Sri Lanka navy sinks two Tiger boats: military
February 8, 2009 (AFP) - The Sri Lankan navy on Sunday sank two boats carrying Tamil Tiger rebels escaping the island's north-eastern battle zone, killing at …
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Sri Lanka warns Tigers to surrender or risk rout
February 7, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse warned cornered Tamil Tiger rebels to surrender or face a complete rout as government forces …
Sri Lankan troops take more Tiger bases
February 6, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops captured several Tamil Tiger supply bases on Friday, a day after overrunning the rebels' last and largest naval …
Sri Lanka offers amnesty to Tamil Tigers: PM
February 5, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka is offering an amnesty to Tamil Tiger rebels who lay down arms and surrender to government forces, Prime Minister Ratnasiri …
Sri Lanka combatants must declare truce, evacuate civilians: Canada
Feb 05, 2009 (LBO) - Canada has called for the warring parties in Sri Lanka to declare a truce to evacuate the wounded civilians and for the Tigers to lay down …
Sri Lanka fighting kills 52 civilians: UN
February 4, 2009 (AFP) - At least 52 civilians were killed in Sri Lanka in shelling in one location on Tuesday, a UN spokesman said Wednesday, as the only …
Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers urged to lay down arms
Feb 03, 2009 (LBO) – The United States and other powerful donors involved in Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict have urged Tamil Tiger rebels to surrender, to …
Sri Lanka troops find Tamil Tiger chief’s bunker: ministry
February 3, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops advancing in the north of the island have found an underground bunker complex believed to have been a home of the …
Sri Lanka troops find Tamil Tiger chief’s bunker: defence ministry
February 3, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops advancing in the north of the island have found an underground bunker complex believed to have been a home of the …
Sri Lankan troops capture last Tamil Tiger airstrip: military
February 3, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lankan government troops on Tuesday captured the last of several jungle airstrips used by the Tamil Tigers to launch air strikes …
Sri Lanka hospital shelled in fighting, nine killed
February 2, 2009 (AFP) - Shells hit a crowded hospital in northeast Sri Lanka, killing at least nine people and raising fears Monday for thousands of civilians …
Sri Lanka warns civilians in combat zone
February 2, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka issued a stark warning to civilians trapped in fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels Monday, a day after shells hit a crowded …
50,000 in London Tamil protest demanding ceasefire
LONDON, January 31, 2009 (AFP) - More than 50,000 demonstrators marched through London in a Tamil rally on Saturday demanding an end to the fighting in Sri …
Sri Lankan civilian deadline runs out
February 1, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels failed to let hundreds of thousands of civilians leave the island's northeastern war zone before a …
Sri Lanka’s war raises Indian Tamil concern
CHENNAI, February 1, 2009 (AFP) - India's large Tamil population is demanding that New Delhi ensure the safety of 250,000 of their brethren boxed into the …
Sri Lanka mulls new offensive to ‘liberate’ trapped civilians
February 1, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's military said Sunday it would move to "liberate" civilians trapped by fighting with Tamil Tiger forces, after a deadline …
Sri Lanka Tigers, Red Cross in talks to free wounded civilians
January 31, 2009 (AFP) - The Red Cross said Saturday it was in talks with Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels to release more wounded civilians trapped in the …
Sri Lanka army reports lull in fighting
January 31, 2009 (AFP) - The Sri Lankan military reported a lull in fighting Saturday with cornered Tamil Tiger rebels, as the Red Cross tried to negotiate the …
Tamil Tigers’ British chief faces terror charges
LONDON, January 28, 2009 (AFP) - The chief of the Tamil Tiger rebels in Britain helped supply military equipment to the Sri Lankan separatist group, a London …
International concern mounts for Sri Lanka civilians
January 29, 2009 (AFP) - International rights groups pressed for urgent action to save up to 250,000 civilians trapped in northern Sri Lanka where government …