Sri Lanka says combat gives way to rescue

2009/04/27 10:20:59 @Reuters: International News

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka on Monday ordered troops to stop using heavy weapons against the Tamil Tiger rebels, and instead focus on protecting and rescuing tens of thousands of people still trapped in the last rebel pocket. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=hD80UNHZv7U:anhXtE-i2WY: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=hD80UNHZv7U:anhXtE-i2WY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=hD80UNHZv7U:anhXtE-i2WY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=hD80UNHZv7U:anhXtE-i2WY:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=hD80UNHZv7U:anhXtE-i2WY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/hD80UNHZv7U" height="1" width="1"/
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