Sri Lanka monitors blame Tigers for helicopter attack
Scandinavian ceasefire monitors in Sri Lanka have blamed Tamil Tigers for shooting at an unarmed military helicopter earlier this week and said the attack seriously undermined the fragile truce. The Norwegian-led Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) called Wednesday’s shooting of a Mi-17 transport helicopter flying over the east of the island a “gross violation” of a ceasefire that went into force in February 2002. Full Story