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Tamil Tiger rebels had refused to meet Srilankan's in Oslo

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Sri Lanka talks start and stall, violence rages

Thu Jun 8, 2006 1:17 PM BST

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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government said Tamil Tiger rebels had refused to meet them at talks in Oslo on Thursday, while at least three people were killed as the two sides blamed each other for new attacks.

More than 400 people have been killed since early April and the island's north and east is now locked in a low-intensity conflict. But the Oslo meeting, the first between the two sides since February, was to only centre on the role of the Nordic mission monitoring what is left of a 2002 cease-fire.

The government said it had been informed on arrival at the talks in Oslo that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) delegation would not meet them. It was not clear if the two sides were continuing to talk indirectly through the Norwegians.

"The Sri Lankan delegation was informed by the Norwegians that the LTTE had declined to meet," a government statement said. "The Norwegian government representatives themselves expressed complete surprise by the stance taken by the LTTE despite all the background preparations made by the Norwegian facilitators."

The government said it had been told that the presence of nationals from European Union nations Sweden, Finland and Denmark in the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) was objectionable after the EU banned the Tigers as terrorists last month.

The army said one officer was killed and a soldier wounded in a suspected rebel mine attack in the north-western Mannar district on Thursday. The LTTE said two civilians were killed in nearby rebel territory.

The Tigers blamed government forces operating behind rebel lines in contravention of the truce. The army denied the charge.

The two dead were contractors from the majority Sinhalese community working on restoring a reservoir, the ethnic Tamil rebels said. Another mine attack on a health services vehicle in northern Tiger territory wounded four, they said. Continued...

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticl...UK-SRILANKA.xml

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LTTE won't talk to Lankan team in Oslo

PK Balachandran

Colombo, June 8, 2006

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At the June 8 and 9 talks in Oslo, on the role of the Nordic truce monitors in Sri Lanka, the LTTE will not interact with the Sri Lankan government's delegation, according to a report in the Tamil daily Sudar Oli on Thursday.

In an Oslo-datelined story, the paper quoted the leader of the LTTE's delegation, SP Tamilselvan, as saying that the Oslo meeting was only on the role of the truce monitors, and that it could not be mistaken for talks with the Sri Lankan government.

Tamilselvan also complained that the Sri Lankan government's delegation was purely an official one, with no political representatives.

The delegation is led by an official, Dr Palitha Kohona, Director General of the Government Peace Secretariat.

"We do not intend to conduct talks with such a delegation. At any rate, we do not have the sanction of our leadership to do so," Tamilselvan said.

He further said that among the issues that the LTTE would take up at the talks, was the role of those member countries of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), which had banned the LTTE.

The reference was to Sweden, Denmark and Finland, which, being part of the European Union (EU), had banned LTTE recently.

The LTTE felt that members of the SLMM from these countries could not be neutral, Tamilselvan said.

If the LTTE sticks to its guns on this issue, the Norwegian facilitators would have to find substitutes for Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

Both the parties to the conflict will have to agree to the composition of the SLMM. Therefore, finding substitutes is not going to be easy.

Shadow war goes on despite Oslo talks

But even as representatives of the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE were preparing to address the issue of truce monitoring at Oslo, mine attacks continued back in Sri Lanka.

On Wednesday, 10 civilians were killed and 14 were injured when a pressure mine went off at Nedunkal village, near Vadamunai in an LTTE-held part of the eastern district of Batticaloa.

Among the dead were a 6-month-old child and an 11-year-old boy and among the wounded were three kids, including a-month-old baby.

The victims were traveling in a tractor, which went over the mine.

The pro-LTTE website Tamilnet said that it was the handiwork of a deep penetration unit of the Sri Lankan Army.

Military sources however said that it could be the work of the Karuna group, which was but a faction of the LTTE.

Vadamunai is close to Welikanda, where the breakaway LTTE group led by Karuna, operates from.

On Tuesday, a claymore mine, set off within 50 metres of the Sri Lankan naval base at Ragama, 11 kms north of Colombo, damaged a public transport bus and injured the driver and conductor.

The Sri Lankan military spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe, who blamed the LTTE for the blast, said that the LTTE might have been wanting to blast a naval bus.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_171...01302310002.htm

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LTTE in discussions with Norway on SLMM - Thamilchelvan

[TamilNet, June 08, 2006 12:58 GMT]

The LTTE delegation in Oslo is engaged in involved discussions with the Norwegian facilitators on key issues, including the role of international truce monitors, the head of the LTTE's Political Wing, Mr. S. P. Thamilchelvan said Thursday. Responding to media reports that the LTTE was refusing to sit with the Sri Lankan government (GoSL) delegation, Mr. Thamilchelvan said "discussions on the monitors at this crucial juncture would be productive and progressive when the [LTTE and government] delegations raise the issues separately with the Norwegian facilitators, giving room for them to approach a resolution of these issues."

The LTTE's delegation was invited to Norway to discuss the role of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), the security of SLMM staff and the future engagement of the SLMM in a post EU-ban scenario, Mr. Thamilchelvan said.

"Discussions on SLMM, at this crucial juncture, would be productive when the delegations raise the issues separately with the Norwegian facilitators, giving room for the facilitators to work out an agenda and let them approach the issue progressively," Mr. Thamilchelvan further said.

"The GoSL delegation has the freedom to exercise the same procedure without insisting the LTTE meet directly with them over these," the LTTE's Political Head noted.

The LTTE delegation would be meeting the International Development Minister Erik Solheim Thursday evening to discuss the process forward, Mr. Thamilchelvan said.

The LTTE delegation has already met the Norwegian facilitators twice on Thursday, he said.

Norwegian Special Envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer, the Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka Hans Brattskar and the former State Secretary Vidar Helgesen represented the Norwegian facilitators.

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=18441

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