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Suicide bomber planning to blow up oil depot held

AI slams torture in Lanka
COLOMBO. July 21 Sri Lankan police have arrested a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber who was planning to blow up an oil storage depot in the capital to commemorate the "Black July" anniversary, state media reported today, says AFP.
A man believed to be a "Black Tiger", or suicide bomber of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was arrested in Colombo's Mutwal commercial area on Thursday, the Daily News said quoting police.
The Sinhalese-language Di-namina newspaper said the man was trying to create carnage in the capital to mark the July 1983 riots in which between 400 and 600 people, mostly minority Tamils, were killed by majority Sinhalese.
The July 1983 riots marked an escalation in (he Islands drawn out Tamil separatist war and (he LTTE is known to mark the anniversary with devastating attacks.
Last July the Tigers assassinated a moderate Tamil legislator here and in July 1996 overran a key military base in the north-east of the country after
COLOMBO. July 21 Sri Lankan police have arrested a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber who was planning to blow up an oil storage depot in the capital to commemorate the "Black July" anniversary, state media reported today, says AFP.
A man believed to be a "Black Tiger", or suicide bomber of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was arrested in Colombo's Mutwal commercial area on Thursday, the Daily News said quoting police.
The Sinhalese-language Di-namina newspaper said the man was trying to create carnage in the capital to mark the July 1983 riots in which between 400 and 600 people, mostly minority Tamils, were killed by majority Sinhalese.
The July 1983 riots marked an escalation in (he Islands drawn out Tamil separatist war and (he LTTE is known to mark the anniversary with devastating attacks.
Last July the Tigers assassinated a moderate Tamil legislator here and in July 1996 overran a key military base in the north-east of the country after
killing over 1.200 soldiers. Six days later they bombed a commuter train in the capital, killing 70 people and wounding over 600.
The Daily News quoted police as saying that they had found three cyanide capsule on the man who was arrested following a tip off.
The Tamil Tigers were blamed for destroying (he two mam oil storage depots m the capital in October 1995.
Meanwhile, torture by gov- j eminent forces in Sri Lanka i has become more widespread I following the introduction of ] new emergency laws by President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Amnesty International said
In its latest report on Sri | Lanka released Thursday, the
international human rights R group said that the number of ' reports of torture had increased since the emergency laws were tightened on May 3. In addition, the methods of the torture reported appears to have become more severe than i before and there have been at least two reports of detainees living in custody as a result of hullin', the organism ton ud