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Sri Lankan Tamil rebels accused of another killing in east

Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are accused of another killing of a military informant of the government in the eastern Ampara district on Saturday, police said.

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Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are accused of another killing of a military informant of the government in the eastern Ampara district on Saturday, police said.

The police accused the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels of killing a 35-year-old Tamil and an informant of the Special Task Force of the government troops in Akkaraipattu area of eastern Ampara district on Saturday evening.

He was riding a cycle on his way back home when two gunmen who had arrived on a motor cycle fired and killed him, police said.

The victim who had been a member of a rival political organization of the LTTE, the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) later served as an informant for the military.

The LTTE has faced charges of murdering political opponents andmilitary informants since they entered the ongoing Norwegian-brokered ceasefire agreement with the government in February last year.

Police said more than 30 informants have been killed by the LTTE rebels since then.

The latest killing of the LTTE rebels came after the international organizations of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Thursday blamed the rebels for their killings of political opponents and called for action by the international ceasefire monitors, the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, to take immediate actions to stop the rebels from conducting political killings. ��

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