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    Sri Lankan Rebel Group Routed, Leader Killed

    The Army of Sri Lanka, the island nation off the southeast tip of India, has killed the leader of one of the world's deadliest guerilla armies.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    The Army of Sri Lanka, the island nation off the southeast tip of India, has killed the leader of one of the world's deadliest guerilla armies. The Tamil Tigers invented the suicide belt and murdered many public officials, including India's former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Jeffrey Lunstead is a former Ambassador to Sri Lanka, now a Visiting Professor of South Asian Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont.

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      Jeffrey Lunstead

      former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka

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