Sri Lanka govt rejects Tamil truce
China Daily | Updated: 2009-04-27 07:44
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A government soldier looks over civilians who arrived east of the village of Putumatalan in Puthukkudiyirippu, northern Sri Lanka on Friday after fleeing an area still controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the "No Fire Zone". Reuters |
COLOMBO: The Tamil Tigers declared a unilateral ceasefire yesterday, but Sri Lanka dismissed it as a "joke" and said only a surrender would stop troops from finishing the last battle in Asia's longest modern war.
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