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...Trouble was in the air. Another group was mingling near the statue of former President Ranasinghe Premadasa, holding posters of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The opposition had scheduled a protest near the statue - the first of many, according to organizers - demanding the release of Fonseka. Police, some in riot gear and with water cannons at the ready, stationed themselves between the two groups to prevent a clash. (See a two-minute bio of Sarath Fonseka...
...Clint Eastwood films and Hollywood action flicks, Prabhakaran is considered to have practically invented suicide bombers. His "Black Tiger" bombers - almost half of them women - have killed thousands, including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Ranasunghe Premadasa. The elite Black Sea Tigers perform underwater suicide bombings to sink enemy ships. (Read "A Brief History of the Tamil Tigers...
...Here in the R. Premadasa Stadium, in front of 25,000 people, Pakistan is being taught a lesson in how to play one-day cricket by the region's afterthought: Sri Lanka. Rashud, a 35-year-old from the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is unperturbed. Cricket, it seems, has a way of breaking down barriers and appealing to fans' more civilized instincts. "Winning or losing does not matter," he says. "Once cricket is in the blood, it's there for life and there is no way you can get it out of your system...
...Tigers have been blamed for several other bomb attacks in Colombo, including one that killed President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993 and blew up the Central Bank building...
Colombo city employees dismantle a cutout billboard of Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa displayed during May Day festivities at which the 68- year-old Premadasa was blown to bits by a suicidal assassin who detonated explosives strapped to his body. The bomber who killed the President and 23 others was identified last week as a Tamil militant who had ingratiated himself with the President's staff...