The World - News from Aug. 23, 1989
Sri Lankan security forces arrested more than 2,000 people in a three-day sweep after left-wing Sinhalese rebels threatened to kill families of service people, military sources in Colombo said. Many of the suspects were released after questioning. Sinhalese radicals who oppose the government’s plan to grant limited autonomy to minority Tamils in the north and east had threatened to kill families of service people if they did not resign by Aug. 20. Security forces retaliated by warning the same would happen to families of the radicals.
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