Sri Lanka Reactivates Dormant Death Penalty
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Sri Lanka reactivated its dormant death  penalty Saturday for murder, rape and drug trafficking after a  near 30-year lull, the government said, a day after a high  court judge was murdered in the capital.
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BOOSSA, Sri Lanka  - Huddled outside a detention camp in Sri Lanka's far south, relatives of civilians held for months without charge say lives are being ruined by emergency regulations amid renewed civil war.
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COLOMBO : Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger guerrillas declared they will renew armed struggle unless the Colombo government immediately agrees to revive peace talks based on a rebel blueprint for self-rule.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s feared Tamil Tiger rebels has threatened to resume a two-decade war for self-rule that has killed more than 64,000 people if the government does not agree to discuss their demands soon.
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The Sri Lanka Red Cross on Monday demanded a probe into the killing of two of its volunteers amid a rash of abductions and murders in a renewed civil war, and urged the government and Tamil Tiger rebels to respect human rights.
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World News &gt; Colombo, Oct 4 : Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga today invited Tamil Tigers to return to the negotiating table to discuss the setting up of a federal state even as the main opposition parties boycotted her latest peace initiative
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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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The Sri Lankan government says a wave of killings blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels is undermining confidence in the peace process, which has been stalled since April 2003.
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The separatist Tamil Tiger guerrillas declared Saturday that they would renew fighting unless the government immediately agreed
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Sri Lanka&#39;s government has rejected demands from Tamil Tiger rebels to unconditionally resume peace talks. The rebels threatened at the weekend to return to military action unless discussions based on their blueprint for self-rule began again.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s feared Tamil Tiger rebels have threatened 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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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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Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels will likely escalate into the bloodiest period of fighting the island has seen after the government scrapped a tattered truce, experts said on Thursday.
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The chief of Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels sent an unexpected message to the country&#39;s president via Norwegian peace brokers on Thursday, offering ways to revive stalled peace talks aimed at ending a two-decade civil war.
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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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Polish President Lech Kaczynski says EU member states should reintroduce the death penalty.
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The Finnish presidency of the European Union has called on the warring parties in Sri Lanka to return to the negotiating table after another day of bloody fighting on the island.