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No military solution to Lanka conflict: India

AFP, PTI, Colombo
India has signalled to Sri Lanka that it wants to see an end to the island's military campaign to help solve the decades-old Tamil separatist conflict, diplomats and officials said yesterday.
In closed-door talks over the weekend with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse and top officials, India's National Security Adviser MK Narayanan said New Delhi wanted to see renewed political efforts to bring peace.
"The Indian delegation made it clear that they did not believe a military solution was possible," a diplomatic source close to the delegation said. "The delegation was keen that there should be a political solution."
Narayanan, together with India's Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Defence Secretary Vijay Singh, also met with
the leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), seen as a political wringof the Tamil Tigers.
The delegation also met three other Tamil leaders separately and stressed the need forTamil unity to negotiate with the Sinhalese-majority government, one of the Tamil politicians said.
Dharmalingam Sithadthan, the head of the Tamil Democratic People's Liberation Front, said the Indian team was concerned that minority Tamil parties were badly split, affecting their negotiating position.
"They came to talk about the conflict. They are worried that we are not united,” Sithadthan told AFP. "India is keen on a political solution."
He said the delegation was also concerned about the hardships of the minority Tamil community as a result of tighter security measures following a spate of Tami) Tiger bomb attacks.
The Sri Lankan government believes it has the upper hand after driving Tigers out of the multiethnic eastern province last year, and is currently trying to wrest control over the defacto mini-state of the rebels in the north.
The government formally withdrew from a Norwegian-arranged truce in January and stepped up attacks against the Tigers.
Since then, 4,339 rebels have been killed by security forces while 399 security personnel have also died in combat over the same period, according to defence ministryfigures.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's military has launched a campaign to track down and arrest up to 12.000 army deserters who failed to take advantage of a government amnesty, a spokesman said Sunday.
“About 5,000 responded to the general amnesty we had from May 2 to the 30th," Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.