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...Those roles are now reversed. Bali is trying to recover from the devastating October bombings that killed 193. In the meantime Sri Lanka has experienced more than a year of peace thanks to a truce between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Tourist arrivals hit 393,000 last year, nearly returning to pre-civil-war levels. And some visitors are finding the country's Buddhist sites and exquisite beaches so charming?and safe?that they want to claim a permanent piece of paradise. A mini property boom on the southern coast has begun...
...Lanka 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...
...RECORD Berlin Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels made progress at peace talks in Germany, even as monitors caught Tigers smuggling arms into northern Sri Lanka. Cuvette West Congolese officials said 16 people died of the incurable disease Ebola. The victims apparently contracted the virus from eating infected gorillas. Moscow President Pervez Musharraf became the first Pakistani leader in 33 years to travel to the Russian capital, where he held talks with President Vladimir Putin. Bogota A bomb ripped through a social club in the Colombian capital, killing at least 30 people and raising fears that leftist rebels...
...LANKA Tiger Cubs Tamil Tiger rebels admitted they're still recruiting children to fight, Scandinavian peace monitors said. The leader of the Tigers' political wing, S.P. Thamilchelvan, blamed ill-disciplined junior members for recruiting more than 300 children in the past year. But Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga said that the Tigers had recruited 10,000 soldiers, including an unspecified number of children, despite the cease-fire that has held since February...
...Many more tough issues will have to be resolved, including the establishment of boundaries for the proposed Tamil zone. And reclusive Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran realizes a final agreement will still have to be sold to the people back home. An insider at the talks said Prabhakaran warned his negotiators by telephone: "We told (Tiger rebels) to fight and die for a separate state. Now we are asking them to be chums with their enemies again." Observers, however, hope the thaw in Oslo will continue. "There was no heat," says the insider. "Only warmth...