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- Image Description Jaffna, SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan Navy patrol crafts operate 20 September 2006 just off the Jaffna peninsula, which has been cut off by road following heavy fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Security forces beat back a rebel offensive at the Muhamalai defences in Jaffna last month, but sporadic mortar bomb and artillery attacks continued in the area. The fighting is part of a surge in attacks since December 2005, that have claimed more than 1,500 lives despite a 2002 ceasefire in the decades-old ethnic conflict. AFP PHOTO/ Lakruwan WANNIARACHCHI (Photo credit should read LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP via Getty Images)
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