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Rajapakse's allies reject Geneva agreement
Hindu,
February 28.
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's electoral allies — the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) — have rejected the Geneva agreement between Colombo and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on the ground that it ran contradictory to the Government's position on the ceasefire agreement (CFA).
In Geneva, the Government and the LTTE agreed to uphold the CFA. Colombo also committed itself to disarming armed groups. This agreement, the JHU said, "is a candid admission on the part of the Government that there were paramilitary forces. If there were groups that should be disarmed, it should be the LTTE," the JHU said.
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Published: Mon Feb 27 19:40:44 EST 2006
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Swiss talks exceed expectations amid anxious moments
Shimali Senanayake,
February 27.
CELIGNY, Switzerland – The government and the LTTE clinched a better than expected deal last week to continue talking and vowed to put an end to violence in talks that were to decide if Sri Lanka was heading for peace or war.
However, the agreement, brokered by Norway, was reached only after the talks came to the brink of collapse more than once, with both parties sticking to their guns and threatening to walk out of their first meeting in three years.
The two-day crunch talks weren’t expected to churn out much results anyway and most felt if the parties could at least agree to continue the dialogue the meeting would be deemed a success. This was precisely what even Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said in a meeting with diplomats in Colombo, days ahead of the talks.
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Published: Mon Feb 27 11:48:24 EST 2006
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LTTE constructing yet another bunker -- the third within a week
Munza Mushtaq in Colombo,
February 27, 2006, 11.51 p.m..
LTTE cadres are reported to be building another new bunker, this time
in Trincomalee. Late last week Army headquarters complained to the
Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) that Tigers were constructing two
new bunkers on either side of the A-9 road in Omanthai.
The latest bunker is coming up in Alainakar, Trincomalee. A complaint
in this regard was lodged at the Monitoring Mission's Trincomalee
office today morning.
According to Army sources, troops on Sunday afternoon had observed
about ten LTTE cadres busy constructing a new bunker at Alainakar
while an LTTE cadre with a T-56 weapon had been providing guard to
those LTTE cadres.
"It was only last Thursday (23) troops at Omanthai in Wanni informed
the SLMM of the construction of two new LTTE bunkers, ahead of their
Forward Defence Line (FDL) at Omanthai on either side of the A-9
Road," the sources pointed out.
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Published: Mon Feb 27 12:53:37 EST 2006
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