The World - News from April 28, 1987
Sri Lankan forces have killed 400 Tamil guerrillas in a five-day offensive in retaliation for a bombing in the capital of Colombo that killed more than 100 people, officials said. A government spokesman said that about 150 rebels were killed in an air and ground assault on Tamil guerrilla bases in their northern stronghold of Jaffna, while 250 more died in military sweeps through Eastern province. The government of President Junius R. Jayewardene has shelved all peace efforts for the time being in the four-year-old ethnic war that has claimed more than 5,000 lives.
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