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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wakeupcall" data-source="post: 913524" data-attributes="member: 57444">Breakaway leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels arrested in BritainLONDON: A breakaway leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels has been arrested in Britain, the government said Saturday.The Home Office said Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, also known as Col. Karuna, was detained in a joint operation by police and immigration officials.A spokesman said he was being held in immigration detention, but refused to say where he was detained or whether Sri Lanka would begin extradition proceedings.Karuna was a top leader of the Tamil Tigers, who have been fighting for more than two decades for a homeland for the minority Tamil community in the north and east of the Indian Ocean island. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the fighting.Karuna defected in 2004 with thousands of his men and formed his own militia. The next year, Karuna's group joined the Sri Lankan government in the fight against their old comrades.Foreign Office minister Kim Howells said in May that Britain believed Karuna to be responsible for "extra-judicial killings, abductions, intimidation of displaced persons and child recruitment."<a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/03/...Lanka-Rebel.php" target="_blank">http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/03/...Lanka-Rebel.php</a></blockquote>

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