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...stalled since April when the rebels walked out of negotiations. But the LTTE has decided to return to the negotiating table, offering new proposals on Friday for creating an autonomous governing body for the north and east of the country. Sore points persist: the LTTE claims that the Sri Lankan army still prevents thousands of Tamils who fled their towns during the strife from returning, and the government balks at the rebels' demand for control over the police and security forces of the country's north and east. But Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he wants to keep the peace...
...July 1983, long-simmering tension between the nation's Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority led to violent anti-Tamil riots, and the country plunged into civil war. By 1987, Sri Lanka's growth rate had halved. Tourism and tea exports remained relatively strong, and in the 1990s, Sri Lankans fancied that the country's economy had learned to live with the fighting. That illusion ended in 2001, when the LTTE launched an attack on Sri Lanka's only international airport: tourists stayed away, insurance companies slapped a surcharge on all goods shipped to Sri Lankan ports, and the economy...
...TIME: Some fear that the LTTE is using the cease-fire to strengthen itself. Wickremesinghe: There's no sign of the LTTE getting ready for war. We've also allowed the Sri Lankan army to build up. We've discussed the matter with the commanders of the armed forces, and they're confident they can handle any eventuality...
...Margaret Gulotta, chief of the FBI?s language services program, says this Turkish-based language, spoken by about eight million people in China?s Sinkiang Uigur autonomous region, has come up occasionally in terrorism cases.. Ditto Amharic and Tigrinya, spoken in Ethiopia, Tamil, the language of the Sri Lankan terrorist group Tamil Tigers, and the dialects of Southeast Asia, where Muslim extremism is rising. ?About 90 percent of the world?s population speak [one of] 60 or 70 languages,? says Gulotta, ?but there are about 6000 languages and dialects spoken in the world and if one of those languages...
...tiny bathroom is Conjunctivitis, a maniacal disco ball formed from discarded spectacles, each pair of which Swaffield first tried on to check the refractive qualities. ("I got conjunctivitis making it," he says.) Another work, called Solewave?a collage of 350 ocean-bleached flip-flops plucked from various Sri Lankan beaches?recalls the swirling intensity of a Van Gogh...