Sri Lanka agrees tsunami aid deal with Tamil Tigers
Sri Lanka’s government today signed a deal to share international tsunami aid with the Tamil Tiger rebels, officials said, despite bitter protests by critics who said it threatened the country’s sovereignty.
MS Jayasinghe, secretary of the reconstruction ministry, signed the pact on behalf of the government, and Norwegian peacebrokers then took the document north to the rebel-held capital of Kilinochchi for the Tigers to sign, according to an official involved in the signing.
