61.   Tamil rebels plan to kill President Chandrika Kumaratunga by the end of this year because she is popular among the Tamil civilians, the government claimed Saturday.

62.   Tamil separatists executed four Tamil civilians accused of being military informants and publicly displayed their bodies in a town, sources said Wednesday.

63.   Tamil Tiger guerrillas accused the military Saturday of killing eight Tamil civilians in separate incidents in northern Sri Lanka.

64.   Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran will resume peace talks if the military pulls out of the captured stronghold of Jaffna city, Tamil civilians quoting guerrilla radio said Saturday.

65.   The broadcast was monitored by the Tamil civilians in the northern town of Vavuniya.

66.   The guerrillas fled to jungle towns on the mainland, leaving behind more than half a million Tamil civilians.

67.   The guerrillas said all roads leading to the Jaffna lagoon, along the border with the mainland, are choked with thousands of Tamil civilians fleeing the fighting.

68.   The fighting has forced tens of thousands of Tamil civilians to flee into the jungles.

69.   The guerrillas have been preparing for the offensive and repeatedly warned Tamil civilians to move safer regions in the northeast part of the peninsula or southward to the mainland.

70.   The guerrillas have been preparing for the offensive and repeatedly warned Tamil civilians to move safer regions, in the northeast of the peninsula or southward to the mainland.