Sri Lankan Rebels Reject Peace Plan
Tamil Tiger separatists have officially rejected the government’s power-sharing “peace package” aimed at ending 12 years of ethnic war, rebel radio said Saturday.
“The government has published this peace package and also declared war against the Tamils,” a spokesman for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Anton Balasingham, told reporters in the rebel-held northern Jaffna peninsula, the radio said.
“This peace package does not pave the way for a permanent political solution but does pave the way for a long-term war,” he was quoted as saying on Friday.
Balasingham said the proposals, which were announced Aug. 3, were a “mask” put forward to justify a military solution.
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