Sri Lankan minister warns against talks with rebels
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Holding talks with the Tamil Tigers' shadowy leader would be a blunder and there will be no peace unless he is killed, Sri Lankan militant-turned-minister Douglas Devananda has warned.
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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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Sri Lanka&#39;s 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 did not agree to discuss their demands for self-rule soon.
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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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COLOMBO: Tamil Tiger rebels have rejected Sri Lanka&#39;s latest peace initiative as a &quot;time wasting tactic&quot; as Norway warned the insurgents to stop killing political opponents.
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Sri Lanka's military fought mortar and artillery duels with Tamil Tigers in the island's north and east on Friday as the rebels warned of low expectations at peace talks due later this month.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s main foreign donors have warned that some members of the ruling coalition are undermining the peace process aimed at ending the decades-long civil war.
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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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COLOMBO - The top Tamil Tiger leader has warned he will launch a âfreedom struggleâ unless peace talks resume soon, in what an analyst said was a veiled threat to revive Sri Lankaâs civil war.
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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 Lankan government to formally withdraw from its ceasefire with rebels amid escalating violence
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The Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers say that fighting on Thursday has left more than 30 dead.
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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 DUP leader, Dr Ian Paisley, has issued a statement warning the Irish Government that unionists will not be lectured about the workings of Northern Ireland.
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A top Norwegian peace envoy met with Sri Lanka&#39;s Prime Minister on Thursday, a day after failing to break a deadlock in peace talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels.
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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.
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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.