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels’ headquarters town of Kilinochchi, the Sri Lankan president said on Friday.
Sri Lankan troops marched into the Tamil Tigers’ de facto capital of Kilinochchi and the town is about to fall to the government , an official said.
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/ 28 December 2008
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed six paramilitary guards and wounded more than a dozen others in a residential area in Colombo.
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/ 17 December 2008
Sri Lankan troops assaulted the outskirts of the separatist Tamil Tigers’ self-proclaimed capital on Wednesday, the military said.
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/ 16 December 2008
Simultaneous army attacks on Tamil Tiger defences in Sri Lanka killed 120 guerrillas and 25 soldiers on Tuesday, the military said.
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/ 18 November 2008
Sri Lanka’s navy traded fire with a flotilla of Tamil rebel boats off the island’s north-eastern coast Tuesday, defence officials said.
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/ 15 November 2008
Sri Lankan forces on Saturday captured the strategically important northern town of Pooneryn from Tamil Tiger rebels after months of heavy fighting.
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/ 10 November 2008
Sri Lanka’s government rejected the latest Tamil Tiger truce offer out of hand on Monday, again demanding the separatist rebels surrender.
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/ 4 November 2008
Sri Lanka’s decades-old war against Tamil Tiger rebels is close to being completed, the island’s army chief was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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/ 1 November 2008
Sri Lanka’s navy and Tamil Tiger rebels fought a fierce sea battle off the island’s northern coast on Saturday, the two said.
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/ 22 October 2008
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels struck back against a major government offensive on Wednesday with suicide attacks on merchant ships.
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/ 20 October 2008
The Sri Lankan government admitted on Monday scores of its troops had been killed or injured in fierce fighting with the Tamil Tigers.
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/ 10 October 2008
Sri Lanka troops backed by fighter jets have moved deeper into Tamil Tiger territory in the island’s north, killing 39 rebels.