Tamil Tigers to use any strategy if war returns

Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 19 : Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers warned today that any resumption of all-out civil war will be felt throughout the island and that they would resort to any strategy -- including suicide bombers -- to defend themselves.

''If the Sri Lankan government, instead of bringing an end to the war, force another brutal war on the Tamils...then the effects of that war will be felt throughout the island,'' rebel political wing leader S.P Thamilselvan told Reuters in an email interview.

''If the Sri Lankan government unleashes another brutal ethnic war on Tamils, then the Tamils will not hesitate to use any strategy to defend themselves,'' he added, when asked if the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) would resort to feared Black Tiger suicide bombers.

The stark Tiger threat comes just days after one of the worst military confrontations since a 2002 ceasefire that many now expect to degenerate into a new chapter of a conflict that has already killed around 65,000 people.

Reuters