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...week's end, Helgesen was close. Negotiators from the rebel Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam and the Sri Lankan government had made such remarkable progress that a return to the conflict?which has cost 64,000 lives since 1983?has become all but unthinkable. The turning point came Dec. 4, when Tiger negotiators abandoned their demand for a separate state. The next day, negotiators announced an outline for a new federal system allowing Tamil-speaking areas the right to "internal self-determination...
...group linked to al-Qaeda, launched an attack on positions held by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. The anti-Saddam p.u.k., which controls the eastern section of the autonomous zone maintained by British and U.S. air cover, said it repulsed the attackers. SRI LANKA Tigers Purr The government and Tamil Tiger rebels agreed to a federal system, boosting the prospects of a lasting peace after a 19-year civil war. But Parliament must first approve the change to the constitution, which requires a two-thirds majority the government does not have. Meanwhile, Japan agreed to host an international aid donors...
...World contest and might have married one of its contestants. Nigeria's supreme Islamic body said that Muslims should ignore the fatwa and the country's federal government said it will not allow the death sentence to be carried out. SRI LANKA Tigers Grow Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, warned that he would return to fighting for complete independence if he did not get provincial autonomy in Tamil-dominated areas in the east and the north. Despite the threat of violence, the government's chief negotiator, G.L. Peiris, said that the statement raised hopes of a settlement...
...wrecks that forms a divers' paradise around Batticaloa, 132 kilometers south of Trincomalee (the wreckage of the Vampire is yet to be found). Sunken ships and other detritus of war litter the sandy bottom along the coast?including remains from more recent conflicts. Little more than a year ago, Tamil Tiger suicide bombers blew up a government warship, killing 26 people and injuring...
...Individual players have also helped heal long-standing rifts in Sri Lanka. In a land torn apart by two decades of ethnic-based conflict between the Sinhalese and Tamil populations, there is only one truly national hero: Muttiah Muralitharan. He is not a politician or a pop star. He is a southern-born Tamil, the son of a candy maker, blessed with the unlikely ability to spin a cricket ball like a top. In Tamil-controlled territory only the fearsome and reclusive Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabakharan matches his legend. In the bombed-out streets of Jaffna...