From: hlpi@cyclone.mitre.org (HLPI)
Subject: More TE (TH) News
Originator: hlpi@cyclone
Organization: Mitre Corporation                  
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:11:46 GMT
Expires: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 04:00:00 GMT



07/21 0751  TAMIL REBELS ATTACK TRAIN IN SRI LANKA LEAVING ...

COLOMBO (JULY 21) DPA - Nine civilians were killed and six others
hurt  when  suspected  Tamil  rebels  of the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked a  passenger  train  in  eastern  Sri
Lanka, military officials said Tuesday.
   Suspected rebels posing as civilians stopped the train by wav-
ing  a  red  flag.   They fired at passengers and set fire to the
locomotive and carriages, military officials said.
   Reports from the area said most  of  the  dead  were  Moslems.
Rebels  had  attacked  them after segregating the Tamil civilians
who were travelling on the train.
   The train was bound from the eastern Batticaloa  Town  to  the
Polonnaruwa district in the adjoining north central province.
   The attack came a week after 19 Moslem civilians  were  massa-
cred  by  suspected  Tamil  rebels who stopped a passenger bus in
Batticaloa district and carried out a similar attack.





RTw  07/21 0718  SRI LANKAN REBELS ATTACK TRAIN, KILL 10

(Eds: raises death toll)
    COLOMBO, July 21, Reuter - Sri Lankan Tamil rebels held up  a
train in the eastern district of Batticaloa on Tuesday and killed
10 passengers, most of them Moslems, a military spokesman said.
    A Moslem  policeman  was  accidentally  killed  when  Moslems
attacked  Tamils  in  retaliation for the train deaths, residents
said.
    They said the Moslems on the train, which was travelling from
Batticaloa  to  Colombo, were separated from Tamil passengers and
then shot.
    "Soldiers in the area heard gunfire and went to the scene but
the terrorists had gone by then," the military spokesman said.
    Troops found 10 bodies and five critically wounded people.
    The guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam  regu-
larly  attack Moslem and Sinhalese civilians in their fight for a
homeland in the north and east.
    Last week, rebels killed 19 Moslems travelling by bus in Bat-
ticaloa.
    Moslems stoned at least three vehicles  belonging  to  Tamils
after  the  killings,  residents  said.  The Moslem policeman was
killed when he was run over by a truck which went out of  control
after being attacked.
 REUTER FS MS SM


UPn  07/21 0636  Sri Lanka guerrillas attack train

   COLOMBO (UPI) -- Separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas attacked  a
passenger  train in eastern Sri Lanka Tuesday, killing five civi-
lians and wounding six others, military officials said.
   "According to information available so  far,  the  terrorists,
posing  as  civilians, had stopped the train by waving a red flag
and opened fire at the passengers," the military communique said.
"The terrorists had also set fire to the engine of the train."
   The communique said five people were  killed  and  six  others
wounded in the attack, 188 miles east of Colombo.
   In that same area Tiger guerrillas massacred 19 Muslim civili-
ans on July 15 in an attack on a long-distance bus.
   The guerrillas have been fighting since the  mid-1980s  for  a
separate Tamil state in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, saying it
is the only way to redress widspread discrimination against  Tam-
ils by Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority.


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