  Ex-Tamil Tigers set their eyes on polls  By Roland Buerk BBC
News, Batticaloa, eastern Sri Lanka  Child soldiers of TMVP Col
Karuna's faction has forced many children into its ranks  Former
Tamil Tiger fighters are hoping to win political power in
eastern Sri Lanka in provincial elections this Saturday.  The
poll will lay the foundation for limited devolution that the
government bills as the answer to ethnic minority Tamil people's
decades-long complaints of domination by Sinhalese-led central
governments.  Last July the government announced that the
military had driven the Tamil Tigers from the area, after a year
of fighting.  The offensive was helped by a defection from the
Tigers.  In 2004 a rebel army of fighting men and women,
complete with artillery, broke away led by Colonel Karuna Amman.
He had been the Tigers second in command.  The faction has now
evolved into a political party, the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai
Puligal (TMVP) or Tamil People's Liberation Tigers.  Col Karuna
Amman is in immigration det