Tamil minority separatists fought the government, dominated by Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority, for almost 20 years before a Norwegian- brokered formal ceasefire in February 2002.
Tamilselvan, from the rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi, urged Fischer to approach the trip as a “humanitarian” mission and to ignore the line of demarcation as set by Sri Lanka’s government in Colombo. Sippiah Paramu Tamilselvan, head of the Tamil separatist LTTE’s political wing, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that Fischer would be acknowledging the desperate cries of tsunami victims in the Tamil region by accepting the offer of the insurgent group.įischer travels on Monday to Colombo for meetings with the Sri Lankan government and is scheduled to leave Tuesday without visiting the disaster zone along the island’s coast, where an estimated 30,000 people died in the 26 December tsunami and 1 million remain homeless. KILINOCHCHI – The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have called on German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to visit their rebel-held territory in northeastern Sri Lanka.
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