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Nambiar joins Lankan peace process

Lieutenant General Satish Nambiar, joins the galaxy of international personalities involved in the Sri Lankan peace process this month when he will be called upon to prepare a report on how to resettle civilians in Jaffna without compromising the security of military installations on the peninsula.

Officials at the peace talks in Thailand said Nambiar has been asked to head an international team of experts who will be tasked with preparing the report.

Nambiar currently heads the United Services Institution of India, a tri-service think tank based in New Delhi. During a long and eventful career in the Indian Army, Gen Nambiar held several sensitive posts, including that of director general of military operations and deputy chief of army staff.

He is most famous for refusing to give in to NATO pressure as the first force commander and head of mission of UN forces in former Yugoslavia in March 1993. He finally resigned from that post.

Another internationally known figure to join the process in February is Ian Martin, the former head of Amnesty International. He will begin setting up a monitoring process for Human Rights in the North and East.

This would be similar to the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, which now probes, and reports on ceasefire violations.

The other well-known international figure is Yasushi Akashi, a former UN Under-Secretary General who handled the Cambodia settlement.

Akashi is Japan's special envoy to the Sri Lankan Peace Process and is handling two tasks. The first is developing the government's "Regaining Sri Lanka" initiative and the second is to prepare a development and employment-generating programme for the North and East.

Akashi will be in Sri Lanka from January 14 and will be meeting top governmental officials and also flying to Kilinochchi for talks with the LTTE leadership.

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