Sri Lanka rebels threaten war, want self-rule talks
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Sri Lanka's feared Tamil Tiger rebels threatened on Saturday to resume a two-decade war for self-rule that killed more than 64,000 people if the government does not agree to discuss their demands soon.
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Tamil Tiger rebels start a tour of Europe to put pressure on Sri Lanka's government to resume peace talks.
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KANKASANTURAI, Sri Lanka  - Firing artillery   shells toward Tamil Tiger positions as fighting flares despite   peace talk pledges, Sri Lankan gunner Herath Rajaratne longs   for the day he can return to his family and civilian life.
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Colombo, Nov 28 : The Sri Lankan government today asked the Tamil Tigers to work for a negotiated political settlement to the decades-old ethnic strife, a day after LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran threatened to go back to war.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have ignored Colombo's warnings not to test its patience, with both sides now engaged in a dangerous game of brinkmanship, officials and diplomats said.
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Truce monitors in Sri Lanka from European Union member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden must leave the country by September 1, a top Tamil Tiger rebel leader told AFP.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka&#39;s government said yesterday it was ready with new proposals to resume peace talks with Tamil Tiger guerillas and hammer out a political solution to the island&#39;s bloody ethnic conflict.
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Sri Lanka has offered fresh talks with Tamil Tigers to avert a return to all-out civil war as the top guerrilla leader wrote off the Norwegian-backed peace process.
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Sri Lanka expressed concern over truce violations by Tiger rebels as a top Norwegian envoy prepared to return home empty-handed after failing to end the island's talks deadlock, officials said.
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Sri Lanka's government has proposed holding new peace talks with Tamil Tigers in the next few weeks and is awaiting a response from the rebels, a top government official told AFP.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s government condemned a threat by Tamil Tiger rebels to return to fighting unless peace talks based on their demand for autonomy are revived.
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A senior leader of Sri Lanka&#39;s rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said it is ready to resume peace talks with the government if its self-rule proposal gets a positive response, a local newspaper reported Sunday.
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Colombo, Nov 27 (PTI) Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran today declared he will return to the &quot;freedom struggle&quot; unless the government agreed to resume peace talks based on his blue-print for self-rule.
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While Sri Lanka's government and Tamil rebels trade daily accusations of truce-breaking and threaten each other with all-out war, observers and reporters keen to understand what is really happening are forced to try and read between the lines.
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The Sri Lankan government and the   Tamil Tiger guerrillas have told Norwegian peace mediators they   are willing to return to peace talks without conditions,   Japan's peace envoy to the country said on Tuesday.
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COLOMBO - Deadly tsunamis have unexpectedly shored up Sri Lankaâs peace process, where the government has been under pressure to open talks with Tiger rebels or risk war.
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Rebels in Sri Lanka warn they may return to war if the government fails to resume peace talks on their terms.