Sri Lankan government is to launch an international campaign against the acts of violence by the Tamil Tigers in spite of the ongoing cease-fire, a top minister was quoted by the state television as saying.

Rupavahini TV Saturday quoted Acting Defense Minister and Minister of Law and Order Ratnasiri Wickremanayake as saying that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have violated the cease-fire agreement thousands of times and carried out many murders.

Wickremanayake said that the public was questioning the government as to what action they would take in the face of rebel acts of violence.

He said the government did not want to create a situation to pave way for the re-emergence of the separatist war that had claimed over 64,000 lives since mid 1980s.

The government would rather "bring the Tiger atrocities to the attention of the international community," Wickremanayake said.

Sri Lanka's separatist war came to be ceased with the signing of the Norwegian backed cease-fire agreement on February 22, 2002.

Although the three-year-old cease-fire had largely been held, the Tigers have faced accusations of eliminating its rivals, and military informants.

The escalating violence more particularly in the Eastern Province has given rise to fears of war revisiting the island.

The Norwegian peace facilitators are engaged in continuing their efforts to revive the stalled talks.

Source: Xinhua