Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (SLMM) leaves Sri Lanka, following the government’s termination of the ceasefire agreement.
On 4 January, thirty observers from Norway and Iceland who had been mandated to monitor ceasefire violations had been ordered to leave by the Sri Lankan government within 12 days
Sources
SLMM pulls out of Sri Lanka, Relief Web, 17 January 2008; Sri Lanka crisis in new perspective, Newstrack India, 5 January 2008
