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A suicide truck bomber attacked a convoy of 24 buses at a transit hub used by the military in the northeastern Sri Lankan town of Habarana on Oct. 16, killing at least 90 Sri Lankan navy personnel who were traveling from Trincomalee to Colombo for leave. The attack occurred just days after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam handed the Sri Lankan army a humiliating defeat on the Jaffna Peninsula.
The Tiger request for peace talks at the end of October appears to have been a ruse designed to give the rebels time to reconstitute their forces after Sri Lankan military successes. Now, however, the chances are nil that any peace talks -- if they do go forward -- will result in a cease-fire, especially with the military likely planning to respond to these latest setbacks with more intensive offensives into Tiger territory.
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