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...Tigers (and thousands of Tamil civilians) on a narrow strip of land. As the government closes in, Prabhakaran's whereabouts are unknown. He could be dead, he could be alive, he could have already left the country - regardless, he remains the most influential person in Sri Lanka's recent history. (See pictures of life in the territories previously controlled by the Tamil Tigers...
...wife Madhivadini while she was a university student on hunger strike to protest the poor treatment of Tamils that were kidnapped and brought to Prabhakaran's headquarters. They eventually wed and had three children, one of whom (son, Charles Anthony) is believed to have been injured in recent fighting...
Your job as peace envoy got a lot tougher after the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza and a new right-wing government in Israel ... There's a lot of cynicism and concern about what the new [Israeli] government means here - and obviously a lot of despair after what happened in Gaza. But we have no option but to pick ourselves up from here. What happens in these next couple of months will really be critical. We need three elements: a credible political negotiation for a two-state solution; a program of major change on the West Bank, and an easing...
...Maoists, though, who waged a decade-long war against the royal army, have not forgotten so easily. A recent trip to India by Gyanendra, who lives quietly in a private residence in the capital, prompted howls of outrage from members of the government who are wary of his dealings with Nepal's influential southern neighbor. The Maoists, observers say, need to raise the specter of royalist nefariousness to boost their own flagging support. "They need to create a sense of threat, of a larger enemy, to distract the people from their failings," says Dixit...
...more decisively against militants who are based in the tribal areas and pose a threat to the region and beyond. For Washington, stabilizing Afghanistan depends on stanching the flow of militants from across the border. But while both political will and public opinion have discernibly shifted in recent days, there remain deep divisions - and some resentment on the part of Pakistan - over how to tackle the threat...