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    Attacks threaten Sri Lankan truce

    Thursday, July 14, 2005; Posted: 11:35 p.m. EDT (03:35 GMT)


    Sri Lankan security forces are now on high alert.
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    Manage Alerts | What Is This? COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka's cease-fire teetered on the brink of collapse Friday after the military accused rebels of a spate of attacks on security forces and rebels said the government failed to meet their demand to boost security for their political representatives.

    The rebel Tamil Tigers were expected to detail their dissatisfaction over the unmet security demands in a letter Friday to the government, rebel spokesman Daya Master said.

    Suspected Tiger rebels on Thursday attacked a police post in eastern Sri Lanka, wounding nobody, and tried to shoot a group of navy personnel in a clash that killed one attacker.

    Another militant was injured and another captured. They were they latest in at least 10 attacks on security forces since Tuesday, wounding more than two dozen people, military spokesman Brig. Daya Ratnayake said.

    The spate of attacks on security forces was the most intense since Norway brokered a cease-fire between the two sides in 2002, spokeswoman Helen Olafsdottir, of the European team monitoring the accord, said.

    "The situation is a nightmare and most dangerous," she said Thursday.

    European truce monitors rushed to the rebels' northern heartland late Thursday to meet guerrilla leaders to try and avert more attacks.

    Sri Lankan security forces said they went on high alert Thursday, a day after rebels shut down political offices in government-controlled areas, accusing the government of failing to protect rebels who are allowed to travel through those areas under the 2002 accord.

    The rebels had given the government 14 days before Thursday's deadline to improve security -- or risk a return to civil war.

    The demand was prompted in part by a bomb that narrowly missed a bus carrying 41 rebels last month. Subsequently, two senior rebels were gunned down.

    The rebels blame the military. The military blames factional fighting.

    The government on Monday agreed conditionally to increase the Tigers' security escorts, but the guerrillas were not satisfied.

    The Tigers were "very serious about the deadline," Joseph Pararajasingham, a lawmaker of the Tamil National Alliance -- considered a proxy party of the rebels -- told The Associated Press on Thursday.

    Sources close to the rebels said the Tigers might resort to using their own armed escorts while traveling through government-controlled areas -- a violation of the cease-fire that could lead to a confrontation with government forces and the collapse of the truce.

    The Tamil Tigers began fighting in 1983 for a separate homeland for minority ethnic Tamils in the country's north and east, claiming discrimination by the majority Sinhalese. The conflict killed nearly 65,000 people before the 2002 cease-fire.

    Post-truce peace talks have been stalled since 2003 over rebel demands for wide autonomy.






    They had a truce? Truce maybe, but the Tamil Tigers did not sign the peace treaty with the Singalese government. Tamils are never going to sign a peace treaty with the Sri Lankan Government, they are awaiting a massive uprisal. There is going to be a big war in that country, don't know when. Anyone care to argue?

  • #2
    The Tigers want a war and they are ready. All these attacks are provacations aimed at starting a war. More bloodshed.
    Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'...till you can find a rock. ;)

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    • #3
      Originally posted by hammer
      The Tigers want a war and they are ready. All these attacks are provacations aimed at starting a war. More bloodshed.

      yes sir, that is 100% correct. I've met a few tamils and that is all they have told me, the tamil tigers are re-grouping in such a massive way that the singalese government will have no chance at all when the war begins. I think the tamil tigers are much smarter now, they are awaiting for a really good reason to strike full force, because last time they rebelled, India walked in Sri Lanka and killed every Tamil willing to fight.

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      • #4
        well, the govt successfully broke Karuna from main faction and through Karuna they started killing LTTE rebels. Now they are fighting back. Both the parties are not true to the truce. A big waste!
        A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Jay
          well, the govt successfully broke Karuna from main faction and through Karuna they started killing LTTE rebels. Now they are fighting back. Both the parties are not true to the truce. A big waste!

          The singalese government will try to get the tamil tigers to sign the peace treaty at ALL COSTS. This time around, there is going to be no Indian soldiers aiding the singalese government, its going to be the Tamil Tigers vs the Sri Lankan Government. And tamils are loading up, its just a matter of time when they have an all out war.

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          • #6
            Its not very easy to wage low intensity terrorist wars like LTTE anymore. Global arms route is getting squeezed because of WoT and global funding is also in the decline.

            LTTE is already feeling the pinch, but LTTE has multitude of business to cover their bases and day to day operations, still, its not easy like it was before.

            So its good for both the LTTE and the govt to acheive peace.
            A grain of wheat eclipsed the sun of Adam !!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Jay
              Its not very easy to wage low intensity terrorist wars like LTTE anymore. Global arms route is getting squeezed because of WoT and global funding is also in the decline.

              LTTE is already feeling the pinch, but LTTE has multitude of business to cover their bases and day to day operations, still, its not easy like it was before.

              So its good for both the LTTE and the govt to acheive peace.

              Jay, it is very sad yet true, there is no stopping this war. It will take place and we will be here to discuss it. What is right, what is wrong.

              I am not including all Tamils, but from all the tamils (more than 10) I've talked to about the Tamil - Singalese civil war, they have all told me they have nothing but hatred towards all singalese people. Tamil people are peaceful people, but they will agree on the same thing, "we hate Singalese people".

              Now, take a person who wants Punjab only for Sikhs, they will not say "we hate hindu people". They will admit the hatred towards the rioters and Mrs. Indira Gandhi, but would never wish bad upon all of one race.

              There are bad apples in every religion. Hopefully everyone won't let biases effect their judgement.

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              • #8
                The Tamil - Sinhalese problem date back to Chola invasions of Lanka in the 10th century.Perhaps even before that.

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