The World - News from July 29, 1988
Tamil rebels stabbed and hacked to death 14 Sinhalese farmers and injured two others in northeastern Sri Lanka, the military said. The killings occurred on the first anniversary of an accord aimed at ending the nation’s civil war. In Colombo, the capital, the government imposed a 24-hour curfew beginning today in two key districts after Sinhalese extremists of the People’s Liberation Front called for two days of “national resistance” to protest the accord signed by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and President Junius R. Jayewardene.
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