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| Tight security for Avurudu |
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| Security forces and police stepped up security measures countrywide as the Government issued an unprecedented warning of Tiger guerrilla attempts to disrupt festivities during the Avurudu season beginning next week. |
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| 7 killed, 25 injured in Vavuniya bus blast |
| Seven people, including two children, were killed when a state-run passenger bus was hit by a powerful claymore mine explosion at Pirimanalankulam in Vavuniya yesterday morning, a military spokesman said. |
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| Amnesty knocked out of World Cup |
| The International Cricket Council has pledged to stop a controversial move by the human rights group Amnesty International to carry out a cricket ball campaign at the ongoing world cup in the Caribbean to protest against the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, officials said. |
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| LTTE on high alert for deep penetration attacks |
| The LTTE has clamped a news blackout on attacks carried out by the military’s deep penetration unit within the Wanni and intensified checks and patrolling in areas under its control in the wake of a series of claymore mine attacks in the region. |
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| “Let’s have fun” in anti-Lanka campaign |
| The Amnesty International’s South Asian Group official Sarah Oliver is said to have written to the group’s Sri Lanka coordinator stating that AI was asking the South Asia group whether it would contribute to the cricket ball campaign against Sri Lanka instead of launching a campaign on India this spring. |
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