Sri Lanka: Police arrests 39 civilians in Colombo (TamilNet)
Yahoo July 8th, 2007Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Police, in a joint pre-dawn cordon and search operation, arrested 39 civilians, many of them Sinhalese, in Mount Lavinia, a suburb of Colombo on Sunday. The operation covering more than 250 houses began at 3:00 a.m. and lasted for three hours, local residents said.
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