Sri Lankan Leftist Party Calls for Weakening of Tamil Rebels

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Sri Lankan Leftist Party Calls for Weakening of Tamil Rebels

Sri Lanka's leftist party JVP or People's Liberation Front Thursday called for militarily weakeningseparatist Tamil Tiger rebels before the government could engage them in peace talks.

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Sri Lanka's leftist party JVP or People's Liberation Front Thursday called for militarily weakeningseparatist Tamil Tiger rebels before the government could engage them in peace talks.

Wimal Weerawansa, the JVP spokesman told a press conference that what the government needs to discuss with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels now will be the demarcation ofboundaries of a separate state in the proposed peace talks if action is not taken to militarily weaken them.

"The LTTE leader's press conference showed that they had not given up their demand for a separate state," he said.

He said that the rebel insistence on an interim administration for the control of the war-torn north and east is the stepping stone to a separate state.

In a rare public appearance on April 10, the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran outlined the rebel's position on the proposed Norwegian-brokered peace talks aimed at ending the 19-year ethnic conflict in the country that has left over 64,000 dead.

He said that time is not right for them to give up their demandfor a separate state and the peace talks which are to begin in Thailand in May or June will focus on the establishment of an interim administration in the north and east of the country.

The JVP which holds 16 seats in the 225-member parliament is opposed to peace talks with the LTTE rebels.

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