Regional polls raise hopes of Lanka's Tamils
Saif Khalid Last Modified: 09 Oct 2013
Former proxy of LTTE rebels wins provincial council elections, but will they be able to achieve reconciliation?
Following a disastrous civil war, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority is slowly trying to reintegrate into the political process, after a strong showing in local elections in the island’s restive north last month.
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), once a political proxy of the vanquished armed Tamil rebels (LTTE), scored a landslide victory in provincial elections on September 21 - winning 30 out of 38 seats in the northern Provincial Council, a body with little power but lots of hope riding on it.
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