Sri Lanka gives Tigers ultimatum as thousands flee

2009/04/20 13:45:52 @Reuters: International News

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Monday gave the Tamil Tigers 24 hours to surrender after troops breached a huge earthen defense and unleashed an exodus of tens of thousands of civilians held there by the rebels, the military said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=VqqVGigH5Hk:EyRDn5-V0g4:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=VqqVGigH5Hk:EyRDn5-V0g4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=VqqVGigH5Hk:EyRDn5-V0g4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=VqqVGigH5Hk:EyRDn5-V0g4:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=VqqVGigH5Hk:EyRDn5-V0g4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/VqqVGigH5Hk" height="1" width="1"/
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