1.   Prospects for a settlement were crushed recently when the Tamil guerrillas ended their cease-fire and resumed their insurgency.

2.   Thousands of Tamil civilians are fleeing both the ruthless Tamil guerrilla force and the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan army.

3.   Police fear the Tamil guerrillas could carry out an attack to dramatize their demand for a homeland.

4.   A former Royal Canadian Mounted Police employee involved in police intelligence investigations has been arrested for allegedly failing to disclose links to Tamil separatist guerrillas in Sri Lanka.

5.   A Sri Lankan government helicopter gunship crashed off the northeastern coast Monday and the air force fears it was shot down by ethnic Tamil guerrillas, military officials said.

6.   Ampara has long been relatively free from the separatist campaign launched by the Tamil guerrillas, which is centered in the northern part of the country.

7.   Although the military had reported minor incidents during the truce, none of them involved violations of the truce or clashes between Tamil guerrillas and soldiers.

8.   As the fighting intensified, five former Tamil guerrilla groups called for a cease-fire.

9.   At least five rebels were killed as hundreds of government forces pushed into Tamil guerrilla territory in northeastern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday.

10.   But none of the incidents in the report involved truce violations or clashes between Tamil guerrillas and soldiers.