Violence kills off Sri Lanka ceasefire
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Government abandons Norway-brokered agreement left in tatters by continued fighting with Tamil Tigers
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Sri Lanka's military says it has come under attack from Tamil Tigers the day after the rebels agreed to peace talks.
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Sri Lanka's government on Friday rejected a Tamil Tiger offer to abide by the terms of a newly-scrapped six-year ceasefire and vowed to push on with a military campaign to crush the rebels.
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More than 20 Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka on Monday, the military said, the latest in a rash of confrontations amid renewed civil war.
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Clashes between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's embattled north left 31 guerrillas and one soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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Sri Lanka's army said on Sunday 28   soldiers and dozens of Tamil Tigers had been killed in their   advance across frontlines in the island's far north, as the   rebels accused them of shattering what is left of a 2002 truce.
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At least 27 Tamil Tiger rebels and soldiers have been killed in clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts said.
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Heavy clashes broke out between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's volatile north and east, killing a large number of insurgents and wounding at least six soldiers, the military said Friday.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have  accused the army of colluding in the killing of a top member of  its political arm and said a two-year truce that silenced the  guns after two decades of civil war faced serious threat.
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Sri Lanka's government decided on Wednesday to annul a six-year ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers which would allow a full-scale military campaign to recapture the rebels' de facto state in the north of the island.
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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting between the foes the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts say.
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COLOMBO: Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels gunned down another rival after Norway failed in its latest bid to end a prolonged deadlock in Sri Lankaâs peace process, officials and diplomats said on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka said its navy sank two suspected Tamil Tiger boats, killing nine rebels on Thursday, on the fifth anniversary of a largely ignored cease-fire.
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A bomb ripped through a packed civilian bus Wednesday, killing 23 people in southeastern Sri Lanka as the government officially withdrew from a tattered cease-fire with Tamil Tiger rebels.
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A roadside bomb killed five people, including Tamil Tiger insurgents, in an apparent ambush in rebel-held territory in Sri Lanka's far north on Tuesday, Nordic truce monitors said.
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Sri Lanka's government has decided to formally annul a ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers, a senior government official said on Wednesday.