A Sri Lankan solider blocked traffic last month on the main road in Jaffna to allow a military convoy to pass through the city at high speed. J. Adam Huggins for The New York TimesSri Lanka Appeals To Rebels To Lay Down Arms -- International Herald Tribune
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka's president appealed Saturday to the island's Tamil Tiger separatists to lay down their arms, saying it would ensure the safety of tens of thousands of trapped civilians as a 25-year civil war winds down.
The civilians are trapped in a "no-fire" zone on Sri Lanka's northeastern coast as the military pushes the rebels — the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam — into an ever-smaller area.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa issued an "appeal to the LTTE to free all civilians who are held hostage by them so that the civilians can go to safe areas" controlled by the government, the president's office said in a statement.
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