Sri Lankan authorities set a deadline of midday (0630 GMT) Tuesday for the surrender of Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran and his cadres making a last stand among thousands of civilians in a northeastern sliver of the island.
US official Michael Owen said Sri Lanka should offer a package in which the Tigers -- fighting since 1972 for a separate Tamil homeland -- hand in their arms, possibly to a third party, in exchange for amnesty for low-level cadres.
During the surrender, both sides would hold fire and let civilians leave, he said.
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"We are running out of time," Owen, the acting deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, told the Brookings Institution think-tank. "Really, there is literally only a couple of days to try to get this finalized.
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"It is something we have been working on very hard and quietly behind the scenes because the only potential we see to bringing this to an end is to have a package in which we have a pause and civilians are allowed to leave," he