COLOMBO: Scandinavian truce monitors announced yesterday that the Tamil Tiger rebels had agreed to order their women combatants to remove leather belts which had raised the ire of Sri Lankan soldiers.
Mobs led by Tiger rebels clashed with government forces in the northern peninsula of Jaffna four days ago after a government soldier forcibly tried to remove the offending guerilla belt from one of the Tiger women combatants.
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