Lankan truce monitors suspend work temporarily

But this is only a short break. We will be back at work in a few days.

The truce monitors in Sri Lanka have suspended their work for a few days due to an assessment of the risk involved following the LTTE's attacks on vessels with monitors on board on May 11.

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"We are assessing the risk situation and talking to the personnel who had had a bad experience. But this is only a short break. We will be back at work in a few days," a spokesman of the Scandinavian-staffed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) said.