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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...
...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's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find...
...dissolved the country's Parliament - paving the way for snap elections on April 2 - in a bid to win a bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, majority leader of the 225-member legislature. Kumaratunga's ongoing feud with the Prime Minister has stalled peace talks with rebel Tamil Tigers. Pitched Battle HAITI At least three policemen were killed in street fighting as police special forces swept into Gonaives, Haiti 's fourth-largest city, in an effort to wrest control from rebels who seized it Thursday. An armed opposition group staged a jailbreak - in which at least 10 people...
...subsequently denied receiving any such command." If the army has denied any nationwide deployment, to whom did the President order it? At no point was a nationwide deployment of the army ordered. You stated that after President Kumaratunga's spokesman said the cease-fire with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) "will stand," the President "declared the cessation 'invalid.'" What you did not mention is that (as the President explained to your correspondent) any agreement signed with regard to the defense of the nation, including the present cease-fire, has to be signed by the head of state...
...Line of Control, their de facto border in the disputed territory. Whether Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee will hold talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Islamabad in January, however, is unclear. Peace Threat SRI LANKA Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran warned the country's divided leadership he would revive his demands for an independent state if the peace process remained stalled. He denied accusations by President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the rebels are using the current truce as a cover to re-arm. Peace talks broke down last...