The World - News from Aug. 18, 1985
Sri Lankan Tamil leaders accused the army of new massacres of Tamil civilians and walked out of peace talks with the government. Five Tamil guerrilla groups issued a statement saying that soldiers and armed “musclemen” from the Sinhalese majority pulled Tamils from their homes near Trincomalee and killed them. The Sri Lankan Defense Ministry said 21 people, both Tamils and Sinhalese, were killed by a guerrilla land mine near an army camp at Vavuniya, but denied reports that an ensuing army rampage killed 100. Tamil guerrillas are fighting for an independent Tamil homeland.
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