Last phase of Sri Lanka war killed 6,200 troops: government

2009/05/22 00:15:33 @Reuters: International News

COLOMBO (Reuters) - More than 6,200 soldiers died and nearly 30,000 have been wounded since the last phase of Sri Lanka's 25-year war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) began in July 2006, the defense secretary has said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=DhwVRcQ2Swk:zpQNbcaxKX0: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=DhwVRcQ2Swk:zpQNbcaxKX0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=DhwVRcQ2Swk:zpQNbcaxKX0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=DhwVRcQ2Swk:zpQNbcaxKX0:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=DhwVRcQ2Swk:zpQNbcaxKX0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/DhwVRcQ2Swk" height="1" width="1"/
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