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Ethnic Tamils carry their belongings as they walk to a temporary transit site in Vavuniya
07 Jun 2007
Source: Reuters
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Ethnic Tamils carry their belongings as they walk to a temporary transit site in Vavuniya June 7, 2007. Sri Lanka evicted hundreds of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital on Thursday and sent them back to the war-torn north citing security concerns, as the military battled Tamil Tiger rebels in the east.
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Government troops travel in an armed personal carrier close to Thoppigala jungle in Batticaloa district in eastern Sri Lanka July 10, 2007. Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers will lose their last foothold in the island's restive east within days after troops captured a strategic plateau overnight, the ground commander in the area said on Monday.


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