Top Asian News at 5:30 a.m. GMT
By APTuesday, April 21, 2009
Top Asian News at 5:30 a.m. GMT
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Tens of thousands of civilians fled Sri Lanka’s northern war zone in a record exodus ahead of the government’s deadline Tuesday for separatist Tamil rebels there to surrender, officials said. More than 39,000 civilians arrived at military checkpoints on Monday, within hours of a military operation that saw Sri Lankan soldiers break through a barrier that the Tamil Tiger rebels had erected to defend their ever-shrinking slice of territory along the northern coast.
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Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Cambodia, Central Asia, China, East Asia, Greater China, North Korea, Pakistan, Protests And Demonstrations, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Top-asian-news, Violent Crime
Tags: Afghanistan, Asia, Cambodia, Central Asia, China, East Asia, Greater China, North Korea, Pakistan, Protests And Demonstrations, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Top-asian-news, Violent Crime
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