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Sri Lanka |
LTTE rival shot amid increasing chaos |
2006-07-14 |
![]() Four other people, two policemen, a soldier and a politician, died on Wednesday in separate attacks by suspected Tamil Tigers in northern Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula. The politician killed was R Skandarajah Dhavan, a leader of minority Tamil party PLOTE - which fought the state alongside the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) before turning to the political mainstream in the late 1980s. He had been kidnapped late on Wednesday. “Dhavan’s body was found beside a reservoir. It was surely the LTTE,” said a military spokesman. Rising violence in the country since last December has killed more than 700 people, half of them civilians, pushing a 2002 Norway-brokered cease-fire to the verge of collapse. |
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