Sri Lankan Troops Kill 19 Tamil Rebels
<i> Reuters</i>
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka —
Sri Lankan forces killed 19 Tamil rebels in the north and east, military sources said Friday.
Rebels, fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority, killed 21 members of the Sinhalese majority community and 21 Muslims in a 10-day period.
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