text: S.Lanka All-Party Peace Forum Opens to Boycott  COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government launched a new  all-party forum on Monday to discuss how best to turn a  two-year truce with Tamil Tiger rebels into permanent peace --  but a clutch of opposition parties stayed away in a boycott.
inputs: S.Lanka All-Party Peace Forum Opens to Boycott  COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government launched a new  all-party forum on Monday to discuss how best to turn a  two-year truce with Tamil Tiger rebels into permanent peace --  but a clutch of opposition parties stayed away in a boycott.