Trincomalee (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka on Friday has reopened the roads linking government and Tamil Tiger rebel-held territory and have also stopped the air strikes. The roads had been closed after the suicide blast in Colombo.
Two days of air strikes against guerrilla areas have ended but for most Lankans the threat of a civil war still lurks.
The military have seized three T-56 automatic rifles in Trincomalee on Thursday night from two suspected rebels, informed the military spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe. Trincomalee is the hotbed of current violence in the country.
This week's violence that included two days of government air strikes against rebel positions and a suicide bombing in the capital posed the most serious threat to the 2002 proposal of truce between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels. The rebels were seeking a separate state in the north of the country.
The military on Thursday said it would halt the air strikes - which rebels say sent thousands fleeing their homes and killed 12 civilians.
A halt in the air strikes indicated that, tensions were finally easing in the country. Samarasinghe said roads linking government controlled territory and rebel held areas in the eastern part were reopened to civilians
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