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Karuval Suntha - 21 May 2006 08:40 GMT

Sri Lanka villagers flee massacre
By Dumeetha Luthra
BBC News, Jaffna

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5000920.stm

People are fleeing from the village following last week's killing

At least 150 people have fled the village of Allaipiddy in the northern
Sri Lankan peninsula of Jaffna.
It follows last weekend's murder of 13 Tamil civilians. The navy has
been accused of the killings - they deny it.

Police and international truce monitors have both launched
investigations into the incident.

The killings came only two days after Tamil Tiger rebels launched a
suicide assault on a naval convoy in which 18 sailors died.

Threatening posters

The attack in Allaipiddy last weekend was brutal. Thirteen people
gunned down, including a four-month-old baby and a young boy.

In the village of some 800 Tamils, it has caused fear and panic.
Afterwards many of the residents took refuge in the church.

Investigations are underway. Now residents are starting to leave.
Posters around the town are warning people to evacuate.

But no one is able to say who is behind them. Some accuse the military,
some the Tigers.

Increasingly civilians are being drawn into the bloodshed which has
left almost 300 people dead since the start of April

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addercrait@hotmail.com - 21 May 2006 11:54 GMT

LTTE kills its own people. They ahve killed nearly 50,000 tamils alone.
That is why they have so many dissident groups, so many so called
paramilitary groups. At the rate of the y make enemies in their own
people they have to hide in Wanni (the Jungle) for ever. They never
admitted any of the killings.

> Sri Lanka villagers flee massacre
> By Dumeetha Luthra
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> Increasingly civilians are being drawn into the bloodshed which has
> left almost 300 people dead since the start of April

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wester@laway.net - 21 May 2006 18:21 GMT

May 21 1991

At an outdoor political rally, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi and 16 bystanders are blown to bits by a pregnant woman bearing
a basket of flowers. The suicide bomber is believed to have been a
member of a Hindu terrorist group called the Tamil Tigers. (The
assassin, Dhanu, is pictured above

Happy now?

>LTTE kills its own people. They ahve killed nearly 50,000 tamils alone.
>That is why they have so many dissident groups, so many so called
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>> Increasingly civilians are being drawn into the bloodshed which has
>> left almost 300 people dead since the start of April

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juditero - 22 May 2006 15:16 GMT

of course noooooooo
but what can i do would u tell me

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