The World - News from Aug. 10, 1987

Hundreds of Tamil militants staged protests in two eastern Sri Lankan provinces in the wake of reports that two rebels had been killed by government troops in the northern town of Mannar. The protests also stalled an arms surrender by Tamils as called for under a Indian-Sri Lankan peace accord signed July 29 to end a four-year Tamil insurgency for an independent homeland. The government denied the killings, while the Indian peacekeeping forces called the reports “baseless.”