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32 Tiger rebels killed in Sri Lanka

	April 21, 2008

At least 32 Tiger rebels and a Human Rights activist were killed in intense clashes in Sri Lanka's embattled north as fighter jets attacked a rebel target in the LTTE stronghold of Mullaitivu. A LTTE statement claimed that a Human Right activist, Father M X Karunaratnam, was killed by the Deep Penetration Unit of the Sri Lankan Army in the rebel stronghold of Wanni on Sunday (April 20). The priest headed the North East Secretariat on Human Rights, a group active in guerilla-held Wanni region in ...