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...these days. You can travel just about anywhere on the island: to the northern peninsula of Jaffna or to the eastern beaches near Trincomalee, areas that were off limits for most of the past 19 years of civil war. The government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) signed a truce a year ago which, to everyone's amazement, has held...
...Twelve months is a good long time to breathe easier, but Sri Lanka isn't out of the jungle yet. After five rounds of highly productive peace talks?in which the LTTE formally abandoned its goal of secession?the two sides are only now facing the core issues that will make or break a deal, including a rewriting of the Sri Lankan constitution and the delicate issue of when and how the fanatical Tigers will hang up their suicide suits, dispose of their cyanide capsules and surrender their guns. As a result, Sri Lankans are living in unaccustomed security...
...unacceptable. The Indian psyche resents any form of loss to Pakistan, be it on the cricket field or the battlefront, and politically, losing the slightest portion of Kashmir would open the floodgates to trouble: United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) would be encouraged to escalate their attempts to form independent nations in eastern and southern India. For Pakistan, it is equally unacceptable to give up claims to Kashmir. Kashmir is Muslim-dominated, and Pakistani friends in India tell me that mullahs in Pakistan would never allow any Pakistani leader to even...
...branded the LTTE a terrorist organization in 1997, and President George W. Bush would have ample justification to expand his war on terror to Sri Lanka, or at least threaten to. The Tigers have well-documented links to terror groups in the Middle East?many veterans were trained by Yasser Arafat's p.l.o.?and they operate an armament delivery service for other militants around the world. According to Indian intelligence, who deeply resent Prabhakaran and the Tigers for the 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, a Tiger vessel has been used to transport weapons from al-Qaeda to the Abu Sayyaf...
...going to be a very difficult journey." The Tigers are already feeling a post-Sept. 11 pinch. The group is now banned in all their main overseas bases: the U.S., Britain, Australia and Canada. Bank accounts have been frozen. But the pressure may be overstated. According to Gunaratna, the LTTE continue to raise funds from the Tamil diaspora around the world, although any explicit coercion has been replaced by implicit threats. The majority of the 500,000-strong Sri Lankan Tamil community abroad backs peace. But some?among them generous donors?oppose it, fearing a settlement would threaten their ability...