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Tamil Tigers 'killed in fighting'
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BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka - A bomb blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels ripped through a cafe in eastern Sri Lanka yesterday, killing 11 people and casting a cloud over pivotal provincial elections scheduled for today. (article 3) President Mahinda Rajapaksa has painted the election as a tacit referendum on his costly battle to crush the rebels in their remaining stronghold in the north and end this Indian Ocean island nation's 25-year civil war. (article 2) The vote was intended to show that a "new dawn" was coming to the impoverished area, to give minority communities a degree of self-rule and to counter rebel demands for an independent state. (article 1) Sri Lankan troops have killed 15 Tamil Tigers rebels in a battle to capture a small town in the country's north-west, the army says. (article 7) Former Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel Col Karuna has just completed a prison sentence in the UK and is now in an immigration detention centre. (article 8) A chronology of key events: Fifth century BC - Indo-Aryan migrants from northern India settle on the island; the Sinhalese emerge as the most powerful of the various clans. (article 4) More than 20 others were wounded in the blast in a cafe in the town of Ampara, 220km (130 miles) from Colombo. (article 5)

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Tamil, Karuna, Sri, Rebels, Tigers

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