Iittle Sri Lanka is rarely a model of t anything. But since it crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam its government has found itself in an unfamiliar position. Some of the world's less savoury regimes are beating a path to its door to study "the Sri Lanka option".rnLast November, Myanmar's military dictator, Than Shwe, who rarely travels abroad, visited the island "so that his regime can apply any lessons learned to its efforts against the ethnic groups in Burma," says Benedict Rogers, a biographer of General Than.
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