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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12561116" data-attributes="member: 92282">Sri Lanka's president has rejected a call by Indian  legislators to withdraw soldiers from the island's former war zone in  the north where minority Tamils are concentrated, his spokesman said  Sunday.                         President Mahinda Rajapakse told a delegation of visiting  Indian lawmakers that troops could not be pulled out despite the end of  the decades-long Tamil separatist war in 2009."The president  explained that there are troops elsewhere in the country as well,"  spokesman Bandula Jayasekera told AFP. "They are not only in the  (Tamil-dominated) north."The visiting delegation was the first  team of Indian MPs to visit the island since Sri Lankan forces crushed  the Tamil Tiger rebels, ending an ethnic conflict which had claimed up  to 100,000 lives.Indian opposition leader Sushma Swaraj and the cross-party delegation met with Rajapakse on Saturday.Among  the visiting MPs were representatives from Tamil Nadu state, whose 60  million population share close cultural and religious links with Sri  Lanka's Tamils.Sri Lankan forces have a strong presence across the north, which was badly damaged during decades of fighting.Tamil  politicians there have demanded political autonomy to address  long-standing grievances of discrimination and oppression by  Sinhalese-dominated governments.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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