Sri Lankan Tamil Rebels to Shun Peace Talks: Leftist Party

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Sri Lankan Tamil Rebels to Shun Peace Talks: Leftist Party

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Sri Lanka's leftist JVP or the People's Liberation Front said Wednesday that separatist Tamil Tiger rebels are bracing to stay away from the Norwegian-brokered peace talks aimed at ending the country's 19-year bloody ethnic conflict that has claimed over 64,000 lives so far.

Wimal Weerawansa, the leading JVP legislator told reporters here that "the Sri Lankan government has become a mere puppet of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)."

Weerawansa said that the LTTE rebels have used the ceasefire agreement signed with the government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to consolidate its position.

"Since they signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government they have achieved far more than they had ever achieved during the entire period of their armed struggle," Weerawansa said.

The JVP legislator said that the rebels have steadily built up their de facto administration in the two war-torn provinces in thenorth and east and therefore they would refuse to take part in thepeace talks.

The LTTE rebels who have been fighting the government troops since 1983 in their bid to set up a separate state for the minority Tamil community in the north and east entered into a ceasefire agreement with the government on February 22.

The peace talks brokered by Norway are expected to be held in Thailand at the end of this month or early July.

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