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  • Muslim families flee homes in Sri Lanka

    09/23/2006 3:57:40 PM PDT · by Valin · 42 replies · 1,032+ views
    AP ^ | 9/23/06 | ANTHONY DEUTSCH
    COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Hundreds of Muslim families are fleeing their homes in eastern Sri Lanka amid fears of a Tamil Tiger rebel assault to reclaim territory taken by government forces in recent fighting, a local government leader said Saturday. The chairman of the government in the coastal town of Mutur, who goes by the single name Thoufeek, said 700 to 800 families - about 10 percent of the population - left on Friday and Saturday after the Tamil Tiger separatists warned that they were planning an offensive. Many of Mutur's residents, who are mostly Muslims, only returned to...