JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels exploded two roadside bombs in Sri Lanka's army-held northern Jaffna peninsula on Tuesday, officials said, killing one civilian and wounding 15 -- including two schoolchildren. One blast occurred near the garrison town of Jaffna and the other near a market in a small town along a highway that leads to a heavily guarded forward defence line separating government from rebel territory, officials said.
Ethnic Sinhalese protesters carry placards and march past a cut out photo of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse during a demonstration demanding scrapping the cease-fire agreement between Sri Lanka government and Tamil rebels, in Colombo, Sri Lanka February 22, 2007. Air raids, roadside blasts, suicide bombings, land and sea battles and thousands killed. So much for the 2002 ceasefire between Sri Lanka's army and the Tamil Tigers. The tattered pact turned five years old on Thursday, with the foes ignoring repeated calls by the international community to halt a new stage of the two-decade civil war, and analysts fearing the bloodshed will only get worse.
