What is the situation of Sri Lanka Peace Process?
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LTTE trying to start a war again. By sending Suicide bombers.
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I was having this talk with a Sinhalese guy last week. The LTTE don't actually want peace or perhaps even an independent nation.\n\nHow are they going to build that nation with no infrastructure, currency, trade, education? Who is going to run schools, banks and ports....etc.?\nNo, they want this guerrilla war to go on and on, every time there's a ceasefire, sooner or later they will be a breach and escalation in hostilities... why?\n\nBecause in this way, they will always garner support, people will still support them with funds, manpower etc. When there is peace, there are hard questions to deal with and the LTTE knows it. \n\nBack to your question, I think the Sri Lankan military still do not have the means to totally wipe the Tigers out. And even if they did, they would need a political settlement because the Tigers still enjoy widespread support in Jaffna.
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Kosovo's future status is as uncertain as it has been since the war. It is currently a UN-protectorate and is likely to remain so for quite some time. However if the Serbs arrest and extradite Radtko Mladic, the alleged war criminal, to the Hague tribunal, the EU will invite Serbia for EU accession talks and then, ups, the case of Kosovo will have to be resolved - the EU cannot possibly live with this tense situation inside its own borders! (Even though they do so with Cypros, but that's another case)
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Jayalalitha, who had spent Wednesday in her Sirudavoor residence, about 50 km from the city, returned here in the afternoon as it became clear that there was no way that the AIADMK and its allies could cobble a majority in the 234-member house. \n\nOf the results declared, the DMK-led Democratic Progressive Alliance (DPA) got 161 and the AIADMK 68. A party needs at least 118 seats to form government. \n\nIs that what you are referring to?  Your sentence construction and spelling is so poor, I'm not really sure what you were asking.  If that was what you were asking, well, it's called democratic process.  The people vote to the party they think is the best.  And obviously the majority didn't agree YOUR apparent choice was the best one.\n\nNext time you post a question, before you submit it, hit the "Check Spelling" box in the upper right corner where you typed.
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Government & Politics\n\nMain article: Politics of Sri Lanka\n\n\nThe President of the Republic is directly elected for a six-year term and serves as Head of State, Head of Government and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. The President is responsible to Parliament for the exercise of duties in accordance with the Constitution and laws. The incumbent may be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of Parliament, with the agreement by the Supreme Court. The President appoints and heads a Cabinet of Ministers responsible to Parliament. The President's deputy is the Prime Minister, who leads the ruling party in Parliament.\n\nThe Sri Lankan Parliament is a unicameral 225-member legislature. Members are elected by universal (adult) suffrage based on a modified proportional representation system by district to a six-year term. The primary modification is that the party that receives the largest number of valid votes in each constituency gains a unique "bonus seat" (see Hickman, 1999). The president may summon, suspend, or end a legislative session and dissolve Parliament any time after it has served for one year. Parliament reserves the power to make all laws. Since its independence in 1948, Sri Lanka has remained a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.\n\nParliament was dissolved on February 07, 2004 by President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga. Elections were held on April 04 and the new Parliament convened on April 23 and elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister.\n\nIn August 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that Presidential Elections would be held in November 2005, resolving a long-running dispute on the length of President Kumaratunga's term. Mahinda Rajapaksa was nominated the SLFP candidate and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe UNP candidate. The Election was held on November 17, 2005, and Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected the fifth Executive President of Sri Lanka with a 50.29% of valid votes, compared to Ranil Wickremesinghe's 48.43%. Rajapaksa took oath as President on November 19, 2005. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was appointed the 22nd Prime Minister on November 21, 2005, to fill the post vacated by Rajapaksa. He was previously Prime Minister in 2000.\n\nRajapaksa offers less autonomy than Wickremasinghe to the northeast, home to most of Sri Lanka's 3.2 million ethnic Tamils. His narrow victory was engineered by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who want Tamil Eelam to be an independent country. The LTTE boycotted the election, thereby preventing thousands of Tamils from voting, and so Wickremasinghe from taking power, whose election promises included a Federal state to the North and East.\n\nThere were high hopes that the devastating Tsunami of December 2004 would force the government and Tamil rebels into a new, lasting dialogue to address the serious effects of the disaster on Sri Lanka as a whole. But these hopes were dashed by almost immediate accusations of bias and favouritism on the part of international aid agencies from both sides. At the close of 2005, deep political unease and suspicion remained between the two factions.
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All countries are allies... All countries, including Sri Lanka and India, have differences too.
