Sri Lanka rejects Tiger offer to abide by truce
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Sri Lanka's government on Friday rejected a Tamil Tiger offer to abide by the terms of a newly-scrapped six-year ceasefire and vowed to push on with a military campaign to crush the rebels.
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"This comes on top of the increasingly frequent and brutal acts of violence perpetrated by both parties, and I am deeply concerned that the violence and hostilities will now escalate even further"  Sri Lanka Thursday formally told peace facilitator Norway and the Nordic truce monitors that it would withdraw from the Ceasefire Agreement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from Jan 16. via Nerve News
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The ceasefire between Sri Lanka's government and the Tamil Tigers formally comes to an end.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have "no option" but to push for an independent state, their leader says.
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Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga offered to revive stalled peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in a message conveyed to rebels by Norway's Foreign Minister Jan Petersen, her office said.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda   Rajapaksa called on the separatist Tamil Tigers on Wednesday to   give up violence and embrace democracy and the peace process,   including international negotiations brokered by Norway.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka&#39;s peace broker Norway on Wednesday failed in its latest bid to break the deadlock in negotiations between the island nation&#39;s government and the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Sri Lanka's government decided on Wednesday to annul a six-year ceasefire agreement with the Tamil Tigers which would allow a full-scale military campaign to recapture the rebels' de facto state in the north of the island.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels dismiss new government proposals to restart peace talks.
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Maoist rebels on Saturday rejected the latest offer and deadline set by the Nepalese government for peace talks, saying they would only agree to negotiations with international mediators present.
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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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Norwegian peace mediators voice concern at Sri Lanka's decision to end a ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Norway, which brokered a cease-fire that halted Sri Lanka&#39;s two-decade civil war, isn&#39;t confident peace talks will resume between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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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 military said it repulsed an attack by Tamil Tiger rebels on a navy base on Tuesday, amid increasingly bloody violence between government forces and the Tiger militants.
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Norway, which is the peace broker in Sri Lanka, has asked Tamil rebel group LTTE to stop killing its political rivals as such killings are jeopardising the peace process in the island nation.
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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.