Fresh killings mar Norway’s latest peace bid in Sri Lanka
A pro-Tamil Tiger activist and two police guards were shot dead in Sri Lanka’s volatile east as Norway’s top peace envoys left the island following a new bid to salvage a truce, police said. Vanniasingham Vigneswaran, who spearheaded the Tamil Resurgence Movement, a known front organisation of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was gunned down in the town of Trincomalee, police said. Full Story