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	Foreign Aid & Sri Lanka's Rising Military Expenditure
		Sri Lanka had pressed 40,000 strong army into the Jaffna peninsula four years ago by sea through Kankesanthurai port, 12 km north of the town, said Kalkat adding that a small force was airlifted to Jaffna airfield, eight km north.
		Sri Lanka has sought to use the political space provided by the countervailing strategic interests of the US, India and China in the Indian region (with supporting roles for Pakistan, European Union and Japan) to advance its own interests and acquire the military capability to subdue Tamil resistance to alien Sinhala rule.
		Sri Lanka may see the enlistment of rural youth in the Sri Lanka armed forces as an answer to the problem of rural unemployment and as a way of reducing the movement of the rural population to urban areas, in search of jobs which are difficult to find.
	www.tamilnation.org /tamileelam/aid/index.htm (5701 words)

	Sri Lanka Military Commitment Not in India's Interests
		Kumaratunga's India tour preceded a three-day visit to Sri Lanka, that started Wednesday, by Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen in a new bid to revive the peace talks that were supposed to follow a ceasefire that Oslo successfully brokered in February 2002.
		According to former Indian army general A.S. Kalkat, the difficulty for Kumaratunga's government lay in the fact that the LTTE had become a 'de jure' power in the north and east of the island and was running every aspect of civil administration in the areas within its control.
		A veteran of India's military intervention in the Jaffna peninsula to help implement the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord -- which ambitiously provided for the disarming of the formidable LTTE -- Kalkat said the new defence deal would essentially be a reiteration of the older one minus its military commitment.
	www.ipsnews.net /srilanka/military_com.shtml (1011 words)

	Sri Lanka military offensive kills 28 - Boston.com
		Sri Lanka's armed forces launched airstrikes and fired artillery as they advanced Monday on a strategic Tamil Tiger-held enclave, killing at least 28 people, the military and rebels said.
		The military said eight soldiers were killed and 28 wounded as ground troops backed by air force jets battled their way toward rebel-held Sampur, to the south of the strategic Trincomalee port.
		The Sri Lankan military is reliant upon the Trincomalee port to supply its more than 43,000 troops on Jaffna Peninsula, as the road link passes through rebel territory.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/08/28/sri_lanka_military_offensive_kills_28?mode=PF (558 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Analysis: Sri Lanka military setbacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		They had enjoyed several military victories, including the capture of Sampur, which is strategically placed on the southern edge of the Trincomalee harbour in the north-east of the island.
		There was a clear element within the military and the government which was pressing to fight on and push the advantage in the field to translate into an advantage at the talks table.
		However, diplomats acknowledge that given the fluidity of the situation in Sri Lanka, the gap of several weeks between the agreement to talk and the date of those discussions was going to be a dangerous phase.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/6045866.stm (825 words)

	Military of Sri Lanka - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2003 est.)
		Military expenditures - dollar figure: $514.8 million (2004)
		Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.6% (2004)
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Military_of_Sri_Lanka (61 words)

	Sri Lanka seeks military support from India-India-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Sri Lankan government has submitted a list of its requirements to India but it still awaiting a response from New Delhi, which while supporting Colombo diplomatically is reluctant to forge deeper military ties with an island nation caught in a war that shows no signs of ending.
		One of the priority items for Sri Lanka are vehicles the military can use to ward off the LTTE's claymore mines, which have accounted for most of the over 400 army, navy and police personnel killed in renewed violence since December last year.
		Sri Lanka, whose navy finds the LTTE's Sea Tigers a formidable foe, also wants the Indian Navy and Coast Guard to enforce an effective blockade of the sea surrounding the island's northeast to choke the rebels' military supplies.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1879540.cms (423 words)

	SiberNews - Sri Lanka military offers amnesty to deserters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sri Lanka's army has offered nearly 17,000 deserters an amnesty to return to ranks amid a new chapter of civil war against Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said on Friday.
		Around 50,000 soldiers have deserted the Sri Lankan military since the war began in 1983, but the military's offer only stands for those who have gone absent without leave since the end of 2003 in the belief that they are fit for retraining.
		Sri Lanka's army is 125,000-strong, and around 630 soldiers have been killed in the past year in a series of land battles with the Tigers and rebel ambushes.
	www.sibernews.com /news/sri-lanka/-200701137380 (450 words)

	Rebel-held Sampur falls to Sri Lanka military - Boston.com
		Sri Lanka's military has taken control of the northeastern area of Sampur from Tiger rebels after days of fighting to secure the southern lip of strategic Trincomalee harbour, a military official said on Monday.
		COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military has taken control of the northeastern area of Sampur from Tiger rebels after days of fighting to secure the southern lip of strategic Trincomalee harbour, a military official said on Monday.
		We have moved in and are consolidating the area," said a military official on condition of anonymity.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/09/04/rebel_held_sampur_falls_to_sri_lanka_military?mode=PF (207 words)

