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Sri Lanka to crack down on terror but no rebel ban

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Sri Lanka to crack down on terror but no rebel ban

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will introduce tough emergency regulations to curb terrorist activities but will not impose a ban on Tamil Tiger rebels, the island's government said on Wednesday.

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The cabinet's decision comes after months of escalating violence between the army and the rebels, including bomb blasts in the capital, and amid fears a ban could sink hopes of avoiding a return to all-out civil war.

Last week, a suicide attack in Colombo targeted President Mahinda Rajapakse's brother Gothabaya Rajapakse, who is also the island's Defense Secretary and escaped unscathed.

"The government has decided to bring ammendments to emergency regulations," Chief Government Whip Nimal Siripala de Silva told parliament. "These regulations will be updated to face the threat we face from terrorism."

He gave no details, but said the government would also re-enforce the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which gives police and the security forces wide powers to arrest, search and interrogate. The act has been dormant since a 2002 truce now in tatters.

Colombo's stock exchange closed slightly firmer on Wednesday as investors took heart from news there would be no ban, which many analysts had feared would drive another nail into the coffin of Sri Lanka's failing peace process.

"You can't expect to go on with this campaign of violence and hope that the government will continue with business as usual. This message needs to be sent across," said Dr. Palitha Kohona, head of the government's peace secretariat.

"At the same time, if the LTTE were to come back to the negotiating table seriously, with a will to ending this conflict, then the government will respond appropriately."

Rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran last week declared the Tigers were resuming their independence struggle. Analysts said this meant the island's long-running civil war would likely escalate.

President Rajapakse has already ruled out a separate state for minority Tamils in the island's north and east, where the Tigers already run a de facto state with its own courts, banks and even speed-gun toting traffic police.

Sri Lanka's conflict has killed more than 67,000 civilians, troops and rebel fighters since 1983. About 3,000 have died this year in a spate of clashes, air raids, artillery duels and suicide bombings.

-Reuters-

பயங்கரவாதிகளுடன் தொடர்பு வைத்திருக்க தடை - புதிய சட்டம் அமுல்

கொழும்பில் இன்று அமைச்சரவை கூட்டத்தின் பின் பிரதமர் ரட்ணசிறி விக்ரமநாயக்க இன்றுறு ஊடகர்களுக்கு வழங்கிய செய்திகளின் படி சிறீலங்கா அரசால் பயங்கரவாத தடைச்சட்டம் (PTA) இன்று முதல் மீள நடைமுறைக்கு வருகிறது என்றும் புதிய அவசரகால விதிமுறைகள் பயங்கரவாதிகளுடன் தொடர்பு வைத்திருக்க முழுமையான தடைவிதிக்கப்படும் என்று அறியமுடிகிறது.

இச் சட்டத்தில் பயங்கரவாதம் என்றால் என்ன? என்று விளக்கமளிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளதுடன

பயங்கரவாதம் என்றால் என்ன என்று பயங்கரவாத தடைச்சட்டத்தில் வரையறுத்துக் கூறப்பட்டிருந்தால் பயங்கரவாதிகள் யாரென்று இனங்கண்டு கொள்வதும் அவர்களுக்கு உதவிசெய்பவர்களுக்கு சட்டரீதியான தண்டனை வழங்கவும் இலகுவாயிருக்கும். அப்படியானால் பயங்கரவாத ஒட்டுண்ணி இயக்கங்களான கருணா குழு, ஈ.பி.டி.பி என்பனவற்றைத் தத்தெடுத்து தங்கள் வளர்ப்புப் பிள்ளையாக வைத்திருக்கும் சிங்கள அரசுக்கு என்ன தண்டனை?

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