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Sri Lanka rebels may postpone April crunch talks
[ Reuters ] [ 11:38 GMT, Mar. 22, 2006 ]
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels will view any further attacks by renegades they say are military-backed as an act of war and may postpone crunch talks unless the state disarms them, their chief negotiator has warned.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are due to attend a second round of peace talks with Sri Lankan officials in Geneva in April, and say the island's fragile peace process could grind to a halt if the government fails to honour a pledge to rein in armed groups."If the paramilitaries continue to launch military offensive operations against the LTTE with the backing of the Sri Lankan armed forces, it will certainly be construed as an act of war against the LTTE," Tiger theoretician Anton Balasingham told Reuters in an interview late on Tuesday."It will lead to conditions of war and violence and it will block any forward movement of the peace talks and lead to the collapse of the peace process itself," Balasingham, a top aide to reclusive rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, said at his home outside London.
“The government is seemingly engaged in a process of retarding the entire process” - LTTE Political Head S.P. Tamilselvan
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 11:51 GMT, Mar. 22, 2006 ]
“Instead of taking measures to wipe out terrorism perpetrated by the para-militaries working with the military as agreed upon in Geneva, the government is seemingly engaged in a process of retarding the entire process, ”, says Mr. Tamilselvan, Head of the LTTE Political Wing in his letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission(SLMM) regarding LTTE political work in the GoSL controlled areas. We reject the concept of anybody laying conditions for our members doing political work with our people. Geneva Talks and the understanding ensued therein is totally nullified by this stance of the SriLankan government.
Courting War
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 12:25 GMT, Mar. 22, 2006 ]
Almost a month after the Sri Lankan government, concluding its first direct talks with the Liberation Tigers in three years, agreed to disarm its paramilitary units, absolutely nothing has been done. Admittedly, there are fewer killings than in the months preceding the Geneva talks. However, the anti-LTTE paramilitary groups are, if anything, expanding their operations with the undisguised assistance of Sri Lanka’s military. New camps are being established in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) controlled parts of Jaffna and Batticaloa. The bodies of murdered youth are still turning up along the roads and coastlines of the Tamil provinces. Most importantly, despite the undertaking given in Geneva by its delegation, the Sri Lankan government is again flatly denying its security forces’ role in mobilising and training the paramilitary groups and assisting them in the ‘shadow war’ against the LTTE.
[ Reuters ] [ 11:38 GMT, Mar. 22, 2006 ]
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels will view any further attacks by renegades they say are military-backed as an act of war and may postpone crunch talks unless the state disarms them, their chief negotiator has warned.The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are due to attend a second round of peace talks with Sri Lankan officials in Geneva in April, and say the island's fragile peace process could grind to a halt if the government fails to honour a pledge to rein in armed groups."If the paramilitaries continue to launch military offensive operations against the LTTE with the backing of the Sri Lankan armed forces, it will certainly be construed as an act of war against the LTTE," Tiger theoretician Anton Balasingham told Reuters in an interview late on Tuesday."It will lead to conditions of war and violence and it will block any forward movement of the peace talks and lead to the collapse of the peace process itself," Balasingham, a top aide to reclusive rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, said at his home outside London.
“The government is seemingly engaged in a process of retarding the entire process” - LTTE Political Head S.P. Tamilselvan
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 11:51 GMT, Mar. 22, 2006 ]
“Instead of taking measures to wipe out terrorism perpetrated by the para-militaries working with the military as agreed upon in Geneva, the government is seemingly engaged in a process of retarding the entire process, ”, says Mr. Tamilselvan, Head of the LTTE Political Wing in his letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission(SLMM) regarding LTTE political work in the GoSL controlled areas. We reject the concept of anybody laying conditions for our members doing political work with our people. Geneva Talks and the understanding ensued therein is totally nullified by this stance of the SriLankan government.
Courting War
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 12:25 GMT, Mar. 22, 2006 ]
Almost a month after the Sri Lankan government, concluding its first direct talks with the Liberation Tigers in three years, agreed to disarm its paramilitary units, absolutely nothing has been done. Admittedly, there are fewer killings than in the months preceding the Geneva talks. However, the anti-LTTE paramilitary groups are, if anything, expanding their operations with the undisguised assistance of Sri Lanka’s military. New camps are being established in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) controlled parts of Jaffna and Batticaloa. The bodies of murdered youth are still turning up along the roads and coastlines of the Tamil provinces. Most importantly, despite the undertaking given in Geneva by its delegation, the Sri Lankan government is again flatly denying its security forces’ role in mobilising and training the paramilitary groups and assisting them in the ‘shadow war’ against the LTTE.