Sri Lanka cancels police leave after gang violence

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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has cancelled all police leave and stepped up patrols in Jaffna after a wave of violence in the island?s former war zone, a minister said on Friday. Jaffna is the heartland of Sri Lanka?s Tamil minority and was the epicentre of the long separatist war that ended in 2009. Tensions persist between troops deployed in the area and the local Tamil population, and last year the government accused the military of backing a gang terrorising civilians in the area. On Friday Law and Order Minister Sagala Ratnayaka said authorities were grappling with a fresh wave of gang-related violence, but denied it was related to last year?s unrest.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/World-TheNewsInternational/~4/8GeYA1Zo4dU

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