Currently, fighting between the government forces and the LTTE continues in much of the north and east, with sporadic, but increasing, guerrilla attacks in Colombo and the south. Although the fighting is relatively confined to the north and east, security checkpoints have become the norm along major crossroads in and around Colombo, a result of the March 1991 LTTE bombing assassination of Deputy Defense Minister Ranjan Wijertaine, the June 1991 bombing of the Ministry of Defense's Joint Operations Command, the January 1996 bombing of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo (just a few hundred yards from President Chandrika Kumaratunga's office) and the October 1997 bombing of Colombo's World Trade Center.
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