Word: lankan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next cot an elderly Sri Lankan woman shakes uncontrollably, her frail body racked by thirst, hunger and the blistering heat. "I've never seen anything like this," says Dr. Khaled Abu-Halimeh of the Jordanian Red Crescent Society, who treats 60 patients a day in the makeshift medical tent. "Without more water, medicine and food, we'll be faced with a disaster...
...fighting marks the resumption of an old battle: since 1983, the Sri Lankan army and the Tigers have fought for control of the island's northern and eastern regions, where the Tigers want to declare an independent state called Eelam. So far, the conflict has cost 11,000 lives. Since March, the Tigers and the government have been on peaceful, if wary, terms. But in recent weeks tensions climbed as the rebels, accusing Sri Lankan leaders of delaying elections, promised a fight if the government did not deliver. They were as good as their word...
Pressured by Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa, who succeeded Jayewardene in 1989, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi agreed last year to withdraw Indian troops. The departure was hastened by Gandhi's ouster in elections last November. His successor, V.P. Singh, takes a less muscular approach to foreign policy. Said a senior aide to Singh: "We are glad to get out. We were not wanted there...