On its third anniversary this week, the ceasefire in Sri Lanka's 22-year civil war is "at breaking point". So growled S.P. Thamilselvan, leader of the political wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, on February 22nd. The rupture may not be as imminent as he implied. But hopes are fading that the destruction and misery wrought by the tsunami might narrow the gulf between the Tigers, struggling for a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the country, and the government, representing Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority.
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