Sri Lanka rebels ambush army bus -military
Posted on: Wednesday, 19 July 2006, 02:59 CDT
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed an army bus in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula on Wednesday, killing 2 servicemen and injuring 12, the military said, the latest in a series of attacks kindling war fears.
The attack comes after the suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels killed three people and wounded 23 on Monday and Tuesday in two similar attacks in the island's north and east.
"An army bus was hit by a Claymore mine on the Jaffna peninsula," said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe. A military official in Jaffna said one officer and one soldier were killed by the blast.
The attacks are the latest in a surge of violence that has killed more than 700 people this year and which many fear could rupture a 2002 ceasefire and rekindle a two-decade civil war.
Many Tamil Jaffna residents resent what they see as an army occupation by the majority Sinhalese south, which has fenced off large swathes of agricultural land as high-security zones -- preventing thousands of displaced people returning home.
But while hundreds of thousands fled the peninsula to avoid fighting in the 1990s, many people say they are sick and tired of being displaced by a protracted conflict that has killed more than 65,000 people since 1983 and refuse to move again, even if it costs them their lives.
Source: REUTERS
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