Sri Lankan Rebels See 'New Perspectives' After Tsunami
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Tamil Tiger rebels held their first talks with Norwegian peace envoys since the tsunami on Saturday saying the disaster opened up new possibilities for a solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict.
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Sri Lanka's squabbling leaders displayed rare unity at an emotional candle-light vigil for the victims of the tsunami which has killed close to 30,000 people on the island while heavy rains slowed relief operations.
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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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The Tamil Tigers declared on Monday they now saw no other option than to push for independence in what analysts said was notice to Sri Lanka's government they are resuming their struggle and renewed civil war will deepen.
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Prospects for peace in Indonesia's war-torn and tsunami-hit Aceh province were lifted by an offer of talks from separatist rebels, but tensions continued to overshadow efforts to aid disaster victims.
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The Sri Lankan Tamil rebel group, the LTTE, has said that despite the nationwide tsunami tragedy, it will not give up its fight for the rights of the minority Tamils.
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They are no strangers to death. In more than 20 years of war, the Tamil Tigers have lost thousands in a bloody conflict that has plagued the north of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka's rebel Tamil Tigers have commemorated thousands of fighters killed in battle amid sporadic clashes with government forces in the island's embattled northeast, the rebels said.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- With aid flowing in unprecedented amounts to tsunami survivors, murmurs of discontent are surfacing among impoverished Sri Lankans who were spared losses and do not expect to benefit from the international outpouring.
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PERALIYA, Sri Lanka  - Sri Lankan housewife D.W. Leelawathi can still picture the 2004 tsunami as if it were yesterday, but three years on she and thousands like her are finally back in homes they can call their own and are moving on.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said they had put aside their political struggle to deal with the tsunami disaster, as peacebroker Norway urged all parties to work together to rebuild the battered country.
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The United Nations has said that ongoing fighting between government forces in Sri Lanka and Tamil Tiger rebels had badly hit tsunami reconstruction efforts.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers are ready for   talks with the government to halt a new episode of civil war, a   top rebel leader said on Tuesday, but he warned violence would   spread if army offensives continued.
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A rebel commander, Muharram Idris, said he knew the risk when he sent his men down from the mountains on a rescue mission after the tsunami crashed ashore.
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Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapkse offered fresh peace talks and asked Tiger rebels to lay down weapons as he visited this former guerrilla-held town.
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COLOMBO - The leader of Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tigers on Saturday hinted at a return to war if the government does not agree to an immediate revival of peace talks on the basis of the rebels&#39; proposals for an interim self-governing authority for the claimed
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger guerrillas have declared they will renew their armed struggle unless the government immediately agrees to revive peace talks based on a controversial rebel blueprint for self-rule.