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Sri Lanka's Tamil party for political solution to ethnic issue

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Sri Lanka's Tamil party for political solution to ethnic issue

www.chinaview.cn 2007-12-10 23:14:58 Print

COLOMBO, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- The leader of Sri Lanka's major Tamil party said Monday that the country's ethnic issue could not be solved militarily and only a political solution can bring peace to the island.

R. Sampanthan, the leader of the Tamil National Alliance told a gathering of foreign correspondents in Colombo that the Sri Lankan government was wrong in thinking that it could solve the issue by flushing out Tamil Tiger rebels from the northern Wanni district.

He said peace would not come "unless the Tamil question is resolved in a way acceptable to all sides."

The Tamil politician said he once urged Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), to accept democracy as a way to solve the long drawn-out ethnic issue.

Government troops are now engaged in an undeclared war with the LTTE which has been fighting the government since the mid-1980s to establish a separate homeland for the minority Tamils in the north and east.

More than 5,000 people have been killed in the upsurge of violence since the end of 2005, making the Norwegian brokered cease-fire agreement exist only on paper.

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama has ruled out any chances of another cease-fire with the LTTE.

He told an Indian newspaper recently that future talks with the rebel outfit would only focus on a political solution and not a truce.

"We will not speak in terms of cease-fire or any of those things," Bogollagama said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/...ent_7227011.htm

Editor: Mu Xuequan

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