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(CNN) -- A suicide bomber blew herself up outside the Colombo office of a Tamil politician and government minister on Wednesday, killing one person while injuring two others, police told CNN.
Minister Douglas Devananda was unharmed. The suicide bomber, suspected to be aligned with the Tamil Tiger rebels, also was killed, police sources said.
Devananda, head of the Tamil political party, is seen as a traitor by the Tamil Tiger rebels because he is aligned with the Sri Lankan government. He has survived 12 previous assassination attempts.
The bombing occurred just 24 hours after the rebels' leader gave his annual address from rebel-held northern territory.
The Tamil Tigers have been fighting since 1983 for a separate homeland for the Tamil minority in the north and eastern parts of the island nation, citing decades of discrimination by the majority Sinhalese. The government has vowed to dislodge the rebels from their stronghold.
About 65,000 people were killed before a cease-fire took effect in 2002. But the agreement has been frayed by recent fighting between the Tamil Tigers and the military.
The U.S. State Department named the Tamil Tigers as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
The blast comes Sri Lanka's military activated a roadside bomb near a car traveling inside the Tamil Tiger rebel stronghold, killing 11 schoolchildren and two others, The Associated Press cited rebels as saying. E-mail to a friend 
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