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...government troops trapped and surrounded. And to make matters worse, India - whose government includes parties from India's Tamil province, and which was eventually asked by Sri Lanka to withdraw the last time it sent in peacekeeping troops - refused a request to help evacuate the beleaguered Sri Lankan army or to sell them weapons...
Which is a problem, since unlike other conventional armies that find themselves confounded by poorly armed but elusive guerrilla opponents, the Sri Lankans are now outgunned by their guerrilla enemies. "The LTTE is better armed than the Sri Lankan army," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Meenakshi Ganguly. "In fact, a lot of their weapons once belonged to the army and were usurped by the Tigers when they overran the camps. The Tigers are also much more motivated than the army, which is facing problems of desertion and low recruitment because of the heavy casualties it has suffered in this conflict...
...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...
...forensic anthropologist, returns to the Sri Lanka she left at age 18 as one member of a U.N. team allowed into the country by the government to investigate alleged human rights violations, i.e., death-squad murders. Her assigned partner in this seven-week enterprise is a Sri Lankan archaeologist named Sarath Diyasena, 49, who is, by virtue of his position, a government employee. Anil immediately wonders whether her co-worker will be helping her or reporting on her to his employees. "Can I trust you?" she asks him. His reply: "You have to trust...
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