	Sri Lanka military intensifies shelling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sri Lanka's military did not comment on the attack, but suggesting there may have been civilian deaths, blame the LTTE for provoking it.
		Underpinning this view, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) fired a barrage in the vicinity of the head of the internationally staffed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), Major General Lars Johan Sølvberg, as he was on an official visit to the LTTE-held Pooneryn region.
		Sri Lankan artillery and rockets hit a school in Kathiraveli, a coastal hamlet 15 km north of Vaaharai, where five thousand civilians displaced by earlier military offensives were sheltering.
	www.tamilguardian.com /article.asp?articleid=945 (752 words)

	Top News- Sri Lanka's military screen fleeing refugees, detain at least 11 suspected rebels - AOL News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		MANKERNI, Sri Lanka (AP) - Soldiers are screening the thousands of Tamil refugees fleeing heavy fighting in eastern Sri Lanka and have detained at least 11 suspected separatist rebels, an official said Saturday.
		However, Tamil parents claimed their innocent children were unfairly detained by soldiers and a pro-government militia on Friday as they fled to a government-held village after government troops routed rebels from Vaharai, an impoverished coastal stretch in the eastern Batticaloa district.
		A military official in Mankerni said 11 suspected rebels were detained, and 10 of them admitted their involvement with the Tigers.
	news.aol.com /topnews/articles/_a/sri-lankas-military-screen-fleeing/n20070120064709990003 (908 words)

	Sri Lanka's undeclared civil war escalates, 26 reported killed in latest battle - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A fierce battle between Sri Lanka's military and Tamil rebels killed at least 26 combatants, the two sides said, as an Indian envoy Friday wrapped up a trip to the island nation in hopes of shoring up peace efforts.
		Menon was dispatched to Sri Lanka by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the behest of the chief minister of India's Tamil Nadu state, M. Karunanidhi.
		The military Friday said it had recovered the bodies of five rebels, believed killed in a confrontation with security forces late Thursday in northern Vavuniya, the defense department website said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-11-23-srilanka_x.htm (622 words)

	Military Of Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/sri_lanka_country_military.shtml (187 words)

	FOXNews.com - Sri Lanka Villagers Flee Military Patrol - International News \| News of the World \| Middle East News \| ...
		The military denied targeting civilians and blamed the rebels for the killings.
		Surging violence has heightened fears that Sri Lanka is moving toward a return to all-out civil war.
		The military said up to 30 rebels were killed in the fighting, but rebels acknowledged only two wounded.
	www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Jun18/0,4670,SriLankaViolence,00.html (580 words)

	Top News- Sri Lanka showcases military might at Independence Day celebrations - AOL News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Insurgency-torn Sri Lanka celebrated 59 years of independence Sunday with displays of its military air and sea power, as the president said he would not give in to the separatist Tamil Tigers' "bloodthirsty" demands.
		The celebrations followed a successful military campaign to seize several strategic areas in eastern Sri Lanka from the Tigers' control.
		Sri Lanka fell under Portuguese, Dutch and then British rule between 1505 and 1948.
	news.aol.com /topnews/articles/_a/sri-lanka-showcases-military-might-at/n20070204021109990001 (565 words)

	Peace Process of Sri Lanka
		Attaching utmost importance to nurturing, intensifying and strengthening the traditional friendship of Sri Lanka and India, and acknowledging the imperative need of resolving the ethnic problem of Sri Lanka, and the consequent violence, and for the safety, wellbeing and prosperity of people belonging to all communities of Sri Lanka.
		His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka and the Prime Minister of India agree that the Referendum mentioned in paragraph 2 and its subparagraphs of the agreement will be observed by a representative of the election Commission of India to be invited by His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka.
		The President of Sri Lanka and the Prime Minister of India agree that the Tamil militants shall surrender their arms to authorities agreed upon to be designated by the President of Sri Lanka.
	www.peaceinsrilanka.org /insidepages/Agreement/IndoSriLanka.asp (1531 words)

	CNN.com - Sri Lanka: Rebel bomb kills 18 - Jul 31, 2006
		The heavy fighting erupted after Sri Lankan troops launched an offensive to end a rebel blockade of water to some 30,000 acres of paddy land in the government-held eastern Batticaloa district, military and government sources said Monday.
		Military sources said more than 40 rebel troops were killed and the district's military commander was wounded, but the rebels played down the incident and made no mention of it on their Web sites.
		Sri Lanka's northeast is divided into government-controlled and rebel-held areas.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/31/srilanka.tigers (335 words)

	Sri Lanka expands military in 'marked shift'
		Sri Lanka is preparing for a major onslaught against the Liberation Tigers, raising defence spending by 45% to $1.29 bln and calling on the international community to help fight terrorism, reports said Friday.
		Raviraj was gunned down in front of a military barracks during the morning rush hour when large numbers of police and troops are deployed at virtually every key street junction.
		A United Nations official Monday accused Sri Lankan government security forces of recruiting child soldiers on behalf of an allied paramilitary group, which is also fighting Tamil Tigers, AFP reported Monday.
	www.topix.net /forum/world/sri-lanka/TENI7TQCU484KQJAQ (818 words)

