Sri Lanka truce monitors hold crisis talks
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Five Nordic nations held talks to try to salvage Sri Lanka&#039;s faltering ceasefire, as the slaying of a top army general underscored the threat of full-scale war.
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In Sri Lanka the leader of the LTTE guerillas, Velupillai Prabhkaran, has threatened with resumption of the civil war unless the government agrees to new peace talks.
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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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"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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Nordic ceasefire monitors began wrapping up their 6-year mission to Sri Lanka on Friday after the government scrapped a truce with the Tamil Tigers, and their mandate, amid a chorus of international concern.
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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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Sri Lanka's peace broker Norway is to launch a fresh attempt to end a seven-month deadlock in talks after the warring parties agreed to meet, diplomats said.
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Sri Lanka has asked peace broker Norway to suspend contacts with the island's Tamil Tiger rebels pending a review of relations with the guerrillas, a top Sri Lankan official said.
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Colombo, Oct 02: Sri Lanka on Monday opened talks with a top Norwegian envoy on saving the troubled peace process with Tamil Tigers even as suspected rebels shot dead a police officer in the island's restive ...Comment
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The Japanese peace envoy to Sri Lanka says that the end of the ceasefire may make it necessary to review Japanese aid.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug. 31 -- International cease-fire monitors blamed Sri Lankan troops Wednesday for the killing of 17 aid workers during fighting with Tamil Tiger rebels this month.
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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: The Sri Lankan government on Sunday asked the Tamil Tigers to work for a negotiated political settlement to the ethnic conflict, a day after LTTE supremo V. Prabhakaran threatened to go back to war.
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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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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's Tamil Tiger rebels have complained to Scandinavian truce monitors that government troops attacked them and have warned the fragile peace process could collapse.
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Sri Lanka's threadbare truce has come under further pressure following decisions by Finland and Denmark to remove their monitors as Tamil rebels and government troops braced for a showdown.