McGuinness urges peace in Sri Lanka

Martin McGuinness today urged the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels to prevent the island nation from slipping back to full-scale civil war, his party said.

McGuinness, deputy leader of Sinn Féin, is a former leader of the IRA, which fought for decades to end British rule in Northern Ireland before giving up its weapons in July 2005 as part of a peace deal.