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Tigers step up artillery barrage after call for separate state

by Editor
November 28, 2006
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Tamil Tiger rebels have stepped up artillery and mortar bomb attacks against military bases in the restive east, a day after calling for their own independent state.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) guerrillas fired at security forces in the district of Batticaloa, killing at least one soldier and wounding several others, military sources in the area said by telephone.

“There is heavy long-range fighting going on,” a military official in Batticaloa said. “Security forces are also retaliating.”

The surge in attacks came hours after LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran declared Monday that the movement had no option but to press for an independent state for the island's Tamil minority concentrated in the northern and eastern regions.

His declaration went back on a 2002 pledge to accept a federal solution under which the Tamils would enjoy broad autonomy. That pledge opened the way for Norwegian-brokered political talks which collapsed in Geneva last month.

Prabhakaran said the Oslo-brokered truce had become “defunct” following military attacks against them, but stopped short of saying that his group was quitting the truce agreement.

He also stopped short of declaring independence, but made it clear the peace process was over with the Sinhalese nationalist-led government elected a year ago.

“It is now crystal clear that the Sinhala leaders will never put forward a just resolution to the Tamil national question,” he said.

“Therefore, we are not prepared to place our trust in the impossible and walk along the same old futile path.”

In a speech a year ago he gave the government one year to find a political solution to Asia's longest-running ethnic conflict or face an escalation in the fighting, which has claimed over 60,000 lives since 1972.

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