Saturday, July 12, 2008

Weakened Sri Lankan rebels seeking Indian support

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels are seeking the support of neighboring South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for survival in the face of the present military onslaught, the state radio announced here Saturday.

Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation said in its morning news bulletin that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now hit by military campaign in the north is engaged in an attempt to drag Tamil Nadu to intervene on their behalf in order to see an end to military operations.

Tamil Nadu is home to some 65 million Tamils with close connections to the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan government in the formative years of the LTTE's armed campaign in the early 1980s slammed India for harboring LTTE members and providing them training in Tamil Nadu.

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/12/content_8533615.htm

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