Army occupation angers Sri Lankan Tamils four years after war ends

Police officers remove campaign posters of candidates for the Northern Provincial Council election during the 2-day election blackout period, as an ethnic Tamil woman walks past, in Jaffna, about 400 kilometres (249 miles) north of Colombo September 20, 2013. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - The threats came by text message, a phone call and a delivery of two cow skulls. The message was clear: stop protesting against the army's occupation of your land or you will be killed.

Four years after Sri Lanka's army crushed the Tamil Tiger guerrilla army and ended a civil war that had lasted nearly three decades, Tamils say they are blatantly repressed in Jaffna, the capital of this Indian Ocean island's northern peninsula.