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...Tiger, Tiger SRI LANKA Thousands of civilians fled their homes as rival factions of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam clashed in the eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary results from the parliamentary election showed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's governing Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the former ruling Golkar...
...many days hit the country's remote eastern Papua province. Casualty estimates for the second quake weren't immediately available, but scientists measured it at 7.1 on the Richter scale, higher than the initial temblor, which left more than two dozen dead. Let the People Decide SRI LANKA President Chandrika Kumaratunga dissolved the country's Parliament - paving the way for snap elections on April 2 - in a bid to win a bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, majority leader of the 225-member legislature. Kumaratunga's ongoing feud with the Prime Minister has stalled peace talks with rebel...
...make a decision whether I am to continue in the office of President until 2006 or not." Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan President, disclosing that she took a second, secret oath of office in 2000 and therefore may extend her six-year term as President...
...members of what will be a 1,000-strong humanitarian force left for Iraq. Polls show that about half of Japanese oppose the mission. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi argued the country has a responsibility to participate in Iraq 's reconstruction. On the Offensive SRI LANKA President Chandrika Kumaratunga sparked fresh political turmoil by declaring she would extend her term in office by a year, until December 2006. At the same time, Kumaratunga clinched a deal between her Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the leftist People's Liberation Front, signaling possible early parliamentary elections in a bid to resolve her ongoing...
...Lanka's Crisis In your story on Sri Lanka's political situation [Nov. 17], you stated that President Chandrika Kumaratunga "declared a state of emergency, then declined to sign the order two days later." This is completely false. For a state of emergency to be declared, the President of Sri Lanka has to sign a proclamation, which has to be gazetted together with the emergency regulations. As this was not the case on this occasion, a state of emergency was never promulgated. You stated that the President "ordered a nationwide deployment of the army, which subsequently denied receiving any such...