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[Litmus test] Tigers are proving the theory that they are not terrorists especially when they need India the most. This is a political sign that tigers are playing well to the IC gallery & trying to rub GOSL of the moral ground of portraying tigers as `terrorists` . [Sri Lankan rebels said Monday that a new round of peace talks on ending the country`s 25-year-old civil war is impossible as long as the government presses ahead with a military offensive. President Mahinda Rajapaksa said earlier this month he was prepared to restart long-dormant talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels if the group lays down its arms and ceases bombings and other attacks across the country. Balasingham Nadesan, the head of the rebels` political wing, said Rajapaksa`s conditions were `naive` and `impractical` and there was no way the two sides could negotiate while the fighting continued to rage. `It is impossible to hold peace talks when one party, the government of Sri Lanka, is undertaking large-scale military offensives,` he told The Associated Press in an e-mail interview from the rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi in the north. The government has claimed a series of military victories in recent days against the rebels. Troops seized an important coastal base used by the rebels` naval wing last Wednesday and pushed deeper into the north Sunday, taking control of a rebel base in the village of Illupakadavai. However, Nadesan said he did not consider the offensive a threat to the rebels` fight for an independent homeland for the country`s ethnic Tamil minority. `We have always used many different tactics and strategies to deal with such offensives,` he wrote. `We have repeatedly demonstrated our ability to convert the Sri Lankan government offensives into our favor.` ] |
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