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Sri Lanka Peace Process Stalls
Associated Press,
Tue January 28, 2003 14:46 EST .
- - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Tamil Tiger rebels would refuse to lay down weapons as a condition for allowing the resettlement of ethnic Tamils displaced during Sri Lanka - 's 19-year civil war, a top rebel official was quoted as saying Tuesday. The Tigers have been fighting since 1983 to create a separate state for Sri Lanka - 's minority Tamils, claiming that they face discrimination by the Sinhalese majority in education and jobs. During peace negotiations, the rebels have agreed to a federal structure of governance instead of total independence. The war has killed nearly 65,000 people and displaced more than 1.6 million, mostly in the north and the east.
Published: Tue Jan 28 21:26:50 EST 2003
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ASK DR. SWAMY!
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Dr. Subramanian Swamy
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ANSWERS 1-24 NOW AVAILABLE
[HERE]
The Lanka Academic is delighted to announce its next guest in its
series of Q & A sessions: Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President,
Janata Party, India. We are indeed gratified by his appearence at The
Lanka Academic to answer questions from our readers.
We hope our readers would avail themselves of this opportunity to
educate themselves on the Indian perspective on the on-going peace
process and the other developments in all spheres of politics
with respect to India and Sri Lanka.
Submit your questions for Dr. Swamy and view his answers here. As usual, we will forward your questions to him
in batches and will post the answers as they arrive.
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Sri Lankas Prospects for Peace-What it means for the US
Bandula Jayasekara in Colombo,
SLT 7.00 a.m Wednesday 29 January.
A conference on Sri Lankas Prospects for Peace and what it means for the
United States has been organized in Washington by the Director for South
Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , Ambassador
Teresita Schaffer, a former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka on the 14 of February.
Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage will deliver the keynote
address and is expected to talk about why the process matters to the United
States while the US Deputy Trade Representative Ambassador John Huntsman
will talk about the US-Sri Lanka economic relationship. Minister G.L. Pieris
or Milinda Moragoda will give the closing comments with a panel discussion
on what the challenges and prospects of the peace process are likely to be,
from the perspective of three scholars of the crisis. The scholars are Dr.
Neil De Votta of the Michigan State University, Dr. Vidyamali Samarasinghe,
American University and Dr. Chester Crocker, Georgetown University.
Crocker was formerly Asst. Secretary for State for Africa considered as an
expert on "conflict resolution,"
Published: Tue Jan 28 20:07:25 EST 2003
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Keep A9 highway open round the clock- Jaffna Chamber of Commerce
Bandula Jayasekara in Colombo,
SLT 7.00 a.m Wednesday 29 January.
President of the Jaffna Chamber of Commerce R. Jayasegaran wants the A-9
highway, which is under repair now to be kept open around the clock rather
than its current shortened time of operation. He said that they would like
to convey to the government that the A-9 is of utmost importance for the
development of the North and therefore it is essential that the highway is
speedily repaired and remains open at all times. Jayasegaran said this at
the signing of the Business Information Services agreement operated by the
Sri Lankan German Information Project and funded by the Federal Republic of
Germany and jointly implemented by the Chamber of Commerce of Colombo. The
Jaffna Chamber of Commerce is 50 years old and has a membership of 1200.
Published: Tue Jan 28 19:23:41 EST 2003
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