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Message: <blockquote data-quote="akeel1" data-source="post: 574978" data-attributes="member: 34522"><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43019000/jpg/_43019295_colomboeviction_afp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43019000/jpg/_43019297_srilankaeviction2_afp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43019000/jpg/_43019295_colomboeviction_afp.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&a...25071&w=450" target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&a...25071&w=450</a>Police evict Tamils from Colombo Human rights groups have condemned the evictions Police in Sri Lanka have forced hundreds of the minority Tamil community out of the capital Colombo for what they say are security reasons. They launched overnight raids in Tamil areas of the city and forced guests staying in budget hotels onto buses. Police said that Tamils who were in the capital "without valid reasons" were made to board buses bound for the north and east of the island. Police said that the move was necessary amid fears of renewed civil war.<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6729555.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6729555.stm</a>--------------------------------Sri Lanka battles rebels, evicts Tamils from capitalCOLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka evicted hundreds of minority ethnic Tamils from the capital on Thursday and sent them back to the war-torn north citing security concerns, as the military battled Tamil Tiger rebels in the east.<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/i...L26780920070607" target="_blank">http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/i...L26780920070607</a></blockquote>

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