Conflicting Sri Lankan sides meet in Switzerland [View All]

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Nice bit on federal systems.

The Tamil Tiger rebels have been fighting for a separate state in the
Tamil-dominated north-east of the island for nearly two decades.
Around 65,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

Representatives of both sides were part of a panel attending a
conference entitled ?Power-sharing and decentralisation: the federal
system as a solution for Sri Lanka??.

Switzerland?s federal system was proposed as a model for a peaceful Sri
Lanka as part of a peace plan brokered by Norway in February 2002.

The system was suggested because it unites the different cultural and
linguistic groups that make up Switzerland.

swissinfo