1.   The advisory was reworded after a car bombing near the airport this month, when a Tamil group warned foreign visitors of further attacks.

2.   Under the cease-fire agreement, the Tigers have consolidated their position because rival armed Tamil groups have been required to turn over their weapons.

3.   Pararajasingham said that the detainees, all from the minority Tamil group, were detained in the northern part of the country nine months ago.

4.   Police arrested four Sri Lankans deported from Singapore because of suspected links with a Tamil separatist group, the state-run Daily News reported Wednesday.

5.   A shadowy Tamil group has warned diplomatic missions that it has poisoned tea exports from Sri Lanka, Western diplomats said Friday.

6.   A shadowy Tamil group named the Ellalan Force warned tourists and investors it would not be responsible for casualties in bomb explosions in the city.

7.   A Tamil extremist group Saturday threatened more bomb attacks in Colombo in retaliation for alleged military atrocities against the ethnic Tamil minority in the east.

8.   All of the passengers are Tamils, but the Tamil Tiger rebels say some belong to a rival Tamil group.

9.   Amnesty International accused the Sri Lankan military and an allied Tamil paramilitary group on Thursday of being responsible for the disappearances of eight civilians in northern Sri Lanka.

10.   All of them claimed to be from the Tamil ethnic group.