Chris Brummitt – The Mail & Guardian

/ 27 April 2006

Sri Lankan peace deal in danger

Mine attacks killed two navy sailors and wounded two commandos in northern Sri Lanka on Thursday in the latest in a barrage of violence that is posing the biggest danger yet to the country’s four-year-old ceasefire. The bloodshed threatens to wreck a 2002 truce that ended two decades of fighting between the government and rebels.

By Chris Brummitt

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/ 24 January 2005

Two strong quakes rattle nerves in Asia

Two magnitude-6,3 earthquakes in southern Asia struck eight hours apart on Monday, causing panic but little damage in a region still traumatised by last month’s quake-triggered tsunami that killed tens of thousands. Meanwhile, the number of relief camps in Indonesia’s Aceh province has dropped by about 75% in the past week.

By Chris Brummitt