Sri Lanka Ends Truce With Rebels,

Sri Lanka Ends Truce With Rebels,


Sri Lanka formally ended its 2002 cease-fire with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, rejecting as inaccurate a United Nations statement that the conflict may intensify and threaten human rights.
``The cease-fire ended quite some time ago when the LTTE unilaterally returned to full-scale hostilities in December 2005,'' Sri Lanka's mission to the UN in Geneva said in a statement yesterday, reported Paul Tighe bloomberg.net .

Sri Lanka's government and the LTTE must abide by their obligations under international law to protect civilians, Louise Arbour, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement yesterday.