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Government takes policy decision to abrogate CFA.

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Chronology of LTTE'S Deadly attacks

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April 1987 - Car bomb explodes at Colombo central bus stand, killing 113 people and wounding scores.

April 1989 - Car bomb explodes in eastern Trincomalee, killing 51 people shopping for traditional new year.

March 1991: Defense Minister Ranjan Wijeratne is among 19 people killed when a car bomb is detonated in Colombo.

May 1991 - Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is killed in southern India by a suspected LTTE suicide bomber.

August 1992 - Sri Lankan army chief, Lieutenant-General Denzil Kobbekaduwa, is killed in a land mine blast in Kayts, northern Sri Lanka.

November 1992 - Navy Chief Clancey Fernando is killed in a suicide bombing in Colombo.

May 1993 - President Ranasinghe Premadasa and 23 others are killed by a suicide bomber in Colombo.

October 1994 - Presidential candidate Gamini Dissanayake and 51 others are killed in a bomb blast during an election rally in Colombo.

January 1996 - A truck filled with explosives rams into the Central Bank building in Colombo. The explosion kills up to 100 people and wounds some 1,400.

July 1996 - Two bomb blasts on a rush-hour commuter train kill 57 people and wound at least 257.

June 2000 - Industrial Development Minister C.V. Gunaratne and 21 others are killed in a suicide bomb blast in Colombo.

July 2001 - An attack on the main air base and the only international airport in Sri Lanka destroys 13 aircraft and leaves at least 12 people dead.

August 2005 - Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar is shot dead at his home in Colombo.

June 2006 - A mine attack on a civilian bus in central Anuradapura district kills 64.

The latest incident (10/16/2006) - Tamil Tiger rebels rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a Sri Lankan naval convoy on Monday, killing at least 93 people.

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