Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed two Sri Lankan soldiers and wounded nine others in a series of attack in the government-held north, the army said yesterday, as prospects for direct peace talks looked increasingly remote. Angry minority Tamil protesters and troops have clashed repeatedly this week on the Jaffna Peninsula, a heavily defended army enclave hemmed in by Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lines, with each side saying the other was trying to escalate the situation. âLTTE is determined to uphold the cease-fire agreement, but the Sri Lankan Army is continuously ignoring the cease-fire agreement and are committing serious violations, such as rapes, violent attacks and humiliating treatment of Tamil civilians,â the rebelsâ website quoted Jaffna political head Illamparuthy as telling Nordic truce monitors.Sri Lankan Parliament voted yesterday to extend the islandâs state of emergency â first imposed after the foreign minister was assassinated by suspected rebels in August â for another month.