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One of the world's most vicious and intractable conflicts has produced a spike in violence in recent days. After a bloody clash last week in the north of Sri Lanka between government forces and the rebel fighters known as the Tamil Tigers, the government boasted of killing 60 Tigers, while the Tigers claimed to have repulsed an attack by helicopter gunships, killing more than two dozen Sri Lankan troops.
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Twenty-two Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) have been banned from voting on Monday's proposed budget for the year 2008, according to the party. MPs from the east have received telephone warnings from Pilliayan, the acting leader of the Karuna Group.
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have denied allegations published on a Sinhala website that the TULF Chief and former Kilinochchi district parliamentarian Veerasingham Anadasangaree is "on the payroll of the Tamil Tigers".
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The vote on the budget which will decide the future of the government is scheduled for Monday. For the Tamils, whether this government stays or falls is not of much interest. Both the PA and the UNP are hell bent on satisfying their southern vote base, which has consistently veered towards a hard-line approach in tackling the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka and not on finding a political solution that is just and equitable by the Tamil and Muslim people.
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The British government should open a criminal investigation into a former Tamil Tiger leader in immigration detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, known as Colonel Karuna Amman, was a leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) until he split to form his own group.
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The US government is to freeze the assets of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) on allegations that the charity has links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). A statement from the US Treasury said that the TRO acted as a "front to facilitate fundraising" for the rebels.
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The US government is to freeze the assets of a Tamil charity with links to the Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka. A statement from the US Treasury said the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) acted as a "front to facilitate fundraising" for the rebels.
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Thursday announced that it would freeze the U.S.-held assets of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO).
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Hambantota District UNP Parliamentarian, Sajith Premadasa, on Wednesday said around ten thousand families have been displaced following a rise in suspected LTTE attacks in the district.
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The editor of The Morning Leader Sonali Samarasinghe has in letters of demand to the editor and Publisher of Asian Tribune claimed damages to the tune of Rs 500 million for a defamatory reference to her on its website of Monday, November 12.
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Times Now has learnt that Indian government is deeply concerned about a new US maritime spy facility in north eastern Sri Lanka. Based out of the Vavuniya region in Sri Lanka, this facility was recently presented to the Sri Lankan Navy by the Americans.
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