Sri Lanka rules out Oslo, Norway as venue for truce talks with LTTE.
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, quoting Navy chief Vice-Admiral Daya Sandagiri had reported that Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman were among the tsunami casualties.
The defence ministry said the students carried the grenade, which exploded accidentally and caused their deaths.\n
After a high-level party meet in Chennai, Vaiko said his party has unanimously decided to support the DMK in the by-election.
They are our closest neighbour and it is very important for me to have them involved in the process, said Rajapakse.
The LTTE said that the island's new president Mahindra Rajapakse had failed to grasp the fundamentals and basic concepts behind the decades-long war waged by the LTTE.\n\n
Rejecting reports of fresh talks, the LTTE said it would resume talks only on the basis of their "Interim Self-Governing Authority" plan unveiled in October last year.
The committee asked the Tamil Nadu government to withdraw charges against Nedumaran, Suba Veerapandian (then spokesman of Marumalarchi Dravidsa Munnetra Kazhagam), Paavanan alias Pudukottai Paavanan, Thayappan and Shahul Hameed.
Denying any involvement, Army Chief Shantha Kottegoda asked the Tigers to produce proof.
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The LTTE are already banned in India, the US and Britain.
The delegation said it was suspending its role until the president and prime minister resolved their differences.
President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said the truce her prime minister signed with Tamil rebels is illegal, reports the BBC
'There is no clarity in the government's offer,' the LTTE said. 'It does not specifically address the concerns raised by the Tigers.'
"We will leave the government if the President does not withdraw the joint mechanism plan with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by June 15," the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or People's Liberation Front said.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has threatened to invoke provisions of POTA against the Union minister for his speech allegedly supporting the LTTE.
The government claims that the tigers have two aircraft.
The "message" was given to Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen during his meeting with LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam said it was not bound by a declaration issued by international donors who pledged some $4.5 billion to help rebuild Sri Lanka at a June 2003 meeting in Tokyo.
The governor's comments drew sharp reaction from former chief minister and senior Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leader Omar Abdullah, who said Malik should check his own reputation in Delhi.
Harin Peiris also said Kumaratunga would break up the island's embattled northeastern province.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has made application to the POTA Review Committee.
The actor, who plays the role of Kattappa in the movie, clarified that he was not against Kannada people.
The Tamil rebel outfit, however, vowed to resolve differences with V Muralitharan without bloodbath.
Chief Velupillai Prabhakaran is discussing the crisis with seniors from the eastern Batticaloa district where the regional commander had shown dissent.
He was accused of making pro-LTTE remarks during a public meeting at Poolathur in the district in 1998.
The LTTE chief's parents were settled in Tiruchirapalli.
If the Sinhala chauvinistic ruling elite continue to deny the rights of our people and if the conditions of oppression continue, we have no alternative other than to secede, warned LTTE supremo Prahbakaran.
President Kumaratunga has embroiled the nation in a crisis by sacking three ministers and suspending parliament.
The Sri Lankan prime minister also vowed to reopen Parliament, which was suspended on Tuesday by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
An LTTE spokesman said the proposals were handed over to the Norwegian ambassador Hans Brattskar.
The outfit was banned in 1991 soon after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination at Sriperumbudur near Chennai.
'The US calls on the LTTE to renounce terrorism and cease terrorist acts, including political assassination, and to comply with terms of the ceasefire agreement they signed,' state department spokesman Philip Reeker said.
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