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Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers seek India's support - agency.

BBC Monitoring International Reports

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Text of report by Indian news agency PTI

By T.V. Sriram

Colombo, 31 March: Expressing unhappiness over India's stand on the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, the LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] Tuesday [31 March] said the Tamil community expects New Delhi to extend its support to their "national aspirations", even as it renewed its call for a cease-fire with Colombo.

The Tamil Tigers also refused to lay down arms for resuming political dialogue with the Sri Lankan government to resolve the 30-year-old ethnic conflict.

"The Tamil people have never been opposed to the strategic concerns of India. Furthermore, it has been their expectation …

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