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<b>LTTE proposes: Vanni access for foreign, local polls monitors</b>
Polling booths to be sited in LTTE-held areas?


In an unprecedented move that may help resolve the dilemma of the fairness of elections in LTTE-controlled areas of the North-East region, the LTTE leadership has now proposed that <b>polling stations be set up in Tiger-controlled territory and agreed to allow foreign and local election monitoring teams to monitor voting in these stations during the April 2 parliamentary election</b>. According to informed sources in Kilinochchi, the Tiger leadership has proposed this as an alternative to the earlier plan by the Government to set up polling stations for some 260,000 voters in Tiger-held areas in the no-man's land between Government and LTTE frontlines.

Sources in Kilinochchi told the Sunday Observer that the Tiger high command had felt that since the no-man's land strip was yet dangerously strewn with landmines and other defences, voters would be at risk and suffer considerable nuisance if they were compelled to vote there. The <b>proposal to have polling booths in LTTE areas has been transmitted to the Government and the Tigers are awaiting a response</b>.

While <b>polling stations will be allowed in Tiger-held territory, the LTTE will not allow any State security personnel, including police, to enter LTTE areas to provide security for these polling stations. However, the voting may be monitored by foreign and local polls monitors</b>, these sources said.

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இதைபற்றிய மேலதிக விபரங்களை சண்டே ஒப்சேவரில் (Sunday Observer) படிக்கலாம்.

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/02/29/pol01.html