Tamil tigers walk out of tsunami relief talks

Tamil Tiger rebels walked out of a meeting with Sri Lankan officials on the distribution of tsunami aid today after a strident opponent of the guerrillas showed up uninvited for the talks.

Members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam left the meeting in protest after a Marxist People’s Liberation Front (MP, Wasantha Piyatissa), attempted to join the negotiations in Ampara, 125 miles east of Colombo.