| May 29, 2007 | -
Elephants were fleeing war in Sri Lanka, while at least one elephant in eastern India was robbing motorists.
| Source 1:
Reuters via Daily Times (Pakistan)
Source 2:
Reuters
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| October 17, 2006 | - In Sri Lanka, Tamil rebels drove a truck full of explosives into a convoy of military buses, killing 92 sailors.
| Source:
AP via Newsday
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| August 15, 2006 | - The Sri Lankan air force bombed an orphanage and killed dozens of schoolgirls, and the Tamil Tigers failed to kill the High Commissioner of Pakistan with an exploding rickshaw.
| Source:
Guardian
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| June 15, 2006 | - A mine in Sri Lanka blew up a bus, killing 58 people.
| Source:
Reuters
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| April 12, 2006 | - In Sri Lanka bomb attacks by Tamil rebels killed 16 people.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 30, 2005 | - Fifty new species of snail were discovered in Sri Lanka,
| Source:
CBC
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| December 29, 2004 | - Officials at Sri Lanka's largest national park were wondering how all the wild animals had survived,
| Source:
Reuters
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| December 26, 2004 | - A 9.0 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that ravaged south and southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa. The wave reached from Somalia and Kenya to Malaysia. Thousands of fatalities were reported in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, South India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Three-story waves washed sunbathers into the sea, carried away snorkelers, and swallowed up Hindu ritual bathers celebrating Full Moon Day. A prison in Sumatra was torn open by the tsunami, and hundreds of inmates fled. A baby was washed from her father's arms. At least 25,000 died, and millions were displaced. Entire towns were turned into rubble. Corpses hung from trees and fences, and the rotting bodies of humans and animals threatened to pollute water supplies. It was difficult to bury the dead for lack of dry ground. The earthquake was the largest since 1964, and slightly altered the rotation of the earth.
| Source 1:
New York Timesimes
Source 2:
Wikipedia
Source 3:
New York Timesimes
Source 4:
MSNBC
Source 5:
Reuters
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| July 30, 2004 | - A white elephant was seen in Sri Lanka.
| Source:
Nature.com
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| July 8, 2004 | - A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed four policemen in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 10, 2004 | - Civil war broke out between two groups of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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