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Sri Lanka Peace

The leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers made the clearest statement yet that the rebels had given up their demand for a separate state, saying he was willing to settle for regional autonomy. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

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Michael Sullivan is NPR's Senior Asia Correspondent. He moved to Hanoi to open NPR's Southeast Asia Bureau in 2003. Before that, he spent six years as NPR's South Asia correspondent based in but seldom seen in New Delhi.

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