Tamil politician assassinated in Sri Lanka

Snipers, believed to be Tamil Tiger rebels, killed a top Tamil politician in the northern Tamil city of Jaffna, in Sri Lanka, today, military officials said.

Subathran, a leader of the Jaffna unit of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front, was killed while doing his morning exercises on the rooftop of his home, said a military official on condition of anonymity.