Court rules against expelling Tamils
From Times Wire Reports
The nation’s highest court ordered police to stop expelling ethnic Tamils from the capital.
The Defense Ministry says 376 people were rounded up this week in Colombo and sent to Tamil areas in the north and east as a security precaution.
More than a quarter of the capital’s 800,000 people are Tamils. Tamil rebels began fighting the Sinhalese-dominated government in 1983 for the creation of a separate homeland.
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