Sri Lanka: 266 Tamils arrested in search operation in Colombo (TamilNet)
Yahoo February 3rd, 2007Sri Lanka Police said 266 Tamils, including 53 women, were arrested in a dawn to noon house-to-house search operation, conducted by hundreds of police and armed troops in Fort area and its suburbs in Colombo city, Saturday. They are detained in Fort Police Station and are being interrogated by specially appointed police investigation teams, the police said. The police said the arrested are Tamils …
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