As good as it gets?

摘要

For a year and a half, Sri Lanka's peace process has been locked in an ugly stalemate. In April 2003, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who had been waging a 20-year war for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and the east of the island, withdrew from talks with the government. Since then, a ceasefire agreed on a year earlier has held, despite violations. Norwegian diplomats, who helped arrange it, have expressed fears that the antagonists' "incredible complacency" masks a "melting at the edges" of the frozen war. But neither side seems to want to plunge into renewed conflict.