On 20 April 2006 the LTTE officially pulled out of peace talks indefinitely . While they stated that transportation issues had prevented them from meeting their regional leaders , some analysts and the international community were strongly skeptical , seeing the transportation issue as a delaying tactic by the LTTE to avoid attending peace talks in Geneva . Violence continued to spiral and on 23 April 2006 , six Sinhalese rice farmers were massacred in their paddy fields by suspected LTTE cadres , and on 13 May 2006 13 Tamil civilians were killed in the islet of Kayts . International condemnation against the LTTE skyrocketed following the attempted assassination of the commander of the Sri Lanka Army , Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka , by a female LTTE Black Tiger suicide bomber named Anoja Kugenthirasah , who concealed the explosives by appearing to be pregnant and blew herself up at army headquarters in Colombo . For the first time since the 2001 cease-fire , the Sri Lanka Air Force carried out aerial assaults on rebel positions in the northeastern part of the island in retaliation for the attack
13 Tamil civilians were killed
Allaipiddy massacre
Sri Lankan Civil War