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Sri Lankan Navy Destroys 2 Rebel Boats
Associated Press,
Fri February 16, 2007 06:23 EST .
BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Sri Lanka's navy said it destroyed two Tamil Tiger rebel boats Friday as the craft were hauling hundreds of thousands of steel balls often used in bombs. Four rebel fighters were believed killed. Navy spokesman commander D.K.P. Dassanayake said divers retrieved 28 bags filled with steel balls from the sunken boats. Such balls are used in roadside bombs a favored weapon of the Tigers, who are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's minority ethnic Tamils. Dassanayake said naval divers also found an automatic rifle, ammunition and a satellite phone from the two boats, which he said had left from nearby India. The Tamil Tigers have smuggled weapons from there in the past. No immediate comment on the sea battle was available from the Tigers, who are formally called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE. The Tigers have fought the government for decades in an attempt to create an independent Tamil homeland, following decades of discrimination by the island nation's majority ethnic Sinhalese. More than 68,000 people have been killed in the conflict, including at least 3,600 who died in the latest wave of fighting since December 2005, seriously undermining a 2002 Norway-brokered cease-fire. The two sides claim they are adhering to the truce.Discuss this story
Published: Fri Feb 16 09:26:54 EST 2007
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