But it should not, as some say, include any offer of power sharing with the guerillas (ordinary Tamils are another matter).

In 2009, the Supreme Court dissolved the main legal Kurdish party, the DST, accused of being connected with the Kurdish guerillas.

And today, if you go to Kurdistan, you'll see that Kurdish Peshmerga guerillas are squaring off against the Sunni Iraqi army.

At the same time, renewed violent incursions into northern Iraq in pursuit of alleged guerillas suggest a reversion to hardline anti Kurdish policies.

Colombia and Ecuador broke diplomatic relations in March 2008, after Colombia s army pursued FARC guerillas, who have been fighting Colombia s government for decades, into Ecuadorean territory.

I don't know about you, but it makes me sore seeing those war pictures about flying Ieathernecks, and submarine patrols, and frogmen, and guerillas in the philippines.

While he was not allowed to run for a third term, no candidate in the 2010 election suggested altering his iron fisted approach, or proposed renewing talks with the guerillas.

Violence decreased most significantly with the disbanding of the right wing paramilitaries, and with the decimation in battle of the left wing FARC guerillas and the decapitation of its leadership.

For years human rights activists and scholars suspected the obvious the emergence of an enormous, vicious, well armed, and well trained parallel army to fight the guerillas was not some spontaneous act.

After all, in 1947 similar Jewish freedom fighters blew up the King David Hotel, killing tens of British officers. Until the 1970 s, these Zionist guerillas were wanted as terrorists by British authorities.

It is therefore safe to assume that not only obscure academics and correspondents, but officials in Beijing as well, are now busy studying the history of the Ghulja uprising and of Osman Batur s guerillas.

Turkey accuses Iraqi Kurds of harboring between 3,000 and 3,500 of Turkey s most active Kurdish militants the PKK separatist guerillas who are blamed for the deaths of 80 Turkish soldiers so far this year.

Today, 80 percent of the agenda of the U.N. Security Council is about conflicts within states, involving non state parties guerillas, separatists, terrorists, if you want to call them that, people who are not normal governments, who are not normal states.

Following this logic, FARC leader Pablo Catatumbo has acknowledged the pain and acts of cruelty that the guerillas have committed and has requested a collective pardon that would cover human rights violations committed by both the FARC and state security forces.

Today, 80 percent of the agenda of the U.N. Security Council is about conflicts within states, involving non state parties guerillas, separatists, terrorists, if you want to call them that, people who are not normal governments, who are not normal states.

BRUSSELS Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country s Tamil minority.