COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president has accused a top Norwegian envoy of covertly financing the island’s separatist Tamil Tigers during peace talks ahead of a military campaign that crushed the rebels in 2009.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa told a public rally on Saturday that he wanted Oslo to probe the role of Erik Solheim, a former Norwegian international development minister and a peace envoy to Sri Lanka.
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