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...Defense of Sri Lanka In your story "Warring Parties" [March 29], you wrote that President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga kept a campaign-rally crowd waiting for three hours. The President was asked to arrive at 4:30 p.m. and not before, as per usual practice at major political rallies in the country. She arrived at the scheduled time. You wrote that the President "used her constitutional powers to seize [the Prime Minister's] government while he was on a visit to Washington." The President took control of 3 ministries out of 68, which is not seizing the government. You wrote that...
...Basically, I felt that most probably Rajiv would end up the same way." She was right. Rajiv won office, becoming the third Nehru-Gandhi Prime Minister, but in May 1991 a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed the 46-year-old over the Indian army's 1987-90 incursion into Sri Lanka. It took six years and an internal party crisis that threatened to split Congress before Sonia, too, bent to that same Gandhian sense of obligation and agreed to take her husband's place at the head of the party...
Until recently, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were considered among the most disciplined guerrillas on earth: an often suicidal force locked in a 20-year struggle to secure autonomy for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. Today, the Tigers are fighting each other as rival factions clash north of the eastern city of Batticaloa. The violence follows the March split by the Tigers' eastern commander, Colonel Karuna Amman, who broke ranks from the northern leadership?a dangerous move in a group that demands total loyalty to its supreme commander, Vellupillai Prabhakaran. On April 9, Prabhakaran issued a death warrant...
...Just months ago, Sri Lanka was enjoying a cease-fire between the government and the Tigers; the economy was growing; and investors were tentatively returning. Those hopes are now on hold?and not just because of Tiger infighting. The government is also in disarray following elections last week in which President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party failed to win a parliamentary majority. Without it, Kumaratunga "cannot do everything stated in her manifesto," says Jeremy Clarke, who heads the International Monetary Fund's Sri Lankan operations. Last week, she found she had insufficient authority to install her choice for Prime Minister, former...
...legislature ruled that it must approve all political reforms in the territory. The edict was criticized by democracy activists, and the British Foreign Office said it appeared to erode the high degree of autonomy guaranteed to Hong Kong when it was handed back to China in 1997. Tiger, Tiger SRI LANKA Thousands of civilians fled their homes as rival factions of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam clashed in the eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People...