Sri Lanka orders two-day ceasefire

China Daily | Updated: 2009-04-13 07:42

Demonstrators display flags and banners calling for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka during a rally in London on Saturday. Some 100,000 demonstrators marched through central London to demand a truce in Sri Lanka, as hundreds staged similar protests in Scandinavia against Colombo's offensive on Tamil rebels. AFP

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's president ordered a two-day suspension of offensives against Tamil Tiger rebels to enable tens of thousands of trapped civilians to leave the war zone, his office said yesterday.