1.   But the LTTE, he asserted, places its camps close to villages to use Tamil civilians as human shields.

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

3.   Police detained thousands of Tamil civilians in Colombo after the Tamil rebels unilaterally ended a three-month truce and resumed fighting.

4.   Police have detained thousands of Tamil civilians in Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, after the Tamil rebels unilaterally ended a three-month truce and resumed fighting.

5.   Police have detained thousands of Tamil civilians in Colombo,, after the rebels resumed fighting.

6.   Police have detained thousands of Tamil civilians in the Sri Lankan capital after the Tamil rebels ended a three-month truce and resumed fighting.

7.   A government administrator in northern Sri Lanka has called for immediate food supplies to hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians facing starvation in rebel-held areas.

8.   A judge ordered the arrests Tuesday of six policemen allegedly involved in the massacre of eight ethnic Tamil civilians in northeastern Sri Lanka, officials said.

9.   A shadowy extremist group accused the military on Tuesday of using Tamil civilians as human shields in the civil war and threatened to plant mines in Colombo.

10.   An extremist group accused the military on Tuesday of using Tamil civilians as human shields in the civil war and threatened to plant mines in Colombo.