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...pays out a lifetime's salary to the families of its slain soldiers - and right now that policy may be set to place new strains on the defense budget. Tamil Tiger rebel forces reportedly broke through government lines near the town of Jaffna Wednesday, two days after President Chandrika Kumaratunga rejected a rebel truce offer allowing her troops safe passage out of the beleaguered Jaffna peninsula, vowing instead to defend the territory to the last man. The secessionist fighters, who regard Jaffna as the capital of their desired homeland of Tamil Eelam, last week delivered a crushing blow...
...containing a separatist insurgency that has raged for 17 years and claimed some 55,000 lives. The government remains committed to a two-pronged strategy of seeking to militarily defeat the guerrillas while offering greater political autonomy to the Tamil minority from which they're drawn. But Prime Minister Kumaratunga has struggled to secure domestic political support for the autonomy plan, let alone engender Tamil enthusiasm. And a military defeat of the Tigers looks more and more like wishful thinking. Israel is reported to have recently helped out the government with emergency weapons shipments, and the U.S. has reportedly been...
...Lankan army last recovered Jaffna after a bloody battle in 1994, but last week's setback wipes out years of painstaking territorial gains against the guerrillas. Now the government of Chandrika Kumaratunga, which has made taking a hard line against the guerrillas the centerpiece of its tenure, faces the humiliating prospect of having to negotiate a cease-fire with the LTTE in order to save thousands of its soldiers. And the rebels, who are fighting for independence for the mostly Tamil northern provinces they refer to as Eelam (the Hindu Tamil form about 20 percent of Sri Lanka's population...
Neelan was actively lobbying for parliamentary support for President Kumaratunga's peace plan which he helped draft...
...Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga condemned the attack in a written statement...