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We shall see. Obviously the way it was wasn't working so hopefully this will be for the better/ Your words are so true civilian. The root of all of the countries problems is this division between the two parties and their unwillingness to cooperate with each other and it has fizzled down to the people. Sad but true.
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Current Conflicts:\nAlgeria Insurgency 1992 --> \nAngola Cabinda 1975 --> \nBurma Insurgency 1950 --> \nChina Senkaku Islands  1968 --> \nChina Spratly Islands  1988 --> \nColombia Insurgencies 1970s--> \nCongo (Zaire)  Congo War 1998--> \nGeorgia  Civil War 1991--> \nIndia Assam 1985 --> \nIndia Kashmir 1970s--> \nIndia Naxalite Uprising 1967 --> \nIndonesia  Aceh 1986 -->  \nIndonesia  Kalimantan 1983 -->  \nIndonesia Maluku 1999 -  \nIndonesia  Papua / West Irian 1963 --> \nIsrael Al-Aqsa Intifada 2000 --> \nIvory Coast Civil War 2002 --> \nKorea Korean War 1953 --> \nLaos Hmong Insurgency 2000 --> \nMoldova Transdniester 1991--> \nNamibia Caprivi Strip 1966--> \nNepal Maoists 1996 --> \nNigeria Civil Disturbances 1997 - \nPakistan Baluchistan 2004 - \nPeru Shining Path 1970s--> \nPhilippines Moro Uprising 1970s--> \nRussia Chechen Uprising 1992 -->  \nSomalia Civil War 1991--> \nSpain Basque Uprising 1970s--> \nSudan Darfur  1983 -->  \nThailand Islamic Rebels 2001 --> \nTurkey Kurdistan 1984 --> \nUganda Civil Conflict 1980 --> \nUnited States Afghanistan 1980 --> \nUnited States Djibouti 2001 --> \nUnited States Iraq 1990 --> \nUnited States Philippines 1898 --> \nUzbekistan Civil Disturbances 2005 --> \nYemen Sheik al-Houti 2004
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Politically unstable with a high level of illiteracy, mixed with religious fanaticism.\n\nForever causing brinkmanship with its neighbor India over the Kashmir region.
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That would be great.  However, Hamas is a terrorist group, not likely to honour any peace treaties.  The situation is so sad.  Progress was looking like a possibility, but the election of Hamas has set peace back.  For how long?  And leading to how much death?
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things are very hazy right now for all nations.  It's hard to say what will happen next. The end is near for sure with all that is goin on in the east. The King is coming...
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more money in supporting the government after all if they bring peace to sri lanka they have to find a new market to sell there weapons to
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best is that you go to the srilankan embassy website and email them ur required info....
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Officially, it has not ended.  Japan and the Soviet Union (now Russia and twelve other countries) never did sign a peace treaty.  Their relations remain governed by an _armistice_ (cease-fire agreement).  True peace has been held up by a dispute over islands north of Japan.  Basically, Japan took them from the Russian Empire at the turn of the 20th century; the USSR took them back at the end of World War II.  Japan contends that the islands are legitimately hers.  Russia, which lost 26 million dead to the Axis, does not care.\n\nThe last combat of World War II took place in October, 1945, when the last organized Japanese resistance was crushed in the South Pacific.  Those units chose not to believe, or at least to acknowledge, their Emperor's directive to surrender.  The government, and the vast majority of Japanese units, ceased to resist upon Japan's surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 1, 1945.
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nobody really knows. but i hope in the near future. as far as i know, its presently ruled by a military junta and they are already planning to hold elections to finally construct a democratic government. But up until now, there hasn't been an election. There was one election where Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and her democratic party overwhelmingly won. but the junta just arrested her and cancelled the elections for a later date. We can only wait when the junta will finally give in to the demands of the world and its people.
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All progress come to a stand still. More labour problems, strikes and bundhs. Industrialists (if there is any)and business men will migrate to other parts of the world. Brain drain will be at the highest. 'Greeny' Kerala will turn to 'bloody' Kerala. Things will drag and people will wait for the next elections.
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Sounds like you want to invite a foreign army to have a base on your island. Anyone in mind? Be careful what you wish for - it may happen, with unforseen consequences.\n\nWhen the Ancient Britons invited some of their Roman neighbours to help them fight other Ancient Britons - the Romans walked in and took over for four hundred years!\n\nDon't know much about this conflict, except reportedly that you want a Tamil homeland. I know one thing; nothing was ever solved by violence. Give up your armed struggle, and negotiate with the Government. \nRenounce terrorism, become 'mainstream' and get your people elected to the Parliament. It happened in Northern Ireland when the armed gangs gave up their weopons; now they have MPs and work with their 'enemy' groups to run the country.