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Tamil MPs hold talks with LTTE

By V.S. Sambandan

COLOMBO DEC. 9. Parliamentarians from the four-party Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which backs the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), today discussed the current political situation in southern Sri Lanka with the rebels' political wing leader, S. P. Tamilchelvan.

All the TNA MPs, except the president of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), V. Anandasangaree, were reportedly present at the meeting. The TULF's general-secretary, R. Sampanthan, led the TNA delegation.

The TNA — comprising the TULF, the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO), a faction of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF-Suresh) and the All-Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC) — has a total of 15 MPs in Sri Lanka's 225-member Parliament. 0The TULF is divided over the issue of accepting the LTTE as the sole representatives of the Tamils.

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