It is beginning to look less like a ceasefire, and more like an undeclared war. Early on January 7th a vessel laden with explosives detached itself from a flotilla of fishing boats off Trincomalee in north-eastern Sri Lanka. Its suicidal crew steered it into a Sri Lankan navy fast-patrol craft. Two sailors saw it coming, jumped and were later fished from the sea. Thirteen of their shipmates died, bringing to more than 50 the number of military personnel killed since the beginning of December.
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