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TIL in 1997 the Tamil Tigers discovered the Sri Lankan government had ordered 32,000 mortar shells from Zimbabwe, and sent one of their vessels to the Mozambique port of Beira to steal the consignment by pretending to be Sri Lankan officials. The bombs were later used against government forces.

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