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Article: Friendly Tigers; Sri Lanka.(Sri Lankan peace talks)(Brief Article)

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September 21, 2002
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Peace talks begin with a purr

SO FAR, so good. Sri Lanka's government, representing the penitent chauvinism of the country's Sinhalese majority, this week met the ex-terrorist, ex-separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for talks in Thailand aimed at ending the country's 19-year civil war and agreed to talk some more. Both sides had modest agendas for their first direct negotiations in seven years: to continue the normalisation of life in the north-east, which the Tigers claim as the homeland of Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, while skirting touchier issues such as just how the region will be re-integrated into Sri Lanka.

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