Tamil Tigers reject Sri Lanka&#39;s new peace bid as waste of time
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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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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.
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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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More than a dozen suspected Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in fresh fighting in the island's embattled north, the defence ministry said Saturday.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels say they have sent a fresh proposal to President Chandrika Kumaratunga aimed at reviving the country&#39;s deadlocked peace process.
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Colombo: Norway&#39;s latest bid to salvage Sri Lanka&#39;s faltering peace process ended without a breakthrough Friday but the government and the rebels have pledged to continue to uphold a fragile truce.
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KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka  - 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&#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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Government abandons Norway-brokered agreement left in tatters by continued fighting with Tamil Tigers
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Sri Lanka's military says it has killed 59 rebels in the latest fighting - a claim dismissed by the Tamil Tigers.
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Thursday made a fresh offer to President Chandrika Kumaratunga through Norway to end a 19-month deadlock on peace talks.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said they will spurn any new government proposals to revive peace talks not giving them self-rule as peacebroker Norway was set to try to jumpstart the negotiations.
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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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European Union nations criticised Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels for killing rivals and recruiting child soldiers, appealing to the guerrillas not to undermine the Island's Norwegian-led peace bid.
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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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Tamil Tiger rebels denied that the Sri Lankan military had bombed a base of its top leader Wednesday, saying the air force had instead targeted a civilian settlement.
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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.