 Anti-personnel mines have been found set to explode near passing military convoys in Sri Lanka and European observers say the country is in danger of slipping back into civil war.
| I thought that's the condition they were in all the time. Silly me. |
Hagrup Haukland, the chief of a group of truce monitors drawn from five Nordic countries, said in a statement on Thursday: âIf this trend of violence is allowed to continue, war may not be far away. It is now imperative that the parties join hands to arrest the violence prevailing in the north and in the east.â
| Lemme 'splain ya something, Hagrup: if one side's trying to make peace, and the other side's trying to kill them, you're not going to have peace. If one side's buying the peace and brotherhood line, and the other side's buying ammunition, then one of the two sides is in for trouble. And it won't be the Nordic countries. |
Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, a military spokesman, said that navy personnel engaged in road clearing in Mannar district, 220km north of the capital, Colombo, recovered two Claymore mines fixed together on a tree. The army also discovered another two Claymores along a main road that links Mannar with Vavuniya, a main town in northern Sri Lanka, Samarasinghe said. âIf all these [mines] went off today, it would have been a major disaster,â Samarasinghe said. He said that he suspected Tamil Tiger rebels of placing the mines.
| Brilliant! Brigadier, how do you do it? |
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