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August 14, 2005
Will Sri Lanka Ceasefire Survive Kadirgamar’s Assassination?
"The murder of Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, is a reminder that the island nation is yet to emerge from the spiral of violence that had it in its grip, these past two decades and more," The Indian Express opines in its April 15, 2005 edition.
The publication said, "The pause in hostilities that came in the wake of the peace process had always appeared a tentative one, more so since April 2003 when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) indicated that it had temporarily suspended participation in peace talks with the Sri Lankan government. But Kadirgarmar's assassination is clearly the most serious threat to the ceasefire thus far." Here's more.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 14, 2005 06:13 PM
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