Colombo, Sri Lanka - Democratic Socialist Republic of
SRILANKANS WALK PAST HUGE POSTER IN COLOMBO.
Sri Lankans walk past a huge poster which reads "The only solution to
the ethnic problem is negotiation" in Colombo January 11, 2002. A
Norwegian peace team arrived in Sri Lanka on Thursday for talks with
the government on ending almost 20 years of ethnic war with Tamil Tiger
rebels fighting for an independent homeland in the north and east.
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