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...country's brutal civil war much less likely. Tamilselvan was the head of the LTTE's political wing and the international face of the group. He had been involved in negotiations with the previous Sri Lankan government along with the LTTE's then chief negotiator Anton Balasingham. When Balasingham fell ill and later died, Tamilselvan took over as head of the LTTE team and met with representatives of the current government in Geneva last year. His death means the LTTE has lost both of its main negotiators and, with the country sliding towards a full scale war, it is likely...
...took up the cause for the Tamils and began fighting for their own state in the northeast. Today the Tigers say they will accept a separate nation within a Sri Lankan federation. "The organization favors a form of regional autonomy and self-government," the L.T.T.E.'s chief negotiator, Anton Balasingham, told TIME by e-mail. Rajapakse says he will consider limited Tamil autonomy but rules out federalism, insisting the island remain a unitary state...
...INEVITABLE? Both sides agree that war offers no solution to Sri Lanka's problems, but they increasingly see little alternative. Balasingham told TIME: "Sri Lanka will inevitably plunge into an ethnic war with disastrous consequences if the escalating violence is not contained and normalcy restored." Rajapakse told a Colombo newspaper last week: "If they insist on continuing their attacks, I will have to defend my country." Hawks are ascendant on both sides. DeVotta says elements in the government believe the split within the L.T.T.E. has weakened the rebels to a point where they can be beaten in war. Chalk...
...After three days of talks with the Sri Lankan government in Thailand, the Tamil Tigers guerrilla group announced that it will seek a separate state in northeast Sri Lanka only as a "last resort." "Our demand for a homeland is not a demand for a separate state," said Anton Balasingham, the Tigers' chief negotiator. The talks, the first direct negotiations in seven years, were aimed at ending a 19-year civil war between the minority Tamils and the Sinhalese majority in which around 65,000 people have been killed. SOUTHEAST ASIA Conspiracy Theory Two governments announced details of the threat...
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