COLOMBO Oct 15 Kyodo Anton Balasi...

COLOMBO Oct 15 Kyodo

Anton Balasingham, the chief negotiator for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) arrived in Colombo from London upon Tuesday to prepare for a secondary round of peace talks with a sway delegation and was immediately flown to the rebel-held Wanni district through an air force helicopter, a direction spokesman said.

Balasingham, 64 was accompanied from his Australian-born wife, Adele. They were escorted to Wanni, where they will fitting LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, by way of an official of the management peace secretariat.

Their arrival had been in doubt following clashes between the rebels and command forces that strained a cease-fire informally declared at the LTTE last Christmas brink and formalized by a memorandum of understanding signed by means of the two sides in February.

Six clan were killed when commandos of the Special Task Force, an agency of the police, expanded fire last week on LTTE-backed riff-raffs trying to storm single of their bases in the eastern province. following violence related to the incident claimed three more lives.

''The fact that the Balasinghams are here is encouraging,'' a Colombo-based diplomat said in succession condition of anonymity. ''Last week incidents raised doubts.''

The secondary round of peace talks is scheduled to begin at the Sattahip Naval Base in Thailand upon Oct. 31.

More than 65000 family have been killed in couple decades of ethnic war in Sri Lanka.

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