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...Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga condemned the attack in a written statement...
Steiner called Neelan a "major figure" in the world of human rights and said his death could destabilize Sri Lankan peace negotiations...
...only was he a decent person and a great thinker, but he was one of the wisest and most humane of the Sri Lankans capable of bridging the gap of militancy on both sides," said Robert Rotberg, a research associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development...
Rotberg said he recently finished working with Neelan on the book Creating Peace in Sri Lanka, based on their 1997 conference. Neelan's contribution to the book was a chapter called "The Devolution and the Elusive Quest for Peace in Sri Lanka...
Some estimate that as many as 58,000 people have been killed in the fighting between Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, where the Tigers have been fighting government security forces since...