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Tamil Tigers try to close ranks

The Tamil Tigers accuse Colonel Karuna (right) of disloyalty
Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have offered an amnesty to a renegade commander whose actions threaten to split rebel ranks.
A spokesman for the Tigers told the BBC the amnesty for Colonel Karuna had been offered by Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.

It was on condition the colonel cease all his current activities immediately.

The news came as a Norwegian envoy flew in to review the two-year ceasefire between the rebels and the government.

Dissatisfaction

Erik Solheim's visit is likely to be dominated by the crisis among the rebels which erupted last week.

The commander, Colonel Karuna, was expelled for reportedly expressing dissatisfaction that the bulk of the rebel fighters come from eastern Sri Lanka, and yet all the top leadership comes from the north.

He remains in his eastern stronghold of Batticaloa, and correspondents say it is not clear if he will meet Mr Solheim although he has expressed a willingness to do so.

In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, the rebel group's political chief, SV Thamilselvan, said that the amnesty had been offered to enable Colonel Karuna to lead a private life.

"There seems no necessity to take military action as Karuna stands only as a single individual," he said.

He said the amnesty offer had been conveyed to the renegade commander through a delegation led by Roman Catholic Bishop Kingsley Swampillai.


It is not clear how many rebels are loyal to Colonel Karuna

Security was meanwhile strengthened in Batticaloa throughout Monday.

"We have extra police in the street, but there is no tension," senior police superintendent, Lasantha de Silva, said.

A spokesman for Colonel Karuna told the AFP news agency that everything possible would be done to avoid violence.

"We don't want to see any more bloodshed on our soil, but it depends on the [northern] leadership," he said.

The apparent split among the Tigers mirrors divisions within the Sri Lankan government, where the president and prime minister are at loggerheads over the best way of moving the peace process forward.

Their disagreements have meant that no formal peace negotiations between the government and the Tamil Tigers have taken place since April.

Parliamentary elections are due to be next month, and talks to end the 20-year-old conflict - which has claimed 60,000 lives - will be a central part of the election campaign.

'Death threat'

On Sunday, Colonel Karuna - whose real name is Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan - said he had received reports that death squads had been sent to kill him.

And hundreds of his supporters in eastern Sri Lanka took to the streets.

In one town, they even burned a large effigy with a photograph of the rebel leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, in a show of defiance that would have been unthinkable even a week before, said the BBC's Frances Harrison in Colombo.

Tamils in the area fear they may be asked to choose whether they are loyal to the mainstream of the movement or the breakaway commander, our correspondent said.

A top defence ministry official said on Friday that the government could not agree to Colonel Karuna's request for a separate defence pact.

BBC.com....!