S.Lankan president says govt can no longer ignore Tamil rebel ...
87406
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said that the government can no longer ignore the spate of killings by the Tamil Tiger rebels, a presidential statement available here on Thursday.
390412
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.
343229
VAKARAI, Sri Lanka  - Surveying a newly captured eastern rebel stronghold, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday vowed to tame the Tamil Tiger rebels and liberate civilians, but said the door remained open to resume peace talks.
440143
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
637560
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.
169750
Sri Lanka will introduce tough emergency regulations to curb terrorist activities but will not impose a ban on Tamil Tiger rebels, the island's government said on Wednesday.
54994
The Sri Lankan government said a wave of killings blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels was undermining confidence in the peace process which has been stalled since April 2003.
247892
The Sri Lankan government denied on   Wednesday having agreed to hold unconditional peace talks with   Tamil Tiger rebels, as announced by international mediators.
518959
A panel of political parties tells the Sri Lankan president to devolve power to resolve the decades-old civil war.
605874
COLOMBO  - Thousands of tsunami victims were buried in mass graves as the death toll neared 18,000 and Sri Lanka&#39;s president called for ethnic unity to tackle the crisis.
115077
A breakaway Sri Lankan rebel leader says he has no plans to disarm his fighters in the east.
452486
Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels appeared to be willing to join the government in relief work for Tsunami victims as President Chandrika Kumaratunga said a war with them was &quot;remoter&quot; now.
441261
Colombo, Dec 15 (UNI) The Tamil Tigers today said the responsibility to resume the stalled peace process was entirely in the hands of the Freedom Alliance government led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
359691
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
162451
[World News]: COLOMBO, Dec 30 : Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said today that the threat of a war with Tamil Tigers was &quot;remoter&quot; after destruction of key rebel military bases by Sunday&#39;s tsunamis.
477998
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Thursday accused Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels of killing their opponents despite a ceasefire and warned that the government will not tolerate the murders.
256171
Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lanka&#39;s president, on Thursday took control of disaster relief operations - and said she would work with rebel Tamil Tigers to bring aid to rebel-controlled areas.