Sri Lankan military accused of killing fleeing civilians

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Updated February 12, 2009 13:09:24

Sri Lanka's military has accused rebel fighters of killing 19 civilians as they tried to flee the war zone in the north of the country.

The military says Tamil Tigers rebels fired on a group of more than one thousand people trying to escape the war zone.

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