Norway Calls for Urgent Sri Lanka Talks
A Norwegian official who brokered Sri Lanka’s 2002 cease-fire called on the Asian country’s government and the Tamil Tiger rebels to resume peace talks urgently to avoid sliding back into civil war. Erik Solheim’s warning Wednesday came as government soldiers shot and killed two suspected rebels in the latest violence jeopardizing the fragile truce and a day after a land mine killed 10 soldiers in an attack the military blamed on rebels. Full Story