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<text id=90TT1624>
<title>
June 25, 1990: World Notes:Sri Lanka
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 35
World Notes
SRI LANKA
Playing Cops And Killers
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<p> Just when Sri Lankans thought they had seen the end of it,
war returned last week with blistering force. The Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a guerrilla group fighting for an
independent ethnic Tamil homeland, attacked several police
stations in Sri Lanka's northeastern province. At least 300
people are believed to have died in the first days of fighting;
some reports said at least 100 of them were policemen executed
by the rebels. The government dispatched an additional 4,200
troops to the region (the total now: 15,000) and began using
helicopter gunships, artillery and aerial bombardment to crush
the guerrillas.
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<p> The fighting marks the resumption of an old battle: since
1983, the Sri Lankan army and the Tigers have fought for
control of the island's northern and eastern regions, where the
Tigers want to declare an independent state called Eelam. So
far, the conflict has cost 11,000 lives. Since March, the
Tigers and the government have been on peaceful, if wary,
terms. But in recent weeks tensions climbed as the rebels,
accusing Sri Lankan leaders of delaying elections, promised a
fight if the government did not deliver. They were as good as
their word.
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