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  "Will Never Accept 'Half-Baked' Solution For Tamils": Sri Lanka's Main Tamil Party

  On Friday, President Rajapaksa had sought cooperation from the minority Tamil community leaders to "rebuild the country" in his first interaction with them since assuming office over two years ago.

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  Sri Lanka President Meets Tamil Minority Leaders For First Time Since Taking Office

  For the first time since taking office over two years ago, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday met leaders of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the country's most prominent Tamil political grouping, officials said.

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  Sri Lankan Tamils Prefer Sajith Premadasa To Lead Main Opposition

  The Tamil minority in Sri Lanka will prefer losing presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa to be the main Opposition leader in place of former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the main Tamil party TNA said on Friday.

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  Former Tamil Politician Claims Second Torture Camp Found in Sri Lanka

  An illegal detention centre similar to the one discovered by UN experts in eastern Sri Lanka has been found in the country's northern Jaffna district, a former Tamil lawmaker has said, alleging that civil war detainees including Tamils were tortured in the camps.

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  Keen to Work With Tamil Diaspora for Reconciliation: Sri Lanka

  Sri Lanka is keen to engage all diaspora groups including Tamils in reconciliation efforts, Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has said stressing the new government does not want the country to return to another bloody conflict.

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  Ready to Give Tamils More Autonomy, Says Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe

  Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister Ranil Wickramesinghe today vowed to implement the India-backed 13th Amendment within a unitary framework for the devolution of power to provinces, to achieve reconciliation with the minority Tamil community.

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  Sri Lanka's Tamil Party Backs Opposition Presidential Candidate

  Sri Lanka's main ethnic Tamil political party says it will support an opposition candidate in January's Presidential election, the latest blow to Mahinda Rajapaksa's bid for another term in office.

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  TNA Wrestler Mahabali Shera to Pack a Punch in C.I.D

  Mahabali Shera is set to appear in an action-packed episode of the popular TV series C.I.D

• Tamil National Alliance to push for international probe into Sri Lanka war crimes

  Sri Lanka's main Tamil party has said it will push for an independent international probe into alleged war crimes committed during the final phase of the civil war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009.

• Torture claims cast shadow over Sri Lanka's Commonwealth summit

  British Prime Minister David Cameron says he will ask "serious questions" and demand an investigation into allegations of war crimes.

• Sri Lanka's first elected Tamil chief minister takes oath

  CV Wigneswaran was today sworn in as the first elected Tamil Chief Minister of Northern Province - the stronghold of the vanquished rebel LTTE - weeks after his party secured a landslide victory in the historic polls held after nearly three decades.

• Huge victory for Tamils in Sri Lanka's northern province: Mixed reactions in Tamil Nadu

  It's been a major victory for Tamil parties in Sri Lanka's war ravaged northern province. In elections held after 26 years in this Tamil majority region, the TNA or Tamil National Alliance won 30 of the 38 seats. A mandate that P Chidambaram, India's Finance Minister and MP from Tamil Nadu, said would go a long way in securing rights for the Tamil ...

• Karunanidhi hails TNA's victory in Sri Lankan provincial council polls

  DMK President M Karunanidhi today hailed the victory of the Tamil National Alliance in the provincial council polls held after a gap of 25 years in the former Tamil Tigers-ruled northern province in Sri Lanka.

• 50 per cent turn out for polls in Sri Lanka's Tamil-dominated north

  Over 50 per cent of voters today participated in the first polls in 25 years in Sri Lanka's Tamil-majority Northern Province to elect a council for the former war zone, four years after the rout of the rebel LTTE.

• TNA calls for release of Tamil political prisoners

  The Tamil National Alliance has called on the government to take immediate steps to release all Tamil political prisoners. R Sampanthan, the leader of the TNA told the Sri Lankan parliament on Tuesday that there are 234 Tamil political prisoners who are on a hunger strike.