Relatives cry at the location where four policemen were killed in Vavuniya, July 24, 2007. Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed and killed four village policemen in the restive northern district of Vavuniya before dawn on Tuesday, the military said, the latest in a spree of deadly attacks on security forces in the area.
Sri Lankan policemen and army soldiers inspect the location where four policemen were killed in Vavuniya, July 24, 2007. Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed and killed four village policemen in the restive northern district of Vavuniya before dawn on Tuesday, the military said, the latest in a spree of deadly attacks on security forces in the area.
Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed and killed four village policemen in the restive northern district of Vavuniya before dawn on Tuesday, the military said, the latest in a spree of deadly attacks on security forces in the area.
The fatal shootings come after a rash of land and sea clashes, ambushes and air raids that have killed an estimated 4,500 people since last year alone.
"The terrorists attacked a homeguard post near Vavuniya town, killing four of them" a spokesman for the Media Centre for National Security said, declining to be named in line with policy.
Homeguards are a force of police recruited and armed to guard their own villages and wear a distinct light purple uniform. The town of Vavuniya is the last major staging post before the southern front line that separates government from rebel-held territory in the north.
Fighting has now shifted to the far north, where the Tigers run a diminished de facto state after losing vast swathes of territory in the east in the face of military advances in recent months.
There are now daily clashes of killings amid a new chapter of a two-decade civil war that has killed nearly 70,000 people since 1983, and analysts see no clear winner on the horizon and fear the conflict will grind on for years.
(http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL159595.htm)
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