Word: lankan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Jayantha Dhanapala is not a name you're likely to remember in a hurry. Yet the 59-year-old Sri Lankan diplomat, a former ambassador to the U.S., has just become one of the most important people in the Iraq crisis. Dhanapala was tapped by Kofi Annan to lead the U.N.'s "white glove" team of chaperones that will accompany weapons inspectors into Iraqi palaces...
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: A truck packed with explosives drove into Sri Lanka's central bank today, killing at least 53 people and wounding 1,400. Sri Lankan authorities are blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the explosion, which caused the bank and several other buildings to burst into flames. The fires blazed for most of the day, making rescue attempts difficult. If it was a rebel attack, it was one of the worst in their 12-year campaign for an independent homeland. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the fighting. The worst attack occurred in October 1994, when...
...LANKAN BOMBING KILLS...
...suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a government building in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 22 people and wounding 50 others. The police said the blast was set off by a Tamil separatist fighting for a homeland in the northeast of the country...
During Armine's brief career as a prostitute she entertained two to three customers a night, almost all of them foreigners. In recent years Europeans, Australians, Japanese and Americans have flocked to Southeast Asia by the thousands to engage in sex acts with Thai, Filipino and Sri Lankan youngsters that would win them a jail term in their home countries...