Yuletide truce urged in Sri Lanka
NZPA-Reuter Colombo Government troops and Tamil rebels are willing to stop fighting for 24 hours on Christmas Day as a good-will gesture. The National Security Minister, Lalith Athulathmudali, called yesterday for the truce and hoped the rebels would comply with the request. “Christmas is a day of peace and unity and we must ensure that there are no acts of violence,” he told a .meeting outside Colombo. Kanagaratnam, alias
Raheem, the deputy northern leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the biggest guerrilla group in the northern peninsula, told Reuters by telephone that they welcomed the ceasefire. “We are welcome to any overtures towards peace. But for an effective truce, the military must remain inside their camps bn December 25 and stop attacks on civilians and our men,” he added. He said other rebel groups were likely to follow the Tigers decision.
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