Sri Lankan Tamil Rebels Query Ability of Norway to Ensure Ceasefire

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Sri Lankan Tamil Rebels Query Ability of Norway to Ensure Ceasefire

Sri Lankan separatist Tamil Tiger rebels have queried the ability of Norway to ensure the implementation of the ceasefire agreement entered into between the government and the rebels in February.

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Sri Lankan separatist Tamil Tiger rebels have queried the ability of Norway to ensure the implementation of the ceasefire agreement entered into between the government and the rebels in February.

The London-based Tamil Guardian newspaper, which were considered the mouth-piece of the rebels, blamed on Wednesday the government for having hijacked the Norwegian peace initiative for an effort to railroad the rebels into talks without an agreed agenda and irrespective of the objective conditions in the north and east of the country.

The rebels claimed that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe by adopting a hard line has bankrupted his government's moral authority in search for peace.

The rebels charged that the government has reneged on its written pledge to restore normalcy in the Tamil areas by demilitarizing the region.

The paper noted that instead of seeking an interim solution, the government wants core issues discussed at once and government troops continue to occupy Tamil schools, places of worship and public buildings across the north and east.

It claimed that the government's stance is to ensure international assistance for which direct talks are essential.

The peace talks between the government and Tamil rebels aimed at ending the country's 19-year ethnic war, which were initially scheduled to be commenced in Thailand in early May, have been postponed again till the end of July.

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