	Sri Lanka
		JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Feb 28 (IPS) - After decades of civil war, this year the migratory birds have returned to the wetlands along the A-9 highway to the north-eastern Jaffna peninsula, every inch of which is scarred with battles fought between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tiger rebels.
		COLOMBO (IPS) - Sri Lanka's two main ethnic communities have high hopes for the September peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels, but the country's Muslims, though supportive, are also worried they could end up a "minority within a minority" after the negotiations.
		TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka - With the guns of war stilled and the prospects for peace bright, investor interest is again being drawn to the deep, calm waters of Trincomalee, one of the world's greatest natural harbours on Sri Lanka's east coast.
	www.ipsnews.net /srilanka/index.shtml (3373 words)

	Sri Lanka military launches new offensive on Tamil rebels - World - smh.com.au
		Sri Lankan forces launched a new air and ground offensive to wrest a key reservoir from Tamil rebels who have cut off water to 60,000 villagers, sparking some of the fiercest fighting since a 2002 ceasefire deal.
		The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam took up arms against the government in 1983 to fight for a homeland for Sri Lanka's 3.2 million ethnic Tamils, who had faced decades of discrimination.
		Following the rebel's seizure of the reservoir, 220 kilometres northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka's military responded with four days of airstrikes on rebel bases in the area before deploying ground forces on Sunday.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/sri-lanka-military-launches-new-offensive-on-tamil-rebels/2006/08/01/1154198140758.html (513 words)

	ABC News: Sri Lanka Military Offensive Kills 28
		A Sri Lankan officer deploys soldiers close to the Mavilaaru reservoir, in Mavilaaru, close to Trincomalee, about 220 kilometers (138 miles) northeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Aug. 28, 2006.
		The rebels closed sluice gates from the reservoir on July 20, cutting water to over 60,000 people living in government-controlled villages, after accusing the government of reneging on a pledge to boost water in rebel-held areas.
		COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Aug 28, 2006 (AP)— Sri Lanka's armed forces launched airstrikes and fired artillery as they advanced Monday on a strategic Tamil Tiger-held enclave, killing at least 28 people, the military and rebels said.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2366542&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (476 words)

	ABC News: Sri Lanka Military Kills 35 Tamil Rebels
		Thousands of civilians fled clashes between soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's northeast on Friday, and at least five were killed by artillery fire as they tried to find a safe haven, officials said.
		TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka Aug 4, 2006 (AP)— Government troops repulsed a Tamil rebel attack in northeastern Sri Lanka and killed 35 insurgents, the military said Saturday.
		He said the military had retrieved the bodies of nine Tamil Tiger rebel and would hand them over to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2276284&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (339 words)

	News: Sri Lanka: Floods - May 2003, Indian military joins Sri Lanka relief effort after flood havoc
		Indian navy divers were deployed in southern Sri Lanka for a recovery operation as a search for bodies got underway with signs of water levels going down in the worst affected district of Ratnapura, officials said.
		They said two Indian military transport aircraft were due in the capital Colombo Tuesday with 100 army medical personnel, including 20 doctors, and urgent medical supplies to treat survivors and prevent the spread of disease.
		The Sri Lankan air force said it delivered 35 tonnes of food Monday and eight helicopters were carrying out regular sorties to drop food, drinking water and medicine to villages cut off by floods.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACOS-64BMW4?OpenDocument (623 words)

	Sri Lanka Military Engages Rebels in Battle - New York Times
		COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Nov. 9 — The Sri Lankan military said Thursday that it had sunk 22 Tamil Tiger boats in a fierce battle, killing dozens of rebels as they tried to sink a passenger vessel carrying more than 300 civilians off the northern coast.
		The battle took place barely a day after artillery fire by the Sri Lankan military killed at least 23 civilians who had been displaced by the fighting in eastern Sri Lanka.
		Irasiah Ilanthirayan, a military leader of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, blamed the navy for “provoking” the battle by interrupting its training exercises.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/11/10/world/asia/10lanka.html?ex=1320814800&en=3c820d1f787aaec7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (353 words)

	TamilNet: 13.11.06 UN: Sri Lanka military ‘recruiting child soldiers’
		"Sri Lankan security forces rounded up children to be recruited by the Karuna faction," Rock said at the end of a 10-day mission to study the situation of children in the embattled island.
		Rock's visit was to ascertain first-hand the situation on the ground, mainly in the North and East, with a particular focus on compliance with the Action Plan for Children Affected by Conflict.
		They also committed to better training for their military commanders in relation to recruitment, and a process of discipline for those who do not comply.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=20261 (1198 words)

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