SRI LANKA: Ongoing military action restricts peace hopes
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Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tigers rebels are continuing their battle despite renewed international efforts to revive the peace process. Sri Lanka's main foreign donors, the United States, the European Union, Japan and Norway, are meeting in Oslo to try to get the two sides back to the negotiating table. A former US ambassador to Sri Lanka says, however, the military situation on the ground now means the donors' have little room to manoeuvre.
Presenter: Tom Fayle
Speakers: Teresita Schaffer, head of the South Asia Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies, former US ambassador to Sri Lanka
