The six-year-old ceasefire agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had long been in tatters, as the two sides had already resumed their 25-year-old war. On January 2nd it was consigned to the dustbin. The government blamed a bomb attack on an army bus in Colombo on the Tigers, and said it would abrogate the truce, which had "ceased to have any meaning".
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