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Sri Lankan commandos killed four Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Sri Lanka today, the military said, in the latest violence to hit the country's volatile east. The elite Special Task Force soldiers were on foot patrol when they came across a group of guerrillas. "There was a confrontation and four terrorists are confirmed killed," military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said. Weapons were recovered from fleeing rebels, he said. The Tigers are fighting to create a separate homeland in Sri Lanka's north and northeast for minority ethnic Tamils. A Norway-brokered ceasefire signed in 2002 mostly stopped two decades of violence, but fighting flared in 2005 after a new government was elected on a platform of getting tough with the insurgents. At least 4,000 people have since been killed, although neither side has officially withdrawn from the truce.