Sri Lanka: October 16, 2002

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A curfew was imposed in an eastern town after Moslems rioted to protest LTTE rebels kidnapping a Moslem man. Many LTTE supporters want to drive all non-Tamils out of majority Tamil areas and Sri Lankan Moslems are particularly disliked because of the tension between India (that the LTTE identifies with) and Moslem Pakistan.

 

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