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Sri Lanka Dismisses Defeated Rebel Group's Call to Regroup


Sri Lankan officials are dismissing a call by the country's defeated rebel Tamil Tigers to regroup and form a parallel government, calling it a "hallucination."

On Tuesday Tamil Tiger leader Selvarasa Pathmanathan released a recorded statement calling on supporters to form a "transitional government" to carry forward the rebel goal of creating a separate state.

Pathmanathan is the international relations chief of the defeated Tigers and is believed to be living in exile. He is wanted by Interpol in connection with the Tamil Tiger rebels' smuggling and weapons networks.

Sri Lanka's foreign minister said the rebel leader is "dreaming" and expressed hope that he would be arrested soon.

Sri Lankan troops ended the more than 25-year war with the Tamil Tigers last month, when government forces overran the last rebel-held territory and claimed they killed the militants' top commander.

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