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15 killed, 32 injured in Sri Lanka bus blast
Jan 6, 2007, 11:01 GMT
Colombo - A bomb exploded inside a bus at a tourist destination in southern Sri Lanka Saturday afternoon killing 15 passengers and injuring 32 others, police said.
The explosion took place in Hikkaduwa, 100 kilometres south of the capital Colombo.
All those killed were locals and no tourists were affected, police said.
The incident was the second such explosion since Friday.
Six people were killed Friday and over 50 were injured when a bomb exploded inside a passenger bus at Nittambuwa, 27 kilometres east of Colombo.
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Tamil Tigers have been running a successful 'Defacto' state of Tamil Eelam in 1/3 of the Island with banking,court,police,health systems for the past 5 years!!
Now with the Indian blessings the Tamils are trying to declare Tamil Eelam which might happen anytime.
So to smear the Tigers image the Singhala Sri Lankan government is bombing it's own civilians!!!!
Sri Lankan government atrocities must end!
This is a typical Sri Lankan government tactic!
I am a Singhalese and I am appalled by my government's attack on its own people for propaganda purposes.
Sri LIEnkans must stop lying and killing their own people!!!!!!!!!
If you want to fight the Tamil Tigers, they are up North and East waiting for you idiots! Go fight them there, instead of killing your own people so you can whine on the world stage!!!!
Sri Lienkan government must be tried for war crimes!
The above posters must either be real morons or just really thick in their heads, because how you can justify this bombing as a GoSL tactic is beyond me!!! Either you think that the world is really stupid or you must have some screws loose in that little head of yours! I think it's a combination of both, because it's pretty obvious that you guys truely support this terrorist organistaion, so you must be stupid and f*cked in the head!
The LTTE has targeted civilians before, many many many times, and they have done soooo many cowardly attacks... you can't say that all that was organised by the GoSL??? How stupid are you guys???
I'd heard that you LTTE supporters think that the Gov. of India organised the Rajiv Gandhi assination... hahaha... you guys are F*cked!
The LTTE doesn't kill anyone and the world is wrong for banning them as a terrorist organisation??? Hahahaha! What losers!!!!
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JesenJan 6th, 2007 - 13:00:35
With all the Srilankan round the clock check points and numerous intelligence agents and death squads roaming around the capital and surrounding areas, Srilanka trying to foooooooooooooooooooooooooooool the world by bombing their own citizens as they starve the Tamils to death while bombing them daily since last August 2006 in order to get Sympathy and international support for forthcoming Srilankan ALL OUT GENOCIDAL WAR AGAINST TAMILS as the CFA running out on Feruary 21st 2007.
The Sick minded Srilankan barbarians always use the tactics of bombing their own just days before any UN human rights meeting and starting a major offensive on innocent Tamils. Eg:bombing on Trains just days before Major offensive on Jaffna on 1994, Bombing and killing of 110 civilians just before OPERATION LIBERATION on Jaffna in 1987 and so on and on.
The International community should be blamed for these atrocities because the International community have been giving silent approval to Srilankan Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils even though the Srilanka deliberately and publically closing vital roads to Tamil areas and refusing to allow any NGOs to help the Tamils in order to starve them to death.
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