Tigers rewind tune: Talks or bloodbath

Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels today warned President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the island nation could slip back to a bloodbath as ef...

Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels today warned President Chandrika Kumaratunga that the island nation could slip back to a bloodbath as efforts to put the derailed peace process back on track failed.

Kumaratunga was keen to revive the stalled peace talks only to get the $4.5 billion aid pledged by the international donor community at a meeting in Tokyo last year, the LTTE said. LTTE rejected the Lanka President’s demand for a discussion on the final peace settlement at the start of the peace talks. This insistence would ensure that the peace process collapses as it begins, LTTE said.

‘‘To make negotiations successful it is essential that gradual progress from easily agreeable issues leading subsequently to difficult issues must be adopted. This maxim must be told by the international community to the President. If this is not adopted the foundation for peace laid with international assistance during the last three years would be shattered and Sri Lanka will again be converted into bloodbath,’’ the LTTE said in it’s website. The statement comes a day after Kumaratrunga addressed the nation and said the two sides were yet to agree on a compromise to resume peace talks stalled since April.

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