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To: dkgross who wrote (322)2/22/2000 11:52:00 AM
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COLOMBO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Only 164 of an estimated 10,000 Sri Lankan deserters returned for duty on the first day of the week-long amnesty declared by the army in an attempt to refill its ranks for its campaign against the Tamil Tiger rebels.
The defence ministry said in a statement seen by Reuters on Tuesday that those who returned had been "re-equipped and arrangements had been made for them to rejoin their regiments."

There have been several amnesties in the past and the latest began on Monday.

The army is also in the midst of a campaign to recruit some 15,000 new soldiers.

Nearly 60,000 people have been killed in the in the long war between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels who have been fighting for a separate homeland for minority Tamils in the country's north and east since 1983.

Sri Lanka army's current strength is approximately 100,000. It is unclear what the LTTE's total strength is, but military officials have in the past put it at between 5,000 and 6,000.

The army has in recent years found it difficult to recruit soldiers and has been hit by large-scale desertions that typically rise following military setbacks.

The military lost several key bases in the northern Wanni region to the LTTE last November.
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