http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20070528_Ratmalana_Bomb.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/LTTE_Atrocities_20060615_Kebithigollewa_Massacre.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/chronology_of_suicide_bomb_attacks_by_Tamil_Tigers_in_sri_Lanka.htm
http://www.spur.asn.au/After_signing_the_so-called_JM.htm
"LS" <sarruka@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Christians in Sri Lanka in crosshairs of civil war
>
> Posted: 7 March, 2008
> Topics in this story: civil war , sri lanka , tamil tigers
>
> http://www.mnnonline.org/article/10977
>
>
> Demonstrators work toward peace in Sri Lanka (photo by Tina Edwards)
>
> Sri Lanka (MNN) -- Sri Lanka has come under fire over its human rights
> "nightmare." International criticism has been scathing over the
> government's half-hearted efforts to investigate a string of high-
> profile cases including the massacre of aid workers.
>
> The government also broke a truce with Tamil Tiger rebels in January
> and is in an escalating battle with the rebels across the North.
>
> Trouble doesn't stop there. Violence against Christians in Sri Lanka
> has also spiked in recent weeks. The re****ts of assaults and beatings
> are troubling for those sup****ting the indigenous church.
>
> According to a re****t from the National Christian Evangelical Alliance
> of Sri Lanka, in mid-February a mob attacked members of The King's
> Revival Church who had just left a Sunday wor****p service in
> Mathugama, Kaluthara.
>
> Four believers were assaulted, including a child. The assailants also
> threatened the believers who belonged to the Tamil ethnic community
> that they would be imprisoned if they returned to the church. A week
> later, another crowd gathered on the road near the church building.
> They threatened the believers with violence and prevented them from
> attending the scheduled wor****p service.
>
> On March 2, ten students were beaten by a group of masked men on
> motorcycles while they were walking from the Lunuwila Railway to their
> school, the Believers' Church Bible College in Putlam District. That
> attack was followed by a kidnapping and beating of one of the
> students. When one of the students ran to the college for help, he was
> followed by a motorcyclist who attacked the college security guard and
> fled.
>
> Glenn Penner with Voice of the Martyrs Canada says of this unusual
> number of attacks: "I think it's partly attributed to the increased
> civil war. One of the difficult things to realize is that religion and
> ethnicity is very much tied together. Christians are the only group
> that bridge both of the major ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, which are
> presently in a rather brutal civil war with each other."
>
> Mobs frequently threaten more violence unless all Christian work stops
> in their area. Penner says the attacks on believers have interrupted
> some evangelistic work, particularly where security issues are in
> question. "Let us pray for peace in Sri Lanka. Certainly, the civil
> war has hindered some evangelistic activities as Christians are
> concerned about traveling from one place to the other. Let's pray also
> for those who have been assaulted, particularly for children, that
> they would know the comfort and the healing that the Lord can bring
> into their lives. Pray for church leaders."
>
> Pray that persecutors throughout Sri Lanka will be challenged by the
> consistent testimony of Christ's followers and be drawn to Him. Pray,
> too, that the Gospel message will continue to grow and that many will
> come to Christ, despite the opposition.
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