Information About Incident 37292-70946-169487 in Badulla Sri Lanka

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The Government once again urged the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to surrender to facilitate the safe exit of the Tamil civilians, according to Rediff.com.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Rediff
• Matched District: Badulla
• Actgroup: surrender
• Actor: LTTE
• Subject: to facilitate the safe exit of the Tamil civilians

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The Government once again urged the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to surrender to facilitate the safe exit of the Tamil civilians, according to Rediff.com. Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told the media, The LTTE must lay down arms so that there is no need for us to launch attacks on them. You can then have an open highway in terms of getting the civilians out of the clutches of the LTTE. This is what we have been telling the international community and the international community''s call has now come on the LTTE to lay down arms. Talking about the recent visit of the United Nations Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Sir John Holmes, to Sri Lanka, the minister said, Visit of Holmes has benefited Sri Lanka heavily because we were able to get the UN to speak in terms of what they saw in the country and that will be shared with the distinguished member-states of the Security Council. This is the major step that we have achieved and we must be grateful to the UN system and also to the members of the Security Council who have had the opportunity to discuss the matter though not on the agenda, as an informal discussion. He added, Human corridors have been opened by us almost every day in order to see that the civilians would come. Because we were able to maintain that response in terms of human corridors that we were able to register over 32,000 IDPs coming from the LTTE areas during the last month through the government controlled areas.

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